The latest news and headlines from around the global brake industry. This page lists all of the articles from our automotive test drives.
TANNERSVILLE, Penn. – There are not many days better than the one I recently spent driving a unique variety of vehicles up, down and around the Pennsylvania Pocono Mountains during the annual International Motor Press Association Spring Brake 2024. Representing…
CHATHAM, Mass. – Taking a page from its own book, Honda added a TrailSport variant to its Ridgeline mid-size pickup truck range for 2024, thus creating a more rugged “weekend warrior.” Honda customers have demonstrated their fondness for ruggedized versions…
CHATHAM, Mass. – Simply stating the name — 2024 GMC Sierra 1500 Denali Ultimate – sets the stage for this truck: a luxurious, capable, comprehensively equipped example of an American icon – the full-size pickup. Power-assisted everything; heated leather seats…
CHATHAM, Mass. – Smooth operations, quiet comfort and supercar performance – in a five-passenger, all-electric subcompact sport-utility (SUV) package – characterize the 2024 Genesis GV60 Performance. The all-wheel drive (AWD) GV60 represents the peak of the brand’s electric-vehicle (EV) range…
CHATHAM, Mass. – The majority of America’s car buyers seem to focus on SUVs and trucks, and give lip service to anything electrified, but in doing so, they are missing some terrific sedan offerings like the refreshed 2024 Hyundai Sonata.…
Unconventional characterizes a maverick, thus making this the perfect name for Ford’s unique, small pickup truck based on a compact sport-utility (SUV) platform. The Ford Motor Company started with the versatile Ford Escape SUV which also provides the basis for…
CHATHAM, Mass. – The compact-segment Tucson has been Hyundai’s best-selling sport-utility vehicle (SUV) since its 2004 introduction, something I completely understand following a recent week behind the wheel of a 2024 Hyundai Tucson Limited AWD. Quiet, comfortable, responsive, roomy and…
CHATHAM, Mass. – Introduction of the swoopy and sleek new 2024 Buick Envista ST shatters any lingering images of the brand symbolizing large, lumbering sedans transporting the town’s aging family doctor. Instead of the gas-guzzling V8 engine, the all-new Envista…
CHATHAM, Mass. – The 2024 Nissan Sentra SR is a very nice, efficient, comfortable, fun small sedan with an updated look. Nissan described the visual changes to the 2024 Sentra SR as incorporating “dark chrome trim for the V-motion grille,…
CHATHAM, Mass. – Go anywhere. Do anything® has been the Jeep brand’s slogan for decades and on this night in the pitch-dark Pocono Mountains of Eastern Pennsylvania the capabilities of the 2024 Wrangler Altitude 4xe provided confidence in my ability…
PALO ALTO, Calif. – For the second consecutive year, I secured a Kia EV6 subcompact sport-utility vehicle (SUV) during a trip to California, rediscovering how inconspicuously – and enjoyably — this electric vehicle (EV) blended into the Bay Area automotive…
CHATHAM, Mass. – Hyundai decided to leave a good thing as is by carrying over unchanged the 2024 Ioniq 6 electric vehicle (EV) sedan from its multi-award-winning – including World Car of the Year, World Design of the Year and…
CHATHAM, Mass. – Ford celebrated its iconic Bronco brand for the 2023 model year with a unique Heritage Limited Edition version of both its full-size off roader and the subcompact Bronco Sport. The company produced 1,966 examples of each model…
CHATHAM, Mass. – Hyundai’s designers began their work on the new 2024 Kona range by envisioning it as a fully electric small sport-utility vehicle (SUV) and then adapted it to an internal-combustion-engine variant; a reverse of what had been the…
CHATHAM, Mass. – Enhancement and refinement mark the subtle but important changes Mazda brought to the 2024 CX-30 2.5 Turbo AWD with premium plus package I recently drove. When I drove the 2023 version of this model last June, I…
MIDDLEBORO, Mass. – The recent 2024 New England Motor Press Association Winter Vehicle of the Year event was an electrifying affair as I sampled vehicles with electrical or electrically aided powerplants during the driving portion of the program. The automotive…
CHATHAM, Mass. – I was happy when the 2024 Honda Passport TrailSport showed up recently for review, a perfect vehicle to combat potential New England winter weather. Luckily, I did not have to fight anything more than near-freezing cold during…
CHATHAM, Mass. – Toyota, which brought electrification to American motorists at the turn of the century with its hybrid-electric Prius sedan; added numerous other hybrids, plug-in hybrids (PHEVs) and hydrogen-electric vehicles until its sales today are 25 percent electrified; has…
CHATHAM, Mass. – I was impressed with the redesigned 2023 Ford Escape compact sport-utility vehicle (SUV) when we drove it late last year and following a week in a hybrid-electric Ford Escape ST-Line Elite Hybrid AWD (all-wheel-drive) version, our opinion…
CHATHAM, Mass. – At the turn of the (present) century Toyota brought something unique to the American market – the world’s first production hybrid passenger vehicle, the Prius. The company now sells 10 different hybrid models (HEV), two plug-in hybrids…