I approach these ideas as if I’m telling you a running story. Each car, truck, or SUV I drive builds on my own impressions about what’s good, and what isn’t good, in the automotive world. In the same sense, automakers are telling an ongoing story of their own with each vehicle that comes out of […]
Automakers continue to invest a significant amount of time and energy to ensure that we don’t mistake their product for a wagon. Quite often that means chopping the back of a crossover to make it more coupe-like in profile. Volkswagen already makes the Atlas midsize crossover, but now there is something called the Atlas Cross […]
Welcome back to our biweekly exploration of cars that are now 25 years old, and therefore eligible for classic tags in most U.S. states. The revolutionarily simple Beetle brought a reputation for reliability to the Volkswagen brand. It was different. It was clever. It was affordable. But there’s no nice way to say it: By […]