Tag: Reviews

2021 Honda Odyssey First Look

Post author By axelrin
Post date March 10, 2020

Although today’s families are clamoring for crossovers and SUVs, the minivan market remains very competitive even as the choices in it shrink. One constant? The Honda Odyssey’s excellence. For the 2021 model year, the already great van gets a makeover and benefits from a refreshed exterior design, more standard safety features, and second row seats that are easier to remove for those cargo-heavy Ikea and Home Depot runs.

The 2021 Odyssey’s new front-end design includes a blacked-out grille topped by a strip of chrome and improved LED headlights. Just below, the various intakes, vents, and fog light housings have been redesigned for a sleeker look. The minivan also gets gloss-black trim under the rear window that echoes the grille’s finish, and Elite models receive new 19-inch alloy wheels.

2020 Porsche Taycan Interior Review

Post author By axelrin
Post date March 8, 2020

By Scott Evans Words; William Walker Photos

The 2020 Porsche Taycan is quick—and fast. It beat even the mighty Tesla Model S P100D Ludicrous in the quarter-mile after closing a tenth of a second gap at 60 mph and never looking back. That’s great for bragging rights, but all that accelerative force doesn’t mean squat when you’re sitting in traffic. That’s when one’s thoughts turn inward.

Short question long, what’s the interior of the Taycan, the place where you’ll spend all your time, like to live in?

With a current starting price of $114,340, the Taycan needs to deliver on comfort and technology to fully justify its price tag. (Technically, the tag is $105,150, but until June 2020 you can’t order the car without $9,190 of options in the form of a panoramic glass roof, larger battery, and advanced portable charger.)

2021 Mercedes-AMG GLS 63 First Drive: Antisocial and Proud

Post author By axelrin
Post date March 8, 2020

By Jonny Lieberman Words; ManufacturerPhotos

It’s lonely at the top of the huge-horsepower food chain. Think about the segment the 2021 Mercedes-AMG GLS 63 competes in: over 600 horsepower, top-shelf, 3-row SUVs: There’s no other vehicle in it. BMW does not make an X7M, Audi does not build an RS Q7. The Porsche Cayenne Turbo has but two rows. Cullinan? Bentayga? Urus? 2-row, 2-row, only 2 rows. Cadillac doesn’t make an Escalade-V, nor does Lincoln sell a Navigator with over 600 horsepower, though Hennessey makes and sells the 600-hp Navigator HPE600. The Tesla Model X P100D is the closest competitor both in terms of power and price, but I’ve driven both SUVs and philosophically they are worlds apart. The GLS 63 stands apart from this crowd.