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Steering with All Four Wheels—2014 Acura RLX
Photos courtesy of ©2013 Acura The all-new 2014 Acura RLX plants a flag at the top of Acura’s model lineup, but it does so with such little visual fanfare that many people will overlook this subtly...
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What’s in a name?—2014 Hyundai Santa Fe Sport
© 2013 Hyundai Motor America The Oxford Dictionaries online recently enshrined a social media catch phrase in its pages: FOMO, or “fear of missing out”—the worry “that an exciting or interesting event...
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An Athletic Take on Luxury—2014 Cadillac ATS
Photos courtesy of © Copyright General Motors If you were to ask an automotive engineer (or, say, a fervent reader of car magazines) to list the attributes of a really great sports sedan, you might get...
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Simple Pleasure—2014 BMW 320i
Photos courtesy of © 2013 BMW of North America, LLC In this age of apps and always-available electronics, of luxury defined by automation and computer controls, the 2014 BMW 320i stands out for the...
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Walter Mitty’s New Ride—2014 Mazda CX-5
In “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” (James Thurber’s 1939 original, not Ben Stiller’s recent big-screen re-imagination), Walter’s daydream has him commanding a hurtling eight-engined Navy hydroplane...
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Serene Until You Push It—2014 Lexus IS 350
Photos courtesy of ©Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A., Inc. Jekyll and Hyde type transformations are typically the stuff of horror stories. The quiet and good-natured character turns into a raging menace as...
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50 Miles Per Gallon—2014 Honda Accord Hybrid
Photos courtesy of ©2014 American Honda Motor Co., Inc. At the dawn of the hybrid age, achieving exceptional fuel economy demanded certain sacrifices such as the features of a modern car, the driving...
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Less is More—2014 Acura MDX
Photos courtesy of ©2014 Acura Among auto industry planners, three-row SUV’s are often considered minivan replacements. These are the vehicles that folks buy when they need lots of seats and,...
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Turbocharged for Summer Driving—2014 Volkswagen Beetle Convertible R-line
© 2014 Volkswagen of America, Inc. With the sun shining and the warmth of summer cascading over us for weeks on end, what better time to indulge in that great automotive decadence, the convertible? And...
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Elemental Performance—2014 Porsche Cayman S
Photos courtesy of © 2014 Porsche Cars North America, Inc. If you care more about your car’s shoulder room and trunk space than its steering response and traction, save yourself some time: The car you...
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Large and in Charge—2015 Infiniti QX80
Photos courtesy of © Copyright 2014 Infiniti By rights, big Sports utility vehicles should not be around anymore. They use up a lot of gas, they take up a lot of room, and they’re hard to park....
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Who Needs a Wagon?—2014 BMW 335I GT
It’s late afternoon and the temperature is falling. Heavy grey clouds threaten rain on the horizon. But four Girl Scouts and their gear have a date with a campsite 100 miles away on a long stretch on...
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An SUV Defines American Luxury—2015 Cadillac Escalade
Internationally renowned architect Shigeru Ban might have been talking about designing cars, not houses, when he said, “Power and money are invisible, so people hire architects to visualize their power...
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A Great Amalgamation—2015 Subaru XV Crosstrek Hybrid
Subaru and all-wheel-drive have always gone together like peanut butter and jelly. Back when pick-up trucks and large SUVs were essentially the only vehicles that transferred power from the wheels that...
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Small Engine, Big Power—2015 Volvo S60 T6
The 2015 Volvo S60 T6 Drive-E (yes, that’s the real name; no, there is no Pixar movie tie-in) looks deceptively like last year’s S60, which debuted the long-running model’s new design. But far from a...
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Ready and Willing—2015 Range Rover Sport Supercharged
The 2015 Range Rover Sport Supercharged is truly a riddle wrapped in a mystery. Like other high-performance Range Rovers, the Sport Supercharged performs like a sports sedan, snarling up to interstate...
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Right-Sizing the Sedan 2015—Acura TLX
With apologies to Goldilocks, Acura seems to have gotten it just right with the all-new 2015 TLX. In a rare move, the company chose to replace a bigger sedan (the venerable TL) and a smaller sedan...
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A New Name in Luxury—2015 Kia K900
If you’re currently driving a Lexus, Infiniti, or Acura, could a Kia be in your future? The company that has made its name, and more than doubled its sales, by building solid, stylish, and well-priced...
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Land Shark—2015 Infiniti QX70
Automakers know all about the concept of pareidolia —a fancy way of saying that we humans often see “faces” in inanimate design. And given that most cars have two headlights for eyes and a grille of...
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Well-Sized—2015 Mercedes GLA250
Mercedes broke new ground last year when it launched, with much Super Bowl ad fanfare, the CLA-Class sedan. A “real” Mercedes for less than $30,000, even if just by $100 or so, caused a lot of aspiring...
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