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DAIHATSU
Reader Review: 1988 Daihatsu Charade
(Everybody welcome Ryan, who has been #blessed enough to own one of the most recherche Japanese cars of the last thirty years! — JB) I’m not a monogamous guy, at least not when it comes to cars. Since my college years, I’ve consistently owned two vehicles at all...
Junkyard Find: 1990 Daihatsu Charade SX
The Daihatsu Charade was available in the United States for the 1988 through 1992 model years, then was forgotten more quickly than the speed at which Darmstadtium-267 decays. Still, among the Daewoo Nubiras and Kia Rondos and Sterling 827s and other forgotten...
Rare Rides: This 1990 Daihatsu Charade is the Essence of Car
I really enjoy encountering the cheap and cheerful compacts of the past. Their lack of technological complexity, superb integrity in exterior design, and complete absence of flim-flam is refreshing. Our Rare Ride today is such a compact, from a company many in North...
HONDA
Midsize Sedan Deathwatch #17: Trouble In October 2017, Unless Your Name’s Honda Accord
U.S. sales of midsize cars plunged 16 percent to fewer than 130,000 units in October 2017, the lowest-volume month for the midsize sedan category since the winter doldrums of January. For almost every player, from the forgotten Mazda 6 to the recently revamped Hyundai...
Ace of Base: 2018 Honda Ridgeline RT 2WD
Most readers are well aware of my infatuation with trucks. Blame my rural upbringing, or chalk it up to the innate Canadian friendliness of helping everyone move house, but a pickup truck will always reside in my driveway. The Honda Ridgeline, newly designed for the...
Rare Rides: A 1987 Sterling 825, the Luxury Legend From Merry England
Though we wrote about the Sterling brand in a previous QOTD post from earlier this year, we’ve never covered one as a Rare Ride. It’s not often one finds a Sterling for sale these days, as most examples fell into disrepair and disuse by the late 1990s. But BB...
HYUNDAI
Hyundai Lays Out Its Crossover Plan; Eight CUVs on the Way
After being caught off guard by the American public’s thirst for high-riding, commodious, all-weather vehicles, Hyundai’s planning to make up for lost time. As part of an effort we’ve known about for a year, Hyundai laid its “build more crossovers” strategy bare on...
2018 Hyundai Accent First Drive – Comfort Can Be Cheap
Selling a car in the subcompact/compact classes is an exercise in balance. For one thing, car buyers will no tolerate a penalty box, even at cheap price points (the Mitsubishi Mirage notwithstanding). There’s a baseline of expectations that’s higher than it once...
Genesis of a Dealer Dispute With Hyundai Motor America
You would think you’d be happy when a peer succeeds and goes on to greater things, but the reality is often a little grimier and less magnanimous. Genesis has been a sore subject around Hyundai Motor Company ever since the automaker spun it off into its own brand....
ISUZU
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Isuzu to GM: ‘It’s Been Grand, But I’m Dating Someone Else Now’ [UPDATE]
Update: Automotive News is reporting General Motors is now focusing “on the higher end of the market while the Japanese firm sticks to selling vehicles for everyday commercial purposes,” strongly hinting that GM is the one that broke off the collaboration....
Junkyard Find: 1996 Isuzu Oasis
One of the best things about haunting high-inventory-turnover self-service junkyards is finding really rare vehicles. Sometimes those ultra-rare machines are ancient European cars nobody remembers, sometimes they are commonplace cars with options nobody ordered, and...
Ready to Sail: Here’s Your Japanese Class of 1992 Eligible for Import
Since the 1980s, draconian federal importation laws have meant enthusiasts in the United States must wait a full 25 years before some of their favorite brand’s models are legal on these shores. And every year, groups of enthusiasts take to the internet to contemplate...
KIA
The Best-looking Car at the Frankfurt Motor Show Might Be Kia’s Concept Wagon
Kia Motors plans to reveal a sporty wagon concept at Germany’s International Motor Show in September. Calling the model an “extended hot hatch,” the automaker is following the popular trend of whetting the automotive press’ appetite with a shooting brake bodystyle...
Sorry, Stonic – Kia’s Got All the Small Vehicles It Needs In the U.S.
If you’re an aspiring B-segment crossover owner looking for Korean value and a fresh face, but aren’t exactly enamored with the 2018 Hyundai Kona‘s looks, you’re out of luck. For now, anyways. The Kia Stonic, revealed in Europe earlier this summer, is definitely not...
Ace of Base: 2018 Kia Soul Base
Korean automakers built their foundations on these shores by offering cars priced much more aggressively than established competition yet packed to the gunwales with features. Kia has come a long way since opening up shop with their first dealerships in – where else...
LAMBROGHINI
Supercars To Go, Third Place: Lamborghini Gallardo LP550-2 AP
The idea of a rear-wheel-drive Gallardo was so obvious that it’s a wonder it took six years for it to appear on the market as a limited edition and another year after that to join the standard lineup. Indeed, the 550-2 was popular from the moment it appeared in dealer...
Geneva 2015: Lamborghini Aventador SV Bows
Need a lighter, more powerful exotic bull? The Lamborghini Aventador SV, bowing at the 2015 Geneva Auto Show, just might be the answer. The Aventador SV is 110 lbs lighter than the standard Aventador, and is powered by a 6.5-liter V12 pushing 750 horsepower and 509...
