After a decade pr so, Nissan reinvents the Frontier pickup with new styling, a better cabin and a long list of technological features The new design is aggressive, and harkens to Nissan’s past pickups New front/rear LED lighting is brilliant – visually and practically Towing capacity is excellent, though to get the most useful cargo …
The Remarkably Unremarkable Toyota Corolla Cross
My late father had quirky tastes in automobiles. His first car was a Morris Minor, which he bought in the early 1950s when he came ashore after more than a decade at sea as a young radio officer in the Merchant Navy. That little bundle of rattling nuts and bolts was ubiquitous in early-1950s Britain, …
2022 Mercedes-AMG GLB 35 4MATIC: Good, Bad, Ugly
The beginning of the end for automotive design arrived when mass-market buyers embraced boxy, tallish, crossover family wagons. Okay, okay, we still see the odd Aston Martin DBS Superleggera and Polestar 1. But only a handful of buyers can afford those two and, say, Porsche’s brilliant Taycan EV. In the sub-$100,000 world, the Mazda3 is …
Ford Maverick: Good Things Come to Those Who Wait
Yes, yes, Ford’s new Maverick pickup comes available as a hybrid. Fuel economy in the city is, well, not quite Toyota Prius-like, but at 5.9L/100 km, it’s still pretty amazing for a very useful truck. The price is okay, the hybrid starting at $27,750, though be prepared to wait if you order one – six …
C40 Recharge: An Early Take on Volvo’s Road to Electrification
Volvo Cars is in the still-early stages of a reinvention and a transformation. It still startles me to think of where Volvo wants to go. Because for decades, Volvo sold you on the idea of being cuddled and cocooned in a Swedish box on wheels. The state of the environment wasn’t on the radar. Today, …