Automotive Reviews

DETROIT – Chevrolet Tahoe and Suburban — the industry’s best-selling large SUVs — launch late next year with fresh designs inside and out, a more powerful diesel engine option available later in production and new technology enhancements designed to provide greater confidence and security behind the wheel. “The updates on the 2025 Chevy Tahoe and Suburban make the industry’s best-selling...

Don't Forget Mazda When Shopping For A CUV Readers will not remember seeing many articles by me recounting experiences with Mazda’s over the years. Every time I do drive one, like the 2018 Mazda CX-5, I leave my week with it impressed with its features and understated elegance. Sometimes it is little things, like the push button lift-back closing, which...

2019 BMW M850i XDrive Convertible - Made For Driving Can you think of anyone who wouldn’t be excited when they receive a notice that they will be delivered a $131,395 BMW M850i xDrive convertible for a week-long test drive? This is a vehicle that checks all the boxes: Sporty, check. Convertible, check. M model, check. Two-door, but four seats so...

I still remember the first time I saw the taillight treatments of the past generation of the Dodge Durango. It was at a holiday Dodge event in Detroit. Walking behind the vehicle I remarked to a fellow journalist "I might just buy this vehicle due to it's sexy butt!" It was the way the lights were situated and how...

2017 Chevrolet 2500HD Spoils with Technological Advances Most people don’t drive a heavy duty truck for the technology. However, I think the new 2017 Chevrolet Silverado 2500HD could be the exception. There are just too many things on-board to make one’s life simpler and easier. I have to point out the first thing I noticed on the Silverado was the “notches”...

2018 Toyota C-HR Small in Stature, Big On Style There were two Toyota's that I was completely impressed with after attending launches for in 2017 - the new Camry and the completely new 2018 Toyota C-HR. I couldn't take my eyes off the C-HR from the first moment I saw it at the launch, and enjoyed it even more once...

American Muscle Cars A Coffee Table Book For Enthusiasts “American Muscle Cars, A Full-Throttle History” is a lavishly illustrated, passionately detailed book. Focused on America’s love affair with muscle cars, the book was published by Motorbooks March 15. The author is Darwin Holmstrom, a lover of fast cars and motorcycles who’s written or contributed to over 30 books. Tom Glatch,...

It had been a long journey. Two days and nights in an Amtrak roomette from Dallas to LA, followed by coach seats to Oxnard CA. My husband and I were attending a travel writers’ conference at Embassy Suites Resort at Mandalay Beach. Most seminars were at the hotel, but we were bused around town for special events. We even took...

By Bill Owney Warhorse refuses to be put to pasture On my work table is a box with half a dozen pairs of leather work gloves, yet when I gird myself for battle with rose bushes, poison ivy, and the army of critters that reside in my yard and crave my flesh, the eye gravitates to one worn but trusty pair. Goldilocks...

2017 Toyota Tundra TRD Pro Is Large, But Big on Fun Too Big and Brawny for a ride to the neighborhood grocery store? I held out for about a day and a half before deciding I had to take the new TRD Off-Road Toyota Tundra Limited 4x4 out to tackle as much off-road as I could muster in suburban Dallas....