2015 Lamborghini Huracán Track Test
A short time ago, I left you with my impressions of the Porsche 911 GT3. Even now, I am still in love with that car (Tiffany…call me). However, love is blind and everyone’s a critic. Just after the publication of that piece, I got a text from a buddy who published...
MAZDA
We Still Don’t Know When the Mazda CX-5 Diesel Will Arrive in America
The potential for success is limited, but Mazda nevertheless announced in Los Angeles in November 2016 that the revamped 2017 Mazda CX-5 would be available with a 2.2-liter diesel torque monster. Diesel? 2017? The Volkswagen diesel emissions scandal that broke in late...
Any Electric Mazda Will Actually Be a Toyota
Of all automakers, no company holds out hope for the gasoline engine’s longevity quite like Mazda. Not only does Mazda anticipate many decades of continued hydrocarbon-fueled driving, it’s also ensuring gas stays viable by inventing a new Skyactiv engine that...
Mazda CX-3 Wants to Save the Manuals, Too
Every Sunday or Monday, a very generous man appears in my driveway with a new car. The same man, in not as generous a fashion, also removes a car from my driveway. The most recent exchange involved the arrival of a fourth-generation 2018 Kia Rio and the departure of...
MITSUBISHI
Mitsubishi Turns to Sexier Dealerships to Squeeze More Sales from a Stagnant Market
Maybe it’s not the product, but the dealerships? It might not be the solution to all of the problems facing an increasingly less troubled Mitsubishi north of the border, but it can’t hurt. Under a new five-year plan, the automaker plans to revamp and modernize all of...
Ghosn Wants a Better Mitsubishi, Not a Merger With Nissan
Carlos Ghosn, the CEO for both Nissan and Mitsubishi Motors, says a full merger between the two automakers is out of the question. Instead, he wants Mitsubishi to get its act together and strengthen the greater alliance, which also includes Renault. Nissan purchased...
New Sedan and Pickup Possible as Mitsubishi Mulls U.S. Strategy
While nothing is set in stone just yet, Mitsubishi should have a blueprint for its U.S. product strategy as early as September. The automaker, recently enlivened by its entry into the Renault-Nissan Alliance, suddenly finds itself with new options on the table as it...
NISSAN
2018 Nissan Leaf SL First Drive – Powering Back From Obsolescence
The previous-generation all-electric Nissan Leaf (technically “LEAF,” but that acronym sends my MacBook Air into a snit befitting Peter Frampton), with toenail clippings for headlights and a face only a mother could slug, has historically done very well for itself,...
Topical: Nissan’s Okay With a Front-drive Crossover, but Toyota Has Regrets
This morning’s Question of the Day was all about all-wheel drive and which models could stand a dose of four-wheel traction. So far, no one’s talking about the Nissan Versa Note. Nissan, however, is more than happy to talk about the fact that its upcoming Kicks...
Crossing the Pond: Renault Executive to Head Nissan North America
Nissan Motor Company is moving senior vice president and chairman of Renault Eurasia, Denis Le Vot, westward to succeed Jose Munoz as president and chairman of Nissan North America. While Munoz will persist as the brand’s global chief performance officer, Le Vot...
SUZUKI
Review: 2012 Suzuki Jimny, Philippine Spec, Tested In The Philippines
The absolute nadir (Nader?) of Suzuki in America was when Consumer Reports announced to the world that OMG, tall and narrow off-roaders do roll over. The fallout of this scandal would taint the image of the Suzuki Samurai forever in the American market, and ensured...
2012 Paris Motor Show: Suzuki S-Cross Concept Embraces Crossover Trend And Ignores History (w/ video)
While not mentioned explicitly, this is Suzuki’s SX4 replacement – the Dodge Caliber S-Cross Concept – which is all but ready for dealer showrooms for 2013. Suzuki seems to be taking a page out of Chrysler’s handbook from the mid-2000s: throw out a relatively smart,...
Suzuki Death Watch 17: This Is The Suzuki That’ll Never Arrive In North America
It must be Suzuki Day. Fresh off pictures from our resident Chinese spy, Suzuki has released some pictures of the upcoming S-Cross C-segment all-wheel-driver. The S-Cross, first previewed in Paris last September, looks to feature some LED eyeliner and a new corporate...
TOYOTA
Determined to Look Cutting Edge, Toyota’s Bringing Its Best Tech to CES
Wanting to remind the world that it’s not as far behind in the race toward autonomy as some have claimed, the Toyota Research Institute intends to bring a Lexus LS 600hL equipped with its 3.0 autonomous research platform to CES next week. Toyota introduced the...
2017 Toyota 86 Review – Two Pedals on a Sports Car? Really?
The litmus test for defining a “proper� sports car has been a moving target ever since the first G.I. brought a rickety MG stateside, but the question has been argument fodder in bars and internet forums for nearly as long. Some argued that the radical 1962 MGB...
Joint Toyota-Mazda Assembly Plant Headed to Alabama: Report
It looks like Alabama has won out over North Carolina in the battle to secure a massive, $1.6 billion joint assembly plant. The factory, a partnership between Toyota and Mazda (which, as of last summer, Toyota owns a 5 percent stake in), is reportedly headed to...