By Miguel Cortina – Words; William Walker – Photos – MotorTrend Luxury is all about the experience. Whether you stay in a five-star resort overlooking the Pacific Ocean while you drink a margarita poolside, or you enjoy a seat massage on your commute home, luxury is about appreciating the littleContinue Reading
By Nick Yekikian, Jade Nelson – MotorTrend Most of the time we get into our cars out of necessity. There’s always a destination—an appointment to keep or a shift to start. More often than not, that’s the reason I get behind the wheel, too. But occasionally I get the chanceContinue Reading
By Scott Evans – Words, Jade Nelson – Photos – MotorTrend Every pickup on the market offers four-wheel drive, or in the case of the Honda Ridgeline and some Chevrolet Silverados, all-wheel drive— learn the difference here. Nearly all of them also offer a specific off-roading package of parts, and a few offer extreme off-roadContinue Reading
By Miguel Cortina – Words, William Walker – Photos – MotorTrend “The Cadillac CT5 is one of those cars that I can’t recommend to people shopping in this class,” I said during our last Car of the Year discussion. “I just don’t see anything special or attractive here.” Pretty much everyone agreedContinue Reading
By Scott Evans – Words; Jade Nelson – Photos – MotorTrends “Oh gosh,” photographer Jade Nelson texted me, “that looks five years old.” “More like 16,” I replied. Technically, we were both wrong. The brand-new truck Jade couldn’t find in an almost empty parking lot was, in fact, introduced 16Continue Reading
By Edward Loh, Words; Renz Dimaandal – Photos – MotorTrend When the latest-gen Toyota Corolla was evaluated at our 2019 Car of the Year program, we lauded it as the best-driving Corolla in a long time, and we gave it high marks for its premium-feeling interior. Have our feelings about the latter changedContinue Reading
By Kelly Lin – Words Brandon Lim – Photos – MotorTrends The Toyota RAV4 dominates the sales charts, but we’ve spent enough time behind the wheel to know it’s a middling competitor in its segment. Although we’ve praised its stylish cabin and abundant safety features, we’re quite unimpressed with its chassis and powertrain. Fortunately,Continue Reading
By Scott Evans – MotorTrend How about that new 7.3-liter V-8 in the Ford Super Duty? It measures up at 430 hp and 475 lb-ft, and it’s able to hit 60 mph in a 7,200-pound F-350 Tremor wearing knobby off-road tires in just 7.3 seconds. Not just poetic, but prettyContinue Reading
By Frank Markus – Words Steven Pham – Photos – MotorTrends My week in the 2020 Toyota Land Cruiser Heritage Edition started off with an expensive-sounding, expletive-inciting “crunch” noise. I was merely pulling the pristine flagship Toyota into my garage for safe keeping, proceeding at a yacht-mooring pace when theContinue Reading
By Stefan Ogbac – Words, Brandon Lim – Photos – MotorTrend Which affordable subcompact SUV should you get? We interrupt your regularly scheduled program of dream machines with a break into the real world—where millennials wrangle underwhelming paychecks against a mountain of student debt, high rent, and the necessity ofContinue Reading