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Thursday, Nov 12
Vintage road tripping, Canadian-style, in a brand-new Lotus Exige S 260 Sport
Ferraris and Lamborghinis seem common when you consider the 2009 Lotus Exige S 260 Sport, of which only fifty are bound for North America. And since Canada is too-often ignored when it comes to exotic cars for the North American market, I decided to cross the border into Ontario and take par...
Wednesday, Nov 4
Looking Into Dodge's Future
First up for a makeover will be the Avenger sedan, Journey crossover, and Grand Caravan minivan. All three will receive revamped interiors and exteriors next year, along with the new "Pentastar" (nee-"Phoenix) 3.6-liter V-6. We've been assured the Grand Caravan, which currently lags be...
Tuesday, Nov 3
Vile Gossip: Rockies Five-Car-Hill-Climb
So, Automobile Magazine ended up in the Rockies, sixty miles west of Denver, poised at the beginning of a 3.76-mile run up Route 6 to the 11,990-foot summit of Loveland Pass. We had a Vbox, four European V-8 luxury cars, sister magazine Motor Trend as our co-testers, Pikes Peak champion Rod M...
Opinion: First Drive: 2010 Honda Accord Crosstour
Honda seems to have the crossover market pretty well covered with the compact CR-V and the eight-seat Pilot, yet the company sees room for one more. The Honda Accord Crosstour looks to slot in between the two in terms of functionality, yet will stand at the top from a pricing perspective. By p...
Friday, Oct 23
2009 Tokyo Show: Honda’s Performance Future
The 2009 Tokyo show was something of a glass-half-full, glass-half-empty affair for American Honda enthusiasts. On the one hand, there was the unveiling of the near-production CR-Z, easily the most exciting new Honda in several years. But Honda also used the show to dampen any hopes for o...
Monday, Oct 19
Mazda MX-5 Miata: A car for our time
It’s only now, as we slowly dig out of a financial mess and look ahead at drastically tightening fuel economy standards, that the Miata once more seems like not only a great car, but a great idea as well, one that deserves to be copied. Ironic then, that it’s now nearly alone in the market. T...
First Look: Honda U3-X Electric Unicycle
Honda's U3-X transporter can best be described as a motorized unicycle.Toyota isn't the only Japanese automaker to amaze us with some funky forms of personal transportation. Honda unwrapped its U3-X transporter prior to the 2009 Tokyo Motor Show, which can best be described as a motoriz...
Thursday, Oct 15
2009 Honda Fit Sport - Four Seasons Update - October 2009
Looking to buy a Fit of your own? Take our advice: skip the navigation system.2009 Honda Fit Sport with navigationinline_mediumwraptextright30333357/reviews/12_month_car_reviews/0910_2009_honda_fit_sport_october_update0903_01_z+2009_honda_fit_sport+front_three...
Friday, Oct 9
First Look: 2009 Honda CR-Z Concept
Photo Gallery: 2009 Honda CR-Z Concept - 2009 Tokyo Auto Show Coverage, New Hybrid Car Reviews, Concept Cars - Automobile Magazine Photo Gallery: 2009 Honda CR-Z Concept - 2009 Tokyo Auto Show Coverage, New Hybrid Car Reviews, Concept Cars - Automobile Magazine
First Look: Honda EV-N and EV Cub Concepts
Photo Gallery: Honda EV-N and EV Cub Concepts - 2009 Tokyo Auto Show Coverage, New Car Reviews, Concept Cars - Automobile Magazine Photo Gallery: Honda EV-N and EV Cub Concepts - 2009 Tokyo Auto Show Coverage, New Car Reviews, Concept Cars - Automobile Magazine
Thursday, Oct 8
2009 Mazda MX-5 Miata: Happy Birthday
Rest assured, there’s more to celebrate about the Miata’s big Two-Oh than the fact that its maker hasn’t screwed it up in all those years. If the car was brand-new this year it’d be terrific. Wrote Mrs. Jennings: “We were so crazy about the Miata that we created the very first Automo...
Tuesday, Oct 6
2009 Honda Civic Si Coupe
In terms of safe and enjoyable speed, there is no finer ride than a Honda with a capital S somewhere in its name.I envy the lucky kids who are fortunate enough to own one of these cars, and not just because they're several decades younger than this old codger. In terms of safe and enjoyable speed...
