This year’s gathering of New England’s auto scribes for a day of driving merriment—and plate-loads of comfort food—was celebrated under sunny skies with mild temperatures. No off-roading escapades on snow-covered runways (Ezra Dyer) and no buried Mercedes SUVs in a snowbound cemetery (wasn’t me!) would be the centerpiece of extroverted exploits with someone else’s priceless …
Every now and then a vehicle shows up that simply blows away preconceived notions or earlier perceptions of either the brand or that particular model. The latest Navigator does both. Now assembled with numerous aluminum body parts, like Ford’s latest pickups, saving 200 pounds of weight despite countless new components, this three-ton, three-row sport utility …
The year was 1975, and the new BMW 3-series automobile was coming to the USA. Really an upright two-door sedan, that car put BMW on the map in the United States while debuting a theme that still exists today — “The Ultimate Driving Machine.” Today, BMW is America’s second most popular luxury car marquee, behind …
In the midsize, five-passenger sport utility class, there are six dominant players. Jeep’s Grand Cherokee is far and away the sales leader (240,696 sold last year), followed by Ford’s Edge, the Toyota 4Runner, Lexus RX350, Nissan’s Murano and Hyundai’s Santa Fe Sport. Notably absent in this class is GM. However, a Chevy Blazer (there’s a …
The Nissan Armada full-size SUV is large, it is forceful, and it can definitely move things.
From the clear graphics and eye-friendly displays to the subtle buttons, the Ram Limited provides reassurance that this is more than just a tow, haul and cargo-carrying machine.
With total new vehicle sales slipping slightly in 2017 to just under 17-million units, emerging trends reveal how much the market is shifting as consumers selected pickups, crossovers and SUVs 65 percent of the time over conventional car sales last year. With lots of ink spilled over electric vehicles and hybrids, their sales remain less …
Almost 40 years of piloting powerful sport bikes left me with an overfull driving philosophy carefully expressed by John Stein recently in one of the world’s leading motorcycle magazines: “I want to control the spatial relationship of my bike (car) and myself to the traffic around me, rather than staying locked into one place and …
Psst — wanna hear a secret? Mitsubishi, the Asian automaker formerly known for its innovative vehicles like Eclipse and Montero, among others, and recently seen coasting through its meager existence in the world’s largest markets on budget-based products, is still alive and poised to become relevant again. Unlike rivals like Isuzu, Suzuki and Daewoo, which …
The 2018 Toyota Camry Hybrid proves that with time, almost every technology improves. Seven days in the redesigned Camry Hybrid demonstrated it has improved a lot.
