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2021 Lexus IS 350 AWD exterior

2021 Lexus IS 350 AWD - Bottom Line Review

ACHIEVING ENTHUSIAST PRESTIGE: Back when the lifestyle Young Upwardly Mobile Professional was coined in the mid 1980s, it was hip to make a statement of trickle down financial success. With no premium sport activity vehicle in sight, the archetypal "Yuppie" mobile was the prestige sport sedan. RELENTLESS PURSUIT

2021 Toyota Avalon TRD exterior

2021 Toyota Avalon TRD - Re-Driven Review - Biennial Menacing

ENTHUSIAST DEVELOPMENT: The automotive metaphor for the quest for a magical Arthurian sword is to be no more. Often colored as a refined barge tuned exclusively for septuagenerians and a Lexus ES pretender, after 28 years the Toyota Avalon sedan is slated to depart this earthly world. SHORT LIFE: Two

2022 Volkswagen Taos SE 4Motion exterior

2022 Volkswagen Taos SE 4Motion - Bottom Line Review

IT TAKES A PUEBLO VILLAGE: At the foothills of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains there is an early 2nd Millennium adobe dwelling community, which the Tiwa Puebloan indigenous Americans peoples call the place "Tao" or "toward the village at the red willow canyon mouth." What was

2021 Subaru Crosstrek Limited 2.5L exterior

2021 Subaru Crosstrek Limited 2.5L - Bottom Line Review

NIXES THE FOOT AND ARDUOUS FROM JOURNEYS: It nearly took a virus pandemic to help Americans realize how vast their nation is. Road trip trekking became a preferable escape from COVID-19 lockdown cabin fever for so many. PAVED PARKING NOT NEEDED: For longer than any other carmaker, Subaru has been

2021 BMW X5 xDrive 45e exterior

2021 BMW X5 xDrive 45e PHEV - Bottom Line Review

FOURTH BAVARIAN TERRAIN ROVER: Eyeing a burgeoning number of well-heeled American motorists attracted to an upscale outdoor active lifestyle, in 1994 BMW Group purchased Land Rover brand. Though German ownership of the British prestige marque once issued a Royal Warrant was brief, the objective was to acquire luxury sport utility

2021 Volkswagen Arteon 2.0T SEL R-Line 4Motion exterior

2021 Volkswagen Arteon 2.0T SEL R-Line 4Motion - Re-Driven in Racy

INEARITY APPRECIATED: The debut of Volkswagen Arteon in 2019 was an undisputed effort to steer a VW Passat CC Four Door coupe successor more directly into the prestige lane. A GRANDER COMFORT COUPE: Namely, a reworked sportsback configuration penned with a lower, more flared shoulder stance, fitted with a potent

2021 Genesis GV80 2.5T AWD exterior

2021 Genesis GV80 2.5T AWD - Bottom Line Review

TO EVERYTHING THERE IS A SEASON: With each new experience or phenomenon comes an attempt to rationalize it. In terms of modern consumerist experience man has well exceeded need and is highly motivated by desire. It used to be that aspirants of luxury automobiles had to be content with either