Tuesday, Sep 29
2010 Hyundai Genesis Coupe 2.0T Track vs. 2010 Honda Civic Si
Photo Gallery: 2010 Hyundai Genesis Coupe 2.0T Track vs. 2010 Honda Civic Si - Hyundai and Honda Sport Coupe Comparison - Automobile Magazine Photo Gallery: 2010 Hyundai Genesis Coupe 2.0T Track vs. 2010 Honda Civic Si - Hyundai and Honda Sport Coupe Comparison - Automobile Magazine
Friday, Sep 18
2010 Subaru Outback 3.6R
Driving dynamics are engaging if not game-changing. The new Outback wallows a bit more in the curves than I expected, certainly more than last year’s model, but the all-wheel-drive system hangs on with its usual tenacity and the open-road ride is decidedly more supple than before. And t...
Monday, Sep 14
2009 Honda Fit Sport - Four Seasons Update - September 2009
After logging some 16,754 miles in seven months, our Four-Seasons Honda Fit Sport isn't much worse for the wear.After logging some 16,754 miles in seven months, our Four-Seasons Honda Fit Sport isn't much worse for the wear - except for the carpeting.inline_mediumwraptextright257414...
Friday, Sep 11
2009 Honda S2000 CR
The S2000 perfectly distills what has traditionally made Hondas so appealing.If not Honda, what other major automaker could offer a $40,000 sports car with a tiny, normally aspirated four-cylinder engine, a functional, no-nonsense interior, and no transmission option beyond a six-...
Wednesday, Aug 26
A tale of two Fords
So we’re calling Ford out: It has the tools, including that new Ecoboost four-cylinder and two excellent upcoming small cars in the Focus and Fiesta. The talent has always been there. It needs to build a sporty car that makes us excited about its future, rather than nostalgic for its past.
Friday, Aug 21
Great Rivalries: Harley-Davidson vs Honda
Decades of Easy Rider, Boozefighters, and Hell's Angels folklore have painted an indelible image of what a Harley-Davidson motorcycle is and does.Decades of Easy Rider, Boozefighters, and Hell's Angels folklore have painted an indelible image of what a Harley-Davidson motorcycle i...
Monday, Aug 10
2009 Honda Fit Sport - Four Seasons Update - July 2009
Warm weather and the open road have given us the chance to rack up an extra 2500 miles onto our Fit's odometer.Months in fleet: Six Mileage to date: 13,319 Photo Gallery: 2009 Honda Fit Sport - July 2009 Four Seasons Update Review - Automobile Magazine Read More | Digg It | Add to del.icio.us
Friday, Aug 7
2010 Honda Insight is another mileage champ that’s not much fun to drive.
So, the Insight, even more so than the Jetta diesel, proves that’s there’s no painless road to super-high mileage. (Only the Ford Fusion hybrid, EPA rated at 39 mpg combined, has relatively few dynamic shortfalls compared to its conventionally powered sibling; but it is significan...
2010 Honda Insight is another mileage champ that’s not much fun to drive.
I recently spent a few weeks with our magazine’s long-term Volkswagen Jetta TDI, which has earned a lot of respect around the office but which I was less than thrilled with. Although I often saw an indicated fuel economy...
Wednesday, Jul 8
Kia's Big Fuel Cell Plans
Our guide walks a few yards further and points out another FCEV chassis, this one with a fuel cell stack in the center of the chassis that’s not much bigger than a flat-screen TV that’s been tipped on its back. This is how far Hyundai-Kia’s fuel-cell development has come over the past f...
Tuesday, Jul 7
Vile Gossip: Honda's Product Line
Jen Misaros used to have a Civic and an Accord. Rusty Blackwell wishes his wife still owned her first new car, an '02 Civic. David Zenlea's girlfriend had a CR-V maintained by an Orthodox Jewish mechanic. Sam Smith's 1988 CRX Si "is the only front-wheel-drive car that could be a poster child fo...
Fifty Years of Honda in America
American Honda is still nifty and thrifty, even at age 50...Fifty years ago, Fidel Castro seized power in cuba, the Army promoted Elvis to Spec 4, and Alaska and Hawaii gained statehood. The music died when a light plane crashed with the Big Bopper, Buddy Holly, and Ritchie Valens on board. Hula...
Tuesday, Jun 30
Showdown in the parking lot: Dodge Ram vs. Ford F-150
How hard could it be? I’ve used a previous-generation Toyota Land Cruiser and a Series-II Land Rover Discovery before that as daily drivers. If I can squeeze them into parking spaces in the Big Apple, I should definitely be able to wheel a pickup truck around the block in Ann Arbor.
Friday, Jun 19
1985 Honda CRX HF vs. 2010 Honda Insight
Photo Gallery: 1985 Honda CRX HF vs. 2010 Honda Insight - Modern Automotive Technology vs. Past Technology - Automobile Magazine
Wednesday, Jun 17
2010 Kia Soul: Another hip square
But as Scion has proven, young hipsters don’t seem to care about those things. Perhaps the subtleties of a responsive engine and a well-tuned chassis are lost on you when you’re steering with your knees while you’re driving with both thumbs on your smart phone.
