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RAM TRX: 702 horsepower in a pickup truck
SAN DIEGO — The engine inside the RAM TRX pickup was something no one asked for. Half a decade ago, engineers inside Dodge’s SRT division — secretly! — took the brand’s excellent 6.4L V8 and […]
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2022 Jeep Grand Cherokee 4xe: 25 Miles of All-Electric Bliss
AUSTIN, Texas — I like electric cars, but I don’t think they’re suitable for everyone. Not yet. With a few exceptions, most of the country does not have the infrastructure to handle long road trips […]
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2023 Maserati Grecale: What does your car say about you?
MILAN — The car a person chooses, like their choice of dog, says an awful lot about them. I’ve made this assertion before about supercars, but it holds for basically every car purchase. What car […]
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2023 Nissan Z: The last letter in sports cars
SAN DIEGO — The manual transmission is on its way out. Over the past decade, as automatic transmissions have gained gears and ubiquity, the practical advantages of a manual have disappeared. They have worse fuel […]
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2022 Ford F-150 Lightning: So much more than a pickup truck
SAN ANTONIO — The Ford F-150 Lightning is the most important electric car ever made. It’s also the most important pickup truck ever made. A pickup truck is the ultimate “but I might” vehicle. But […]
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Toyota RAV4 Prime: Step-by-step into the electric future
SAN DIEGO — It seems like every carmaker is making a full-throated conversion to electric. New EVs are everywhere, and my inbox is filled with announcements of new battery factories and vehicle assembly facilities, and […]
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2022 Range Rover: The pinnacle of refinement and luxury
HEALDSBURG, Calif. — On the wonderful television show Ted Lasso, AFC Richmond owner Rebecca Welton is regularly chauffeured around in a Rolls-Royce Phantom. The cars of Ted Lasso, as with just about everything else on […]
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2022 Toyota bZ4X: A curious name for an interesting EV
ENCINITAS, Calif. — It seems common wisdom in the EV community that Toyota is somehow late to electric cars. Tesla, it’s correctly noted, has been beating the pants off everyone when it comes to electric […]
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2022 Chevrolet Silverado ZR2: A Choose-Your-Own-Adventure Offroader
PALM SPRINGS, Calif. — The American appetite for pickup trucks is insatiable. Millions are sold every year across various sizes and price points, but it always seems like there’s room for another new one. See […]
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Modest-income buyers being priced out of new-vehicle market
DETROIT — Two years after the pandemic tore through the economy, America’s auto market looks something like this: Prices are drastically up. Supply is drastically down. And gasoline costs drastically more. The result? A widening […]