Let’s face it: Folks buying all-wheel-drive, turbocharged hot hatchbacks (and sedans, we aren’t forgetting you, Subaru WRX STI!) aren’t doing so because it’s logical. After all, spending nearly $40,000 on what to most people will appear to...
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Late last year, Volvo officials suggested that a base XC90 model would eventually accompany the more powerful T6 and T8 models in the United States. Now, Volvo executives have confirmed... -
Rocked by its diesel-emissions scandal, the VW Group is pivoting on its wheels and rushing to embrace battery-electric technology instead. So it wasn’t much of a surprise when the company attempted to change the conversation by rolling out the... -
In BMW’s new math, four goes into seven?at least in some cases. BMW is putting a four-cylinder engine in its flagship new 7-series, but it’s not for the U.S. market. Instead, it’s buyers in Turkey who will be able to choose the new 730i (not... -
Top-secret engineering facilities shouldn?t draw attention to themselves, but Aston Martin?s skunkworks takes covert boringness to a whole new level. As these things tend to be, it’s in a low-rise building, this one located in the small and... -
Every Monday, each of us selects the cars we are going to drive for the week from those available in the office lot. Some weeks are better than Âothers. There was that time AMG sent us every model it makes, which made every other trip of the... -
Tesla?s product architect, Elon Musk, must have been watching a Mel Brooks marathon on TNT when he picked ?Ludicrous Speed,? straight out of Spaceballs, as the tag for the fastest acceleration mode in his Model S P90D. And indeed, one must have... -
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Recently, I was recalling favorite teachers with a friend. I mentioned my 7th and 8th grade science teacher, later my varsity basketball coach, Mr. Rick Fox. He was tall, bold, and with a... -
You’d be forgiven for thinking that production of the Land Rover Defender ended some time ago. After all, the old-school 4×4 disappeared from the U.S. market in 1997, at which point it was already a relic. And we’ve seen multiple auto-show... -
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The literary classic Romeo and Juliet proposes the idea of “what’s in a name"â€Â
A rose by any other name . . .
Perhaps the same could be said for car logos" Granted, our... -
If any car in recent memory deserves a relaunch, the 2017 Acura NSX is it. Years of similar-appearing concept cars and waiting made it easy to fall numb to the?very cool and quite slick-driving?production car that trailed Acura’s initial... -
C/D:Â You certainly must be our only interviewee to have foiled a crazed hijacker.
CK:Â Christ, that was 20-some years ago. It was a guy who walked into my office and wanted to charter a Learjet to Washington, D.C. When we asked for a credit card,... -
Nissan is recalling 846,000 Altima sedans in the U.S. for faulty hood latches. If this sounds familiar, it’s because this is the third (and hopefully final) time this problem has surfaced.
The 2013-2015 Altima has a secondary hood latch?the... -
Like many late-20th-century kids reared in the industrial orbit of Detroit, the standard line tossed about by our well-meaning but somewhat uninterested teachers was that ?Henry Ford was the father of the gasoline-powered automobile.? They were... -
Land Rover has built its last Defender ? bringing to an end a production run lasting some 68 years.
The final Defender ? a model that can trace its history right back to the very first Land Rover of 1948 ? rolled off the production line at Solihull... -
The follow-ups to the current Dodge Dart and Chrysler 200?if there are ones?will use a vehicle platform from another automaker, FCA has revealed. Anyone feel like tangoing with Uncle Sergio"
In an update Wednesday on the company’s 2014?2018... -
Don’t laugh?people actually buy Smart Fortwos, and the way Smart structures the car’s option sheet, those folks are encouraged to delve deep into the catalog of personalization accessories. Indeed, only the base-spec Fortwo Pure trim level... -
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