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2024 Volkswagen Atlas Cross Sport: Glam SUV Coupe Counter-Point Review

2024 Volkswagen Atlas Cross Sport: Glam SUV Coupe Counter-Point Review

The launch of the Volkswagen Atlas Cross Sport in 2020, pitched the vehicle as glam volume antidote to conspicuous luxury sport activity coupe consumption. A television advertisement depicted an accountant, worried about his client’s spendthrift ways. Once he discovered his charge's more sensible new car purchase he

2024 VW Taos SEL 4Motion exterior

2024 Volkswagen Taos 4Motion: New Mexican Cutie Counter-Point Review

VW’s Taos crossover or SUV, wears the now de rigueur exterior plastic cladding— black rocker covers and fender arches. These suggest a rugged vehicle, but underneath it’s a car. In SEL trim, this $35,260 all-wheel drive "soft-roader" has three driving modes plus several traction aids.

2024 Toyota Corolla Cross XSE Hybrid AWD exterior

2024 Toyota Corolla Cross XSE Hybrid: Hollywood Flash Counter-Point Review

Toyota’s Corolla Cross fills the spot vacated by the funky C-HR cute ute. It slots below the large compact RAV4 in Toyota’s SUV lineup. Theoretically, it’s a rewind to the Corolla All-Trac wagon. The 2024 Toyota Corolla Cross is a practical buggy with more storage room than

2022 Mazda 3 Turbo Sedan exterior

2022 Mazda 3 Turbo Sedan: Nice 'N Easy Quick Spin Review

Nice N' Easy Touring Machine The 2022 Mazda 3 Turbo Sedan AWD Premium is your ticket to rekindle an automotive romance—a compact car with luxury-grade aspirations. Attuned to a level of mellow crooned best by Frank Sinatra, the Mazda3 Turbo Sedan proves “Nice ‘n’ Easy” does it every

2022 Volkswagen Golf R exterior

2022 Volkswagen Golf R: Review From Another View

VW Golf R: Deft Handling, Smudgy Controls VW invites you to rediscover high-horsepower fingerpainting. Choose your canvas, a snaky roadway is perfect. Your paint pot is a turbocharged 315-hp Lapaz Blue Metallic over Titan Black Leather Golf R with 19-inch wheels. Get in. Adjust the shell-like front throne. Grab the

2010 Ford Taurus exterior

Artistic License: Ford's 2010 Taurus

A Retrospective Look at the 2010 Ford Taurus. Have You Driven an Art Museum Lately? Can you drive an art museum? Fourteen years ago, Ford Motor Company thought so. Its CEO Alan Mulally and marketing chief Jim Farley made bold moves when they introduced new duds for its venerable nameplate:

2022 Genesis GV70 2.5T Advanced AWD exterior

2022 Genesis GV70 Advanced: A Review

For 2016, Hyundai spun off its luxury line creating another GM: Genesis Motor. The newly minted automotive brand received a winged badge, donned a Durante-approved schnoz and sported Teutonic-like model names: G80 and G90. Unlike its German competition, however, Genesis didn’t have three important letters: SUV. That’s changed.