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Bentley’s new GTC convertible is far better with the top up

The good news: I had the key to a Bentley convertible for 72 hours. The bad news? It rained cats and dogs for about 71 of those. “But don’t worry,” said the nice man at Park Place Bentley Dallas, as he sent me out into the world alone in his $235,000 motorcar. “You cannot make this car skid. Just try.” He’s bloody insane, I thought, as I eased the hand-built, hand-everything car out onto an oily, slick Lemmon Avenue.

Behold the new Chrysler 300C John Varvatos edition

Chrysler has partnered with menswear designer (and Detroit native son) John Varvatos to trick out its muscular, flagship sedan this fall.

The HOT List: 19 things that excite and inflame this very minute

The Dallas dining scene, summer’s most sizzling accessory and one big, hot mess — just a few items included in our HOT August rundown.  Read on for more of FD Luxe‘s smoking, scorching people, places and things — plus a wild card or three — circa 2012. photographs by Maxine Helfman, styling by Brittany Winter (Click the numbers below [...]

A spin in Porsche’s $132,260 convertible

First, a word of apology to the Highland Park police department. And this is truly awkward for both of us. Yes, I saw that radar speed sign posted on Preston Road near Armstrong. I could almost make out the flashing, smoking digits of my estimated speed as I whooshed past, but it was blurred from [...]

Four 2012 models that make our staff’s wish list

I grew up in a confirmed Honda family. My dad swears by them — he’s driving his sixth now, with plans to buy his seventh (a 2012 Pilot). You can imagine his shock when I traded in my graduation gift, a 1999 Honda Prelude, for a brand new LEXUS IS250 in 2007. (After eight years [...]

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