Friday, Jun 12
Four Fuel Sippers: 2009 Honda Fit Sport, 2010 Ford Fiesta, 2010 Honda Insight, 2009 Volkswagen Jetta TDI
We know. Gas is $2.50 a gallon, which means you're not interested in fuel economy.We know. Gas is $2.50 a gallon, which means you're not interested in fuel economy. But you will be. As our job market recovers, it's almost a given that oil prices will too. Perhaps more importantly, the newly boosted C...
Monday, Mar 30
Review: 2009 Honda Civic Hybrid
With the 2010 Insight offering a similar hybrid system in a similar package, is there still room for the 2009 Honda Civic Hybrid in the world?2008 was pretty good for the Honda Civic Hybrid. As the original Insight was but a distant memory and the Accord Hybrid faded into obscurity, the Civi...
Monday, Jan 12
2010 Honda Insight
So, I'm afraid I'm one of those people to whom our design editor, Robert Cumberford, refers in his column this month (page 16). You see, since I drove the new Insight in Arizona in early December, I've been telling my colleagues that Honda "copied the Prius" for the design of its new, second-...
Wednesday, Jan 7
Hyundai can build a Lexus LS, but can it build a Honda Fit?
Then I drove our new Honda Fit Four Seasons car for the first time, and I remembered. The Japanese did not suddenly decimate their competition by churning out a few nice luxomobiles. No. They did it by building millions of inexpensive, unassuming little cars just like the Fit. Cars that introd...
Tuesday, Dec 16
2009 Honda Insight
I've driven the all-new Honda Insight. I've just driven the all-new 2009 Honda Insight in Arizona, where American Honda is presenting the car to a small group of journalists this week.
Tuesday, Sep 30
Opinion: 2009 Honda Fit
Simply put, the Fit is head and shoulders above most of its competition.Now, more than ever, the Honda Fit seems appropriate. It's one of the few efficient small cars without excuses, without compromises, and without apologies - it behaves like a real automobile, it's at least a little ent...
Wednesday, Sep 24
2009 Hyundai Sonata SE V6
It's been some time since I've been in a Sonata, and I was remarkably surprised by what I found when I sat behind the wheel of our test car. Somehow, in the past four or five years, Hyundai's bread-and-butter four-door has crept into normalcy. The Sonata is an attractive, thoroughly pleasant...
Tuesday, Aug 5
2009 Honda Pilot
Honda usually impresses me with its interiors, but this Honda Pilot test vehicle's cabin doesn't look or feel like a $30,000-plus SUV. All of the dashboard plastics are hard, and their shapes, grains, and colors don't look particularly well-thought-out. The clear gauges and center stac...
Thursday, Nov 29
2008 Volkswagen Tiguan
Twelve years after the Toyota RAV4 rolled onto our shores, VW is finally introducing a small, car-based SUV, the Tiguan. A lot is riding on its sculpted shoulders. The small-crossover segment is growing exponentially, and VW has to grab its share of that pie if it is ever to rival Honda and To...
Wednesday, Nov 21
2009 Honda FCX Clarity
This summer, Honda plans to start leasing its FCX Clarity hydrogen fuel-cell vehicle to a limited number of scrupulously vetted Southern Californians. The car embodies scads of leading-edge technology and countless billions in R&D yen. Yet the most striking aspect of the car is how...
Thursday, Nov 15
2009 Honda FCX Clarity
We say: Good on ya, Honda. Hydrogen may not be THE answer to the sustainable-energy-fuel-crisis issue, but it's definitely AN answer. And the FCX Clarity is the most normal-car-like FCX yet produced in the model's eight-year history. It remains to be seen as to what Honda's--or any other ca...
Wednesday, Oct 3
2008 Mini Cooper Clubman
Overall, the Clubman doesn't feel that different from a normal Mini. The extra length and wheelbase manifest themselves in slightly better high-speed stability, and ride comfort has been improved a bit over the standard car, but little else stands out. The rear seat is roomier but still s...
Tuesday, Sep 11
2007 Volkswagen Up! Concept
It's very likely that the Up! is our first glimpse of an actual future production Volkswagen; the question is whether it will come to the United States. Adrian Hallmark, head of VW of America, notes that he and his Stateside colleagues have expressed their interest in getting a version of t...
Wednesday, Apr 18
2006 Volkswagen Passat Four Seasons Review
For a very long time, the Passat sat on the sidelines of the American family-sedan playing field. It was seemingly content, in mid-1990s fourth-generation guise, to dangle its optional, gutsy VR6 engine in front of Volkswagen devotees and to snag a few four-cylinder buyers who got lost o...
