2011 VW Touareg
The just-redesigned 2011 VW Touareg offers direct-injected, diesel - and combination direct injection-hybrid-electric powerplants.
You can get as much as 425 lbs.-ft.of torque - and 380 hp.
But you won't get more than...
2013 Cadillac Escalade
The battleship Iowa and her three sisters managed to survive not only World War II but a post-war world in which they'd long since become anachronisms. Amazingly, these massive gunboats lingered...
2020 Ford Expedition
What’s a big SUV without a big engine? If it’s a Ford Expedition, it’s the strongest big SUV in its class - with the smallest standard engine.
It’s also the biggest, period...
2013 Chrysler 300
You've got just one choice left - if you want a big sedan with a big V-8 driving the rear wheels that doesn't cost $45,000 or more.
It's the Chrysler 300.
But, you...
2014 VW Beetle R-Line Turbo
Back in the Pleistocene - you know, before the '90s - a "quick" Beetle (the original Drittes Reich model designed by Dr. Porsche and you-know-who) was a 12 second car.
Not in...
2017 Mazda3
In the last Terminator movie, an aging, saggy Arnold tells his younger, time-traveling and still-buff self: I have been waiting for you.
Well, me too.
For the SkyD diesel engine that Mazda was...
2016 Mini Cooper JCW
It is a $10k jump from a standard-issue Mini Cooper to a hopped-up John Cooper Works (JCW) version of the same car.
A $6k jump from the hopped-up slightly less Mini S...
2012 Mercedes-Benz C63 AMG
The recipe is timeless: Put a huge engine in a small car and let fly.
Literally.
The C63 AMG is such a car. Little C-Class; huge (6.2 liter) V-8 under its hood...
2022 VW Tiguan
The stiffest competition for VW’s Tiguan may be . . . another VW. That one being the one VW introduced last year as the newest VW.
The Taos.
It is smaller than the...
2018 Toyota Prius
The Toyota Prius was not just the first hybrid, for a long time it was without question the best hybrid.
Nothing else even approached its 50-plus average MPG capability (not just highway...