A lot of America isn’t ready to make the move to a fully electric car. With fast charging networks in their infancy and many people driving farther than across town in middle America, a stopgap is needed on the road to electric cars. The 2021 Toyota RAV4 Prime plug-in hybrid …
Read More »2021 Kia K5, 2021 RAV4 Prime, and 2020 Chevy Corvette vie for the prize: What’s New @ The Car Connection
Kia K5: Best Car To Buy 2021 nominee Replacing the Kia Optima, the 2021 K5 mid-size sedan has extraordinary value, attractive styling, good driving feel, and is good enough to be a finalist for our Best Car To Buy 2021. 2021 Ford F-150 Hybrid gets 25 mpg, besting the Ram …
Read More »Toyota RAV4 Prime: Best Car To Buy 2021 nominee
Quicker, more powerful, more efficient, and more capable, the 2021 Toyota RAV4 Prime plug-in hybrid makes the compact crossover’s winning formula even better. The RAV4 offers what consumers want. It’s the bestselling non-truck in the U.S., and last year the Toyota RAV4 Hybrid and its 39 combined mpg shouldered past …
Read More »Prime Mover: Amazon is an Automotive Powerhouse
Illustration by Diego PatiñoCar and Driver From the November 2020 issue of Car and Driver. While everyone waited with bated breath for an Apple car, Amazon extended its reach into the automotive landscape far and wide. Building and selling new vehicles is big business, but it’s only the tippity top …
Read More »Check Out These Prime Day Deals on Some of Our Favorite Tool Brands
Prime Day is often associated with great deals on tech like a new flat screen, DSLR, or smartphone. But you can also find significant discounts on tools from respected companies—think DeWalt, Black & Decker, Craftsman, and Bosch. This year, prices range from 24 to 69 percent off, and on select …
Read More »Amazon Prime Day Deals for Your Car
Diego PatiñoCar and Driver Amazon’s annual Prime Day sale, usually held in spring or early summer, was delayed for 2020 and is taking place October 13–14. Nearly the entirety of Amazon’s vast inventory of products will see major discounts during the two-day sale. Automotive deals are plentiful, but not everything …
Read More »Incentives pulled prime customers back to new-car market in Q2
Prime and above customers fled the new-car market in recent years, finding quality and cost-effective alternatives on used-car lots. But aggressive incentive activity from automakers in the second quarter reversed that trend, credit bureau Experian said last week, allowing captive automakers to reclaim market share of its most desired consumer …
Read More »2020 Toyota Prius Prime tested, 2021 Nissan GT-R returns, ID.4 targets RAV4: What’s New @ The Car Connection
Review update: 2020 Toyota Prius Prime excels at efficiency, little else The 2020 Toyota Prius Prime plug-in hybrid continues to maximize fuel efficiency, but the Toyota RAV4 Prime and other plug-in crossover SUVs are more compelling. 2021 Kia Seltos crossover aces crash-test ratings, falls short of awards The 2021 Kia …
Read More »Review update: 2020 Toyota Prius Prime excels at efficiency, little else
The 2020 Toyota Prius Prime is a plug-in electric version of Toyota’s bestselling hybrid. It gets 25 miles of quiet electric range, and when that juice runs out it still gets 54 mpg, according to the EPA. The Prius Prime outdoes the Hyundai Ioniq plug-in to reign as fuel-efficiency champ. …
Read More »