2023 Jeep Grand Cherokee 4xe Review

The saying goes that you cannot eat your cake and have it, too. But what if you could? Plug-in hybrids like the Jeep Grand Cherokee 4xe can be electric vehicles — without the problems that beset electric vehicles. It can travel about 25 miles without burning any gas. But you don’t have to worry about what you’ll […]

2023 Mini Review

There aren’t many new cars that really stand out anymore — in part because there aren’t many new cars for sale anymore. A tsunami of crossovers have replaced most of them. So what to do if you don’t want one of those? If you want something that stands out from the herd? A Mini might […]

Don’t Let Them Sell You What You Don’t Want to Buy!

There are still at least a few affordable — and so, appealing — new cars on the market.  Some with manual transmissions, like the base trim ’22 Subaru Crosstrek. Some that have advertised base prices under $20k that also tout being able to get 42 MPG, like the ’22 Ford Maverick hybrid (just reviewed at length, here). […]

2023 Lincoln Navigator Review

Describing any vehicle that stickers for $77,635 to start as a “bargain” sounds a little like describing a 30-45 minute wait for a charge as “fast.” But then, everything’s relative. And relative to its chief rival — the Cadillac Escalade, which stickers for $79,295 to start and comes standard with 20 fewer horsepower and 1,000 pounds less towing capacity […]

2023 Volvo S90 Review

Volvo — as everyone knows — is a Swedish brand. What many do not know is that it is owned by the Chinese and that “Swedish” cars like the S90 are also made in China. So, is it still a “Volvo”? What It Is The S90 is Volvo’s largest and top-of-the-line luxury sedan. Technically, it is Geely Motors’ largest and top-of-the-line luxury […]

2023 Ford F-150 Lightning Review

It’s interesting that the first electric vehicles of the modern era weren’t trucks — which have a lot more room than cars do for batteries. This matters because electric vehicle batteries take up a lot of space — which means less of that for people and stuff in an electric car. In the case of the F-150 Lightning, the […]

2023 Alfa Romeo Giulia Review

Fiat stopped selling cars in the United States last year — but there’s still an Italian-brand car you can buy here (other than a Ferrari). It’s the Giulia — one of two Italian cars made by Alfa Romeo. Of course, it being Italian — and so something different — is only one reason to consider buying […]

2023 Chrysler 300 C Review

It is not just the end of the line for the 300 sedan – which Chrysler has just announced will be retired after the end of the 2023 model year. It may also – by dint of that – be the end of the line for Chrysler, too. For once the 300 is gone, the only remaining […]

2023 Toyota Camry TRD Review

You can still get a V6 engine in Toyota’s Camry, which is the only remaining mid-sized/family-priced sedan that offers more than a four. Engines larger than that have become a rarity in a class of cars where V6s were common as recently as five years ago. The government’s continual ratcheting up of federal fuel economy […]

We Name the Things We Love

When someone says they once owned a Corvair or a Corvette, a story almost invariably ensues, prompted by fond or at least some memories about the car.  These often have a flavor that is similar to that of stories recounting old friends and even exes, now gone, but never forgotten. It is easy to forget the new XYZ […]