Every brand has one–the staple seller; the for-the-masses car on which a corporation’s fortunes rest. Audi’s bread-and-butter line, the A4 comes in sedan, two-door convertible and wagon variants. Of course, with the falling value of the dollar eating profits and ever-encroaching competition from Japanese, German and even American luxury [...]
Continue reading: All-Wheel Driven (to Succeed): Audi A4 2.0T Quattro
Seems as if every other article in the Auto pages is proclaiming the passing of one or another of the old Big Three. And it’s true; 2004 was not a good year for American auto manufacturers. General Motors and Ford have been hit particularly hard, as for years executives have [...]
Continue reading: Star for the North: The All Wheel Drive 2005 Cadillac STS-4
It’s been going on for so long now–since 2003 at least–that it’s no longer news. Cadillac has reinvented itself; hot new CTS, SRX, XLR and STS models (some with that extra-sexy V-Series designation), with their creased-suit “Art & Science” styling and ‘Nurburgring-tuned’ suspensions, have brought the brand out of sales [...]
Continue reading: Rethinking Grampa’s New Car: The 2006 Cadillac DTS
The people at Mercedes Benz must be working overtime. In the last couple years alone, the boys in Stuttgart have brought to market several all-new vehicles–think CLS-class, B-class, the upcoming baby-ML-class, and this new R-Class. Mercedes calls it a “grand sports tourer” or “crossover,” based upon the unibody construction [...]
Continue reading: 2006 Mercedes-Benz R500: A People-Hauler for the Other Half
Chevrolet, and indeed all of GM, is visibly working hard lately to produce vehicles that are actually competitive and desirable–and with good reason; even GMAC and OnStar don’t make enough cash to support the General producing cars at a loss. Perhaps the most whimsical of the apple-pie-American brand’s new ventures [...]
Continue reading: Chevy Plays the Retro Card: The 2006 Chevy HHR
Let’s get this out of the way right now. You may see the Buick LaCrosse (stripped-down versions, at least) populating your local rental-car outlet’s lot-but if you’re set thinking about the LaCrosse as a rental-car, you’d better change your perceptions of rental cars. This Buick-maybe for the first time-actually hits [...]
Continue reading: Detroit Builds a Lexus? Buick’s LaCrosse: Surprisingly Good
Ford Mustang: always an American icon, it was entirely redesigned and re-engineered for 2005, becoming by all accounts one of the best new cars of the model year and an outstanding sporty-car sales success – the likes of which Ford Motor Company hasn’t seen since the original, 41 years ago. [...]
Continue reading: 2005 Ford Mustang GT Convertible: High Speed Fun in the Sun
Volvo, the Swedish brand known for putting occupant safety above all else, has done well in North America trading on its traditional strengths. Staid and solid – if a bit boxy and boring – over the past four decades, Volvo has had little trouble attracting enough of a slice of [...]
Continue reading: The 2005 Volvo S40: Ford Gilds a Lily
When Nissan threw their hat into the full-size pick-up ring, they didn’t tip toe around the competition – they came out swinging and aiming square for the jaw. Today and no longer a rookie, the Nissan Titan hasn’t lost any of its passion – Nissan introduced a host of subtle [...]
Continue reading: 2005 Nissan Titan: Make Room At The Top
If you’re over 30, you can be forgiven for missing the ‘buzz’ surrounding Toyota’s new youth-oriented Scion brand–after all, they’re not marketing to you. The line, first populated by funky little econobox xB and xA models, is aimed squarely at twenty-something and younger buyers, many of whom will be plunking [...]
Continue reading: 2005 Scion tC: Scion’s Latest & Greatest-The Versatile tC
We climbed into the premium, leather-adorned cockpit, fiddled with an array of dials and switches, ran through our checklists, adjusted the radio and tightened our seatbelts. We were cleared for take-off, and as we applied full-throttle, a big grin drew its way across our passengers’ faces. As we approached cruising [...]
Continue reading: 2005 Volkswagen Phaeton W12: Cleared For Take Off
We’ll be honest – we were never fans of the previous Jeep Grand Cherokee. We found it to be uncomfortably small, inefficient, clunky and unreliable. Imagine our trepidation when we were handed the keys for the all new 2005 Jeep Grand Cherokee Limited and told to “have at it.” We [...]
Continue reading: 2005 Jeep Grand Cherokee Limited: Big Changes Bring Big Smiles
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