May 07, 2015 03:31 pm | feedback@highgearmedia.com (Richard Read)
If you're like many folks, you have an aversion to conventional car dealerships. (Honestly, no one likes haggling.) Also, if you're like many folks, you buy a lot of things online. So, you might not be surprised to hear about a new survey, which shows that 76 percent of consumers around the globe would consider buying vehicles online rather than...
May 07, 2015 02:30 pm | feedback@highgearmedia.com (Viknesh Vijayenthiran)
From The Car Connection: Thunderbird, Monte Carlo: Coupes Staged For A Comeback? There’s no shortage of new coupe models on the market this year. With the recent arrival of new two-doors like the BMW 4-Series, Lexus RC, and Mercedes-Benz S-Class Coupe, and the anticipated arrival of the Infiniti Q60 later this year, it’s tempting to...
May 07, 2015 01:45 pm | feedback@highgearmedia.com (John Voelcker)
On paper, the legendary Toyota Prius and the newer Ford C-Max appear to be well matched. They're both five-door hatchbacks offered only as dedicated hybrid vehicles--no gasoline-only models--and each has a low-volume plug-in hybrid version that offers some all-electric range from the battery before the car reverts to being a conventional hybrid...
May 07, 2015 01:36 am | feedback@highgearmedia.com (Marty Padgett)
Compact luxury crossovers like the Audi Q5 and BMW X3 are very popular today, and it's easy to understand why. They're testimonials to economic realities, as families have turned to more sensibly sized vehicles with less potential for budget-burning in times of high pump prices; compared to many of the larger alternatives, they're also more...
May 07, 2015 12:51 am | feedback@highgearmedia.com (Bengt Halvorson)
The Hyundai Elantra and Toyota Corolla are on far more even ground than they were just a couple of model years, before Toyota gave its compact sedan a design that's far bolder and much more competitive when it comes to matching up feature sets. Does that give Toyota back the edge the edge it lost for a time? It's worth browsing through our full...
May 07, 2015 12:30 am | feedback@highgearmedia.com (Nelson Ireson)
The world of luxurious, high-dollar sport sedans is a rarefied one, but it's chock full of superb cars. These days, two of the very hottest sedans going--especially for those with a bent toward performance--are the Porsche Panamera and the Tesla Model S. The Panamera was Porsche's first-ever four-door sedan, built as much for growing markets like...
May 07, 2015 12:21 am | feedback@highgearmedia.com (Marty Padgett)
The 2015 Toyota Land Cruise is a niche vehicle aimed at those who intend to truly intend to take journeys over the paths less traveled. But the reality for streets and highways is that it's an oversized SUV with a thirst for gasoline that matches its massive profile. The Land Cruiser has always been one for off-road prowess, but it's evolved into...
May 07, 2015 12:20 am | feedback@highgearmedia.com (Bengt Halvorson)
The 2015 Hyundai Accent subcompact represents a marked improvement over earlier generations of the smallest car Hyundai offers--so much so that it can now be thought of as a solid choice among the sedans and hatchbacks in that segment. The Accent stresses strong value and lots of interior space, putting it into traditional economy-car...
May 07, 2015 12:00 am | feedback@highgearmedia.com (Marty Padgett)
The 2015 Chrysler 200 is an all-new mid-size sedan that keeps the model name, but almost nothing else, from its predecessor. It's a huge advance over the previous model, which was a redo of one of the brand's least impressive vehicles, born as the Sebring. The new 200 for 2015 is stylish inside and out, comes with modern powertrains--more about...
May 06, 2015 11:36 pm | feedback@highgearmedia.com (Marty Padgett)
If you're trying to place the 2015 Toyota Venza into a nice, neat category, you might want to give up and simply embrace its usefulness. It isn't a station wagon, and it's no SUV; yet it has higher seat height than a car and available all-wheel drive. Even more so than other crossover utes, it refuses to be defined so easily. That's how we'd...
