There’s a lot of German in the Kia Stinger – the design, the dialed-in road manners, the feel of EVERYTHING – but there’s nothing German about the 2022 price: $50,495 to start, that for a four-door hatchback with high-end design cues, track-ready manners, standard all-wheel drive, a 368-horsepower direct-injection turbocharged V-6 and a slick eight-speed …
2021 Honda Accord Hybrid: good but not good enough
Honda has been dithering about with hybrids since at least the ugly ducking Insight – a two-door masterpiece of function over form – that went on sale in North America in 1999. That Insight’s fuel efficiency was brilliant (4.4 litres/100 km) but the car itself was a visual catastrophe, one further burdened by a cheap …
The luxuriously equipped little 2021 Nissan Versa — really!
We are now in an automotive world of high tech and high expectations (for comfort and convenience). The basic economy car, therefore, is dead. As Exhibit A, I offer the once-lowly Nissan Versa. At a starting price of $16,498, which translates to monthly payments of $231 when various fees are added, this small sedan is …
2021 Genesis GV80: stunning
You may not be surprised to read that worldwide obesity has tripled since 1975, according to the World Health Organization (WHO), and pandemic lockdowns have only made this problem worse. As the WHO delicately puts it, “The fundamental cause of obesity and overweight is an energy imbalance between calories consumed and calories expended.” How kind …
Ford Explorer Hybrid: five things you should know
I have five critically important things to tell you about Ford Motor’s Explorer Hybrid: First, all the launch woes of the then-all-new 2020 Explorer appear to have been rectified here in 2021. The many documented problems Ford endured with the arrival of a reinvented Explorer were so egregious, one of Ford’s most senior executives was …