Premier’s blog writer has been writing about cars for four decades. In summer 2015, I received an email from Premier Financial Services asking if I was available to write car profiles for the company’s blog. There was not much detail in the note, but a look at the PFS website intrigued me. And here I […]
A blazingly quick plug-in hybrid If the mention of “plug-in hybrid” conjures images of Toyota Priuses and family SUVs in your mind, Lamborghini’s Urus SE should be like a powerful magnet wiping your mental hard drive clean. In fact, there are magnets in it, because it has an electric motor. It just happens to be […]
It’s McLaren’s third “1” in 30 years. Combining modesty with just a dash of hubris, McLaren calls its new W1 the “The real supercar.” Does that mean other supercars are not real, or are not super? With 1,258 horsepower from a plug-in hybrid powertrain and a total vehicle weight of a claimed 3,300 pounds, we’d […]
Last of Maserati’s “Windy” GTs Like fellow Italian exotic car maker Lamborghini, Maserati hit head winds in the late 1970s as economic issues and rising fuel prices took bites out of the exotic car segment. Speaking of winds, Maserati would issue its final front-engine GT of this period, the Khamsin, using the Egyptian name for […]
Bentley’s (almost) silent four-door supercar Bentley is not the first automaker to refer to a sedan as a “four-door supercar,” as it does with the 2025 Flying Spur plug-in hybrid revealed in September. Whether by marketing departments or auto journalists, the term has been bandied about for years on cars like BMW M and Mercedes-AMG […]
Aston Martin Tops Itself Again The all-new 2025 Aston Martin Vanquish will be the most powerful and fastest front-engine Aston Martin ever built. But put that aside for now, because that it is not the most important fact about this car. The real meat of the story is that it will probably be remembered as […]
There are always two main avenues of news from Monterey Car Week: the results from the Pebble Beach Concours d’ Elegance and, of course, the results from the major collector-car auctions. There were surprises from both this year. The judges at Pebble Beach awarded top honors to a 1934 Bugatti Type 59 Sports, making it […]
While Bugatti recently became a joint venture run by EV hypercar maker Rimac, fans of the marque will likely celebrate that the latest model, called Tourbillon, uses a 986-horsepower V-16 internal combustion engine. It also uses three electric motors that contribute nearly 800 more horses to the corral. So, yes, this one has EV genius Mate Rimac’s imprint all over it. The Tourbillon promises 0-60 in two seconds and a 277-mph top speed. Starting in 2026, Bugatti will build just 250 of these hyper hybrids, with a starting price north of $4 million.
While hurricane season is just starting, Lamborghini Huracán season is ending after 10 years. Lamborghini is sending the car out with a special track model, building just 10 examples. The Huracán’s plug-in hybrid replacement is likely to be much more powerful than the outgoing model. That’s just the start of the “electrifying” news sweeping through the upper part of the premium car segment. It looks like gas engines will stick around for a while, but there will be more plug-in hybrids coming, and, yes, even an all-electric Ferrari.