May 06, 2015 11:35 pm | feedback@highgearmedia.com (Marty Padgett)
The 2015 Toyota Sequoia is rugged, old-school SUV at its heart—specifically, one that offers excellent family practicality and towing capabilities. The Sequoia seems to revel in its machismo while many of its key rivals have been smoothed out a bit in their design in recent years. Those competitors include full-size SUVs from GM and Ford, as...
May 06, 2015 07:25 pm | feedback@highgearmedia.com (John Voelcker)
By now, the 2015 Toyota Prius is both a familiar shape and a fairly well-known quantity among car buyers. The mid-size five-door hatchback with the high tail and wedge shape is the most fuel-efficient car you can buy in the U.S. without a plug--and it's held that title since it was launched six years ago as a 2010 model. Toyota is expected to...
May 06, 2015 07:15 pm | feedback@highgearmedia.com (John Voelcker)
Now in its fifth model year, the 2015 Nissan Leaf is by far the best-selling electric car in the world. The battery-electric five-door hatchback, which sits on the footprint of a compact car but has the interior room of a mid-size, may even come to define the electric car just as the Prius has defined hybrids. The Leaf's looks haven't changed...
May 06, 2015 07:00 pm | feedback@highgearmedia.com (John Voelcker)
The compact crossover segment has now grown larger than that old reliable, the mid-size sedan market. Every carmaker offers a small SUV now; some offer several. New this year, the 2015 Lexus NX is the entry from Toyota's luxury brand, which was uncharacteristically slow to create its own small sport-ute, years after its German competitors brought...
May 06, 2015 06:41 pm | feedback@highgearmedia.com (Marty Padgett)
We're living and driving in a golden age of pickup trucks. From fuel economy to crash safety, trucks have never done a better job at doubling as passenger cars. Likewise, with tow and payload ratings at all-time highs, today's light-duty, full-size trucks are the brute-strength equivalents of yesterday's heavy-duty pickups. Two of our current...
May 06, 2015 05:57 pm | feedback@highgearmedia.com (Bengt Halvorson)
There’s no shortage of new coupe models on the market this year. With the recent arrival of new two-doors like the BMW 4-Series, Lexus RC, and Mercedes-Benz S-Class Coupe, and the anticipated arrival of the Infiniti Q60 later this year, it’s tempting to declare that coupes in general are on an upswing—and that the traditional...
May 06, 2015 05:11 pm | feedback@highgearmedia.com (Marty Padgett)
If you're shopping for a minivan, you don't have much shopping to do. Today, there are seven traditional minivans offered for sale in the U.S., not counting some new entries with a foot in both the passenger- and commercial-duty worlds. One of the newest minivans is the Kia Sedona. A long-running nameplate for the brand, the Sedona gets an...
If you're like many folks, you have an aversion to conventional car dealerships. (Honestly, no one likes haggling.) Also, if you're like many folks, you buy a lot of things online. So, you might not be surprised to hear about a new survey, which shows that 76 percent of consumers around the globe would consider buying vehicles online rather than...
From The Car Connection: Thunderbird, Monte Carlo: Coupes Staged For A Comeback? There’s no shortage of new coupe models on the market this year. With the recent arrival of new two-doors like the BMW 4-Series, Lexus RC, and Mercedes-Benz S-Class Coupe, and the anticipated arrival of the Infiniti Q60 later this year, it’s tempting to...
On paper, the legendary Toyota Prius and the newer Ford C-Max appear to be well matched. They're both five-door hatchbacks offered only as dedicated hybrid vehicles--no gasoline-only models--and each has a low-volume plug-in hybrid version that offers some all-electric range from the battery before the car reverts to being a conventional hybrid...
Compact luxury crossovers like the Audi Q5 and BMW X3 are very popular today, and it's easy to understand why. They're testimonials to economic realities, as families have turned to more sensibly sized vehicles with less potential for budget-burning in times of high pump prices; compared to many of the larger alternatives, they're also more...
