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When it came time to 'refresh' the Ram for 2013, the rallying cry was: 'Don't screw up the great Ram pickup look!' So the new Ram's grille is taller and [...]

THE QUEUE starts forming on opposite sides of the domestic/import Maginot Line when it comes to choosing between a Mustang GT and a Z-Car--either the Mustang tugs at your heartstrings, […]

LET'S BE BOLD here and assume you're secure in your manhood; that you can forget about going to Las Vegas in a Lincoln Town Car, because that's what everyone else […]

LIKE A PAIR of sumo wrestlers, Lexus and Infiniti have been going head-to-head in the U.S. market for approximately 15 years. They often chase the same buyers, but in different […]

IT'S HARD TO MISS admiring glances when you're behind the wheel of the new Mustang GT. Even those who don't necessarily care for its heritage-inspired attributes recognize the icon on […]

The resounding thud emanating from the pickup bed as we exited a sweeping lefthander got our attention: A 100-pound toolbox riding in the bed broke from its straps. To our […]

FORD SHELBY GR-1 A legend digitally remastered and repackaged for the 21st century. 0:1 It shimmers in the studio like liquid mercury, the light flowing effortlessly across the highly polished […]

Like you, we frequently encounter disconnects between perception and reality when it comes to the driving experience. More often than not, images of a single car moving briskly down an […]

The resounding thud emanating from the pickup bed as we exited a sweeping lefthander got our attention: A 100-pound toolbox riding in the bed had come loose. To our amazement, […]

Is your car cramping your lifestyle? Do you wish you had more spread-out room inside? Space for friends and family to travel under one roof instead of two? Maybe you […]

By now you know that a Land Rover can slog through African rain forest, conquer the Mongolian steppes, and survive Arctic blasts, biblical torrents, and Saharan swelter. But would you […]

Next to buying a house, signing on the dotted line to take home a new car ranks as the second-most-expensive purchase a lot of people make. And even though cars […]

The corporate world isn't always the best role model. Some of us are still smoldering from the idea of fat-cat Enron and WorldCom executives helping themselves to millions of dollars […]

Now that the National Do Not Call list has freed our evenings and weekends from the unpleasantness of telemarketing solicitations, we have more time to attend to personal issues that […]

It's been said that you can never be too rich or too good looking. Here in Southern California, the pursuit of those clusive goals often takes place behind the wheel […]

Spearheading Maserati's reemergence as a premium brand on the world market is the striking Quattroporte. This fifth-generation Maserati four-door sedan thrusts into the heart of the luxury flagship segment dominated […]

Because not everyone wants a minivan, sport/utility vehicles have assumed the mantle of all-purpose family expeditor. There's a special breed of full-size SUV out there with three rows of seats, […]

As it rolls off the tongue, the term "small truck is almost an oxymoron. Trucks are about tackling jobs cars can't, so the thought of limiting a truck to small […]

FIRST TEST 2004 Dodge Ram SRT-10 Viper firepower for an American workhorse If you fire a 12-gauge shotgun packed with 00 buck, you'll get a sense of what it's like […]

A generation ago, trucks, sport/utilities, and vans were mostly used by tradesmen, hard-boiled off-roaders, and delivery services. Trucks were for work, cars for pleasure. And that was that. Before long, […]

If you're going fidgety right about now, we understand. Car-makers have been minting a fresh batch of shiny new auto-mobiles with the intent of putting you behind the wheel. It's […]

If today's streets are any indication, you've got the wrong best friend. We're not talking about your dog here: Americans are making happy homes for Land Rovers and other sport/utility […]

The streets of America, as it turns out, are an equal-opportunity playground. Show up with the right look and hardware that says you mean business and very cool things are […]

Cell-phone toting, latte sipping, warehouse shopping, morning jogging, after-hours volunteering, home improving, and chainsaw juggling: We've become a nation of multitaskers, balancing career and family, work and recreation on a […]

While shiny, red sports cars tug at your heartstrings and sleek silver luxo sedans give a leathery whiff of the good life, the car that's getting you to work right […]

Helmut Panke peers down at the throng of journalists and cameramen from his plastic-paneled crow's nest at the Rolls-Royce stand. It's a media preview day at the Detroit auto show. […]

Whatever you do, don't call the new Honda Element and Suzuki Aerio SX wagons. That unfortunate moniker conjures up images of Beaver Cleaver types pulling little red Radio Flyers on […]

IT'S BEEN SAID YOU CAN NEVER BE TOO RICH OR TOO THIN. In America, we can add one more item to that refrain: You can never have too many power […]

If someone were to suggest a while back that Volkswagen would soon be producing a Mercedes-Benz S-Class-caliber luxury sedan and a Range Rover-challenging sport/utility vehicle, he might not have been […]

Fun: lively joyous play or playfulness, amusement, sport or recreation. Funky: unconventional, eccentric, offbeat. Webster's New World College Dictionary Driving is serious business, but who said it had to be […]

The 24 Hours of Le Mans isn't a race--it's an event. Grand Marnier-laced crepes for breakfast; watching the drivers slow at the end of the Mulsanne Straight, brake rotors aglow […]

Sequels are tricky business. Take the feature-length films "Godfather III," "Speed 2 ," and "Jurassic Park III," for example. Arguably, none of these follow-ups will be remembered as fondly as […]

Traversing Moab, Utah's Poison Spider Mesa and Golden Spike trails, you don't encounter too many large, family-size SuVs. And for good reason: Some of the sandstone monoliths you drive over […]

With the typical transaction price of a new car in the low-$20,000 range, economics is forcing many potential new-car buyers to peruse the used-car classifieds instead of cruising new-car row. […]

Such a little thing, really. Turning the engine sideways, thus making the car shorter. Sir Alec Issigonis penned the idea on a restaurant tablecloth, legend has it: a new, small, […]

For decades, the Jaguar XJ sedan held sway over luxury-car buyers, mixing a low coupe roofline with four-door sedan practicality to help create its distinctive feline personality. Now that the […]

Last December, Volkswagen's first-ever SUV was honored as Motor Trend's 2004 Sport/Utility of the Year, without benefit of its top-gun powerplant. Available in Europe for some months now, VW's potent […]

The company that first introduced America to the wiles of the compact pickup some 45 years ago is finally giving its truck buyers a move-up property--its first-ever full-size pickup truck. […]

Whatever Volvo has learned from long winters spent in contemplation, it might be a hesitancy to rush into things. That may partly explain why, a dozen years after the Ford […]

86 VEHICLES: SPECS PRICES Last month, it was cars and minivans; now it's trucks, SUVs, and full-size vans. These are same of the most popular and holtest-selling vehicles on America's […]

Anything that's going to be on sale in North America in 2002 is in here--if it's a car or minivan, that is (next month we do trucks sport/utility vehicles and […]