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Some of the highest-performing vehicles being offered lately are 4-by-4 trucks — and Jeeps, including this V-8-powered Wrangler 392. They are quicker than almost all high-performance cars and can do things no high-performance car can such as crawl over a boulder and ford through nearly three feet of water. In addition to the 392 cubic […]

Everyone wants to fit into the clothes they were able to wear when they were 20. Some try to put them on anyway. Usually, the fit isn’t good. It’s the same kind of issue with putting three rows of seats in a compact-sized crossover SUV. This is probably why there are only three compact crossover […]

Lots of medium-large crossovers offer a third row. Almost all of them offer very little room in that row. It’s the dilemma of room vs. size. The Mercedes GLS is among the few its size — and length — that has the room you’d otherwise have to buy something bigger (and longer) to get. It’s […]

The main problem with electric cars isn’t the range so much as the wait. A gas-hog car that drains its tank dry in 200 miles or less can be back on the road in five minutes or less — which makes its short range not much of a problem. But if you have to wait […]

Subaru’s thing used to be small, rugged cars — sedans and wagons — that were built to deal with bad roads and poor weather as well as a four-wheel-drive truck or SUV … without actually being a truck or SUV. Then trucks — big ones, especially — got popular. And more like cars, in terms […]

V-6 engines are disappearing, even from luxury sedans such as the Mercedes E-Class, a type of car which used to come standard with one. It now comes standard with a four-cylinder engine, a very small engine given the size and prestige of the E. It’s been made stronger via turbocharging — something practically every company […]

When does 450 horsepower seem kind of … limp? When you’re behind the wheel of something with more than 700 horsepower. That’s the difference — or one of the differences — between the Ram 1500 TRX and its chief rival, the Ford F-150 Raptor. What It Is The TRX is the answer — in triplicate […]

There are fewer family sedans on the market than ever before; several major brands, including GM and Ford, no longer make them at all. Toyota still makes one — and you can even get it with a keyed door (and ignition) lock. Not a fob or a button, though those are available if you’d like […]

Sedans are more practical than coupes; the people riding up front don’t have to get out to let people riding in the back get out. Or get in. But coupes look sexier than sedans. How to split the difference? How about a coupe on the driver’s side and a sedan on the other side? And […]

Sometimes, too close is not far enough. This is why Mazda will stop selling the CX-3, its smallest crossover SUV, after next year in favor of the new CX-30, its next smallest crossover SUV. The dimensional differences between the two proved to be so small that people had trouble telling the difference between them even […]