When you're behind the wheel, do you rely on your smartphone to get from Point A to Point B? If so, we have some potentially bad news. In January of 2012, a California driver was ticketed for using his cell phone while driving. (California, like several other states, prohibits drivers from using their phones except in hands-free mode.) Not content...
Trips to the mechanic are rarely cheap, but does it seem like those visits have become even pricier than usual? You're not imagining things. According to a new survey, repair costs returned to pre-recession levels last year -- though the news isn't all bad. The survey in question is CarMD's 2013 Vehicle Health Index. To create the Index...
Today at The Car Connection Volvo announced new diesel technology, and Maserati revealed the 2014 Ghibli luxury sports sedan. Audi partnered with T-Mobile for in-car cellular data service, and we reviewed the 2013 Nissan Murano. All this and more in today's car news, right here on The Car Connection. Here's how a software update affected a 2013...
In an effort to provide more relevant and useful vehicle safety ratings for specific audiences, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) is proposing two new safety ratings geared toward older drivers and families. In a posting to its website, the NHTSA said it is considering updating the New Car Assessment Program (NCAP) and is...
The 2013 Toyota Corolla doesn't stray much from a familiar formula: Create a relatively roomy small sedan; add features sparingly; keep the price down; and engineer it with low running costs in mind every step of the way. That's what Toyota has kept a laser-like focus on with its Corolla over the years. Meanwhile, the market has changed, and while...
One of the few minivans still available at present, the Toyota Sienna, loses its base four-cylinder engine for 2013. The 2013 Sienna becomes an even more direct competitor to the Chrysler minivans and the Honda Odyssey this year, with more features in its most popular version. Few of us shop for minivans based on style, but Toyota at least makes...
Active outdoorsy people are Subaru's core group, and while the automaker has been taking its all-wheel-drive message to the mainstream over the past several years, it hasn't forgotten about those granola types. At the center of that effort is the Subaru Impreza, which has become batter-tuned for what most small-car buyers really want--while still...
Subcompact sedans run the gamut from pedestrian offerings to tech-filled, entertaining and stylish vehicles on a price and size budget. The Nissan Versa sedan is one of the former: it's a simple effort, with gas mileage and a spacious cabin telling almost all of the story behind its low price. From a distance, the Versa Sedan looks to have upward...
The Nissan Murano plays against the crossover type. Neatly casting itself as the stylish alternative to the sea of rounded family wagons, the Murano doesn't rely on falsely rugged details or blunt, bluff sheetmetal to distinguish itself smartly. The Murano remains a good-looking vehicle, even today as it approaches the end of the current model's...
The Hyundai Tucson is one of the reasons crossover vehicles have long outstripped SUVs as the suburban utility vehicle of choice. The Tucson is smartly conceived, brightly styled with some of the same design language of the Sonata sedan, and it's relatively fuel-efficient--though its gas mileage has been adjusted following a double-check by the...
With the RX, Lexus found an upper hand against the German luxury car brands. Its sedans and coupes lagged those from Mercedes, BMW, and Audi--but the Lexus RX beat all those brands to market with a richly fitted tall wagon with all-weather, all-purpose appeal. To this day, the Lexus RX--in RX 350 and RX 450h hybrid editions--remains a comfortable...
Much better than the cars they replaced in the 2012 model year, the Kia Rio sedan and hatchback return for the new model year with very few changes. There's no need to upset the formula: Kia's finally stumbled on a formula that makes their cars look and feel as well-constructed and almost as point-perfect as the Honda compacts of the 1980s and...
The Kia Soul has come into its own, just four years after it was first put on sale. Its punchy attitude has been its foot in the door in a class of cars that depend entirely on kicky looks and athletic appeal--and the Soul's boxy tail, its bulldog nose, and its edgy roofline just work. It helps that the Soul is more practical, too, than the other...
The BMW 5-Series helped create the notion of the sport sedan--and though they've grown longer, wider, heavier, and less direct in feel, they still deliver a nuanced ride-and-handling package that eludes lots of other luxury mid-size sedans. They're somewhat efficient (see: ActiveHybrid5) and somewhat commodious (see: 5-Series Gran Turismo), but...
The Dodge Dart is the first true Chrysler small car since the Neon went away, but it's hardly small. By the Feds' standards, it's practically a mid-size car, and the large back seat gives the Dart one of the few trump cards it has in a tough segment brimming with excellent competitors. The Dart's rakish look also helps, as it fights for buyers...
