2021 Lexus NX300h Review
Buying a hybrid is beginning to make economic sense again because the price of gas is going up again, making up for the hybrid’s higher buy-in price. And maybe more so. How much you save or not ultimately depends on how high the price of gas goes. Right now, it’s looking like gas will be at least […]
2021 Hyundai Elantra Review
There is one class of new car left that offers buyers real choice — as opposed to a choice of badge. Ironically, it is the class of car you’d expect to offer the fewest choices. The compact sedan class. After all, it’s the transportation appliance class. You don’t expect a lot of variety when shopping for toasters. Nevertheless, […]
2021 Toyota Corolla Review
They don’t make the great cars anymore—cars like the original (rear-engined/air-cooled) VW Beetle. Many consider the original Bug to be the greatest car ever made—if the standard for greatness is a car almost anyone could afford to buy and, for that reason, put almost everyone on the road who wanted to be on the road. Hence the people’s car. The Ford Model […]
2021 Ford F-150 Review
It used to be easy to review trucks. They were the most basic vehicles on the road—built to work and not to be comfortable. There was a body on a frame with a bed in the back, and you picked the length and the number of doors, and that about covered it. Now it’s just getting started. […]
2021 VW Tiguan Review
Getting three rows of seats without getting something big isn’t easy because there aren’t many. In fact, there’s just one now—the 2021 VW Tiguan. The other two compact-sized crossovers previously available with three rows of seats no longer are. Dodge dropped the Journey, and Mitsubishi isn’t currently selling the seven-passenger Outlander (the five-passenger Sport is […]
2021 Fiat 500X Review
Here’s an oddball fact: Fiat, the Italian small car brand, currently sells only one new car, the 2021 500X, making the brand and the car synonymous, almost. Can Fiat the brand survive when it’s only got one car to sell? Time will soon tell. What It Is The 500X is a subcompact-sized five-door crossover with standard AWD, […]
2021 Jeep Gladiator Review
The idea of bolting a bed to the back of a Jeep isn’t new. It was done decades ago, but it’s nice that Jeep remembered it and improved upon it. This Jeep-with-a-bed has four doors instead of just two as Jeeps with beds had in decades past. And now you can get it with a rumbly diesel engine, too. […]
2021 Hyundai Accent Review
If you don’t want to spend more than about $15k on a new car, you won’t need to spend a lot of time shopping for one because there are only three of them left on the market. Drum Roll Please—they are the Hyundai Accent and its two rivals, the Nissan Versa and Mitsubishi Mirage G4. […]
2021 Ford F250 Tremor Review
It used to be that most trucks came with big V8s, leaf springs and solid axles. If you want such things in a new truck, you’ll want to look at a heavy-duty truck like the Ford F250. You can’t get this one without a big V8 and a multi-leaf/solid axle rear suspension with heavy steel coil springs […]
2021 Nissan Leaf Review
How much are you willing to spend on a car to spend nothing on gas? This question arises or ought to arise whenever electric cars are discussed. This is especially true for an electric car like the Nissan Leaf, which, unlike a Tesla3 or Model Y, isn’t ludicrously fast or the least bit sexy. What […]