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2018 Lexus ES 350 4-DR Sedan Review
If you’re in the market for a proven high quality 5 passenger sedan at an affordable base price of $38,900, take a close look at the 2018 Lexus ES 350.
Read More »2018 Mazda 6 Signature Review
Mazda focuses on making the interior significantly better than the competition. A genuinely unexpected attribute in a $34,750 sedan occupying a price point that hardly qualifies it as a luxury ride. Yet the Mazda6 is surprisingly luxurious – in spite of its bargain price.
Read More »2018 Hyundai Kona Ultimate AWD Review
If you examine the Kona’s window sticker, you will quickly determine that Hyundai’s favorite phrase is “Included.” Unlike some of the German competition where pretty much nothing is included in the base price of a vehicle, with this Hyundai, everything is “Included.”
Read More »2018 Toyota Highlander SE V6 AWD Review
Hypes: Nifty Solution to Transportation for 7 Gripes: Limited Rear Vision, Too Much Black Plastic Inside Not very long ago, it would have been unthinkable for a 4,570 pound SUV powered by a gas hungry 295hp V6 to return 22MPG in overall driving. But when Toyota performed a substantial makeover of their best selling Highlander […]
Read More »2018 Volvo XC60 T8 E-AWD Inscription Review
If you haven’t driven a Volvo recently, you need to attend Volvo school first. Pretty much everything you know about operating a conventional car needs to be discarded before you earn your Swedish driving permit.
Read More »2018 Mazda MX-5 Miata Club Review
Get it while you can. The last real sports car, that is. Mazda still makes it, just as they have for the past three decades. But given our national craze for self-driving cars, who knows how long this delectable purebred sports car will last?
Read More »2018 Kia Stinger GT2 AWD V6 Review
There are a number of adjectives which can be applied to Kia vehicles: economical, practical, affordable, good looking, reliable. But conspicuously missing from that list is fast. Until now, no Kia product could be described as fast.
Read More »2018 Toyota Highlander Hybrid XLE AWD-i Review
Toyota’s Hybrid Highlander tops the model range in both horsepower and fuel economy. It’s hard to beat that double-barreled punch. In the non-Hybrid Highlander, the 3.5-liter 2GR-FXS V6 produces 280hp in gas-only form, with an overall mileage rating of 20MPG.
Read More »2018 Lexus GX460 Luxury Review
So how does this long gone scenario relate to the Lexus GX460? Simple, really, because the Lexus under review here is the direct descendant of that first 4Runner, updated continuously over 30 years by dozens of redesign generations.
Read More »2018 Genesis G80 RWD 3.8 Review
You can certainly spend more for a Japanese big three product, but you’ll probably be wasting your money. Because Genesis has hit the bulls eye with both of their model lines – the G80 and the G90.
Read More »2018 Lexus NX 300 F Sport Review
Ensconced in such luxury, you are free to revel in the fine performance of the F Sport- enhanced NX 300 without a worry about what others may think of its polarizing appearance.
Read More »2018 Mazda CX-5 Grand Touring AWD Review
The stormiest week of the winter really put this Mazda SUV to the test. The mid-size CX-5, which was redone for 2017, proved more than a match for the worst road conditions of the year.
Read More »2018 Honda Fit 5-DR Sport Review
I wouldn’t have liked the Fit half as much as I did if Honda had equipped it with the available CVT transmission. Instead, they provided me with a Fit worthy of the name Sport – thanks to its lovely, quick shifting, beautifully weighted 6-speed manual gearbox.
Read More »2018 Toyota RAV4 Platinum FWD Review
It’s not the space. It’s not the pace. Nor is it the looks. So what is it about the RAV4 that makes this little SUV the best selling Toyota of them all?
Read More »2018 Lexus GS F 4-DR Sedan Review
So what’s the downside to the F? Mileage is the bugaboo if you exercise a heavy throttle foot. The gas tank holds only 17.5 gallons that yields a modest range of under 300 miles.
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