Saturday, 30 January 2021 05:06
2021 Toyota Camry Goes All-Wheel Drive (Again)
Introduced halfway through the 2020 model year, the Toyota Camry's all-wheel-drive option makes a return after a 29-year hiatus. The late 1980s were a halcyon era for all-wheel-drive cars. Mitsubishi made all-wheel-drive Galants, Honda had the Civic Real Time 4WD, Pontiac introduced the 6000 STE AWD, and Ford offered an all-wheel-drive Tempo. The period gave us various AWD Subarus and…
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Friday, 29 January 2021 06:13
How Comfortable Is the 2021 Toyota Venza? We Road-Tripped for 4,000+ Miles
From Los Angeles to Houston and back. I wrapped up 2020 the same way I started it, with a cross-country trip from Los Angeles to Houston. Last year I drove our long-term Volvo S60 to visit my family during the holidays and had such a great time that I decided to repeat it (and who knows, maybe it will become…
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Thursday, 28 January 2021 06:44
Mercedes-Benz EQA review
Mercedes-Benz's latest EV is smoothly predictable The latest new addition to Mercedes-Benz's growing line-up of electric cars is the EQA, the EV version of the existing GLA SUV. Although it looks like the aformentioned family car with a blanked-out nose, there's a lot of new technology under the skin, which will be shared with future models in the firm's EQ…
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Wednesday, 27 January 2021 06:07
2021 Mercedes-AMG E 63 S Wagon Review
With all the doom and gloom regarding the current state of the station wagon in the US, there is some good news. American buyers at least have three fast wagons at their disposal in 2021 (assuming they can afford any of them): the Audi RS6 Avant, the Porsche Panamera Turbo Sport Turismo, and the vehicle you see pictured here –…
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Tuesday, 26 January 2021 06:33
New Toyota RAV4 plug-in hybrid 2021 review
The ever-popular Toyota RAV4 SUV gets plug-in hybrid power for first time From a technological point of view, the RAV4 Plug-in Hybrid is an impressive achievement. This is a comfortable and refined plug-in hybrid SUV – as long as you keep charging it from the plug instead of via the engine. There’s acres of space in the well stocked and…
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Monday, 25 January 2021 06:55
2021 Audi RS7 Sportback Gets Caught in a Sibling Rivalry
Despite its soul-stirring performance, Audi's redesigned 591-hp RS7 makes a case for the less-expensive RS6 Avant wagon. After a brief hiatus from the United States market, Audi's fiery RS7 Sportback returns for 2021 in fighting form. Delivering big doses of both speed and refinement, the new car's stonking performance sacrifices little comfort for its driver. But it's not the only…
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Sunday, 24 January 2021 05:42
2021 Audi SQ5 First Test Review: “S” Is for “Sporty” and “Suave”
Comfortable when you need it, punchy when you want it. With SUVs being so popular now, manufacturers have the challenge of fitting multiple models into a multitude of niches to satisfy all kinds of customers. Take Audi, for example, whose Q5 represents about 25 percent of the marque's U.S. sales. Part of that has to do with the model's three…
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Saturday, 23 January 2021 06:52
Mercedes-AMG E 63 Estate Stig Drifts
They say that he once did the Cannonball run on a unicycle, and that he broke the record by doing so. Also, he just can’t seem to stop drifting the cars he gets a hold of, and his newest conquest is a Mercedes-AMG E63 Station Wagon. We guess the AMG part of that sentence kind of makes everything click together.…
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