Volvo’s three SUVs are all similarly dressed and obviously related, but line them all up, and the new little 2019 XC40 kind of stands out like a brutha-from-anutha-mutha. Like maybe dad stepped out on the XC60 and XC90’s handsome blonde mom and knocked up a vixen from the other side of the tracks. Short overhangs […]

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Few automakers play the options game as cleverly as Porsche. No matter what model you’re looking at, the siren song of the Porsche configurator is ready to lure you onto the rocks of financial ruin. And it’s not just the obvious big-ticket stuff such as carbon-ceramic brakes, PASM sports suspension, or the Sport Chrono package. […]

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“Wow!” That was the first thing written in the notebook after getting out from behind the wheel of the 2018 Hyundai i30 N Performance. So let’s cut to the chase: The i30 N Performance is not just seriously good for a Hyundai. It’s seriously good, period. It might not have quite the surgical precision of […]

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Utter the words subcompact car and most visualize cheap, basic transportation, but there aren’t too many bare-bones vehicles left—compact cars are now available with features originally reserved for luxury vehicles, and subcompacts are following suit. Despite consumers moving more toward crossovers, there’s still room for affordable subcompact cars in a market whose thirst for vehicles […]

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The muscle car concept started out pretty simply: shoehorn the optional big engine from a mainstream full-size sedan into a lighter, smaller intermediate and let the tire-burning hoonanigans begin. Not muscly enough? Try souping up said big-block or figure out a way to jam it into an even smaller car. In the muscle heyday, that’s […]

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Many moons ago I attended the launch of the then all-new Ford Explorer. At one point during the event, Ford let us sample a Jeep Grand Cherokee, ostensibly so that us gathered scribes could gauge how much better the Explorer was than its competition. I’ll never forget my driving partner—Pulitzer Prize winner and Wall Street […]

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When we think of flagships, we tend to think of full-size sedans and sport coupes. For decades, they’ve been the pinnacle of automotive achievement, the absolute best a brand can offer in luxury, technology, performance, or a combination thereof. The world has changed, though, and although coupes were never high-volume products, the once-mighty sedan is […]

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The Porsche 911 gets the glory. But the Porsche Cayenne makes the money. It’s taken Porsche 54 years to build 1 million 911s but just 15 years to build three-quarters that many Cayennes. Porsche engineers love nothing more than creating better, faster 911s. But they know the SUVs pay the bills, so they make sure […]

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