It seems that BMW, like every other automobile manufacturer today, is an SUV company, selling Xs 1 through 7 at an astonishing clip for astronomical profits. I don’t blame them.…
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Even though I regularly have the pleasure of driving more expensive and exclusive vehicles from BMW, Lexus, Rolls-Royce, Lincoln and other luxury and performance brands, the 2020 Toyota Corolla may…
Destination Los Angeles: Lincoln Nautilus Takes on the Angeles Crest Highway
It wasn’t my first choice of vehicles to drive on one of the choicest stretches of pavement in North America. In fact, when you think of driver’s cars, the Lincoln…
33 years ago, I drove my first new vehicle off the lot of Royal Oak Ford. It was a 1985 Ford Ranger rear-wheel drive, standard cab, short bed pickup truck…
Driven Volvo V60: Volvo Revisits the 60s and They’re Better Than Ever.
Most people think midsize cars by their very nature are average. Average size. Average power. Average seating capacity. Until the influx of SUVs and Crossovers they made up the bulk…
Driven: 2019 Toyota RAV4. If It Ain’t Broke, Fix It Anyway.
Back in 1996 when the Toyota RAV4 first hit the streets in the United States, there was some confusion. Was it a car or a truck? When my friend, Phil…
It used to be that luxury cars were ponderous sedans floating across the pavement with the agility of an Apatosaurus. The deVilles, Town Cars, and Electras of my youth were…
While no one can prove he actually said it, the following quotation has often been attributed to Henry Ford. If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have…
Destination Joliet: Learning to Drive Again in the Fiat 124 and 500 Abarth
I think it was as the ass-end of the Fiat 124 Abarth was heading toward the edge of the skidpad, when Skip Barber chief instructor Terry Earwood implored with exasperation,…
Sports Crossovers and SUVs are not a new thing. They just haven’t been a mainstream thing. The Alfa Romeo Stelvio Quadrifoglio, Mercedes-AMG GLC43, BMW X5 M, Jaguar’s F-Pace S, Audi…