SUV

The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety has bestowed a Top Safety Pick award onto the 2013 Acura RDX and the 2012 BMW 3 Series, respectively. Both the RDX and 3 Series earned a score of Good -- the highest rating available through the IIHS and its testing procedures -- in ...    Read more

In a page taken from Tony Stark's management handbook, Toyota president Akio Toyoda was candid when asked what vehicles he liked from the competition. Speaking to a group at his inauguration as Chairman of the Japan Automobile Manufacturers Association, the grandson of Toyota's founder Kiichiro Toyoda called out his favorite ...    Read more

Eeveryone hates getting traffic tickets. Not only does the citation lighten your wallet, in some states your driving record will take a hit, while other states increase the price of your auto insurance. Now, thanks to Insurance.com's new "Uh-Oh! Calculator," you can see just how much that citation ...    Read more

They don't make them like they used to, but mostly because they're going to stop making them: The Lexus HS 250 will soon be no more, and the Subaru Tribeca is on borrowed time. A Lexus spokesperson confirmed the fate of the HS 250 to Automotive.com, adding "Lexus continually monitors sales ...    Read more

Former Ford CEO Harold Arthur 'Red' Poling passed away last Saturday at his home in Pacific Grove, Calif. at the age of 86. Poling helped navigate the Blue Oval boys through some turbulent economic times back in the 1980's and can also be attributed with saving the automaker from the ...    Read more

Aston Martin has carved out its own niche in today's automotive market thanks to its flagship vehicle, the DBS. While everyone loves a good supercar, their low ground clearance means they're not always practical in markets with poor road conditions, like China, Russia, and India. That's why Aston Martin has ...    Read more

Friedrich Nietzsche, perhaps not the most cheery fellow to say this, once said, "In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play." It's only unfortunate that he lived in an age before the invention of LEGOs, dying a mere 49 years before the invention of those colorful ...    Read more

If you call a mom a soccer mom, she might turn into a hockey mom and go all Mama Grizzly on you. If you think she drives a minivan, well—you'd be wrong, and as a certain Alaskan politician might insinuate, you better watch out for the claws. Or something like ...    Read more

The Mercedes-Benz G-Class is a nearly three-ton full-size SUV, at home transporting soldiers to and from the battlefield, or well-heeled suburban power brokers. The 2013 Mercedes-Benz G-Class dropped at this year's New York Auto Show. Designed back in the Seventies, the G-Class has changed little, especially the exterior, though Mercedes ...    Read more

Both Ford and Ram have issued a recall on their trucks for separate problems; Ford for its backup lights, and Ram for a spare tire that's incorrectly labeled. Ford's recall covers 10,500 F-150s, Expedition and Navigator stablemates, and Mustangs, all 2011 to 2013 model years. In technical detail, the transmission range sensor ...    Read more

The year: 2008. The situation: $4 gasoline and impending global economic meltdown. The hardest-hit victims other than Bernie Madoff's clients: SUVs. Truck-based sport utility vehicles have been part of American lexicon since before World War II, before they were even called SUVs. They've held a position as a rugged carryall for ...    Read more

While many states have already outlawed texting, grooming, reading, and eating while driving, Rhode Island is taking distracted driving to a whole new level. Representative Peter Palumbo, a Democrat from Cranston, R.I., has presented a bill that would outlaw dogs from riding in the lap of the driver. If this ...    Read more

Not even a week ago, automakers from all over the globe agreed to a new standard for electric vehicle charging, called the Combined Charging System, or CCS. Ford, General Motors, Volkswagen, Audi, BMW, Daimler AG, and Porsche have been lobbying for the use of single-pug system (a.k.a. CCS) ...    Read more

We're not a huge fans of the Cadillac Escalade—it's luxurious sure, but it's also huge, cumbersome, and gaudy. The Escalade ESV is all of these things and then some, as it is essentially a stretched out version of the Escalade. But the folks at Becker have taken the Cadillac Escalade ...    Read more

The current Volvo XC90 premium SUV is in its tenth year. By modern automotive model cycle standards, that's about two generations—or 6-7 years—outdated. But with a new company direction revealed last winter and with the parent company acquisition a year prior to that, Volvo has seemingly placed great interest in ...    Read more

Land Rover's Halestone plant in the UK produced Land Rover LR2 number 300,000 this week, which is fairly shocking. Known as the Land Rover Freelander 2 on that side of the Atlantic, the car has been in production since 2006. While Land Rover has long been a respected off-road vehicle, ...    Read more

OK, hands up—those of you who thought that the Range Rover Evoque, the veritable Ferrari of the Land Rover lineup, just wasn't sporty enough. The rakish Evoque has a 240 horsepower, 2.0-liter four-cylinder that makes the luxury crossover plenty quick. It does 0-60 in around 7 seconds, which is pretty good ...    Read more

Oh hey, look, it's the new Porsche Cayenne GTS that was unveiled at the Beijing Auto Show, and wow, look at how green it is! We're not yet sure if it's an indication of how green with envy you'll be for the neighbor who picks one up, or if it's ...    Read more

Audi has been mentioning possible new Q crossovers and SUVs in the past several months to compete with rival German luxury automaker BMW, and the expanding market in general; now new details are emerging to give us a clearer picture as to what the Q future lineup could look like. ...    Read more

Last year might have been the toughest on record for Japan's three major automakers, Toyota, Nissan, and Honda. A strong yen partnered with the horrific natural disaster that struck Japan in March of 2011 crippled the three aforementioned automakers and all have only recently recovered. Honda was the last of ...    Read more

General Motors managed to sell more vehicles than any other automaker on planet earth in 2011 and now its CEO, Dan Akerson, is getting paid. Sort of. Last year marked Akerson's first full year at the helm of GM, and now he gets to cash in on a $7.7 million ...    Read more

There was once a time, future archaeologists will point to, sometime in the 1990s, Anno Domini, when impressionable humans were enamored with the idea of riding higher than everyone else. Skyward, onward their chariots rose, soaring to the heavens and taller than everyone else's. They carried the names of adventure, exploration, ...    Read more

In a match made more in heaven than Crockett and Tubbs, Russian purveyor of insanely customized luxury Dartz is providing Sacha Baron Cohen's new movie The Dictator with a few examples of its biggest SUV, the Prombron, which aspires to be the Simpsons Canyonero. Yes, you, Mister Small Ruler ...    Read more

Thanks to a study by Bridgestone Americas, we have evidence to back up what everyone already knows; teens are distracted even while driving. The study surveyed 2,000 drivers ranging in age from 15 to 21 years old and the results should surprise no one. Out of the 2,000 drivers polled, one-third ...    Read more

At the request of the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers, the United States government has decided to extend the comment period on distracted driving regulations that would affect what technology makes it into new vehicles. The deadline was originally set to expire today, but thanks to the extension automakers have until ...    Read more