Archive for the 'Convertibles' Category

Officially Official: Updated 2011 Jeep Wrangler now in production

After a bevy of leaked product images and spy shots, official confirmation of an updated 2011 Jeep Wrangler can hardly be considered a surprise, but it’s still a welcome development. For its next model year, the venerable four-wheeler will receive a comprehensive (and much needed) interior update, along with a body-color removable hardtop available […]

Sunday, August 22nd, 2010

First Drive: 2011 Audi R8 V10 Spyder

Chas Murphy, until recently the U.S. product manager for Audi’s TT, Audi R8 and RS sports cars, said of the R8 V10 Spyder: “You have to drive the car. It can’t be put into words.” Well, we drove it over the hills and through the woods of the Cleveland (Cali, not Ohio) National Forest, […]

Sunday, August 22nd, 2010

First Drive: 2011 Bentley Continental Supersports Convertible delivers the goods

As we see it, there’s one major problem with the 2011 Bentley Continental Supersports Convertible. No, not the $280,000 asking price, or even the give-us-a-break curb weight of 5,269 pounds. We also aren’t talking about the fact that this basic chassis has been around since 2003. Nor are we concerned that there exist very few […]

Saturday, July 3rd, 2010

Rumormill:2012 Mazda MX-5 to get rotary engine option

Rumors have surfaced that the next-generation Mazda MX-5 could tip the scales at 2,200 pounds and boast an impressive 50 miles per gallon without losing a lick of horsepower in the process. And while initial reports had the Miata achieving those impressive numbers with the help of Mazda’s forthcoming SKY-G engines, Best Car Japan is […]

Sunday, June 20th, 2010

TC-Concepts gives the Mercedes SL65 the Black Series treatment… and keeps the folding roof

It doesn’t get much further up the Mercedes-Benz pecking order than the SL65 AMG Black Series. Before the SLS came along, at least, it served as a rolling example of what the power-hungry speed freaks at AMG were capable of achieving. And in the process, they replaced the SL’s folding hard top with a fixed […]

Monday, June 14th, 2010

2011 Porsche Boxster Spyder drops a weight class and hits harder than ever

The blueprint goes something like this: Take an aging sports car and raid the corporate parts bin for a few high-performance items likely stolen from a flagship model. Tweak the suspension tuning, throw on some wider rubber, pare down the standard features, add a smidgen more horsepower and then make a few cosmetic changes so […]

Tuesday, June 8th, 2010

First Drive: 2011 Ford Shelby GT500 is a heart-starting jolt

The 2011 Ford Shelby GT500 is so good we don’t even want to associate the word “Mustang” with it anymore. Not that there’s anything wrong with the Mustang – particularly the revised 2011 model. But as a sports car, the word “Mustang” conjures images of something much less than refined. If a Porsche is a […]

Monday, May 31st, 2010