The redesigned 2020 Toyota Highlander is better than its predecessor in almost every category: it’s roomier, comfier, quieter, smoother, more efficient, and more evolved. Evolution comes at a price, and of all the superlatives attached to the Highlander, “most expensive” might be the most noteworthy. Though the bestselling three-row crossover …
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Lexus’s mid-size luxury sedan, the GS, is ending production for the U.S. after the 2020 model year. It will say goodbye with a special-edition model called the GS Black Line. The GS has been around since the early 1990s and all four generations have been sold in the U.S. It …
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The Car Connection’s Greenest Cars of 2020 If you’re looking for today’s cars with the lightest environmental footprint you should be looking for charge ports, not fuel tanks. 2020 Honda Civic vs. 2020 Mazda 3: Compare Cars The Mazda 3 and Honda Civic stand above and beyond much of the …
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If you’re looking for today’s cars with the lightest environmental footprint you should be looking for charge ports, not fuel tanks. Why? The energy efficiency of electric motors is fundamentally better than that of gasoline engines; and if you consider how rapidly the U.S. electrical grid is greening due to …
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Verdict 6.9 / 10 The Hyundai Sonata has been sold in the United States since 1989, but it was anything but a hot commodity until 2011. Then, in those halcyon days, Hyundai rolled out the sixth-generation Sonata, the most attractive product the company had ever built, which single-handedly changed the …
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Hyundai will recall more than 11,000 2020 Sonata sedans and 2020 Nexo crossovers equipped with a remote parking system that may operate even if the vehicles are in a “fail-safe” mode that should disable the parking system, the automaker announced this month. In documents filed with federal safety regulators, Hyundai …
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The Car Connection’s Safest New Vehicles of 2020 The safest new vehicles of 2020 range from SUVs to sedans, from mainstream and luxury makes, but all of them get top marks in crash-testing and come with life-saving safety features. 2020 Hyundai Sonata recalled for faulty smart parking system The 2020 …
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Verdict 6.0 / 10 The 2020 Toyota Yaris Hatchback is part of a dying breed. It’s one of just a handful of five-door subcompact hatchbacks you can still buy new in the U.S., accompanying the Chevrolet Spark, Kia Rio, Mitsubishi Mirage, and soon-to-be-discontinued Honda Fit in the slow march toward …
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New cars are safer than ever before. Fatal crashes are fewer, while miles traveled on American roadways are higher than ever before. Most new cars are equipped with vital life-saving equipment such as automatic emergency braking, and many can be equipped with even more new tech that can prevent crashes …
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