Sitting high in the 2019 Chevy Silverado Trail Boss, with driver’s-side window open, my “Merry Christmas” greeting goes out loud and heartfelt to all the readers. The Trail Boss, a four-wheel-drive crew cab, is a new offroad trim level for…
Team a turbocharged 4-cylinder engine with an 8-speed automatic transmission, boost the pair with an electric assist off-idle and the creation appears to be a winner for the redesigned 2018 Jeep Wrangler Unlimited Sahara 4X4. Piloting the new one on…
What better time in the driver’s seat of the 2019 Chevy Traverse than November 2018 while receiving the announcement that General Motors plans to close up to five assembly plants in North America and end production of three Chevrolet car…
(Forty years ago this month, in January 1979, I reviewed in The Denver Post the Fiat Strada, a new front-wheel-drive model from Italy. Following are excerpts:) Fiat’s hopes for a strong comeback against a sharp slide in U.S. sales ride…
Here, on the first day of September 2018, is my last mention of the dog days of August. In connection with my recent test drive of a 2018 Land Rover Discovery, a public relations firm for the British SUV builders…
Concluded recently was the smoothest, most advanced testing in years by me of a gas/electric hybrid automobile – the 2019 Lexus LC 500h Coupe. The sleek product is an excellent blend of appearance and performance. Lexus labels it a “world-class…
Sharp declines in sales of midsize cars, unprecedented in the U.S., marked the tally of light-vehicle sales for 2018. The long-popular Toyota Camry, though retaining its longtime lead in car sales, dipped by almost 44,000 units from a year earlier….
Driving a 2020 Mercedes-Benz prototype of the GLE450 4Matic SUV to snowy Avon on a December weekend was an early Christmas pleasure for Jan and me. The snow was light as we entered I-70’s Eisenhower Tunnel on the east on…
Oh, so refined, is the Honda Pilot, which has been refreshed for the 2019 model year. While others in the crowded SUV/crossover field continue to tweak offroad capabilities, get a charge through turbo power and borrow hybrid gas/electric technology from…
The beautifully styled 2019 Volvo V60 all-wheel-drive wagon, in its second-generation debut, showed up at my place with, of all things – plaid seats. Pay no attention to what they’re called, Blond City Weave Textile Upholstery; they’re interwoven gray and…
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