Wisdom, Justice, Moderation. Those three words make up the state motto for Georgia, where General Motors gave us our first crack at the 2019 Chevrolet Corvette ZR1, the most powerful ’Vette ever created by the Bow Tie brand. The Z06 is already bonkers with 650 hp, so we have to wonder: Is there any semblance […]
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“Dearborn, we’ve got a problem here.” We imagine the 2018 Ford EcoSport’s marketing manager paraphrasing Apollo 13 astronaut Jack Swigert’s famous line upon discovering the full details of the hand-me-up subcompact cute-ute he or she was tasked with launching into one of America’s hottest and fast-growing sales segments. Swigert was reporting what turned out to […]
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Take our 2017 Best Driver’s Car champ, give it 710 horsepower, trim 198 pounds from the overall weight, add the latest generation of Ferrari’s acclaimed vehicle dynamics software, overlay it all with aerodynamic tricks learned in the white-hot cauldron of Formula 1 racing, and what have you got? The 2019 Ferrari 488 Pista, that’s what. […]
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Take our 2017 Best Driver’s Car champ, give it 710 horsepower, trim 198 pounds from the overall weight, add the latest generation of Ferrari’s acclaimed vehicle dynamics software, overlay it all with aerodynamic tricks learned in the white-hot cauldron of Formula 1 racing, and what have you got? The 2019 Ferrari 488 Pista, that’s what. […]
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Sunny Spain, with its winding roads up the serrated Montserrat mountains surrounding Barcelona, was a perfect place to gauge the latest Mercedes-Benz CLS. It’s a chance to sample the four-door coupe’s performance and handling, appreciate the exhaust notes from the new inline-six, and welcome an expanded lineup that now includes the first Mercedes-AMG CLS 53. […]
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You can read the market research data or just ask your friends who drive big trucks. Unless you hang out exclusively with people who work in construction or farming, they’ll admit most of the time the bed is empty. Some folks will take issue with that because full-size trucks were originally meant for work. But […]
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In the past six weeks, I’ve helped hustle a hydrogen-powered Hyundai Nexo to Vegas, sat in the Lotus position mediating on the far-out Byton EV, and relentlessly drove up and down the 405 freeway with a brainwave device on my head while testing Cadillac’s Super Cruise automated highway driving system (yep, really did). Crazy? In […]
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Buick might need to work on its euphemism-speak. In his pitch for the newly freshened Buick Envision, marketing boss Sam Russell referred to Encore lessees and buyers trading in their subcompact utes as “disposers.” Yikes—surely those vehicles are still useful, if the J.D. Power Dependability rankings are to be believed. The subject came up by […]
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With the exception of the Europeans, automakers have yet to bring sporty wagons to the U.S. In what might seem like an odd choice, Buick is rolling out one of these elusive vehicles, the Regal TourX wagon, on our shores. But if you look at Buick’s lineup, perhaps it’s not so strange given the brand […]
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Flush with cash in October 2001, just before the dot-com bubble burst, I went to an Audi dealer to buy an S4 Avant. Perhaps it was my Alice Donut T-shirt and camo shorts, but I couldn’t get a salesperson to even look at me, let alone give me a test-drive. I’d read a review in […]
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