Exciting, comfortable small car. Why we’d buy it: Excellent traction, feel of speed, gradability, gas mileage, good manual transmission, Why we wouldn’t: lousy stereo, back seat room, hard to grab seat belts. Mileage: 30 city, 38 highway. The Fiat 500, perhaps the quintessential small car, has been praised by people who hate […]
2012 Chevrolet Impala: a smooth ride (car reviews)
The General Motors Ride-and-Drive has been making its way throughout the nation, to address the gap between their cars and public perception. In short, Chevrolets, Buicks, and GMCs are far better than most people think they are, and GM is out to prove it by letting you drive their cars […]
The Chevrolet Cruze is a fascinating car. Taking a niche in the midsize realm, but competing against Corolla and Civic rather than Camry and such, the Cruze is a relatively large car that has nimble handling, an upscale interior, a delayed-reaction powertrain. The Cruze interior is considerably larger than that […]
The largest Scion is a miniature wagon, with room for five people and a small amount of baggage in back. It hugs the ground, exchanging the popular “tall wagon” look for better cornering and gas mileage. Thanks partly to the low-slung body, the Scion provides that fun, go-kart feel which every […]
It sounded like such a good idea: instead of putting a hybrid-electric powertrain into cars that are already efficient, GM and Dodge would put them into their least fuel-efficient vehicles. Increasing the mileage of their big pickups would save more fuel than optimizing a compact car. Companies (and people) may […]
When it first appeared, the Dodge Ram 1500 was far and away the biggest, baddest pickup in America. Its big-rig appearance was backed up by class-leading engines, all based on the old LA V8: the 318 and 360, and a V6 and V10 in the same family, not to mention […]
A fun and highly rated ragtop from the start, the Chrysler Sebring became progressively refined in each new generation until the fun was gone. For the 2007 sebring convertible, engine and road noise were minimal even with the top down; and the optional hardtop, coming in at under $2,000, impressed […]
The Saturn Sky was one of the most exciting new vehicles of its time, not because of its blazing speed (it’s not all that fast), its excellent cornering and road feel, or its technology; but because it provides some of the looks of the first-generation Dodge Viper in a cute, […]
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