2011 Toyota Sienna
It's interesting to note that while all-wheel-drive is spreading to virtually every type of car on the road, it's becoming a rarity among minivans. As of 2011, only the Toyota Sienna...
2011 Hyundai Equus
Hyundai is trying to pull a Lexus with its new Equus.
Back in 1989, Lexus kicked Mercedes and BMW in the nuts with the LS400 sedan. The LS was every bit...
2011 Mitsubishi Outlander Sport
Mitsubishi works in mysterious ways...
On the one hand, it builds one of the world's Top Five greatest Hell Rides - the turbocharged, all-wheel-drive EVO. Its tiny 2.0 liter engine produces...
2011 Lexus RX350
There's an old slam that says Japanese car companies are better at imitating than innovating.
Then how to explain the Lexus RX?
When this model first appeared way back in late 1998, it...
2011 Kia Sportage
Karma can be a mean bitch.
What the Japanese did to the Americans in the '70s and '80s - shivving them on price and snatching away their former customers - the Koreans...
2011 Mazda6
Size matters - to family car buyers.
So it's not surprising that the Mazda6 - which used to be slightly smaller - and sportier - than other cars in the mid-sized sedan...
2011 Kia Optima
Back in the '70s and '80s, car journalists got sore arms throwing rhetorical cabbages at American car companies over the practice known as "bad engineering" - reselling the same car...
2011 Mini Cooper Countryman
Everyone (well, almost everyone) likes the Mini Cooper - the reincarnated, updated version of the micro-car Brit car of the 1960s. The problem has been that not everyone can use the...
2011 Nissan Cube
The Joker's famous line, "why so serious?" could be directed at new cars - or a lot of them, anyhow. $200 a piece tires on 18, 19 and even 20 inch...
2011 Honda Odyssey
Minivans started out as inexpensive family trucksters. A 1984 Plymouth Voyager - the grand-daddy of them all - had a sticker price of about $8,200. Even adjusted for inflation, that's still...