With the 2004 X3, BMW offered a compact SUV a half-decade ahead of other German car manufacturers. So not long after Audi and Mercedes have introduced their first such vehicle BMW has an all-new second-generation X3. The first-generation X3 had its strengths,... 

An extravagant ceremony at Bangkok’s Impact Arena has seen the launch of Toyota’s new Hilux and Fortuner – key models in its developing market portfolio. The pair are products with big, tough reputations, and importantly, the profit-generating ability... 

A couple months back, Cadillac gave me a bright red, three-ton, rollin’-on-22s, chrome-drenched, hybrid-electric, $88,140 luxury truck to drive while in Michigan for the Campaign To Prevent Gingervitis 24 Hours of LeMons. Since that time, the effort... 

If you are on the market for a classically-styled English luxury vehicle with a compliant ride and a sticker under a quarter-million dollars, the Range Rover dealer might be your only destination. After all, Jaguar recently nixed the styling often referred... 

The “big car safe, small car unsafe” debate took another interesting turn this week, as researchers from UC Berkeley have released a report arguing that large cars significantly increase the risk of death on American roads. Recent data on... 

The Chevrolet TrailBlazer and its many sibs are extinct. The Ford Explorer nameplate survives, but it’s now attached to a car-based crossover. Only one family of domestic midsize conventional SUVs remains—and, quite ironically, it’s based on a Mercedes... 

The Touareg TDI is not your father’s Oldsmobile. I know, because I unfortunately drove my father’s 85HP, 1983 Cutlass Cierra diesel when I was a kid. Since my dad was a glutton for punishment, this was not his first unreliable GM diesel; we also had... 

 Wanna buy a Hummer? You can buy them as cheap as dirt these days. There was a beautiful one that went through the block at a weekly public auction in Oakwood, GA. Nice leather interior. Well kept See the rest here:  Auction Monday: Oakwood  Read More →

 Wanna buy a Hummer? You can buy them as cheap as dirt these days. There was a beautiful one that went through the block at a weekly public auction in Oakwood, GA. Nice leather interior. Well kept. The H2 models in particular were an easy piece to... 

You have your reasons. Gas prices might be high and headed higher, and car-based crossovers handle better, but you want your full-sized, full-lux, body-on-frame conventional SUV. GM and Ford, the segment’s traditional rulers, have had nothing new to... 

As Detroit was skipping a decade or two of car R&D by concentrating on packing increasing numbers of 128-ouncer-ready cup holders and faux-wood trim into big trucks, it became necessary to make it clear to the targeted buyer demographics that these... 

Posted on 02.9.2011 09:00 by Kirby Filed under: Landrover | suv | Geneva Motor Show | special editions | Range Rover Evoque | Cars | Car Reviews | Landrover Nobody does luxury SUVs quite like Land Rover . True to their reputation, the British automaker... 

Posted on 02.9.2011 13:00 by Simona Filed under: Mansory Porsche | suv | Porsche Cayenne | car tuning | Cars | Car Reviews | Porsche The tuning packages for the Porsche Cayenne just keep piling on, don’t they? Just a couple of days ago, Lumma Design... 

Posted on 02.9.2011 14:00 by Kirby Filed under: Dodge | suv | Chicago Auto Show | Dodge Durango | special editions | Cars | Car Reviews | Dodge It’s a new year for Dodge and the American automaker is determined to start the year off on the right... 

Posted on 02.9.2011 18:00 by Kirby Filed under: Dodge | suv | Chicago Auto Show | Dodge Durango | $30K-$40K | 2011 | Cars | Car Reviews | Dodge True to its promise of reinventing itself for the new year, Dodge is coming to the 2011 Chicago Auto Show... 

Higher fuel prices and the drive to save on production costs have automakers lining up a slew of compact models. But are Americans interested in small cars or do they just want more fuel-efficient SUVs. Original post: Ford, rivals betting small is... 

Toyota issued a recall for 2.3 million late model cars, SUVs and pickup trucks Thursday, acting after “isolated reports” of sticking accelerator pedals. Read more here:  Toyota recalls 2.3 million vehicles  Read More →

SENIOR EDITOR FOR NEWS BOB GRITZINGER: Like its multitool Chevrolet Suburban brethren, sometimes you just need a good old three-row SUV with cargo room for a big job. In my case, the job was a multistate haul with six people aboard. Here is the original... 

What is it? The 2010 Hyundai Tucson is the Korean company’s newest foray into the highly competitive small SUV segment. It’s wrapped in stylish sheetmetal and draws power from a proficient 2.4-liter four-cylinder rated at 176 hp. View original... 

Filed under: SUV , Marketing/Advertising , Chrysler , Dodge According to an Autoblog source, Dodge will abandon the Durango nameplate for the model’s replacement due for 2012. In place of that two-generation designator, Chrysler is exhuming the...