Driven: 2012 Buick Regal GS AutomaticFeels like a first time. The Gran Sport name has had plenty of peaks and valleys since it first appeared on a Buick back in the mid Sixties. The most recent offerings were nothing special, and the moniker was retired for a while. Now, the slimmed-down General Motors has fewer [...]
2012 Volkswagen Passat TDI – Beauty Beneath the SkinWe start to look beneath the Passat’s plain wrapper. Although its mainstream mission and conservative exterior styling have led some staff members to believe the 2012 Volkswagen Passat TDI is bland, so far, everyone who’s driven the car during its first month in our Four Seasons test [...]
First Drive: Mazda MX-5 Super20Call it the Miata RSR. Sane little Mazda has quietly been producing one of the best sports cars of all time — the Miata — for more than two decades. Other than one bone-headed move to rename it (when some nitwit marketing exec decided to kill “Miata” in favor of “MX-5″) [...]
2012 Land Rover Range Rover Evoque – The HoneymoonersThe early praise has been particularly effusive. It’s not unusual for a Four Seasons vehicle to enjoy something of a honeymoon — a blissful period before the daily grind exposes its every last design flaw. That said, the early praise for the Land Rover Range Rover Evoque [...]
2012 Subaru Impreza 2.0i Sport LimitedSubaru aimed to change perceptions of the Impreza this time around. It used to be the case that if a customer walked into a Subaru dealership hoping for an Outback or a Forester, but the customer’s finances didn’t quite stretch to allow the purchase of one of those perennially popular [...]
