MPU 300x600
MPU 300x600 - 2
Review: 2015 Lexus RX450h
Why is the Lexus RX the best selling luxury SUV in the US? According to the Institute for Highway Safety, only nine vehicles sold here had zero deaths per million registered vehicles. The RX350 was one of those nine. It also sells itself because it does everything you’d expect from such a premium vehicle, and does it all well.
Read More »Review: 2015 Toyota Camry Hybrid SE Sedan
Toyota has reinvigorated its top selling product, the Camry, with new styling for the 2015 model year that verges on revolutionary for this once staid sedan. You will not confuse the bold look of the latest Camry with that of its timid predecessor. Every panel save the roof is changed for this mid-cycle makeover. Underneath the sleek new skin, however, mechanical components remain largely unchanged.
Read More »Review: 2014 Toyota Highlander Hybrid Limited AWD
Get more, pay more. Toyota has dimensionally revised the 2014 version of its Highlander, widening it 4.5 inches, and adding 3 inches to its length. Although wheelbase remains as before, at 110 inches, interior space increases to the point that the third row bench seat will now accommodate three people rather than two.
Read More »Review: 2014 Volkswagen Jetta Hybrid SEL
Because VW has managed to build a product worthy of their advertising hype, the Jetta Hybrid SEL is the first dual energy source vehicle worth serious consideration by the sporting driver. You can honk this sleeper around town like a GTI while kissing off every other trip the gas station. What more could you want for 30 grand?
Read More »Review: 2013 Volkswagen Touareg Hybrid
The Touareg Hybrid is a remarkably sporting proposition. Thanks to its Goliath twin engine power train, it will run circles around lightweight sports cars, while looking after your every need with palatial solicitude. It’s really quite a bizarre combination of attributes, well worth the lofty asking price.
Read More »Review: 2013 Volkswagen Jetta Hybrid
The Jetta Hybrid is a remarkably stout product. Braking issues aside, it generates the same kind of driving enthusiasm you’ve come to expect from other VW products. There’s a basic honest and consistency at work here that will not disappoint longtime enthusiasts of this brand.
Read More »Review: 2013 Ford C-Max Hybrid
If Ford’s C-Max Hybrid represents the future of cars, I’ll start reviewing toasters. This expensive derivative of the $16,995 Focus costs $31,085, weighs a whopping 3,639 pounds, but makes just 141hp in petrol mode or 188hp in combined petrol/electric mode. Saddled with a noisy CVT (Constant Velocity) transmission, the C-Max whines its way laboriously to thrust. The faster you accelerate, the more noise you generate from the drivetrain.
Read More »2013 Lexus GS450h Review
It’s not often that you’d pay extra money for a hybrid, just to gain a performance advantage over the conventional gas version of the same car. The usual reasons for going the hybrid route are better mileage and less pollution, and the GS improves on the gas-fueled model in both those areas, with a combined EPA mileage rating of 31 MPG
Read More »2012 Infiniti M Hybrid Review
This car pretty floored us. Infiniti M Hybrid did not get us all excited in the email exchanges but as soon as the car was delivered to us, it was a week of bliss. They styling is simply incredible as it has leapfrogged all other Infinitis and all other hybrids before it. Driving it was a delight as this hybrid seems to have all the torque of a V10 engine. But then it really has the economy of a small car so you can have fun burning up the tires or hypermiling a getting over 30 mpgs.
Read More »2012 Toyota Prius c Review
The Prius is the Japanese version of the Swiss Army Knife. You can buy a lot of different versions to fit your needs. There’s original Prius, which Toyota now terms the “liftback” model in order to distinguish it from the recently introduced “V” version, a stretched model with roomier interior. Now a third version is coming on line called “c” for city transport. The Prius c is a smaller and significantly lighter offspring of the world’s most successful hybrid vehicle. It weighs nearly 600 pounds less than any other Prius, and costs significantly less as well.
Read More »2011 Nissan LEAF Review – vs. the Chevy Volt and Toyota Prius
Remember the first time you rode/drove an EV? It could have been a battery powered toy car, a golf cart, or even a gas powered car converted to electric
Read More »Table of Contents – Editorial Car Reviews, Feature Articles
A comprehensive list of all the Expert Car Reviews and feature articles published on CarReview.com [updated 10/11/2011]
Read More »2012 Toyota Prius Plug-in First Impressions Review
Despite being mercilessly picked on by car enthusiasts and members of the automotive press, the Toyota Prius has been an unqualified success. The Prius has become synonymous with hybrid cars and perhaps even Toyota itself.
Read More »GM EN-V Explores Personal Urban Transportation
By Megan Green In the late 1800′s, as cities grew larger and more crowded, the automobile become more and more of a necessity to offset the unhealthy and malodorous pollution from horses. Each horse could produce upwards of 35 pounds of waste per day, not to mention the macabre detail that dead horses littered the […]
Read More »