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The Impreza Concept 5-Door is being unveiled at the Tokyo Motor Show. The 2016 Subaru WRX/STI is only available in a sedan body style. Will hatchback fans see another WRX/STI 5-Door?

2016 Acura MDX may in-fact be the safest premium SUV on the road today.

Historically, a manual transmission was the answer to maximizing horsepower and torque from a small engine. ‘Old School’ Honda Civic fans still want one.

Subaru is setting records with their entire lineup month after month except for the 2016 BRZ sports coupe. Where did they go wrong with BRZ?

As the EV reporter here, I find the recent scandal involving VW and its falsification of emission data somewhat ironic. This scandal is now likely to become a criminal investigation in the USA and claimed the VW CEOs job as reported today on Bloomberg or maybe not.

If you have HID Headlights on your Toyota Tacoma, should you also install a Light Bar? See what difference a light bar makes.

If you are wondering how this Toyota Tacoma is doing this, here is what we think.

The 2016 Cadillac ATS-V and Mercedes-AMG C63 have risen to challenge the BMW M3's role s the king of the sports sedan segment. This video review shows which of these cars wins.

The mature-adult's car in Honda’s lineup just took a turn towards a younger demographic, with an injection of edginess. This isn’t your grandmother’s Honda Accord.

Thursday marks the Grand Opening of Honda’s Silicon Valley Lab, tech-R&D center. Long a pioneer in passive and active safety development, Honda’s landed in the heart of automated, driver-less technology. What’s next?

With gasoline pump price crossing the $4 per gallon mark in southern California, is it just a matter of time before the U.S. is looking down the barrel of a $5 per gallon financial trashing? EV and FCEV manufacturers are counting on it.

Two weeks ago I had a chance to test drive the 2015 Toyota Highlander Limited PLT – V6 AWD model. With my family I drove it for a week, which also included a trip from Hickory, NC to Washington, DC. Being one of the safest cars in the world (according to IIHS), I can easily confirm that this is one of the best cars I have test driven in the past five years.

EV Batteries are bad for the environment aren't they? Think again. See how Nissan is reusing LEAF batteries.

How many of you grew up with a stick shift in your car? I know stick shifts and manual transmissions started fading way back when auto transmissions started taking over. Do you long for the day when you used to have the power to downshift when you wanted to slow down and upshift when you needed that next increase in speed?

Are there ways to avoid getting stuck while traveling away from home in your Nissan Leaf? With pre-planning routes, are refueling challenges eliminated or can they be reduced significantly? Have you ever needed to refuel and got to a location only to be disappointed because an EVSE (Electric Vehicle Supply Equipment) was already being used or had an ICE (internal combustion engine) car parked in that spot?

At this point, there have been many articles about self driving cars or autonomous cars. Elon Musk, GM and Google have all pointed to the future being filled with these types of cars. The promise is that safety will increase and tens of thousands of accidents will be eliminated.

Most people that look at the front of a Nissan LEAF are normally drawn to the headlights as they truly are unique. Did you know that Nissan engineers had to redesign LEAF's headlights because of mirror noise?

For some reason, Ford isn’t ahead in the Hybrid sales race. I wonder why. Has the automaker not marketed it correctly? Has it not put it out in front of its competitors?

In 2010 I was offered the chance to be a subject matter expert in a special program offered by Toyota to test and show their soon to be released 2012 Plug In Prius. One snowy day in January 2010, the car arrived for me. Me and my whole family where extremely excited to say the least. My wife and I and a couple of kids hoped in the back and we went off for a test drive. It didn’t have any EV charge as it had just arrived.

Is electric car range anxiety skewed one way or the other between men and women? Do women fear running out of range more so than men? While I’m sure there is a case for both sides on this, I think there is definitely a bias between the sexes.

For the Acura loyal, NSX represents more than the rolling sum of its glorious parts. It’s an automotive ideal that embodies ‘low key’ precision good looks, relative financial attainability and above all else, near intuitive driver-car inter-connectivity and Sci-Fi-like active safety features.

As reported in the Sunday Los Angeles Times: English Actor and car enthusiasts Idris Elba, broke Sir Malcolm Campbell’s U.K. “Flying Mile” speed record, running on the beaches of Pendine Sands, Wales. Now, for the rest of the story.

Kia Soul EV has the same price, better range and sells under a decimal point compared to Nissan LEAF.

Today Tesla Motors announced it's Quarter 1 earnings beating analyst expectations with lower-than-expected loss, but the loss is still $154 million. Tesla owners explain the reason of this loss in lay man's terms.

It’s those little things that you don’t see when viewing 2016 Honda HR-V that truly make Honda’s newest crossover an exciting automotive development.

Acura’s premium RLX Sports Hybrid sedan is scheduled for a U.S. market return in June 2015.
Will consumers pay upwards of $70,000 for Acura’s high-tech premium performance flagship?