The subcompact SUV segment has been evolving rapidly over the past few years. Once viewed as the budget option for shoppers who couldn’t afford anything better, subcompacts are now increasingly capable and comfortable vehicles aimed at commuters and other drivers who simply don’t want something larger even if they can afford it. However, this rapid […]
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The Dodge Charger Is Back With a Vengeance for 2024
Almost two years ago, Dodge pulled the covers off its Charger Daytona prototype––an all-electric take on its infamous muscle car lineup. A year later, it announced the “last call” for the HEMI V8 versions of the Charger and Challenger. After that, the brand went radio silent on its plans for the future, and we had […]
The 2025 Ford Explorer May Not Be Exciting, but It Delivers
The refreshed 2025 Ford Explorer is here, and it’s not particularly exciting––but that’s not a bad thing. Even though the Explorer has now gone untouched for five years, that hasn’t slowed it down. Last year, Ford sold no fewer than 186,799 Explorers, making it the brand’s second best-selling vehicle after the juggernaut that is the […]
The 2025 Mazda CX-70 Is a New Class of Luxury SUV
Last year, Mazda impressed us all when it unveiled the 2024 CX-90, an all-new three-row SUV designed to take the place of the dependable CX-9. The CX-90 was a vehicle of many firsts, introducing a new rear-wheel drive platform, a new turbocharged inline-six engine, and a new plug-in hybrid powertrain, further burnishing Mazda’s credentials as […]
The 2025 Wagoneer S Satisfies Drivers With a Taste of All-Electric Power
Yet another EV will be hitting the streets later this year, but unlike some of the more unassuming models we’ve been seeing, this one is a true head-turner. It’s the Wagoneer S, and it’s ready to captivate drivers with an all-electric powertrain designed to take your ride to the next level of excellence. From its […]
The 2025 Lucid Air Gravity Is Ready to Floor You
More electric vehicle (EV) options are entering the market seemingly every day, but it’s no secret that the real competition is between three California-based startups: Tesla, Rivian, and Lucid. While Tesla is by far the best-known of the three, Lucid currently holds the record for the longest-ranged EV on the market. The Lucid Air Sapphire […]
The 2025 Toyota Camry Goes Hybrid-Only for Its Ninth Generation
The Toyota Camry isn’t a model known for making waves. In fact, it may well be one of the most unassuming vehicles on the market. But Toyota has decided to do something radical for the all-new 2025 Camry, ditching all the traditional gasoline engines in favor of a standard hybrid powertrain. It’s a bold move […]
The 2025 Crown Signia Expands Toyota’s Premium Offerings
Two years ago, the name “Toyota Crown” meant nothing to the average driver. Despite being the oldest model in the manufacturer’s lineup and the first Toyota sold in the United States, the Crown never found much success in America and vanished from our shores in 1973. Now, the Crown is back with a vengeance. The […]
The 2025 Ram 1500 Ramcharger: The EV That Isn’t
With the debut of the Ford F-150 Lightning and the Chevy Silverado 1500 EV, only one member of the Big Three was left without an electric pickup truck. Ram plans to remedy that problem with the upcoming 2025 Ram 1500 REV, but it has just announced a second electrified option: the 2025 Ram 1500 Ramcharger. […]
The 2025 Ram 1500 Brings the Power of the Hurricane
The Ram 1500 and the 5.7L HEMI V8 engine go together like ice cream and apple pie, with the two being inseparable since the big V8 was introduced in 2003. However, the winds of change are blowing, and the redesigned 2025 Ram 1500 brings an all-new powertrain in the form of the mighty turbocharged Hurricane […]
New Features, New Tech For the 2024 Ford 150
When the fourteenth-generation Ford F-150 debuted for the 2021 model year, it upped the ante for the full-size truck segment, sending competitors scrambling to keep up. With a revolutionary PowerBoost full-hybrid powertrain, a massive 12-inch infotainment screen, and BlueCruise hands-free driving, there was nothing else like it on the road. Now, the Chevy Silverado and […]
Cadillac Levels Up Luxury With the 2025 ESCALADE IQ
So far, Cadillac has talked a good game about embracing an all-electric future—as every GM brand has—but we haven’t seen much beyond the Lyriq (there’s also the $340,000 Celestiq, but that’s not exactly accessible for most drivers). That is until today when the 2025 Cadillac ESCALADE IQ was officially unveiled to give us a real […]
Lexus Wows with RX-First Plug-in Hybrid Model
When Lexus redesigned their luxurious midsize crossover RX model last year, they released it with numerous engines available, including a couple of hybrid options. Although not available for the 2023 model, Lexus recently announced that we’re getting another amazing option: the 2024 Lexus RX 450h+ Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle (PHEV), which gives us the best […]
The 2024 Toyota Land Cruiser Is More Capable and More Affordable
In the list of Toyota’s legendary off-road vehicles, one name stands above them all––the Land Cruiser. Designed in 1951 as a Jeep copy for the Japanese National Police Agency, the Land Cruiser has evolved over the years into a powerful and incredibly reliable vehicle known for conquering some of the harshest terrains across the globe. […]
Chevy Gets the 2024 Traverse Redesign Right
There’s nothing quite like the rush of excitement and anticipation you feel when a car company announces the details of a new model year, that giddy sense of expectation as you read a press release and discover… two new exterior colors. Yeah, sometimes model-year updates are less than underwhelming; but sometimes they’re not. Sometimes they […]
The 2024 Lexus GX Gets Serious With the Overtrail Project
The Lexus GX has long had a split identity. On one hand, it is a luxurious midsize SUV offered by a brand known for its comfortable vehicles. But on the other hand, it has secretly been an off-road monster that shares its underpinnings with the legendary Toyota Land Cruiser. For 2024, Lexus has fully redesigned […]
A New Age of Luxury Is Here With the 2024 Lexus TX
If you are searching for a reliable and comfortable luxury SUV, then Lexus is probably on your radar. However, the Lexus SUV lineup has long had a problem––if you wanted more than two rows of seats, you were forced to buy one of the brand’s rugged body-on-frame models. While the Lexus GX and Lexus LX […]
Three Pedals and a Six-Foot Bed: The 2024 Toyota Tacoma
No one knows midsize trucks better than Toyota. Despite being last updated in 2016, the Toyota Tacoma continues to dominate the market with its reputation for unbeatable reliability and dependable performance. In the last twelve months, we’ve seen some strong competition unveiled in the redesigned 2023 Chevy Colorado, 2023 GMC Canyon, and 2024 Ford Ranger—but […]
Is the 2024 Ford Ranger Worth the Wait?
The 2024 Ford Ranger is here! We mean it; it really is this time. It’s been 18 months since the model was originally announced back in November 2021, and the rest of the world has been able to buy it for over a year, but now you can finally get behind the wheel of Ford’s […]
The Jeep Wrangler Gets Serious for 2024
Ever since the Ford Bronco returned in 2021, Jeep has been putting some real effort into upgrading the Wrangler. The powerful Wrangler Rubicon 392 with its V8 HEMI engine and the electrified Wrangler 4xe plug-in hybrid both debuted in 2021 to steal some of the Bronco’s thunder and the 2022 model year brought the Xtreme […]