Tesla Motors, Inc., unveiled plans Thursday night to offer a service that would swap out depleted batteries in its luxury electric cars for fully charged packs. Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk took the stage inside the carmaker's design studio in …

While not quite as smooth shifting as the latest ZF torque converter autos, the PDK is a slick and quick shifter at speed and far smoother at low speed than earlier iterations. The steering wheel-mounted manual shift buttons (which you can accidentally …

Another possibility is that Toyota might follow Tesla's footsteps, and disguise the high cost of the technology in a luxury car — perhaps in its Lexus trim. This would enable Toyota to get the cars on the road, and justify the undoubtably lofty price …

So for this installment, we're featuring five new luxury cars now available for sale in and around Essex and Union counties. Our goal is to offer two things: For normal-folks readers it's an amusing intellectual exercise, and for certain readers with …

That moment at the rental car counter when a clerk offers to switch your compact to a sedan? For some Hertz customers, the range of possible upgrades will stretch well beyond convertibles and luxury SUVs and into the realm of the $182,000 Lamborghini …

Luxury auto sales are down, and so far in June, account for 11.7 percent of new-vehicle retail sales, down from 12.9 percent a year ago. That is largely because it has been 43 months since the average premium vehicle has been introduced or redesigned, …

When it comes to executive-class sedans, you can bet that automakers are showing off their most luxurious interiors and very latest technologies. Traditionally you could also bet on those full-sized cars sucking down gas by the barrelful. That dynamic …

Things get serious when we examine the luxury build. At $9500, you get a six-core i7 Extreme Edition 3970X, an ASUS Rampage IV Extreme board, 16GB of Corsair Dominator Platinum memory, and a 1200W Corsair Pro Platinum Series PSU to power the …

“Spacious luxury cars are very much in demand there.” The new car will help increase Cadillac sales in China 50 percent this year to about 50,000 vehicles, Ferguson said. “The reception to the car is absolutely excellent.” Akerson's strategy is to …