Cars and Car Reviews

A Delightful Drive: The 2023 Toyota Crown Platinum

A Delightful Drive: The 2023 Toyota Crown Platinum

I've been driving a lot of Toyota vehicles recently, which has been a fascinating dive into product design and evolution. From the outside, it would be reasonable to figure that there's a reasonable amount of standardization across vehicle models in a lineup, but it's...

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Comfy and Well Appointed: 2023 Toyota Venza XLE Nightshade

Comfy and Well Appointed: 2023 Toyota Venza XLE Nightshade

Intended to slot in neatly between the popular Toyota RAV4 Hybrid and the Toyota Highlander Hybrid, the Venza is an interesting vehicle in the Toyota lineup. The first gen Venza was based on the Camry and was sold from 2008-2017. The new, improved Venza is based on...

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Awkward but Sleek: 2023 Toyota Prius Limited

Awkward but Sleek: 2023 Toyota Prius Limited

Toyota has gone through a couple of generations of its tremendously popular Prius at this point. I owned one myself for many years back when my kids were smaller, and generally really liked it. The Prius was also one of the vehicles that convinced car owners that...

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First EV Charge Experience with Electrify America

First EV Charge Experience with Electrify America

I'm driving a beautiful 2023 Genesis GV70 electric vehicle this week and having just spent the last two days zipping all over the state, my battery was looking pretty depleted. The problem is, as an occasional EV driver, I haven't spent the money to install a 220V...

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Fun and Sporty 2023 Dodge Hornet GT Plus

Fun and Sporty 2023 Dodge Hornet GT Plus

There have been a surprising number of vehicles throughout the decades with "Hornet" in their name, most infamously the AMC Hornet. That Hornet morphed into the AMC Gremlin, the AMC Spirit, the AMC Concorde, and, finally, the AMC Eagle. You probably don't have any of...

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Nicely Functional 2023 Chevy Colorado Trail Boss Pickup

Nicely Functional 2023 Chevy Colorado Trail Boss Pickup

The auto industry has long ago shaken the perception that trucks were for workers, while sedans were for commutes and families. A glimpse into an $85K luxury pickup truck that has the interior of a fancy luxury sedan shows just how everything has changed. Further...

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2023 Nissan Ariya Platinum+ EV: This is a Nissan?!

2023 Nissan Ariya Platinum+ EV: This is a Nissan?!

While I am the first to say that having a comfortable and familiar interior design is a boon for new car owners, there's also something to be said for occasionally reinventing things and shaking up what might well have become a stale and boring design. My son's 2022...

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2023 Jeep Grand Cherokee Summit: A Quirky Premium Drive

2023 Jeep Grand Cherokee Summit: A Quirky Premium Drive

Get behind the wheel of a premium automobile and you want to feel that not only are you surrounded by luxurious design elements, but that it's all been thoughtfully engineered to deliver an exceptional experience. Luxury doesn't come from using better materials for a...

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Ridiculous Luxury with the 2023 BMW XM SUV

Ridiculous Luxury with the 2023 BMW XM SUV

Car designers are always seeking to find a balance between features and cost. Sometimes the upgrades can be slipped into the Options category, allowing drivers the chance to upgrade on a per-vehicle basis, and other times they can become a new, higher trim level. In...

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Affordable and Fun, The 2024 Chevrolet Trax ACTIV

Affordable and Fun, The 2024 Chevrolet Trax ACTIV

One of the aspects of being a car writer that most people don't realize is that we are loaned so many high-end luxury vehicles or tricked-out vehicles with every possible option that it's easy for us to get out of touch with the world of lower-cost and entry-level...

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Swanky Drive Time with the 2023 Range Rover Sport SE

Swanky Drive Time with the 2023 Range Rover Sport SE

Seems like only a few days ago I was driving the 2023 Land Rover Defender 130 so it was really interesting to get behind the wheel of the 2023 Range Rover Sport SE: In many ways, they're the same vehicle. In fact, Range Rover is a brand of Land Rover, which itself is...

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Big and Comfy, the 2023 INFINITI QX80 Sensory

Big and Comfy, the 2023 INFINITI QX80 Sensory

I was driving the Infiniti QX60 mid-size Sports Utility Vehicle (SUV) only a few weeks ago, so getting into the bigger QX80 was a bit of a deja vu moment. Same car, same design, just the supersized version of the SUV. But it turns out that the 2023 Infiniti QX80 has...

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Rocky Mountain Driving Experience 2023: Day Two

Rocky Mountain Driving Experience 2023: Day Two

After spending two eventful days in the Rocky Mountains as part of the Rocky Mountain Driving Experience (RMDE), I had hundreds of photos from the event. I drove about twenty vehicles along some of the most beautiful roads in the world. Day one's writeup is already...

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Rocky Mountain Driving Experience: Winter Park ’23

Rocky Mountain Driving Experience: Winter Park ’23

Every spring we Rocky Mountain automotive journalists get together with representatives from most of the major automotive manufacturers and have a combination road rally and informal set of presentations about the latest and greatest. Organized by the Rocky Mountain...

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The Hulking 2023 Nissan Armada Platinum 4WD SUV

The Hulking 2023 Nissan Armada Platinum 4WD SUV

Back in December of 1933, it's hard to imagine any of the original founders of Nissan Motor Company in Yokohama, Japan, anticipating that someday they would sell a vehicle with a curb weight of over 6,000 pounds, but here we are. Ninety years later, I'm test driving...

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