All Crosstreks are sharp performers, but the Sport seems best suited to a young person, or family's needs and pocketbook.
2024 Subaru Crosstrek Sport Review
Review: 2023 Toyota Prius Prime XSE
Sleek new Prius Prime provides a plug-in with style ... Consider this, driving more than 200 miles in a week and only paying ten bucks, and change, for the privilege. No, I wasn’t coasting down hills and there was no tornadic wind at my back. I was slipping through the air in a sleek new... Continue Reading →
Savage picks the Top 10 Cars
2023 Zoomies, the best vehicles of the past year ... Zoomie goes all social media trendy this year whittling the 50 or so vehicles I’ve tested in the past year down to a dynamic Top 10. Eat your heart out Letterman*! What’s the Savage criteria for a Zoomie? Art: Stuart Carlson There’s no point system.... Continue Reading →
Zoomie: 29 years of choice cars
Savage's top vehicles since 1990, the hits and misses .... My annual Zoomie Car of the Year awards just debuted on WUWM.com yesterday and will appear here on Wednesday. But if you want to check my track record, here are my past 29 choices. I missed a few years when the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel stopped... Continue Reading →
Car Spot: Back to the Future DeLorean
THE Iconic movie car Show of hands. How many of you have never seen one of any of the Back to the Future movies? OK, go watch one of the movies and then come back and read this post because you will know exactly what this week's car spot, a Back to the Future DeLorean... Continue Reading →
2022 Volkswagen Jetta GLI Autobahn
VW's Jetta a value-oriented icon that exudes the joy of car driving ... I feel a little sorry for younger drivers who have grown up riding in, and then driving, mostly trucks and SUVs. They simply won’t know how much fun it is to drive a car. Cars are lighter, more nimble, and generally handle... Continue Reading →
2022 Kia Stinger GT-Line RWD
Power, handling, looks, Stinger as swanky as European makes ... Swanky European luxury sports sedans often crest $50,000, but they deliver the looks and performance that command a premium. Most also have earned a reputation for quickness and precision handling over decades of development. So what happens when a newcomer sidles up behind the established... Continue Reading →
2022 Cars of the Year
Savage names his top vehicles, the annual Zoomie Awards ... Zoomie art by Stuart Carlson Last year’s Zoomies were all about monster speed and power, this year’s are all about hybrids, high value and family fare. That’s OK though, because that’s where most of us live. While I was testing new Corvettes, Challengers, BMWs, Mercedes,... Continue Reading →
2022 Infiniti QX55 Sensory AWD
New QX55 a fun mix of fashion and luxury ... Mixing fashion and fun in a luxury SUV/crossover is about as commonplace as legislators agreeing on something. Yet Infiniti has done it with its new QX55 for 2022, and this comes after its launch of the near perfect QX50 for 2021. That SUV/crossover also slots... Continue Reading →
FALL RALLY DRIVES & Videos
MAMA Fall Rally: So many vehicles, so little time ... Once or twice a year, lately depending on the Covid threat, Midwest auto writers gather their helmets and egos before snagging seat time in the latest new machines from the top automakers. I use that term loosely because, to be honest, most of the vehicles... Continue Reading →
Savage On Wheels 