2012 Fiat 500 AbarthWe can’t recall the last time we had this much fun with a press car. The 500 Abarth has 58 percent more power and 73 percent more torque than the 500 on which it’s based, but halfway through my evening with the Abarth, I was not thinking that the car was 58 [...]
Darn it if we aren’t always loath to turn in the keys to our utility vehicles, which only means that we’re part of the mouth-breathing masses of SUV-driving Americans clogging up the roadways despite the protestations of our sports-car-fueled souls. Excerpted from:Long-Term Wrap-Up: 2011 Jeep Grand Cherokee Limited 4×4
Driven: 2013 Chevrolet Malibu EcoCaught between the subjective and the objective. The outgoing Chevy Malibu — not quite gone, really, as 2012 models are still available — was one of Bob Lutz’s notable achievements at GM. It pulled Chevy’s midsize nameplate out of the rental-car ooze and became a handsome, competent, entry in the very [...]
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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 [...]
