Fun-to-drive road manners, good entry-level luxury, and solid hybrid economy are no longer mutually exclusive. When it comes to automakers' lowest-tier crossovers, this realization isn't even like the old expression "cheap, fast, reliable: pick two." You can indeed have all three, and Lexus' entry in the subcompact crossover ring makes for a compelling offer:...
Should EVs look and feel more like gas cars in order to appeal to normal folks and accelerate mass adoption, or should they be radically different in the name of futurism and originality? That’s a debate that, well, like most debates, is hotly contested on the Facebooks and will likely never be settled. Some...
The 2023 Range Rover Sport PHEV stayed sure-footed as a blizzard coated Utah’s highways and dropped visibility to a few car lengths. Rolling up to a ski resort in this thing—headlights blazing through billowing snow, engine dead-silent—had me feeling like a prince on vacation. That’s where the SUV’s token Britishism ends these days, though.
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Car nerds like me—and probably like you, too—endlessly bemoan the lack of performance wagons in the United States. It has grown tiresome to hear the near-constant complaints from people like myself about SUV-crazy America and how we should all be driving brown, diesel, manual wagons instead. However, a week in the 2023 Volvo V60...
The 2023 Toyota GR Corolla is a deeply joyful car and an instant classic for driving enthusiasts. I mean, come on, a widebody hatchback hiding a three-cylinder engine boosted to over 300 horsepower with all-wheel drive and a manual transmission? I didn’t have many questions after reading the spec sheet, except for one: How...
