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Posted Yesterday 08:05 AM by Matthew Phenix
I'm not ashamed to admit I thought the Range Rover Sport was, at best, pretty absurd when it showed up in 2005; at worst, it was blasphemous. It looked a lot like a real Range Rover but wasn't one; it was mechanically...
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Posted November 9 2009 07:15 AM by Matthew Phenix
Time magazine recently named the Kia Soul one of the 10 most exciting vehicles of 2010. Wow. Either 2010 is shaping up to be a slower year than I imagined or Time magazine needs to get out more. That's not to say the Soul...
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Posted November 2 2009 12:59 PM by Joe Lorio
It used to be that convertibles demanded so many compromises, they were
cars you drove in summer only. But having just spent a late autumn week
in an Audi A5 Cabriolet, I am reminded how incorrect that idea has
become.
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Posted October 25 2009 01:33 PM by Matthew Phenix
I've driven pretty much every flavor of Porsche Cayenne , and every time I get behind the wheel of one, I feel the urge do something heroic, like lap the Nürburgring or cross the Continental Divide or navigate the Mall of...
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Posted October 8 2009 05:36 AM by Matthew Phenix
There’s not a lot to be said about the Mazda Miata that Jean Jennings and Jamie Kitman — two of the car’s most abiding and eloquent devotees — haven’t already said better . But I can’t resist making note of an anniversary:...
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Posted October 5 2009 09:30 AM by Matthew Phenix
This morning I finished a week and 800 miles behind the wheel of a 2010 Toyota Prius . I'm impressed. On one of my 68-mile legs (which includes a highway-biased mix of stop-and-go traffic and open road), the car informed...
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Posted September 18 2009 12:16 PM by Matthew Phenix
When I was a kid, my older brother spent a few sweet years abusing a silver 1978 Subaru BRAT, and I spent a memorable portion of that time clinging for dear life in its little pickup bed, wedged into a rear-facing seat...
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Posted September 14 2009 01:16 PM by Matthew Phenix
So last week, doubtless at the behest of its new Italian parent , Dodge quietly killed the Caliber SRT4. And today, none other than a 2009 Dodge Caliber SRT4 landed in my driveway. Perfect timing.
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Posted September 4 2009 11:37 AM by Joe Lorio
For the last two decades, full-size pickups have been getting bigger and bigger. And through all that time, Toyota has been playing catch-up. First with the T-100, then with the original Tundra. Finally, the all-new,...
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The 2010 Ford Mustang convertible can’t help but be a standout in its field
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Posted August 17 2009 01:04 PM by Joe Lorio
From the moment in 1964 when the Ford Mustang established the ponycar, convertibles have been an integral element of the genre. Except for a few dark years in the 1970s and early ’80s, there has always been a Mustang...
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