What is the Best Car To Buy 2025? We’ve narrowed down to our five finalists for this year, and will announce the winner early next year. We also eliminated another 18 new and redesigned cars for a variety of reasons, ranging from being too expensive to not evolving their respective segment enough. The reason for our annual award … Read more
Looking for a cheap car that doesn’t feel cheap yet has a cheaper cost of ownership than any other cheap car? The cheapest cheap car is a hybrid, and it should be no surprise it’s a Toyota. With a Toyota Corolla Hybrid and its 50 mpg combined, the EPA estimates that you can save $3,250 … Read more
Hyundai Kona vs. Tucson: On paper the matchup seems unusual, since both vehicles come from the same South Korean automaker. But with lots of standard equipment, a great warranty, and fuel-efficient and high-performance editions, it’s easy to see the attraction to both the Tucson and the Kona. While the smaller 2025 Hyundai Kona has a … Read more
Both the 2025 Cadillac Escalade and the 2025 Lincoln Navigator have a long history of satisfying luxury-SUV drivers. The Navigator emerged in 1998; the Escalade, the next model year. Since then, both full-size sport-utility vehicles have evolved from their truck-based roots to become legitimate players in the luxury world, catering to livery services and celebs … Read more
The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety wrapped up its safety awards for 2024, adding 19 more new vehicles to its list of Top Safety Pick+ and Top Safety Picks, the IIHS announced Tuesday. This year, 48 new, redesigned, or refreshed vehicles earned the Top Safety Pick+ designation, considered the industry’s toughest and most coveted safety … Read more
The 2025 Chevy Equinox and 2025 GMC Terrain emerge from the GM family of crossover SUVs as siblings assembled in the same plant, sharing similar powertrains, and with much of the same tech backgrounds. The nature vs. nurture debate showcases their different personalities. It’s more than just how GM dresses them over their identical bodies. But which one … Read more
The Jeep Wrangler is the automotive icon that helped America through World War II and spawned the off-road-oriented SUV. Several pickup truck variants have been introduced in the jeep’s 80-plus years of service, with the latest being the Jeep Gladiator midsize pickup. Like the Wrangler, the Gladiator is an off-roader. Introduced as a 2019 model, the … Read more
The Santa Fe gains hybrid power and vastly improved fuel economy It’s a real rival for vehicles like the Toyota Highlander Hybrid and Kia Carnival Hybrid… …neither of which have its assertive, Land Rover-ish style Each year at The Car Connection, we drive more than a hundred new vehicles and decide which ones set new … Read more
First gigs for pimple-pitted teens are usually those with comically low stakes and a weed-dealing manager. Stocking shelves, pretending to babysit, and washing cars are all on the agenda. Not for me. At the age of 16, license all shiny and demerit-free, I was hired as a general worker by my town’s Parks Department, a … Read more
The Honda Accord and I have a bit of a history. At the tender age of 15, the very first car I ever drove was my father’s washing machine-white 1992 DX. I remember that day vividly. It was only a handful of cautiously slow laps around an underground parking garage—but over the following several months … Read more