2013 Subaru BRZ Tested,...

This is a story of unlikely scenarios. The first concerns the Subaru BRZ, a rear-wheel-drive sports car from the company famous for making all-wheel-drive station wagons pretending to be SUVs. It’s equally unlikely that this Japanese car finds itself on southern France’s Route...

2011 Mazda 2 Touring Lo...

Our diminutive long-term Mazda 2 , the least-powerful, least-expensive car in our fleet for quite some time, has completed its 40,000-mile stay. Few tears were choked back as, after 16 months in our care, it pulled away from our office for the last time. Sure, the minimalist Mazda was...

Video: DIY Transformer ...

This, everyone, is the Transformer Version 8. It’s the surprise-and-delight work of a Japanese genius whose place in the pantheon of great thinkers and inventors is now assured. It’s built using a common-as-muck remote controlled car and 22 electric motors, so that it...

2012 Toyota RAV4 EV Pho...

Toyota has revealed its second all-electric RAV4 SUV, and it is the result of a partnership between the Japanese automaker and Tesla Motors . The original electrified RAV4 was introduced in California in 1997 for fleets, and a small number eventually made their way to customers in 2003....

Toyota Dear Qin Sedan a...

Toyota’s new “global strategic” Dear Qin compact sedan and hatchback debuted this week at the Beijing auto show alongside the Chinese-market-only Yundong Shuangqing concept. (more…) See the rest here: Toyota Dear Qin Sedan and Hatchback: Don’t You Want Somebody to Love?...

Global car production t...

Filed under: Latest News A fire in a chemical factory in Germany has put car manufacturers on red alert – because the chemical it produces is critical to braking systems. The factory is owned by a company called Evonik and it manufactures an obscure chemical called CDT, which in...

2013 Acura ILX First Dr...

Battered Acura realizes that if it wants more up-and-comers to climb aboard, it needs to drop a longer ladder. And, possibly, design better-looking cars. Hence, the 2013 ILX, a Civic-based price leader built in Greensburg, Indiana, and hitting showrooms now, starting at about $27,500, or...

Honda Crosstour Concept...

Honda’s Crosstour has been a lightning rod for controversy since the first images of the crossover appeared on social networking sites back in September of 2009. Almost immediately, commenters began hurling insults towards the mid-size CUV, many disappointed that the (then called)...

2014 Acura RLX Concept ...

Who says Honda—and by extension its luxury arm, Acura—is off the pace technologically? A big pile of evidence, for starters, among it the late adoption of direct injection and six-speed automatics, as well as decade-old infotainment systems. Attempting to push that pile into the...

2013 Lexus ES350 / ES30...

Of all of Lexus’s products, the one we tend to hear least about is the ES sedan . The cautiously styled, luxuriously appointed, and pillowy sprung sedan quietly sells in huge quantities with us paying little mind. The 2013 ES has our attention, however; Lexus has given the car...