“The Power to Surprise.”
That marketing line has been Kia’s way of telling car buyers that the Korean brand’s once-questionable lineup has been transformed, suggesting that shoppers who venture into a showroom will find more than they bargained for.
Problem is, after experiencing the premium style of the current Sorrento SUV, the torque-happy response of the READ MORE
When last we test drove the redesigned 2012 Ford Focus, our sample was a sedan all decked out in Titanium trim and equipped with a full load of features. At that time, we said the Focus possessed tremendous realized – and unrealized – potential, and our primary complaints centered on the
When I was a little boy, I had a black Volkswagen Beetle toy. It was made by Tonka in the days when model cars and trucks were made of pressed steel instead of injection-molded plastic, and that big black Bug was one of my favorites. It disappeared for good sometime after my
Some things just naturally go together. Chocolate and peanut butter. Bono and The Edge. My fantasy football team and losing records.
Just because you can join two things together doesn’t mean that’s always a good thing as airplanes and airborne illnesses during the winter months clearly demonstrates. And with the 2011 Lexus CT 200h, I wonder if Lexus, Hybrid and Hatchback
If you’ve had the good fortune to spend time in Italy, sampling exquisite wines, savoring extraordinary meals, lounging on Mediterranean shores, and driving the country’s smooth Autostradas, serpentine secondary roads and slender city streets while burning fuel costing more than twice the price it would in the States, you can understand where the READ MORE
As automotive journalists, we’re supposed to have our fingers on the pulse of the market. But it doesn’t take a journalism degree or a job in the motoring industry to figure out that the field of subcompact cars hasn’t been this good in years. All it takes is a working pair of eyes.
The 2012 Kia Rio is the latest
Los Angeles, California — Like all automakers, Mazda faces a big challenge: raise fuel economy across all vehicles big time by 2015.
According to Dave Coleman, Mazda product development engineer, “We’re trying to improve our whole fleet by 30 percent by 2015. To reach that goal, we are making the engines, transmisson, the whole car as light and as efficient as
Should you live in New England, you’ll likely find yourself surrounded by Saabs, Volvos, and Subarus. That last automaker has an offering in the compact class – one that hasn’t gotten much ink lately. Subaru’s Impreza has sometimes been considered an afterthought in the compact-car class, despite its use as the foundation of the WRX and STI
Rush Limbaugh doesn’t like the Chevy Volt. Apparently, he thinks the federal government forced General Motors to build this car.
Au contraire, mon frere. The Volt is the realization of collaboration between former General Motors Vice Chairman Bob Lutz and a veteran of GM engineering and product planning named Jon Lauckner. In his
Electrified transportation is not a new idea. When I was a kid, my grandparents lived in Sun City, California. Sun City was a master-planned retirement mecca right up Interstate 15 from the yawn-inducing Lawrence Welk Resort, where the yards were covered in green-painted gravel, where the ladies pedaled three-wheeled bikes to the See’s Candies shop, and where the garages contained
