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March-April 2019 news & features March-April 2019 Special Event 4th Annual Future Classic Car Show A.............................5 During Arizona Auction Week, you can set aside all those vintage classics for an evening and see what else the next generations, and those who think like the next generations, are interested in. New Vehicle Launch Drive 2019 Lamborghini Urus.......................................................10 Lamborghini enters the SUV space with a road-, track- and off- road-ready machine well bred for all that and more. By Dave Stall A Week With 2019 Mercedes-AMG E53 Cabriolet ...................................14 This 429-hp AMG cabriolet holds many tricks to deal with chilly weather, and we had it on an especially chilly week. Special Event 2019 North American International Auto Show B ...........16 The second big international show in the cycle, after LA, and the first of the new calendar year brings a fistful of great reveals. New Vehicle Launch Drive 2019 Ram 2500-3500 Heavy Duty Pickups C ....................18 Ram Trucks knocked it out of the park a year ago with their all-new 2019 Ram 1500 lineup, winner of a great many trophies and comparos. We travel to southern Nevada to see how they apply the same magic to their heavy duty pickups. By Joe Sage A Week With 2019 Infiniti QX50 Essential FWD......................................23 New Vehicle Events 2020 Ford Explorer D .......................................................24 We catch an early Detroit sneak peek before the big show reveals. New Vehicle Events 2020 Ford Mustang Shelby GT500 DE............................24 We catch an early sneak of this while in Michigan, too, and then check the results of its charity sale at Barrett-Jackson. New Vehicle Events 2020 Toyota GR Supra DE................................................25 Toyota’s sports car has near-simultaneous Detroit-Arizona reveals, and we visit with its chief before its Barrett-Jackson charity sale. A Week With 2019 Ford Ranger Lariat SuperCrew 4x4..........................26 Special Events Arizona Auction Week 2019 results E..............................28 Watch many world records fall as Arizona’s January collector car auctions once again set the stage for the hobby for the year. A Week With 2019 GMC Sierra Denali 1500 4WD Crew Cab..................33 Special Event Hagerty Test Garage Youth Learning Experience F .......34 Hagerty brings Auction Week insights to enthusiastic 5th graders. A Week With 2019 Mercedes-AMG GLS 63..............................................35 Special Event 2019 Chicago Auto Show G ..............................................37 After Detroit, there are always a few more surprises in Chicago. A Week With 2019 Ram 1500 Laramie Longhorn Crew Cab 4x4...........39 A Week With 2019 Ford Edge ST AWD ....................................................41 A Week With 2019 Nissan Armada Platinum Reserve 4WD...................43 departments ■ FROM THE PUBLISHER....................................4 ■ AUTOMOTIVE NEWS UPDATE ...........................6 ■ THE INSIDE TRACK: BRIEFS & RUMORS ........44 ■ UPCOMING FEATURES ...................................46 COVER: Meet the 2019 Lamborghini Urus, the supercar manufacturer’s all-new entry into the sport utility vehicle market. From its 650-horsepower biturbo V8, to its integrated front differential, Torsen center differential and active torque vectoring rear differential, to its ground clearance adjustable from a road-hugging 6.2 inches up to a rock-clearing 9.8, to its wheels from 21 to 23 inches, to its carbon ceramic brakes front and rear, 10-piston in front and 6-piston in the rear, this handsome beast can chew up and swallow anything you send its way. Correspondent Dave Stall brings us the report from Thermal Raceway. START YOUR ENGINES : FROM THE PUBLISHER MAGAZINE utomotive technology remains as wondrous as ever, even before it’s multiplied addi- A tionally each year by increasing layers of infotainment and driver assistance tech. We’ve probably mentioned before how we’re reminded of the mania that accompanies an Future annual smartphone release, in which people line up around the block and even camp out, to be among the first to own something that’s maybe a little bigger (for lack of other ideas), Classic maybe has different battery life (maybe longer, maybe shorter), a device with its own pre- AUCTION WEEK AWARDS EVENT cision engineering and materials challenges, but basically no moving parts. And the entire FOR NEWER COLLECTIBLES industry only produces a handful of devices. Then you take the business we’ll broadly call cars, with as many as 350 different mod- he Future Classic Car Show, present- els just in our market. Think about your engine. When it’s going 3000 rpm, that’s 50 times T ed by Clas sicCars.com, is held during every second—snap your fingers!