Tests and Features

Dodge's old Caliber was a surprising automobile... surprising insofar that such a large company, with countless checks and balances, would ever see fit to release such a product onto the market. Stuffed with acres of some of the worst plastics created since 1983, powered by an anaemic engine and CVT …

I love a lot of cars. I’m a bit of a philanderer that way. When it comes to my personal tastes, they’re only restricted by a vehicle’s ability to meaningfully fulfill its purpose. If a fun car does a good job of being a fun car, well, I’ll probably love …

There is but one single thing that separates successful brands from unsuccessful brands in the automotive industry: a purpose. When you examine brands at their best and at their worst, you see them at the height of their purpose, and dwindling into the purposeless existence that precedes bankruptcy, respectively. Consider, …

As a military vehicle, the Jeep is and has always been for men. When it first came out in the 1940s, this 4x4 gave new meaning to the word rudimentary... Unspeakably weak in accelerations but able to get itself out of the worst jams, the Jeep (the origin of this …

Chrysler has been lying low for the past year, trying to make it through the financial crisis, and despite being scooped up by the Italian company Fiat. And yet, even with all the turbulence, Chrysler managed to market quite a number of vehicles.But in terms of new products, there hasn’t …

The Jeep Grand Cherokee arrived on the market in 1993, and since then it has built an enviable reputation as a tireless adventurer and champion of comfort. At that time, and it wasn’t very long ago, it was also known for its mechanical breakdowns and chronic gas guzzling... The Jeep …

Okay, so the Patriot may not be as refined as the Honda CR-V, or as powerful as the Volkswagen Tiguan, and it doesn’t even come close to having the interior roominess of the Toyota Rav4. But with a base price that is more than $10,000 less than that of these …

The world is conspiring against the fast cars. In a tragically ironic twist of fate, the fastest and most capable cars the world has ever known have been birthed into a world filled with exorbitant fuel prices and enough anti-speeding legislation to make OJ Simpson’s defense team spin. So, while …