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Flagship SUV: 2021 GMC Yukon
VAIL, Colorado — The new 2021 GMC Yukon — the brand’s flagship full-size, three-row SUV — is coming soon to a Whole Foods parking lot near you. Introduced in a snow-covered field, perfectly timed to […]
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Impressive excess: The 2020 Lexus LX 570 review
BOSTON — There’s a lot of talk about inequality in America: the haves and the have-nots; millionaires and billionaires; CEOs and trust fund kids; the one-percent of the one-percent. But Americans are an aspirational group […]
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Adventure Refined: The 2019 Toyota RAV4 review
BOSTON — I stood there for a minute looking at the 2019 Toyota RAV4 that had just been dropped in my driveway. Toyota says the compact crossover’s redesign for this year was meant to evoke […]
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Hold my phone: The 2019 Lexus NX review
BOSTON — We’re nearing the end of 2019 and thus everyone has a smartphone. It’s a given. We use them for everything: buying stuff, making plans, taking pictures, playing games, listening to music, getting directions, […]
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Sporty luxury: The 2020 Mazda CX-5 review
BOSTON — These days, just about every carmaker sells a whole range of crossovers. There’s a simple explanation for it of course: people buy them by the truckload. But strip the badging off and line […]
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GOLSON: An ode to the greatest race in the world
AUSTIN — Formula One is the best motorsport in the world. It has the best drivers, the most advanced technology, and the rock stars behind-the-scenes who make it all happen: the engineers. (Really.) As a […]
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Living large while going green: The 2020 Volvo XC90 T8 review
BOSTON — I’ll just come out and say it up front: I really like the Volvo XC90. I’ve written about a lot of Volvos, and liked all of them (and not just because Volvo’s current […]
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Whoa, that mileage! The 2019 Lexus ES 300h review
BOSTON — Thanks to technology (and government regulations), cars are more fuel efficient than ever. The 2020 Chevy Silverado diesel — a full-size truck — manages an astonishing 33 mpg on the highway. The venerable […]
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Road rocket: The new 2020 Chevy Corvette Convertible
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — In the shadow of historic hardware with names like Saturn, Gemini, and Mercury, another famous name from the 1950’s appeared here in the Rocket Garden at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor […]
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Volvo XC60 Polestar Engineered: Gold, green and go
BANFF, Alberta, Canada — I’ve had an affinity for Volvo wagons ever since I was a toddler. In the mid-80’s, my father had a gold one (the 245 Turbo) and I grew up listening to […]