Category: Drives
First Drive Review: 2016 Mazda MX-5 Miata
When it came time for our first drive in the 2016 Mazda MX-5 Miata, the only choice was to fight the hordes of tourist traffic and take it up to our favorite mountain road. Once past the point where the slow and dodde...
First Drive Review: 2016 Toyota Prius
The 2016 Toyota Prius is all new, and we get our first drive in Southern California along the beach as well as the cone course. The new car has been a long time coming, and it brings with it not only new style, but hi...
First Drive Review: 2016 Toyota Tacoma
For the last several years Toyota has been happily selling their Tacoma pickups to a loyal group of buyers, but the market got hotter this year with the new GM mid-size trucks in the Chevrolet Colorado and GMC Canyon....
First drive: 2014 Acura RLX Advance
Acura has made a strong pitch at getting back on track in the luxury sedan field this year with their all-new redesigned 2014 RLX. It loses the pasted on bird-beek look with an all new style front to rear that comes o...
First drive: 2014 Audi A6 TDI
Audi has retained its style throughout the decades, evolving ever so slightly as each generation of their cars comes along. The A6 has continued to get sharper and sleeker, with an ever lower looking silhouette. Ou...
First drive: 2014 Chevrolet Sonic Turbo
Our test with the 2014 Chevrolet Sonic Turbo started with a road-trip from Phoenix to Los Angeles to test the ability of this small compact to meet or exceed its 40 mpg highway rating and 29 mpg city estimates. Our...
First Drive: 2014 Hyundai Tucson Limited
The Tucson is Hyundai's smallest SUV in North America, first introduced in this current generation as a 2010 model. Thus it's styling is the oldest in the Hyundai showroom, not fully embracing the company's freshest F...
First drive: 2014 Infiniti Q60S Convertible MT
The Infiniti Q60S likely looks familiar and it should. It has been on sale for many years as the Infiniti G37. Nissan's luxury brand re-named all of its cars this year starting with the letter Q for cars and QX for SU...
First Drive: 2014 Jeep Cherokee Limited AWD
The Jeep Cherokee is the second new vehicle based on platform architecture first derived from the Alfa Romeo Giulietta which is also shared with the Dodge Dart, and now the 2015 Chrysler 200 sedans. Its styling tak...
First drive: 2014 Kia Soul +
Kia redesigned their popular Soul for 2014, adding refinements and features, new colors and interior finishes. Whats remarkable is that you can hardly tell at first sight. The closer you look the more you realize t...
