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Twist the Alfa Romeo Stelvio Quadrifoglio’s drive mode selector into Race, which dials back the stability control and dials up everything else, and a message appears on the gauge cluster screen: “Best Race Experience With Shifter in Manual.” This, friends, is wise advice. HIGHS: Shines when driven aggressively, lyric exhaust note, SUVs don’t get more […] More
One incontrovertible truism in the car business is that vehicles get bigger with time. Today’s Honda Fit, for example, is about the same size as the original Accord. The current Ford Ranger is a foot and a half longer than a 1980 F-150. HIGHS: Strong and refined powertrain; excellent driving position; capable if not playful, […] More
Up to now, all attempts at making an SUV into a convertible have failed. We’re not talking about Jeeps; a Wrangler was a convertible first. We’re talking about taking a crossover and cutting off the top. You see, the problem with making an SUV into a convertible is that removing the top also removes any […] More
Three-row SUVs aren’t boring. In fact, they’re evolving so quickly that every time we check in things have changed. Mainstream brands continue to introduce new three-row SUVs that are real rivals to what premium brands are selling. Take the new 2020 Toyota Highlander and 2020 Kia Telluride, at their highest trim levels both could easily […] More
20,000-Mile Update Staff editor Eric Stafford underscored one of the Hyundai Veloster N’s greatest charms when he scribbled in our long-termer’s logbook, “The Veloster N sounds like the Honda Civic Type R looks.” That’s not to say that Hyundai’s N-badged hot hatchback is a wallflower. But it never lets you forget how shouty it can […] More
You’ll get used to the grille of the Genesis G90. That’s our prediction in this, the era of Peak Grille, when the looming prospect of homogeneous, bullet-prowed EVs seems to have precipitated a run on egg crates and mesh. Everywhere you look, grilles are engulfing whole front ends, threatening to run up the hood and […] More
Originally from the September 1993 Issue. Here’s a simple test to determine if you suffer from attention-deficit disorder. Okay, you’re still reading. That’s a good sign. But you still might have the other attention-deficit disorder, the one where no one notices you or listens to you, no matter what. HIGHS: Heart-stopping looks, chest-thumping power. Is […] More
It’s been more than two decades since a summer job landed my narrow butt in the single-piece seat of a 1994 Porsche Speedster. It was red. It made a cackling wail. It smelled like leather and oil and gasoline. It felt special and rare and like something that would last. All of those memories flooded […] More
