The all new 2013 Nissan Pathfinder has a problem. It doesn’t know if it should be an SUV or a Crossover. Nissan over the years has shot back and forth with the platforms for the Pathfinder and this year, it seems to have settled on the smaller option. However, with all of the changes, the [...]
There are certain aspects of some vehicles that stick in my craw from time to time, and today I’m pleased to announce that the 2013 Toyota RAV4 no longer has the annoying spare wheel mounted to the rear tailgate, and not a moment before time. Frankly, that’s not the only thing that’s improved with this [...]
Whenever I see the two words “Station Wagon” in a car’s description, I immediately start to get terrible flashbacks. Images of my old man’s Plymouth Volare SW that was the most embarrassing object ever to pull up to my high school, flash through my head. Thankfully, the 2013 Audi Allroad is none of that, but it [...]
The 2013 Kia Sorento belongs to that rapidly expanding line of vehicles we classify as “small SUV crossovers”, even if there’s not much about this Kia that you could consider small. After it was redesigned for the current year, it is boxier and much more muscular, if that’s a word we can use here for [...]
I can’t recall when I first started to see the disappearance of V8 engines from what would be considered luxury mid-size and full-size family sedans but the sight of one in the new 2013 Audi S6 is a pleasant surprise. It puts the S6 up into that bracket of cars that I’d say carry some [...]
When Mazda unveiled their small sports car roadster called the Miata at the Chicago Auto Show in 1989, I’m quite sure that even the manufacturer never imagined that 24 years later, the little firebrand would hold the record for the best selling sports car convertible of all time. Other than it now being called MX-5, not much [...]
When the 2014 Range Rover Sport was finally unveiled at the New York International Auto Show this past Tuesday night, it was obvious that the owners had spared no expense as who else but 007 himself, in the form of Daniel Craig, pulled the vehicle onto the stage. I guess if it’s good enough for [...]
Whenever a company goes through a re-branding process, two things come to mind in this suspicious head of mine. Firstly, the previous brand was so bad that the company had to change it, or that the need for simplicity became the driving force for change. I’m glad to say that the latter of these two [...]
I think if we were to sit maybe 50 people down in a room and have them write down on a piece of paper exactly what features their “dream” car should have, I would be willing to bet that most of what they write down would be covered by the 2013 BMW 760LI Sedan. For [...]
Nissan sportscars seem like they have been around for ever and a day. I recall back in the days when I worked at an auto recycling yard. The 280ZX was the most popular foreign sports model on the road. We would steer clear of buying any of those cars for parts because the demand was [...]