At first glance the 2018 Volvo XC40, which arrives in the U.S. in May next year, bucks the conventional wisdom about how a modern Volvo should look. There’s no studied elegance to the exterior surfaces, no calming Swedish zen to the interior ambience. Instead, there’s a pugnacious swagger to the XC40 inside and out, with […]

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Because an M-car owner might do the same, we took our bone-stock M2 with 7,655 miles on the odometer to a track to see how well it would withstand hot lapping on a hot summer day in the California high desert. In the capable hands of our tame racing driver, Randy Pobst, we ran three […]

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SEOUL — The mission: Make a compact luxury sedan lighter, more agile, and feel more compact than the BMW 3 Series. For an automaker with limited experience in creating sporty vehicles and crafting luxury experiences, this is a tall order. But with its 2019 G70 sedan arriving in U.S. showrooms in early 2018, Hyundai’s Genesis […]

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Let’s manage expectations right up front for the rabid aficionados of vintage Volkswagen campers—this baby ain’t slated for production, and even if given the green light, it’d be a long shot to be exported to the States—even the state it’s named for. That’s because VW has yet to climb on the Transit/ProMaster/Sprinter bandwagon and homologate […]

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In a field of SUVs, the fifth-generation Land Rover Discovery can literally crawl up and over the hoods of the rest of the field. It might have abandoned the body-on-frame construction of its LR4 predecessor, but don’t for a minute underestimate the capability of its new aluminum unibody construction atop a steel frame. And the […]

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