The last time Infiniti built a coupe, it was a nice car.  It was also square, stodgy, and, well, boring.  The M35, introduced at Infiniti’s inception in 1989, was based on the Japan-only Nissan Leopard.  It was a decent but forgettable four-place luxury coupe, and it vanished from Infiniti’s lineup after three years.  For 2003, Infiniti is back in the luxury-sport coupe market, and this time it’s much less likely to be forgotten.  The G35 Sport Coupe is fast, sexy and far from boring.

Sharp eyes have probably guessed that the …

Good news!  The traffic-stopping looks and technological wizardry of the $92,000 Mercedes CL500 coupe are now available in a smaller, more convenient package!

That is in no way hyperbole, either.  Last year’s CLK was an excellent car, a perfect wallflower that would take you to the most expensive restaurant in town in style and then beat the pants off of a Ford Mustang GT on the way home.  That car’s still here, under the surface, but now it’s drop-dead gorgeous.  We think the new CLK500 is one of the best-looking cars …

It should be obvious from the design alone, but Chrysler’s brand-new Crossfire is definitely not a shy car.  As soon as we got in, the Crossfire wanted to get on the freeway.  It’s a proper “grand touring car,” and it certainly doesn’t like traffic.  That attitude, as much as its rubberneck-inducing show-car looks, set it apart from the crowd.

The Crossfire rocketed into production after making its debut in early 2001 as a concept car.  Chrysler showed a production version barely a year later, and it’s hitting dealers now.  This baby …

For some reason, automotive journalists have always disliked the Saturn S-series.  Ever since the brand was born in 1991, the little subcompact four-door sedans and two-door coupes have been criticized by the motoring press as being unambitious, poor performers, and downright dull.

Funny thing is, the lack of critical acclaim hasn’t hurt Saturn’s fortunes in the least.  The lineup has expanded to include a larger sedan and wagon and just this year Saturn debuted its first sport-utility vehicle.  It wasn’t that long ago that Saturn built its two-millionth car.  With things …

Hi there!  Welcome to the Coupe Club.  We’ve been one of the landmarks of the automotive scene since the Fifties, serving up personal luxury coupes with style!  Have a seat!  The place isn’t as busy as it used to be, I know.  Back in the day, it was bursting with patrons.  Regulars, most of them:  Toronado, and Cordoba, and Riviera, and Grand Prix, and classy old Thunderbird, who practically opened this place single-handedly.  But time has marched on.  Some of the guys are gone, and some are still in the …

With the new Mercedes C230 Sports Coupe’s surprisingly low price, there are bound to be a lot of drivers new to Mercedes running around out there in the next year or so.  To those Mercedes neophytes:  Welcome!  You’re about to learn what that three-pointed star is all about.  Even though it’s at the bottom of the lineup, the C230 Sports Coupe doesn’t lack for any of the qualities that make a Mercedes what it is.

As part of Mercedes’ attempt to broaden its appeal in the US, the C230 Sports Coupe’s …

So here’s the deal; the Cougar is Mercury’s attempt to grab a younger demographic.  The 2001 Cougar Zn (for “zinc,” from which the bright yellow color comes) certainly looks the part, with enough sharp edges and triangles and hood scoops and spoilers to give it a drive-on role in the sequel to “The Fast and the Furious,” this past summer’s modern-hot-rodder B-movie.  The eyecatching looks are both solution to the four year-old Cougar’s wallflower status, and part of the problem.  Like many other factory scoop-and-spoiler jobs, the Cougar Zn has …

Oldsmobiles are going to be the best they’ve ever been for a while, thanks to the unofficial General Motors Curse.  Always criticized for building vast numbers of cars that are good, but never quite reach greatness, GM has a history of getting a car to achieve greatness after years of trying, and promptly killing it off.  The Cadillac Allante, Pontiac Fiero, and even the ill-fated Buick Reatta were all dynamically the best they had ever been in their final years of production.

Now Oldsmobile’s clock is running out, just as the …

Way back in the dark days of the early 1980s, the Pontiac Grand Am as we know it today was born.  The name itself dates to 1973, but it wasn’t until its1985 resurrection that the Grand Am took the form that it still wears today.  A whole raft of General Motors nameplates have shared chassis with the Grand Am (Oldsmobile Cutlass Calais and Achieva, and Buick Skylark, for instance), but the Pontiac is the only one to retain the same basic face and name for the entire run.

The current Grand …

The only, and we mean only, problem with the all-new Acura 3.2 CL Type S is that it works so smoothly and seamlessly that it doesn’t have much spirit.  And to be honest, that’s only a problem for Car Guys, who spend their free time between ramblings about cubic inches and roadholding with incomprehensible mumbling about the “soul” of Alfa Romeos and the “song” of a V-12.  Stuff that makes no sense whatsoever, unless you’re One Of Them, of course.  To put our assessment of the newest Acura in real-world …