Test Driving Life

The Toyota RAV4 seems to be in the perfect spot in the market. It's small enough to be agile, fun, and go anywhere, but large enough ...

Experts predict around 16 million car sales this year. Many of those will be crossover SUVs; that category includes Mitsubishi's thoro...

In the car business, part of what makes you successful is good product. The other part is good marketing. In Hyundai's case, they se...

As an answer to Ford's Explorer, the original Nissan Pathfinder , based on Nissan's successful pickup truck, moved people with sp...

I recently spent a week with the heavily updated Kia Sorento crossover. Kia, one of the automotive success stories in the last several ye...

In the middle of the last century, families traveled in station wagons. I know my family had several. But in the 1990s, Ford  tapped into ...

The CX-5 on a racetrack--nice. Mazda may be best known for its now iconic Miata two-seater sports car. Fashioned like a highly efficient...

Acura was the first Japanese car company to offer a luxury line in the U.S. That's right--Honda's upscale division arrived before...

In the mid 1990s, Subaru wanted to offer an SUV, but they unfortunately didn't make any trucks on which to base one. The answer? No on...

The Patriot may be the forgotten Jeep. It is neither the glamorous and highly regarded new Grand Cherokee nor the legendary Wrangler--dir...

The Ford Explorer is widely credited with starting the sport utility vehicle frenzy of the 1990s. Today's rising star is the crossover...

It's a rare treat to test a Land Rover. Designed to tackle the challenges of driving off the pavement and also to look sharp at the co...

The Toyota RAV4 and Honda CR-V are widely celebrated for being the first small crossovers in the U.S. market, but the Kia Sportage actual...

In a world of crossover vehicles that look like SUVs but are really big cars, the Nissan Xterra isn't shy about being a truck. Based ...