2016 Lexus RX: more cuts and lines than a chef in Hell’s Kitchen

Lexus, desperate to be seen as the embodiment of edgy sophistication, expects to jolt the marketplace with its reinvented RX – both gasoline and hybrid versions. For your illumination, we bring you the story of Toyota Motor CEO Akio Toyoda, a man mission-ized to shake up stodgy ol’ Toyota and its long-underperforming Lexus luxury brand. …

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2016 Mercedes-Benz GLE Coupe: function follows form and it will give you a headache

If you’re willing to spend $116,500-plus, then you can put yourself into a vanity ride masquerading as a functioning SUV (sport-utility vehicle), one Mercedes-Benz calls a coupe – except this coupe is monstrous, has four doors and a heavy rear hatch. Hard to believe, I know. And you’ll be positively gob-smacked by the painful effort …

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Porsche Boxster Spyder marks end of an era

Porsche’s engineers refer to it – the 2016 Boxster Spyder — as a “pure sports car,” one that accurately defines the heart and soul of Porsche today. The first part, absolutely. The other half, the “heart and soul” bit? We’ll get to that later. First, let’s dwell on the sports car piece. From the pavement …

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Battle of the Ford SUVs — Edge versus Explorer

Ford Motor offers two utility vehicles of about the same size, priced in about the same range, offering similar power choices, delivering fuel economy in the same ballpark and selling in nearly equal numbers to Canadians. Moreover, the Ford Edge and Explorer come with the same basic 907 kg tow rating and score identically for …

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Buffed-up Tacoma does full-size pickup duties

Let’s dispense with a fiction about the 2016 Toyota Tacoma pickup: this is not a compact or even midsize rig. By historical standards, the Tacoma is a full-size pickup in every way. That is, the latest updated version of the Tacoma has essentially the same towing capacity as a 10-year-old Ford F-150. The Toyota and …

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