Month: July 2018

Versatile, On/Off Road Compact Crossover Clean Fleet Report usually ends a review by encouraging you to go take a test drive at a local dealer. This time though we are changing it up a bit, with marching orders to go drive the 2016 Fiat 500X AWD before reading this or any ... Read More...

Everything Done Well—and Some Things Done Very Well In the battle to sell cars, Honda has never taken the path of the lowest price. Instead, it has traveled a higher road and earned the reputation of quality, reliability and high-tech innovation. The latest 2016 Honda Civic Coupe is no exception. The all-new ... Read More...

A Dash of Extra Efficiency When the Toyota RAV4 debuted 20 years ago, it was at the forefront of what has become a huge market segment today—compact SUVs. Popularly known today as “crossovers,” they blend a higher-riding, truck-like configuration with an automobile chassis. With its pinched nose and other tweaks, the ... Read More...

The Leader of the Pickup MPG Pack The year 2016 has quite a few surprises, but none bigger in the automotive world than in September when Ram pickups took second place in the sales race behind the perennial leader Ford. We’re not saying that’s as amazing as what happened the following ... Read More...

Public Debut Comes at LA Auto Show Following its online debut in October, Mini’s 2017 Countryman S E ALL4 plug-in hybrid made its first public appearance at the Los Angeles auto show in November. It marks the Mini brand’s second foray into the plug world, a belated follow up to the ... Read More...