“What car should I buy?” It’s a question consumers ask themselves every day, but what would online editor Kelly Pleskot drive? Keep reading for the answer, and see other editors’ picks here.
The Volkswagen Golf isn’t on most people’s radar when shopping for a small car. When it won our 2015 Car of the Year award, I remember getting some puzzled looks. “Does anyone actually buy this car?” people would ask me about the seemingly obscure choice. It remains a small player in the compact segment, with 42,271 Golf family vehicles sold in the U.S. last year, including just 6,642 copies of the standard Golf hatch. But it’s a true hidden gem, and it’s the car I would pick if I were in the market.
The current-generation Golf is remarkably competent given its age, even my favorite version, the standard hatch. After five years on the market, it still holds its own with other compacts [...]
Chevrolet has announced pricing for the 2020 Silverado HD, and despite offering greater capability and technology than the model it replaces, the heavy-duty pickup comes at a lower starting price.
Before we get into the numbers, let’s have a quick overview of the Silverado HD range. The heavy-duty truck is offered in strong 2500 or stronger 3500 guise, the latter of which is available as a dually. Trims, from entry-level to high-end, are Work Truck, Custom (exclusive to 2500), LT, LTZ, and High Country. All come standard with a 6.6-liter gasoline V-8 that makes 401 hp and 464 lb-ft backed by a six-speed transmission, but any can be had with a 6.6-liter turbodiesel V-8 producing 445 hp and a mighty 910 lb-ft of twist through a 10-speed transmission.
Now, about money: The 2020 Silverado HD 2500 will start at $35,695, $300 less than the previous equivalent model. That’s for the entry-level Work Truck trim in [...]
In today’s SUV-saturated market, cars—that is, sedans, hatchbacks, and coupes—are increasingly rare. Even so, that doesn’t stop MotorTrend from driving and testing every one we can get the key to. With collective decades of experience in evaluating cars, we’ve formed opinions around the standouts we’d buy with our own money.
We already named the SUVs we’d buy, selecting favorites for practicality, luxury, or adventure-readiness. Now that it’s time to choose cars, our picks range from frugal to fun.
Curious? Revisit this page as we continue to add more editors’ opinions to answer the question, “What Car should I buy?”
- Honda Accord Hybrid HERE – Zach Gale
- Kia Stinger HERE – Alex Leanse
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None of it was planned. But somehow, on a Tuesday in late April on the big track at Willow Springs International Raceway, we found ourselves in possession of five vehicles capable of breaking three different lap records.
The Lamborghini Aventador SVJ would Challenge the Porsche GT2 RS for the overall production car lap record; both the Lambo Urus and Porsche Cayenne Turbo could vie for the BMW X6 M’s SUV lap record; and the Alfa Romeo Giulia Quadrifoglio and Jaguar Project 8 each could grab the sedan record from the Cadillac CTS-V. Our resident pro racer, Randy “Father Lap Time” Pobst, was there. It all just sort of fell in our lap.
For months and months I’d been begging/bugging Lamborghini to let our test team have a crack at both the Urus and Aventador SVJ. I’d driven both, but with the exception of Scott Evans and a trip to Iceland with an Urus, no one [...]
Sterrato. It’s one of those wonderful, not quite translatable Italian words. Similar to countach, a Piedmontese expression that’s a cross between “holy cow” and something a bit bluer. Sterrato, then, in the broadest sense, means dirt road. But sterrato is more like an unplowed field. It’s untamed, unconquered. In English we might say the back 40. As you might know, Sant’Agata Bolognese, the rural town where Lamborghini’s HQ sits, is farm country. Ferruccio Lamborghini made his first fortune building tractors. Most of the roads around Sant’Agata are sterratos. What this has to do with a 630-horsepower Mars attack rover, I will leave up to you, dear reader. If nothing else, it’s a fun word to say. Sterrato.
As has now become something of a tradition, Lamborghini’s head of engineering, Maurizio Reggiani, flew yours truly and just three other journalists to southern Italy for less than 48 hours to sample his team’s latest prototype. The first [...]
