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It seems Lexus’s design department has grown a little bored with designing vehicles for Earth. The company recently released a series of design sketches for a distraction of sorts for its in-house artists: Lunar rovers and various spacecraft. And this isn’t the first time Toyota or one of its divisions has let their minds wander to the cosmos.

Now, Lexus designers didn’t just sit down one day, pass around some hallucinogenic drugs, and then pick up their pens. At least, they didn’t do so on their own. All of these spacy concepts were born from the Lunar Design Project, a collaboration between Lexus and Toyota’s European design studio intended to “imagine human life on the moon” and pose questions such as “How shall we live [on the moon]? What will it look like? What will we wear? What will we drive?”

So, yeah, none of these concept drawings will probably ever come to life—let alone [...]

Quick Stats: Ronde Barber, Analyst for Fox NFL, Super Bowl champion
Daily Driver: 2017 Ram 2500 (Ronde’s rating: 8 plus on a scale of 1 to 10)
Other cars: see below
Favorite road trip: Tampa to Pennsylvania
Car he learned to drive in: Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme
First car bought: 1997 Toyota 4Runner

Fox analyst and Super Bowl champion and defensive back Ronde Barber likes Corvettes so much, he doesn’t have just one. He has four, ranging from a 1966 to a 2014. Barber has a large enough garage to fit all his vehicles, which include a Mercedes-Benz Sprinter van and his daily driver, a 2017 Ram 2500.

“It’s a monster. It’s only an 8 because it sucks a lot of gas,” he says with a laugh when I asked him to rate his Ram pickup. “But it’s fun. Big. I’m above everybody. It carries everything that I need. I put golf clubs in the side [...]

The Jeep Wrangler is unmistakably cool, but is it safe in an accident? It does things no other SUV can do, but does that make a difference in whether or not it’s safe? We took a look at all the available safety information to give you an answer.

All new vehicles must comply with mountains of safety regulations before they can be put on sale, but that doesn’t mean all vehicles are equally safe. Different designs and different types of safety equipment make big differences. An all-new Wrangler was introduced in 2018 and featured massive improvements in safety, fuel efficiency, and technology, as compared to the old JK model—so massive that we named the JL-generation Wrangler our 2019 SUV of the Year. But even with the many improvements made to the JL, are Jeep Wranglers safe? While it may be the strongest, safest Wrangler ever, it still received mixed ratings. Its older-style chassis and short [...]

Getting useful technology in your SUV once required spending a lot of money because certain features were limited to the priciest models in an automaker’s lineup. With technology eventually trickling down to smaller SUVs and becoming an important selling point on all models regardless of size, it was only a matter of time until features like the surround view camera became available on affordable SUVs. Here are 12 SUVs with surround view cameras for under $40,000.

Currently one of the best-selling models in Volkswagen’s lineup, the Tiguan offers plenty of tech features, especially on the range-topping SEL Premium R-Line grade. That trim is the only way to get the SUV with a 360-degree camera, which should help ease maneuvering into tight spaces. Every other trim comes with a simpler rearview camera.

With [...]

The four-cylinder Macan might be Porsche’s entry-level SUV, but its price point puts it right at the heart of the sporty, four-cylinder premium compact SUV segment. That Porsche badge brings a lot with it: a reputation for engineering excellence and a prestige earned over decades of building one of the world’s most iconic sports cars. But does it bring enough to beat stylish and similarly priced rivals from Mercedes and Land Rover: the Mercedes-Benz GLC 300 4Matic Coupe and the Range Rover Evoque HSE R-Dynamic P300?

We’ve yet to get all three together, wheel to wheel on the test track, to find out for certain. But a quick look at the facts and the numbers gives us a pretty good idea of each vehicle’s relative strengths and weaknesses. Keep reading to find out how these three small luxury SUVs stack up.

In terms of size, the Macan sits between the slightly large [...]