2020 Infiniti QX50 Essential AWD

AWD makes stylish QX50 a near perfect blend ... Technology dominates much of our lives and increasingly our automotive lives so that finding a nice blend of tech along with fun and practicality is a stretch. Well, Infiniti’s QX50 makes that stretch without even glancing over its shoulder. Two things, no, make that three, stand... Continue Reading →

April 9, 2020 0

2020 Nissan Pathfinder SV (Rock Creek Edition)

2020 Nissan Pathfinder SV 4WD Do you prefer old school or retro to an overabundance of digital doodads? Do you prefer driving your vehicle to your vehicle driving you? Nissan has an answer for you if you’re an SUV lover. Its name is Pathfinder. This is a fine SUV with room for seven passengers, but... Continue Reading →

March 12, 2020 0

2020 Dodge Durango SRT 392

Durango SRT rocks the SUV world ... Dodge’s Durango SRT is the truck version of a NASCAR stocker. SRT is all about power, muscle and grunt with an engine grumble that sounds like a stock car ready to bust out of the pits and head up the banking at Daytona. Otherwise, it’s a fine, luxurious... Continue Reading →

February 21, 2020 0

2020 Toyota 4Runner TRD Pro

4Runner TRD Pro a muscular drive ... My wife calls Toyota’s 4Runner a manly man’s truck, and it certainly is. Tall, muscular looking, big tires and wheels, a hood scoop, a husky luggage rack on the roof and an engine that growls along with knobby tires that rumble on the road. Yes, manly and a... Continue Reading →

February 15, 2020 0

2020 Range Rover Sport HSE

Rover Sport packs panache, power ... There’s no denying a certain panache in the Land Rover name and a certain pride a Rover driver feels in its ability to crunch through the Serengeti brush and ford rushing hippo-infested streams as it takes you deep into the rugged, wild outback. Yet Rover is no rough and... Continue Reading →

January 25, 2020 0

2020 Jeep Wrangler Unlimited Sahara 4×4

Latest Wrangler Unlimited stirs ride, handling questions ... A couple years back I drove the newly redesigned Jeep Wrangler Unlimited and was wowed by how much better it rode, and drove, than previous Wranglers. For those who don’t worship Jeeps as God’s gift to off-roaders, the Wrangler (2-door) and Wrangler Unlimited (4-door) are Jeep... Continue Reading →

January 12, 2020 4

2020 Ford Explorer ST AWD

Explorer ST puts the sport into sport-utility (at a price) ... Ford’s Explorer is the ubiquitous family SUV. It’s likely today’s 20- and 30-somethings think of Explorer as what mom and dad, their uncles, cousins and maybe a brother or sister drove, or still drive. There are a lot of Explorers on the road and... Continue Reading →

December 20, 2019 0

2020 Range Rover Evoque SE AWD

New Evoque fails $64,000 question ... Range Rover’s new Evoque stirs a $64,000 question: Do you expect your new vehicle’s climate control system and heated/cooled seats to work every time you start the vehicle? Apparently the answer is, No! Despite my “Yulong White” test vehicle’s $64 grand price tag, those systems worked about half the... Continue Reading →

December 7, 2019 0

2020 Hyundai Palisade SEL AWD

Palisade, like Telluride, a first rate family SUV … I declared the Kia Telluride the finest SUV I’d driven in ages and an absolute winner in every way when I drove it last June, but its kissin’ cousin, the Hyundai Palisade is equally as praiseworthy. I know us reviewers are supposed to pick at the... Continue Reading →

November 15, 2019 2

2019 Lexus RX 350L AWD Luxury

Lexus RX 350L, when you're entitled to more luxury ... There’s no doubt we’re an entitled society from top to bottom. But when one slides behind the steering wheel of a Lexus RX 350L it’s hard not to feel a strong urge of entitlement, and contentment. Granted, I’m lucky to get such a chance, but... Continue Reading →