by Joseph Szczesny | Jul 21, 2020
The Toyota 4Runner has been a mainstay of the company’s line-up for more than 30 years and is now on its fifth generation that carries on the body-on-frame character with the capacity to handle a variety of challenges from hauling cargo to towing to traveling cross...
by Paul A. Eisenstein | Jul 16, 2020
The original Acura NSX, launched back in 1990, was a breakout, Japan’s first real supercar. No wonder it took Honda’s luxury arm so long to find a suitable replacement. It looked at a variety of powertrain options before finally honing in on a distinctive, three-motor...
by Joseph Szczesny | Jul 14, 2020
At a time when mobility has become a buzzword for the future of transportation, passenger cars –sedans, coupes and convertibles – still retain a huge space at the heart of the world’s automotive culture as carmakers compete for buyers around the world. Thus it ought...
by Paul A. Eisenstein | Jul 13, 2020
Old nameplates, it seems, don’t die, they just go into hibernation. We’ve been seeing a number of once-familiar badges make a return of late, notably the Ford Bronco. Now, Chevrolet is reviving one of its own, bringing the TrailBlazer back in the form of a new SUV....
by Paul A. Eisenstein | Jul 10, 2020
Cadillac is on a journey of reinvention, albeit one that has lasted for nearly two decades. We’ve seen the automaker struggle to find the precise design formula, the right powertrain line-up, the right model mix and, of late, even the right product nomenclature. It’s...
by Joseph Szczesny | Jul 7, 2020
After proving that Americans would buy cars made in Europe, Volkswagen has struggled, seemingly for years to connect or re-connect. It has been a bit like a hitter in baseball who is always swinging behind the pitch or a quarterback in American football who can’t...
by Paul A. Eisenstein | Jul 3, 2020
Toyota’s little “soft-roader” has come a long way since its introduction back in 1994. It has grown larger and more lavishly equipped. The RAV4 has also grown substantially in terms of sales, several years ago displacing the time-tested Camry as its number-one product...
by Joseph Szczesny | Jun 30, 2020
For a lot of reasons, some practical and some mythical, the pickup truck has a tight grip on the heart strings of American motorists these days, and while Toyota’s trucks haven’t matched the sale success of pickups from Chevy, Ford or Ram, they have carved out their...
by Joseph Szczesny | Jun 26, 2020
By now most drivers in the United States have heard about electric cars and probably listened to friends and co-workers argue about their merits or potential merits. But the introduction of battery-electric vehicles has been slow. However, the options have grown...
by Paul A. Eisenstein | Jun 25, 2020
Let’s be honest: one of the perks of this job is having someone pull into your driveway with a brand new car, hand you the key and walk away. So, imagine what it was like when two new cars showed up simultaneously. In this case, both 2021 Toyota Supras, one with the...
by Paul A. Eisenstein | Jun 18, 2020
Beauty, goes the old saw, is in the eye of the beholder. Performance, others have said, shows up in the seat of your pants. To our eye, it takes a bit of time to get comfortable with the, er, distinctive look of the 2021 Mercedes-AMG GLE 53 Coupe. But it only takes a...
by Joseph Szczesny | Jun 16, 2020
The auto industry runs, more less or less but mostly more, on the axiom that you can’t have too much of a good thing so it’s no real surprise that Kia has brought out the Seltos, a compact crossover vehicle. After all, a different compact crossover, the Kia Soul, was...
