India's luxury car segment is on a roll. This year, almost a dozen cars — big and small, absolutely new and not so old — have been launched so far. The big two, BMW and Audi, are riding high on small compact SUVs.

Most everyday people aren't driving around in high-end luxury cars, so how does this thing compare to other vehicles in the $20,000 segment? GM has again rolled the dice a little bit and the result is a funky interior. The Trax has a similar gauge …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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, …

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 …

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 …