In skiing, a blizzard is a great way to separate the professionals from the pretenders. The sudden snow-blindness requires you to rely on instinct and feel more than a visual view. Great skiers thrive; marginal skiers head for the lodge to wait out the storm.
A blizzard is also a great way to separate the best all-wheel drive crossovers from the
Remember a couple of weeks ago, when I was drooling all over the 2012 Buick Regal GS? Well, now that I’ve spent a thoroughly enjoyable week with the 2012 Volkswagen GLI, I’m here to say that while the Buick is great, the GLI is fantastic.
Read: 2012 Buick Regal GS Review – Benchmarking the Transformation of Buick
Jetta
The 2012 Volkswagen Passat has gathered plenty of accolades. Motor Trend Car of the Year is the most noteworthy. Cars.com weighed in by naming it their “Best of 2012.”
Vehix editors have been impressed since our First Drive in the Passat back in the summer of 2011 in Nashville, Tennessee. And we’ve also written a complete 2012 Passat review
Let’s be clear about something right up front. With few exceptions, I think the 2012 Volkswagen Tiguan might just be the perfect small crossover SUV. It might not share the bulletproof dependability ratings of a Subaru Forester or a Toyota RAV4, but it gets a Top Safety Pick rating from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety and
Minivans will never be cool. But they will always be the absolute right choice of vehicle for many families.
Minivans are practical, spacious, and in the case of the three vehicles we’re highlighting this month, Top Safety Picks according to the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety.
We’ve identified the best minivan deals for January 2012 and included links to minivan incentives
The Super Bowl has come and gone and USA Today has named the best commercials, according to their Ad Meter. For the first time, USA Today had consumers instead of experts choose the winners in the 2012 USA Today/Facebook Super Bowl Ad Meter.
Car makers were once again the most significant advertisers, and they collectively secured four of the top 10
Volkswagen vehicles continue to sell at a brisk clip. December sales were the company’s best since 1972, with 32,502 vehicles leaving showrooms. Although 1972 was a few years before Herbie Rides Again hit theaters and kids became enamored by Herbie the Love Bug, it appears there is a whole new group of buyers who can’t get enough of Vee-Dubs.
Final 2011
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
During the Arab Oil Embargo of the early 1970s, my father bought a 1974 Volkswagen Sun Bug, which was the venerable Beetle equipped with styled steel wheels and a sunroof. It was a manual, it was his daily commuter, and despite its sunshine-gold paint job I thought our new Sun Bug was really cool, partially because the downtown Chicago dealership
While the news that the 2012 Volkswagen Passat was named Motor Trend Car of the Year was announced last week, it still deserves a little more attention. Here’s why: the Passat is a really solid vehicle and buyers should look closely at this family sedan with mucho legroom for rear-seat passengers.
Read: 2012 Volkswagen Passat Review
I first drove