—that every one of those parts move. It’s almost unimag- Arizona Auction Week, balancing against inable. When your engine ticks as you shut it down at night, that’s all those parts starting those events’ inherent tilt largely toward to cool down at their various rates, since they’re made out of many different materials with classic cars from the past. different coefficients of expansion, and yet, while operating or after operating, they have The Future Classic event, in its fourth to maintain complete precision in all their interrelationships to contain all their fluids and year for 2019, features a curated display of gases and run at maximum efficiency. And safety? This thing has to protect you and every- later model cars (produced no earlier than one around you as your hurtle a few tons of machinery down the open road at high speed. 1975) that are poised to be the most desir- Auto show season is well under way, with LA past, Detroit and Chicago in this issue, able collector cars of the future. The event and Geneva and New York not far behind. Trends toward trucks and SUVs continue, while was held again on the rooftop of the Scotts - cars include wicked fast, complex and stylish machinery—all represented in our launch dale Quarter shopping district, where it at - and weekly drives, as well. We also take a look at the highlights of Arizona Auction Week— PUBLISHER / EXECUTIVE EDITOR: tracted thousands. where all those moving parts and intricacies stand the test of time for decades on end, and Joe Sage A panel of judges—including expert auto- at the ClassicCars.com Future Classic car show, with its appreciation of how the populari- CONTRIBUTING WRITERS / PHOTOGRAPHERS: motive journalist Andy Reid and YouTube Randall Bohl, Nick Calderone, ty and innovation of more recent motoring machinery may stand the test of time. star David Pat ter son, as well as students Eileen Falkenberg-Hull, Tyson Hugie, Enjoy the ride! Stephanie Jarnagan, Christina Lawrie, and attendees—honored a Best of Show Joe Sage - Publisher/ Executive Editor Sue Mead, JP Molnar, Doris Ong, winner, as well as cars in eight other cate- Brenda Priddy, Lyn St James, gories, including Fan Favorite. Tim and Kristin Sharp, Dave Stall, Paul Strauss, Scott Tilley, Sherri Tilley, BEST OF SHOW: Jan Wagner, Kevin A Wilson 2004 Subaru Impreza STi John Darling BEST MODIFIED: ■ www.arizonadrivermagazine.com 2004 Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution 8 Nathan Benoit ■ facebook.com/ArizonaDriverMagazine BEST OF 2006-2018: 2015 BMW M4 ■ twitter.com/ArizonaDriver Jason Amiot ■ instagram.com/ArizonaDriver BEST OF 1996 -2005: 1998 Toyota Supra ARIZONA DRIVER MAGAZINE IS A MEMBER OF: Aleksander Heit IMPA ......International Motor Press Association MAMA....Midwest Automotive Media Association BEST OF 1986-1995: MPG .......Motor Press Guild 1993 Mazda RX-7 R1 NWAPA..Northwest Automotive Press Association Tim Eull PAPA ......Phoenix Automotive Press Association RMAP.....Rocky Mountain Automotive Press BEST OF 1975-1985: SAMA.....Southern Automotive Media Association 1977 Toyota Celica TAWA .....Texas Auto Writers Association John Garza WAJ .......Western Automotive Journalists ACM .......LeMay—America’s Car Museum BEST PRESERVED: Sturgis....Sturgis Motorcycle Museum & Hall of Fame 1991 Buick Reatta USFRA....Utah Salt Flats Racing Association Anthony Scaglione USMA.....United States Motorsports Association STUDENT’S CHOICE sponsored by PUBLISHED BIMONTHLY BY ADZONE ARIZONA LLC All contents © AdZone Arizona LLC and Arizona Driver Universal Technical Institute: Maga zine. 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