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2023 Volvo XC60 Review: Get the Recharge plug-in hybrid
Pros: Elegant styling and beautiful cabin; excellent plug-in hybrid option; solid value Cons: Middling handling; pricey and strange Polestar performance model The 2023 Volvo XC60 is the bread-and-butter SUV for Volvo since it’s in the very popular compact luxury segment. Thankfully for Volvo, the XC60 is a good, solidly competitive offering and one of our
2023 Kia EV6 GT First Drive Review: Kia’s 576-hp mack daddy EV finally arrives
LAS VEGAS – This is the E-GMP car we’ve been waiting for. As great as the Hyundai Group triplets of Kia EV6, Hyundai Ioniq 5 and Genesis GV60 are, we’ve always known that something greater (and far more powerful) was lurking in future: this 576-horsepower 2023 Kia EV6 GT. Despite impressing with their state-of-the-art EV
2023 Porsche 911 Carrera T First Drive Review: Sometimes value is sexy
LOS ANGELES — The 2023 Porsche 911 Carrera T is effectively a 911 with the base Carrera engine but with a few choice mechanical upgrades that are either standard or optional on the more powerful and expensive Carrera S. Those upgrades would otherwise not be available on the base car. The Carrera T also goes on
2023 Mercedes-Benz Sprinter First Drive Review: From 4WD to AWD
STUTTGART, Germany — Mercedes-Benz’s cars have come a long way since the 1990s in terms of design, performance and ergonomics. In that same time period, the Sprinter van may as well have moved to a different planet. Like all older apartment-sized vans, early Sprinters were truck-like and not always easy to drive. The current model
2023 Honda Civic Type R First Drive Review: All grown up isn’t so bad
SEARS POINT, Calif. – Is being “all grown up” such a bad thing? Listening to blink-182’s latest would suggest that, yep, it definitely can be. Being rough around the edges, a tad tacky and a lot loud don’t have to be problems, they can be the very things that draw people to a pop punk
Mercedes-Benz Vision AVTR Concept First Drive Review: What’s new for model year 2154
MANHATTAN BEACH, Calif. — Who among us hasn’t imagined what it would be like to drive a car from the future? And we’re not talking about a 2028 Honda Prelude or whatever, interesting as that may be. No, we’re talking decades, maybe even centuries beyond what we have now, where even quaint notions like circular
2023 BMW i7 First Drive Review: A joy to drive, a pain to use
It’s been seven years since the BMW 7 Series was last redesigned, and for 2023, we have an all-new seventh generation on the way. If you believe in lucky numbers, this bodes well for BMW’s flagship luxury sedan, but there’s even bigger news. Along with the all-new 7 Series, we’re also getting an all-electric i7
2023 Kia Telluride First Drive Review: An established hit adds more to the menu
SAN ANTONIO — The Kia Telluride, along with its mostly-same-beneath-the-skin counterpart, the Hyundai Palisade, quickly caught our attention when it launched as an all-new nameplate for the 2020 model year. This new three-row SUV was a heavy hitter from the beginning, with good looks, sensible pricing and a wealth of content that bettered other brands.