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Cadillac is putting the V in EV.

General Motors Co.'s luxury brand is rolling out the first performance V-Series model in its electric lineup with the midsize, 2026 Cadillac Lyriq-V. Like its gasoline predecessors, the CT5-V and CT4-V sedans and Escalade-V SUV, the Lyriq-V will bring higher horsepower and a higher sticker price to the Lyriq.

A...Read more

SAN ANTONIO, Texas — I’d like to start my review of the 2025 Volkswagen Taos subcompact SUV from the backseat.

It’s terrific. I can easily sit behind myself. I’m 6’5” and my knees don’t even touch the seatback in front of me. I can cross my legs, and my giraffe neck isn’t stuffed into the roof. In fact, I have plenty of headroom...Read more

It’s been a decade since the Nissan Murano was last redesigned, an eternity in the car business. As Nissan executives have been busy purging its top ranks of outside influence, be it foreign-born CEO Carlos Ghosn or overseas investors such as Renault, they have taken their eye off of what really matters: creating great vehicles.

Exhibit A: ...Read more

Remember when what was once commonly referred to as a standard -- that is, a manual -- transmission was ... commonly standard? And automatics were generally optional, with the exception of luxury-brand (and "loaded") vehicles?

Fast-forward to the present. It isn't easy to find a manual transmission as an option -- in anything. Even the...Read more

The Honda Prologue isn't really a Honda -- in that it's based on the Chevy Blazer EV -- but it is different in a couple of ways that may make it worth a look if you're wanting an electric vehicle sold by Honda.

What It Is

The Prologue is a midsize/two-row electric crossover based on the Chevy Blazer EV.

It differs from its ...Read more

It's not easy to pick a crossover from among all the other crossovers because so many of them are more or less the same.

One that's different in a big way is the Mazda CX-90 -- because it comes standard with an inline six-cylinder engine. This bucks two trends. The first is the one that's been trending toward the replacement of six-...Read more

You have probably heard that Dodge has stopped selling V8-powered Chargers and Challengers. And you may know that Ram 1500 trucks (and Jeeps) are no longer available with V8s either.

But there is one new Dodge vehicle still available with the V8s -- plural -- you can no longer get in other Dodge (or Jeep/Ram) vehicles.

It's the 2025 ...Read more

Here's an interesting fact: The biggest Buick you can buy today comes with the smallest, strongest engine Buick ever put in its biggest model.

That model being the 2025 Enclave, which is nearly as long an old Electra 225 from the '70s but isn't a sedan and does not come with a 455-cubic-inch (7.5-liter) V8.

What It Is

The Enclave is a full-...Read more

Nissan's Altima sedan has been around for more than 30 years. It will probably not be around after the end of the 2025 model year -- following its sibling, the Maxima, into oblivion.

There are many reasons why, the chief one being that sedans as a class have fallen out of favor -- in favor of crossovers that offer more interior space and ...Read more

"Sharing platforms" -- car industry jargon for making (and selling) two iterations of basically the same thing -- is generally considered an unflattering thing.

Or at least a duplicative thing.

Why sell basically the same thing twice?

Well, because sometimes it works. General Motors, for instance, sells the Chevy Tahoe and the GMC Yukon, and ...Read more

Can 3.0 liters -- and six cylinders -- take the place of 5.7 liters and eight cylinders? That's the question asked by the just-updated 2025 Ram 1500 pickup, which is no longer available with the 5.7-liter Hemi V8 -- but is available with a new twin-turbocharged in-line six in two different configurations.

What It Is

The Ram 1500 is a half-ton ...Read more

There's an old saying in engineering circles: If it ain't broke, don't fix it. That sums up the changes to the Subaru Forester for 2025. It has been updated. But it hasn't been fixed.

What It Is

The Forester is a compact crossover that differs from other small crossovers in its class in two meaningful ways. The first being it...Read more