Cars and Car Reviews

The last week has been characterized by shockingly cold weather. A major weather front came for a few day visit straight from the Arctic, and our lowest recorded temperature during the storm was -15ºF (that's -26ºC). It was so cold that we were all worried about pipes...

Ford helped create the Sport Utility Vehicle category with the 1966 introduction of the Ford Bronco, a vehicle with the approximate dimensions of a pickup truck, but covered and integrated into the front compartment, rather than with the bed exposed to the elements....

The Honda Accord has been in the US car market for a really long time. In fact, the first generation of this popular family sedan was introduced back in 1976, making it one of the oldest vehicles in the Honda lineup. Fun fact: The '76 model was available as a 5-speed...

Nissan introduced the first Pathfinder way back in 1986 as its answer to the rising popularity of SUVs. The Pathfinder was a repurposed pickup truck at its heart for the first three generations of the vehicle, built atop the Navara/Frontier but with smart features all...

There are a lot of options if you're in the market for a midsize pickup truck, whether you need a crew cab with space for 4-5 adults or something just a bit more modest, utilizing the vehicle length for a longer truckbed instead. I've certainly driven quite a few over...

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...

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...

One of the great benefits of being an auto writer isn't just that I get to drive a lot of cars, but that I get to spend some meaningful time with each vehicle too. A 30 minute test drive is useful for potential buyers, but an entire week where the weather changes, you...

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...

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...

Honda's been gradually evolving its entire car lineup, learning manufacturing and design tricks from its upscale Acura brand and adding tech and safety improvements all its own too. The perennially popular CR-V compact SUV got a design update for 2023 and when I had...

Most car writers love to focus on the most expensive vehicles they can drive, whether it's $90K luxury SUVs or $250K supercars. I get it, those are really fun to drive and who doesn't want to live in the lap of luxury, if even for just a short while? When I talk to my...

Savvy drivers already know that the unheralded minivan is in fact one of the most useful and versatile additions to any family, whether you've got 2yo twins, tween sports fanatics, or a teenager who's constantly asking for a ride to the mall with a half-dozen of their...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Land Rover was founded in 1947 by Maurice Wilks, who apocryphally sketched out the design for this ultimate off-road vehicle on the sands of a Welsh beach. It grew into a famously tough beast of a vehicle that could master any terrain it encountered, from Sub-Saharan...