Reviews

CASCAIS, Portugal — Everything we said about the overgrown size of the 2025 Mini Countryman in John Cooper Works trim that we recently reviewed applies equally to the 2025 Mini Countryman SE ALL4. The former is powered by gas and the…

It's hard to tear your eyes away from a Sakhir Gold (read: pale brown) Audi SQ8. The customers that will order this colour will, we suspect, want as many eyeballs as possible on their brand new, £93,925 performance SUV. In this respect, the…

CASCAIS, Portugal — BMW’s even-numbered X-series line of slope-back crossovers is proof that not every vehicle has to make perfect sense. The German brand basically invented the genre when it significantly reduced the usability of…

LAS VEGAS – The Valley of Fire just got several degrees hotter. The McLaren 750S Spider convertible I’m driving is spearing through the Nevada valley’s blushing outcrops of red Aztec sandstone, generating a pace so lurid that it…

Can you tell the difference between a Honda climate control knob and one made by General Motors? If so, do you care? That’s ultimately what we’re talking about with the 2024 Honda Prologue. It looks like a Honda on the outside and…

AUSTIN, Texas. — I power up the 2025 Ram 1500 and scoot away through the outskirts of Austin. When I pull up to the first stoplight, it all sinks in. There’s no Hemi tick. The cabin is vibration-free. Did the auto start/stop turn the…

CASCAIS, Portugal — Let’s cut straight to the issue of size. If the original Mini was a sporting beagle ready for the hunt, the reborn version that hit the world stage in 2001 may have been an English bulldog, albeit bred in Germany,…

Since its introduction for the 2019 model year, the Genesis G70 has been one of our favorite sport sedans. It's even doing decently with customers, as is its brand’s best-selling sedan, making up 19% of total sales. And weirdly, the…

Not that we want to rehash memories of the pandemic lockdown, but if there was one vehicle that exemplified that period, it would be the Mercedes-Benz Sprinter cargo van. In Amazon livery, of course. This big box on wheels was last…

The 2024 Lexus GX design is as clean-sheet as it gets; one that’s not just a complete departure from its excessively long-lived predecessor that wore multiple corporate faces, but one from the rest of the Lexus lineup as well. To…

The latest generation of the Acura TLX wormed its way into our hearts from the moment we got behind the wheel. It’s a driver’s car, and Acura’s made that clear from the get-go. Then we tried out the TLX Type S and liked it enough to…

BORMIO, Italy – Maserati has sold more than 100,000 cars with a V8 engine. Its smallest V8s had 3.2 liters of displacement; its biggest were 4.9-liter units. Its first V8 powered the rare, short-lived V8RI race car released in 1935;…

CEFALÙ, Italy – Winter has arrived in Detroit, and while it's been milder than usual, it's also been gray, wet and bleak. So of course the thought of a quick trip to southern Italy sounded like an ideal little getaway; a chance to…

KISSIMMEE, Fla. — If you’ve ever dipped a toe into the restomod world before, there’s a good chance you’ve heard of the Florida-based company ECD. Originally known as East Coast Defender for the company’s earliest efforts…

NAPA, Calif. – Even without the S/T on the roster, one could reasonably assume that there’s already a new Porsche 911 out there that suits the needs of any would-be buyer. There are currently more than two dozen permutations of the…