2021 Volvo S60 T5 Momentum FWD: Is the less expensive Volvo worth trying?

DORAL, Fla. — Until now, keeping up with the Joneses and their Tesla Model Y meant buying a, well, a Tesla Model Y. Or possibly the Hyundai Kona Electric Vehicle. But unless you live in a communist country, what’s so great about buying the same vehicle as everyone else? It’s like saying, “Ye…

Kia is on a roll these days with the sensational Stinger Sportback and Telluride SUV. Mainstream products with premium flair, they beg the question: Why pay 70 grand for a luxury brand when you can have the same vehicle for $45,000 under a mainstream badge?

DETROIT — A new government report says gas mileage for new vehicles dropped and pollution increased in model year 2019 for the first time in five years.

FRANKFURT, Germany — Europe's push into electric cars is gathering speed — despite the pandemic.

From California to New York to Washington, regulators increasingly are looking to phase out gasoline-powered cars in favor of electrics. That could pose challenges for some legacy Detroit brands.

Few of us will look back on the year 2020 with any relish. Despite its many challenges, the past year has proven how essential cars, trucks and SUVs have become in modern life. They are our escape machines, able to make us forget about our worries as we indulge our passion for the joy of the…

It's hard to miss the Toyota Avalon. It's the sedan with the biggest grille on the planet.

If you asked automakers in April or May about the outlook for the rest of 2020, answers would have been grim.

The Fiat brand will be down to just one vehicle in the United States after cutting the 500L compact car and 124 Spider roadster from its 2021 lineup.

For too long, Acura has purveyed perfectly bland sedans with equally bland names, a far cry from when the division was selling Legends, Vigors and Integras, sports sedans that satisfied driving enthusiasts and non-enthusiasts alike. And while the automaker has recently fielded fun-to-drive c…

The Ford F-150 pickup is the top-selling vehicle in America — not just the No. 1 truck; it’s the No. 1 vehicle, period — and has been for the last 43 years running. Last year, Henry Ford’s legacy company sold just under 900,000 of the things, 36% of all U.S. truck sales, leaving Chevrolet, R…

You’d have a hard time finding three vehicles more different than those in my driveway recently: A high-mpg version of the year’s biggest new SUV; a contender to be 2021’s best new small car, and a brand-defining luxury vehicle.

A 1910-era Model T sits on a farm just off North Territorial Road outside Unadilla, Mich. I pulled my battery-powered 2021 Ford Mustang Mach-E alongside for a picture.

It takes an epic suspension of disbelief — and a work for fiction — to believe that Superman could change into a blue suit and red tie, throw on a pair of glasses, and everyone would mistake him for Clark Kent. Yet such things happen in real life.

It's all about jumping to the front of the pack when the stoplight turns green.

In a time when your family’s safety is paramount, the 2021 Honda Odyssey makes for soothing relief.

Possibly the most Newtonian vehicle ever produced, the 2020 Land Rover Defender is an equal and opposite reaction to other SUVs’ motion to become ever more at home in upscale grocery store lots and valet lines outside restaurants.

DETROIT — Kia is recalling nearly 295,000 vehicles in the U.S. because the engines can stall or catch fire.The recall comes just a week after Kia and affiliated Korean automaker Hyundai were fined by the U.S. government for allegedly delaying recalls.The recall covers certain 2012 and 2013 S…

Flying at over 65 mph in a 2021 Ram 1500 TRX — four feet off the ground — is when you realize that there's not much pickups can't do anymore. Hold that image, and let me catch you up.

Lincoln's Nautilus midsize luxury SUV gets a new interior and significant connectivity improvements when the 2021 model arrives in dealerships early next year. The Nautilus will also go into production then in China, a growing market for Lincoln. North American versions of the SUV will conti…

2021 Hyundai Venue Denim Edition: An old Soul?

There seems to be some impression that the best cars have rock-firm suspensions sure to shatter your vertebrae. Yes, a firm suspension provides exceptional cornering ability, but what works best on racetrack isn't always what works best in the real world, where clogged arteries and crumbling…

DETROIT — The U.S. government's road safety agency is investigating complaints that suspensions can fail on nearly 115,000 Tesla electric vehicles.

It is billed as the fastest and most powerful street-legal Ford vehicle of all time. It has the most power-dense supercharged engine in the world. The 2020 Mustang Shelby GT500 pumps out a staggering 760 horsepower, and roars to 60 mpg in just a few rapid heartbeats — or 3.3 seconds.

2020 Ford Edge ST AWD: A Mustang but taller?

DALLAS — How hungry are you?

Ford raises the bar for America's favorite vehicle and cranks up the pressure on Chevy and Ram with the 2021 F-150 pickup, a package full of surprises arriving in dealerships just in time for the holidays.

DETROIT — General Motors is switching sides in the legal fight against California's right to set its own clean-air standards, abandoning the Trump administration as the president's term nears its close.

DETROIT — General Motors will recall about 7 million big pickup trucks and SUVs worldwide to replace potentially dangerous Takata air bag inflators.The announcement came Monday after the U.S. government told the automaker it had to recall 6 million of the vehicles in the U.S.GM says it will …

2020 BMW X3 xDrive30E: Fun and fuel sipping?

Lordstown Motors, the plucky electric pickup startup that aims to turn an abandoned General Motors plant into a hub of manufacturing and technological leadership, faces a long road and uncertain prospects, but it's the only prospective EV pickup giving demo rides to independent journalists, …

For you Dream Cruisers nostalgic for the huge 1950s Cadillac Eldorado Sevilles that once ruled the earth, check out the 2021 Cadillac Escalade.

Ever since it established the market for imported cars in the United States with the Volkswagen Beetle nearly 60 years ago, Volkswagen has struggled to understand the American market. That impression was reinforced by a longtime VW dealer who told me that it seemed that Volkswagen didn't und…

DETROIT — General Motors says a pending breakthrough in battery chemistry will cut the price of its electric vehicles so they equal those powered by gasoline within five years. The technology also will increase the range per charge to as much as 450 miles.The company’s product development ch…

The 702-hp 2021 Ram 1500 TRX flouts the laws of physics and common sense with equal elan, a vehicle that knows it's destined to be a classic.

Over the past couple decades, it's been agonizing to watch Cadillac grapple with its car lineup in an attempt to out-German the German automakers. It's as if they were embarrassed about their own remarkably rich and historic heritage, one that stretches back to the industry's beginnings. Wha…

Hardcore off-road race machines that are built to tackle the Mojave and Baja dunes can cost anywhere from $500,000 to $1 million to build. But Jeep, with an eye on a growing market, now builds a desert racer for $44K.

DETROIT — The U.S. government's road safety agency is investigating complaints that the rear suspensions on some older Cadillac SUVs can fail, causing drivers to lose control and possibly crash.The probe by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration covers about 344,000 Cadillac SRX …

Mazda's lineup of hatchbacks and crossover SUVs keeps growing, with the latest entry a subcompact crossover curiously called the CX-30.

There may be no vehicle more perfectly poised at the intersection of Mercedes-Benz's past and future than the 2021 GLA250 4Matic small SUV.