2021 Subaru Ascent Review
Subaru’s thing used to be small, rugged cars (sedans and wagons) built to deal with bad roads and poor weather and a 4WD truck or SUV without actually being a truck or SUV. Then trucks—big ones, especially—got popular and more like cars in terms of their on-road civilities and amenities. Also, the big SUVs and crossovers, which emulate them. […]
2021 Chevy Blazer Review
How far can you stretch a name? The Chevy Blazer was (once-upon-a-time) a full-sized, two-door, truck-based SUV with a removable roof and a V8 engine. Lee Majors drove one in the TV series The Fall Guy. The current Blazer is a five-door hatchback’d crossover with a four-cylinder engine driving the front wheels (with a V6 and AWD optional). […]
2021 Mercedes GLS450 Review
Lots of medium-large crossovers offer a third row. Almost all of them offer very little room in that row. It’s the dilemma of room vs. size. The Mercedes GLS is among the few with size and length that has the room you’d otherwise have to buy something bigger (and longer) to get. It’s also got some other things […]
2021 Jeep Wrangler 392 Review
Some of the highest-performing vehicles being offered lately are 4×4 trucks and Jeeps, like the V8-powered Wrangler 392. They are quicker than all but a very few high-performance cars and can do things no high-performance car can, such as crawl over a boulder and ford through nearly three feet of water. This Jeep also has a few […]
2021 Kia Sorento Review
Everyone wants to fit into the clothes they were able to wear when they were 20. Some try to put them on anyway. Usually, the fit isn’t good, which is the same kind of issue with putting three rows of seats in a compact-sized crossover SUV. This is probably why there are only three compact […]
2021 BMW X5 Review
The main problem with electric cars isn’t the range—it’s the wait. Put another way, how far it goes is less of a problem than how long it takes to get going again. A gas-hog muscle that drains its tank dry in 200 miles or less can be back on the road in five minutes or less, […]
2021 Jaguar F-Pace Review
Jaguars were famous, once, for their silky inline sixes and V12s and their uniquely elegant English styling. Nothing else looks like Westminster Abbey, and nothing else looked like an E-Type or XJS, either. Jaguar lost that aspect when it decided to be more like BMW, Mercedes, and Lexus in the looks department and like everyone […]
2021 Ram 1500 TRX Review
When does 450 horsepower seem kind of limp? When you’re behind the wheel of something with more than 700 horsepower. That’s the difference between the Ram 1500 TRX and its chief rival, the Ford F-150 Raptor. What It Is The TRX is the answer, in triplicate, to the Ford F-150 Raptor, which for a little while was the […]
2021 Genesis GV80 Review
The Genesis GV80 does not have a V8, as its name seems to suggest it might. But it does have something else that’s getting hard to find in a crossover SUV–especially in something that costs less than $50,000 to start. Rear-wheel-drive. None of the other models in its class—the Lexus RX, the Acura MDX, and the Audi Q5 —are […]
2021 Acura TLX Review
You used to be able to get a V6 in a Honda Accord sedan. But now that one’s a four-cylinder-only sedan. The good news is, there’s a new sedan made by Honda that’s available with the strongest V6 Honda ever put into a sedan. The bad news is, it’s not being sold under the Honda label. It’s […]