There's nothing like a recession to make you appreciate a luxury automobile, especially one that comes fully equipped with apparent virtue....

I want design to move me, to play with my emotions in the manner of music, dance, sculpture or a painting. I want it to make me feel something -- love, lust, anger, joy or any combination thereof. I want it to become a part of my history, an evocative force, something that rekindles memories, be the...

Somewhere between birth and what is now the possible demise of the domestic automobile industry, "American" became a bad word....

We liked the Lincoln. We loved the Buick. Our emotional intensity is affected by product competence. Put another way: The 2008 Buick Lucerne Super, reviewed here last week, trumps today's subject car, the 2009 Lincoln MKS sedan....

NEW YORK The new face of fast got slapped hard here. It turned the other cheek and got slapped again. It got slapped every time it ventured forth in this city of hard knocks. That's New York for you. It has no respect for German engineering, finely tuned sports cars or automobiles other than those.....