2022 Jaguar E-Pace Review
A Jaguar crossover SUV is a strange cat. What’s next? KISS releasing a country record? But then, no one wants to see Gene Simmons in a cowboy hat singing about his pick-up truck. On the other hand, crossovers are the in-thing. They are becoming almost the only thing. Even for a company like Jaguar, which was known […]
2022 Toyota Supra GR Review
Would you be interested in a lighter, quicker, and less expensive iteration of BMW’s Z4 roadster with a hard top rather than a soft-top? Then step right up! Toyota has what you’re looking for in a package that’s very similar, but not similarly skinned, or priced. What It Is The Supra name goes way back […]
2022 VW Atlas Cross Sport Review
VW made the Atlas because people want big crossovers with three rows and room for seven. But what if you don’t need something quite that big? And not too small? Enter the Cross Sport. What It Is The Cross Sport is a slightly smaller, two-row version of the three-row VW Atlas, which is the biggest VW ever. It’s […]
2022 Nissan Frontier Review
Want the good news first? The just-redesigned Nissan Frontier pick-up not only still comes with a V6–it’s standard. Some of the others in this class like the Chevy Colorado come standard with a four. One of the others in this class (the Ford Ranger) comes only with a four. Ready for the bad news? There’s no option to […]
2022 Mazda CX-9 Review
It’s hard to make a crossover different from all the other crossovers without making it something other than just another crossover. It’s akin to trying to make a family-friendly Corvette. But Mazda does a better job than most with the CX-9, its largest, most family-friendly crossover. It is just slightly less practical than some of its rivals having just a […]
2022 Mazda Miata Review
Here is a tonic for those who still see cars as more than just transportation: Mazda no longer offers an automatic transmission in two out of three versions of the 2022 Miata, the company’s much more than mere transportation car. An automatic is still available optionally if you swing that way, but in contrast to the general practice, it […]
2022 Hyundai Sonata Review
Does anyone still make mid-sized family sedans? Haven’t they all been cancelled in favor of crossovers? Most of them, yes, including most recently, the Mazda6 sedan, which Mazda recently announced it won’t be selling anymore after the end of this model year. But there are still a few. One of the remaining not-quite-last-of-the-Mohicans being the 2022 Hyundai […]
2022 Mercedes E450 Wagon Review
Back in the ‘70s, every other car was a wagon. These were usually based on cars made more practical by turning them into wagons, which had much more room for cargo and in some instances, passengers. Then wagons became unfashionable and were replaced (at first) by minivans, which became unfashionable in their turn. These, in […]
2022 Infiniti QX80 Review
There is a boundary layer of iridium above which there are no dinosaur bones to be found — because the dinosaurs were killed off by whatever laid down that worldwide layer of iridium separating the last era of the dinosaurs from all of the subsequent eras. When people from a future era look back at […]
2022 VW Tiguan Review
The stiffest competition for VW’s Tiguan (affectionately known by many as ‘Tiggy’) may be another VW, which is the Taos introduced last year as the newest VW. It is smaller than the Tiggy–by about ten inches in length. But it has almost the same inches in terms of first and second-row legroom. It’s also got about […]