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2010 Mazda 3 s 5-Door Grand Touring – Long-Term Road Test Wrap-Up
Despite a few hiccups, our Mazda 3 GT won us over in 40,000 miles. Date: April 2011 Months in Fleet: 17 months Current Mileage: 40,037 miles Average Fuel Economy: 26 mpg Range: 413 miles Service:...
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2011 Jeep Compass Limited 70th Anniversary Edition – Short Take Road Test
Jeep’s black sheep gets updated, but remains unpleasant. A platform mate to the Jeep Patriot and Dodge Caliber, and an affront to the ruggedness cultivated by Jeep’s iconic and more capable models,...
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2011 Mopar Ram Runner Tested: Raptor-Fighter Hits the Dunes
This hop-up kit makes an ordinary Hemi truck look like a Fiat Jolly. Building on its rich history of street machines and wheel-standing drag cars, Chrysler’s Mopar group is now entering the...
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2011 Porsche 911 GT2 RS Road Test: Befriending Stuttgart’s Twin-Turbo Beast
Befriending Stuttgart’s twin-turbocharged beast. Porsche’s 911 GT2 RS is a brute, a lightweight, twin-turbocharged, 620-hp bout of madness that stemmed from Stuttgart’s quest to see how high up the...
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2011 Kia Sportage SX AWD Long-Term Test Intro: One 40,000-Mile Sportage,...
The turbo Kia crossover joins our fleet for 40,000 miles. Kia is full of surprises lately, from the company’s first motorsports victory with its first proper race car to its impressive reinvention of...
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How To: Polish Your Car Like a Pro
No need to go broke making your car look like a million bucks. Keeping your car’s finish looking new doesn’t require a paycheck’s worth of equipment or a professional detail shop. “Wheeling”—i.e.,...
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2012 Hyundai Genesis R-Spec 5.0 Sedan Tested
A 429-horse V8 and chassis tweaks improve the Genesis sedan. The Genesis sedan is the second Hyundai to get the R-Spec treatment; here it’s the top-shelf trim, powered by a 5.0-liter version of the...
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Long-Term 2011 Kia Sportage SX AWD 15,000-Mile Update
Gearing up for winter with our turbocharged Kia ute. With the close of the summer travel season and the onset of another Michigan winter expected any day, our long-term Kia Sportage SX continues to...
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2012 Honda Civic Hybrid Tested: Still Quiet, But No Big Efficiency Gains
It now falls more quickly between two stools. While the standard, ninth-generation Honda Civic goes down the road with almost no fervor, the iconic small car has become more comfortable, more...
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Ford SVT: Raptor on the Rocks and Celebrating 20 Years
Ford’s F-150 SVT Raptor is no longer an unknown entity; we’ve grown to love its high-flying antics, the 100-mph blasts through the desert, and the ability to tear through just about any type of muck...
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2011 Honda Odyssey Touring Elite Long-Term Intro
Minivans are the true automotive appliances: unsexy, underappreciated, and indispensable to many families. That the Honda Odyssey is entertaining to drive—as far as these vehicles go—is something...
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Cadillac Previews Driver-Assistance Systems for XTS and ATS; We Give ’Em a Go
Cadillac has lagged far behind other premium carmakers in rolling out advanced driver-assistance technologies—let’s be clear: we applaud this particular instance of sloth—but the wreath-and-crest...
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2013 Volkswagen CC First Drive: New Nose, Same Goodness Underneath
In designing the latest Jetta and the U.S.-market Passat, Volkswagen didn’t take many aesthetic risks. Their innocuous, slab-sided shapes reflect modern, strip-mall Americana as much as they contrast...
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2011 Mazda 2 Touring Long-Term Road Test Wrap-Up
Our diminutive long-term Mazda 2, the least-powerful, least-expensive car in our fleet for quite some time, has completed its 40,000-mile stay. Few tears were choked back as, after 16 months in our...
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2012 Mercedes-Benz E550 4MATIC Sedan Tested: A New Twin-Turbo V-8 Pushing...
Mercedes-Benz, like many carmakers, is embracing the turbocharger en masse in reaction to calls for greater fuel efficiency. Smaller, forced-induction mills are spreading throughout the three-pointed...
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3.3 Sec to 60, 101-mph Top Speed, 27 Inches Long: Traxxas XO-1 RC Car Tested
While only a few lucky bastards will ever get to experience a Bugatti Veyron, the radio-controlled (RC), Traxxas XO-1 offers a taste of its high-speed insanity for about half the price of the Veyron’s...
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2013 Ford Mustang V-6 Premium Tested: Updated Looks, Recaros, and Very Green
Without question, the Shelby GT500 and its claimed 200-mph top speed headline the 2013 Ford Mustang range. But all models received design and packaging updates that make them about as advanced as...
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Sharp Suits Compared: 2012 Audi A7 vs. 2013 BMW 640i Gran Coupe
The Mercedes-Benz CLS, a fitted tux to the off-the-rack E-class sedan on which it’s based, is iconic, having pried open the niche for executive-class four-seaters with cut-down greenhouses and...
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Long-Term Wrap: 2011 Honda Odyssey Touring Elite
Underappreciated though they may be, minivans are a crucial cog in the modern suburban machine. From crosstown errands to interstate voyages, the one-box formula rules at hauling cargo, especially the...
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2013 Mercedes GL350 BlueTec 4MATIC: Mercedes Builds a Better School Bus
If the immediate success of the first ML-class in the late ’90s weren’t enough to justify Mercedes’ decision to start selling SUVs, the introduction of the larger, three-row GL-class for 2007 would...
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