The Hyundai Elantra and Toyota Corolla are on far more even ground than they were just a couple of model years, before Toyota gave its compact sedan a design that's far bolder and much more competitive when it comes to matching up feature sets. Does that give Toyota back the edge the edge it lost for a time? It's worth browsing through our full...![2015 Tesla Model S 70D, Apr 2015 [photo: David Noland]](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/blogger_img_proxy/AEn0k_vXctphf-v7q75UcGDvP9LHhxjhWpDZxtwXHSTCG2Q30ntSNi1A4lZJrnsycGLLUWnnndh_--ed6nyaLGqTQwnVP74IvsNXDPdoRoPo2GNHgF7ciE6jjcboWEDJJjQl3ihDPBU5PGjMwU0n9m2ZdAEhfW-HFyL1th35mpBSIhChyiJEL5GJyUMjEsEFzQ=s0-d)
The world of luxurious, high-dollar sport sedans is a rarefied one, but it's chock full of superb cars. These days, two of the very hottest sedans going--especially for those with a bent toward performance--are the Porsche Panamera and the Tesla Model S. The Panamera was Porsche's first-ever four-door sedan, built as much for growing markets like...
The 2015 Toyota Land Cruise is a niche vehicle aimed at those who intend to truly intend to take journeys over the paths less traveled. But the reality for streets and highways is that it's an oversized SUV with a thirst for gasoline that matches its massive profile. The Land Cruiser has always been one for off-road prowess, but it's evolved into...
The 2015 Hyundai Accent subcompact represents a marked improvement over earlier generations of the smallest car Hyundai offers--so much so that it can now be thought of as a solid choice among the sedans and hatchbacks in that segment. The Accent stresses strong value and lots of interior space, putting it into traditional economy-car...
The 2015 Chrysler 200 is an all-new mid-size sedan that keeps the model name, but almost nothing else, from its predecessor. It's a huge advance over the previous model, which was a redo of one of the brand's least impressive vehicles, born as the Sebring. The new 200 for 2015 is stylish inside and out, comes with modern powertrains--more about...
If you're trying to place the 2015 Toyota Venza into a nice, neat category, you might want to give up and simply embrace its usefulness. It isn't a station wagon, and it's no SUV; yet it has higher seat height than a car and available all-wheel drive. Even more so than other crossover utes, it refuses to be defined so easily. That's how we'd...
The 2015 Toyota Sequoia is rugged, old-school SUV at its heart—specifically, one that offers excellent family practicality and towing capabilities. The Sequoia seems to revel in its machismo while many of its key rivals have been smoothed out a bit in their design in recent years. Those competitors include full-size SUVs from GM and Ford, as...
By now, the 2015 Toyota Prius is both a familiar shape and a fairly well-known quantity among car buyers. The mid-size five-door hatchback with the high tail and wedge shape is the most fuel-efficient car you can buy in the U.S. without a plug--and it's held that title since it was launched six years ago as a 2010 model. Toyota is expected to...
Now in its fifth model year, the 2015 Nissan Leaf is by far the best-selling electric car in the world. The battery-electric five-door hatchback, which sits on the footprint of a compact car but has the interior room of a mid-size, may even come to define the electric car just as the Prius has defined hybrids. The Leaf's looks haven't changed...
The compact crossover segment has now grown larger than that old reliable, the mid-size sedan market. Every carmaker offers a small SUV now; some offer several. New this year, the 2015 Lexus NX is the entry from Toyota's luxury brand, which was uncharacteristically slow to create its own small sport-ute, years after its German competitors brought...
We're living and driving in a golden age of pickup trucks. From fuel economy to crash safety, trucks have never done a better job at doubling as passenger cars. Likewise, with tow and payload ratings at all-time highs, today's light-duty, full-size trucks are the brute-strength equivalents of yesterday's heavy-duty pickups. Two of our current...
There’s no shortage of new coupe models on the market this year. With the recent arrival of new two-doors like the BMW 4-Series, Lexus RC, and Mercedes-Benz S-Class Coupe, and the anticipated arrival of the Infiniti Q60 later this year, it’s tempting to declare that coupes in general are on an upswing—and that the traditional...
If you're shopping for a minivan, you don't have much shopping to do. Today, there are seven traditional minivans offered for sale in the U.S., not counting some new entries with a foot in both the passenger- and commercial-duty worlds. One of the newest minivans is the Kia Sedona. A long-running nameplate for the brand, the Sedona gets an...
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