Même si la marque Maybach n’existe plus officiellement, cela n’empêche pas Mercedes-Benz de continuer de capitaliser sur la prestigieuse appellation. Suivant une gamme de Classe S et un modèle singulier pour le Classe G, on désire poursuivre l’aventure avec un autre utilitaire sport, le Mercedes-Maybach Ultimate Luxury Concept qui sera présenté cette semaine à Beijing en Chine. Mercedes-Maybach Ultimate Luxury Concept 2018 Suivant les coupé et cabriolet Vision 6 Concepts, l’Ultimate Luxury s’adresse cette fois au très lucratif monde des utilitaires sport. Bien que les rumeurs faisaient été qu’il serait une dérive de la prochaine Classe GLS, avec ce concept, on découvre que l’approche de Maybach sera très différente du GLS qui vise les familles avec ses sept places. Dans le cas présent, on reconnaît les « nouveaux » traits propres à … [Read more...] about BEIJING : Mercedes-Maybach Ultimate Luxury Concept, l’attaque contre le Bentayga et le Cullinan
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Essai routier : Bentley Bentayga Mulliner 2018 : une couche de plus
Personne ne doutait que le Bentley Bentayga connaitrait un grand succès commercial. Après tout la juxtaposition de l’écusson ailé de Bentley et un utilitaire sport, dans le contexte actuel est un gage de couronnement au chapitre des ventes. Ce n’est d’ailleurs pour rien que le Bentayga est l’un des modèles les plus populaires de la gamme. Évidemment, avec un tel succès, Bentley a rapidement compris la nécessité d’en offrir plus beaucoup plus et c’est exactement la mission de la version Mulliner, devenir carrément outrageux en matière de luxe et de prestige. Bentley Bentayga Mulliner 2018 Quand le style se discute Il n’y a personne pour ne pas dire que la Continental GT n’est pas superbe pour l’élégance de ses lignes. Toutefois, aux yeux de certains, la transposition des traits typiques de Bentley à l’utilitaire sport semble être plus discutable. Tous … [Read more...] about Essai routier : Bentley Bentayga Mulliner 2018 : une couche de plus
Bentley Bentayga Diesel road trip – sacrilege or common sense?
WO Bentley remains a much misunderstood man. He liked trains as much as cars, was a pretty hopeless businessman and never set out to build the world’s fastest cars. Speed was always in the formula, but only part thereof. Back in 1919, when his first engine burst into life on a bench in London’s New Street Mews (much to the annoyance of a nurse tending a dying man next door), his stated vision was merely to build “a fast car, a good car, the best in its class”. Bentley was so unwedded to the idea of making the quickest thing on four wheels that he deliberately made his cars far heavier than they needed to be – inspiring Ettore Bugatti’s well-known, unkind but not inaccurate “world’s fastest lorry” jibe – and less technologically advanced than was possible, even at the time. He was, for instance, a great admirer of Peugeot’s 1914 twin-cam W grand prix engine but eschewed the layout because it didn’t provide … [Read more...] about Bentley Bentayga Diesel road trip – sacrilege or common sense?
2016 Geneva motor show report and photo gallery
Normally at international car shows it’s easy to pick trends. It’ll be plug-in hybrids, or SUVs, or autonomous cars - or simply cars with too much horsepower - that seem to lead most manufacturers in a particular direction. This year's Geneva motor show did what people have praised it for down the years: it had everything. The Swiss city's biggest motor event has always been popular with exhibitors and attendees because it’s no-one’s home turf. Tata meets Porsche and Subaru meets SsangYong on neutral territory, and the amount of attention anyone gets has nothing to do with a home advantage. You win notice strictly on merit, which is why everyone seems to bring their best work to the expanding-but-still-manageable collection of exhibition halls beside Geneva’s convenient airport. Aston Martin probably took the honours with DB11, simply because a completely new Aston is such a rare event, and everyone seems to love the company at … [Read more...] about 2016 Geneva motor show report and photo gallery
2016 Goodwood Festival of Speed report
The annual Goodwood Festival of Speed returned to Goodwood House - this year celebrating 'the endless pursuit of power’ and with a special focus on BMW. Catch up with what happened on each day below, but first Steve Cropley summarises this year's event. Steve Cropley's Goodwood Festival of Speed report As spectators drifted happily away from the 24th annual running of the Goodwood Festival of Speed, it must have struck many that the theme for this year’s event — “the endless pursuit of power” — had been unusually well chosen. Every Goodwood Festival has a theme but this one was closer to reality than usual: the 2016 event featured a better and more potent crop of race cars — plus a larger collection of spectacular road-going supercars — than any seen previously at famous Sussex hillclimb, which for all but four days a year is a quiet single-lane access road connecting Goodwood House to the wooded estate above. For a while this year … [Read more...] about 2016 Goodwood Festival of Speed report
New and Future Cars for 2018 and Beyond
In 2016 the car-making industry saw its seventh consecutive year of record sales in the U.S. with 17.55 million purchases in all. So far in 2017 the numbers seem to have finally plateaued, with analysts forecasting a final total closer to 17 million—still not too shabby. Various social, political, and economic factors are driving the slight decline, but don’t blame it on a lack of interesting, exciting, and appealing new vehicles designed to grab our attention. Indeed, the following is filled with more than 100 cars, crossovers, SUVs, and trucks that are either on sale now or will be within a few years. Even so, this lineup is not exhaustive in terms of everything coming down the pipe. It is composed of the top 100-plus machines that pique our interest as the automotive world continues to change on a seemingly daily basis. Although there might come a day when, as some predict, we will see a sad end to our celebration of No Boring Cars, the good news is—as evidenced on … [Read more...] about New and Future Cars for 2018 and Beyond
A road-testing year in numbers: CAR’s cars in 2015
► A year’s road testing in numbers ► CAR tested hundreds of cars in 2015CAR magazine’s road test diary is a broad church. City cars and hypercars, priceless classics and thinly veiled racing cars, all made an appearance in CAR’s pages in 2015. To give an idea of the sheer scope of the 280 or so cars that came through the doors over the past 12 issues, here’s a look back at the road test year in numbers – fastest/slowest, priciest/cheapest, heaviest/lightest – and a few surprise entries.So, without further ado:Perhaps it’s a sign of just how absurdly fast cars are becoming that more than a few machines CAR tested in 2015 were claimed to be capable of dipping under the three-second marker from 0-62mph. Lamborghini’s Aventador SV, McLaren’s 675 LT and Tesla’s ‘ludicrous’ P90D to name a few, but fastest of all was Ariel’s madcap Atom 3.5R (above), which not only looks like a rocketsled but goes like … [Read more...] about A road-testing year in numbers: CAR’s cars in 2015
The CAR Top 10: things we thought we’d never see in 2015
► A sideways look back at 2015► Surprises, shocks along the way► It's an end-of-year CAR Top 10 What a rollercoaster year! From the world's biggest car maker collapsing in to a distinctly un-Germanic crisis to the scandal at Top Gear TV show, 2015 has been a gift to headline writers everywhere. Here's our look back at the motoring year that was 2015 - complete with the biggest surprises of the year. Click here for the 2015 cars we road tested - by numbers.In-car gestures have always had their uses, but who’d have thought we could put the single digit to more productive use than merely casting doubt on that van driver’s parentage. BMW has fast-forwarded us to a world where a mere waft of the hand or waggle of the finger can control in-car functions such as music volume, phone and nav settings. The system, which rocked up for the first time on the 2015 7-series, works via a 3D sensor located in the rear-view mirror assembly. The downside? You … [Read more...] about The CAR Top 10: things we thought we’d never see in 2015