Logic is probably not an off-road enthusiast’s strongest suit.

It’s rare for a base model to show up on a manufacturer’s press fleet.

It’s going to be a while before AutoGuide can pit the 2022 Acura MDX against the competition. Before that, I can tell you it certainly offers more sure-footed grip than one alternative: my own two legs.

Volkswagen touts the ID.4 electric crossover as a car that everyone can afford, not just the wealthy.

If you’re the type of person who craves attention, then the 2021 Genesis GV80 is for you.

A large luxury SUV with almost 500 hp and enough torque to move the moon, what’s not to like? Right?

The ol’ “too much of a good thing” idiom doesn’t seem to apply to Mazda.

For as long as AMG models have existed, their engines have dominated their personalities.

Mazda keeps inching towards the premium market, but this car right here does it best thanks to one key change: more power.

If Volkswagen could embody an actor, it would probably be Aaron Eckhart.

Nissan could have left things as they were in the current SUV-friendly market and not completely overhauled the Versa.

My first drive of the 2021 Lexus RC 350 does not come at an ideal time.

Size does matter, and a week behind the wheel of the 2020 Ram 1500 Big Horn drove home the fact quite well.

Crossovers are, at their heart, about compromise.

The Sedona is running on borrowed time.

Kia is looking to satisfy every crossover buyer’s needs with its lineup of “just-right” models, the latest of which is this, the 2021 Sorento.

Take this, the Cadillac CT4-V. I drove it back-to-back after the larger, more powerful CT5-V. That car was one of the more impressive ones I drove in the year, with handling as sharp as its looks, paired to a sweet-sounding, hugely flexible turbo V6. For contrast, the CT4-V has a repurposed Silverado engine.

To that end, you will find no top-up photos of the 2021 Porsche 911 Targa here. I didn’t care that it was deep into fall when I drove it, and even with the windows up and the heat cranked, my hands were getting cold.

Kia might be killin’ it lately with its SUV lineup, but that doesn’t mean it’s forgotten what got it to where it is today.

It’s been almost two years since the production Supra debuted, and yet it’s still a divisive thing.

When people find out I’m driving a commuter car for this job, sometimes they look sympathetic and say stuff like “Ooh, it must be hard to write a review about that.” It actually isn’t.

Chevrolet continues to tease its Bolt crossover, showing off the EUV’s sequential turn signals. It launches mid-2021.

I’m not going to tell you the Mach-E is the most important new vehicle Ford is launching this year. It isn’t: on a strictly numbers basis, that title belongs to the redesigned F-150, newly available in hybrid format. I don’t think the Mach-E has built up the most hype of the Blue Oval’s new batch, either. The reborn Bronco has avoided much of the controversy of this all-electric, four-door crossover. Blame the name: Ford must’ve known it’d rile up traditionalists by sticking that iconic horse badge on this EV. But long-term, the Mach-E has a much heavier burden than either of its siblings. Just as Star Wars redefined the Hollywood formula in 1977, the Mach-E needs to convince the public a mainstream legacy automaker can play in the EV realm.

But if everyone’s hell-bent on doing something outrageous wouldn’t that qualify as the norm instead of something unique? Confused? I think the electric car space would best explain it. 

Where do you draw the line between a facelift and a new generation of sport sedan?

A good friend of mine owns a 4-door  Jeep JK Wrangler. True story, it was the first manual transmission he ever owned, so he learned to drive manual as he was driving it off the lot. I once helped him put a full snowmobile into the back of his Wrangler. I’m made to understand he’s not unique in his treatment of his SUV like a pickup. So, if you were shopping for a Wrangler, why wouldn’t you buy Gladiator?

I know it’s a little late in the year for it, but I want to talk about the Volvo XC40 and Halloween.

If you drew a family tree for the modern crossover field, you’d find the original 1993 Jeep Grand Cherokee at the top of it all.

Hey! The internet loves short, nuanceless interpretations of big thoughts and in that spirit here’s my review of the 2021 MINI EV: It doesn’t have enough range.

It takes no more than a few hundred feet for this muscle-bound Merc to elicit the first of many laughs from me. Mere weeks earlier I found myself in the GLC 43, and that SUV’s near-400 horses felt—at the time anyway—like more than enough. But another pair of cylinders, 118 more horsepower, and an exhaust note fit for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame makes a very convincing argument otherwise.

I have long suspected that pickup trucks operate in largely the same capacity today as full-size American sedans did in the ‘60s.

I’m not normally the begging sort of person, but I’m just going to cut to the point here: please buy a minivan.

There’s something absurd about hucking three tons of three-row SUV at an apex curb.

It now looks and feels like an SUV.

If you’re willing to squint at the lines dividing automotive genres, one might consider the first Chrysler minivan the original crossover.

For most hunters, our calendar year is a bit different. It doesn’t start January 1 … it starts the first day of moose camp.