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When you're behind the wheel, do you rely on your smartphone to get from Point A to Point B? If so, we have some potentially bad news. In January of 2012, a California driver was ticketed for using his cell phone while driving. (California, like several other states, prohibits drivers from using their phones except in hands-free mode.) Not content...
Trips to the mechanic are rarely cheap, but does it seem like those visits have become even pricier than usual? You're not imagining things. According to a new survey, repair costs returned to pre-recession levels last year -- though the news isn't all bad. The survey in question is CarMD's 2013 Vehicle Health Index. To create the Index...
Today at The Car Connection Volvo announced new diesel technology, and Maserati revealed the 2014 Ghibli luxury sports sedan. Audi partnered with T-Mobile for in-car cellular data service, and we reviewed the 2013 Nissan Murano. All this and more in today's car news, right here on The Car Connection. Here's how a software update affected a 2013...
In an effort to provide more relevant and useful vehicle safety ratings for specific audiences, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) is proposing two new safety ratings geared toward older drivers and families. In a posting to its website, the NHTSA said it is considering updating the New Car Assessment Program (NCAP) and is...
The 2013 Toyota Corolla doesn't stray much from a familiar formula: Create a relatively roomy small sedan; add features sparingly; keep the price down; and engineer it with low running costs in mind every step of the way. That's what Toyota has kept a laser-like focus on with its Corolla over the years. Meanwhile, the market has changed, and while...
One of the few minivans still available at present, the Toyota Sienna, loses its base four-cylinder engine for 2013. The 2013 Sienna becomes an even more direct competitor to the Chrysler minivans and the Honda Odyssey this year, with more features in its most popular version. Few of us shop for minivans based on style, but Toyota at least makes...
Active outdoorsy people are Subaru's core group, and while the automaker has been taking its all-wheel-drive message to the mainstream over the past several years, it hasn't forgotten about those granola types. At the center of that effort is the Subaru Impreza, which has become batter-tuned for what most small-car buyers really want--while still...
Subcompact sedans run the gamut from pedestrian offerings to tech-filled, entertaining and stylish vehicles on a price and size budget. The Nissan Versa sedan is one of the former: it's a simple effort, with gas mileage and a spacious cabin telling almost all of the story behind its low price. From a distance, the Versa Sedan looks to have upward...
The Nissan Murano plays against the crossover type. Neatly casting itself as the stylish alternative to the sea of rounded family wagons, the Murano doesn't rely on falsely rugged details or blunt, bluff sheetmetal to distinguish itself smartly. The Murano remains a good-looking vehicle, even today as it approaches the end of the current model's...
The Hyundai Tucson is one of the reasons crossover vehicles have long outstripped SUVs as the suburban utility vehicle of choice. The Tucson is smartly conceived, brightly styled with some of the same design language of the Sonata sedan, and it's relatively fuel-efficient--though its gas mileage has been adjusted following a double-check by the...
With the RX, Lexus found an upper hand against the German luxury car brands. Its sedans and coupes lagged those from Mercedes, BMW, and Audi--but the Lexus RX beat all those brands to market with a richly fitted tall wagon with all-weather, all-purpose appeal. To this day, the Lexus RX--in RX 350 and RX 450h hybrid editions--remains a comfortable...
Much better than the cars they replaced in the 2012 model year, the Kia Rio sedan and hatchback return for the new model year with very few changes. There's no need to upset the formula: Kia's finally stumbled on a formula that makes their cars look and feel as well-constructed and almost as point-perfect as the Honda compacts of the 1980s and...
The Kia Soul has come into its own, just four years after it was first put on sale. Its punchy attitude has been its foot in the door in a class of cars that depend entirely on kicky looks and athletic appeal--and the Soul's boxy tail, its bulldog nose, and its edgy roofline just work. It helps that the Soul is more practical, too, than the other...
The BMW 5-Series helped create the notion of the sport sedan--and though they've grown longer, wider, heavier, and less direct in feel, they still deliver a nuanced ride-and-handling package that eludes lots of other luxury mid-size sedans. They're somewhat efficient (see: ActiveHybrid5) and somewhat commodious (see: 5-Series Gran Turismo), but...
The Dodge Dart is the first true Chrysler small car since the Neon went away, but it's hardly small. By the Feds' standards, it's practically a mid-size car, and the large back seat gives the Dart one of the few trump cards it has in a tough segment brimming with excellent competitors. The Dart's rakish look also helps, as it fights for buyers...
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