Vision Mercedes-Maybach Ultimate Luxury

An all-electric SUV targeted at China's wealthiest consumers and beyond

by Jaclyn Trop As Mercedes-Benz continues to polish its rarefied Maybach brand, it’s testing the Chinese appetite for the marque’s first-ever all-electric SUV concept. Called the Vision Mercedes-Maybach Ultimate Luxury, the SUV debuted Tuesday at Auto China 2018 in Beijing as the sixth Maybach concept vehicle from Mercedes-Benz Design in as many years. The 750-horsepower, fully electric SUV concept boasts a range of more than …

Lamborghini Unveils the Urus SUV

The world's fastest SUV also offers a striking aesthetic

by Jaclyn Trop Before Lamborghini revealed its long-awaited Urus SUV at a star-studded celebration inside its Sant’Agata, Italy headquarters last month, a crowd of 700 sat in the dark with the same question: What will it look like? A light show, acrobatics performance, and 15 minutes of technical difficulties heightened the anticipation. Perhaps the Urus would look like an updated version of Lamborghini’s first off-roader, …

On the Ice Road with Volkswagen’s 2018 Tiguan SUV in Yellowknife

Highlights from a four-day expedition around the capital of Canada's Northwest Territories

by Jaclyn Trop The Inuits believe that the Aurora Borealis hails from gods in the sky playing soccer with a walrus head. Others say that the brighter the lights, the brighter the spirit. After two nights of trying, we finally saw it, a hazy cloud streaking across the night. It bore no resemblance to a soccer match nor to any part of a walrus, but …