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July 5, 2025

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Impressive excess: The 2020 Lexus LX 570 review

January 15, 2020 Jordan Golson

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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Corvette wins car of year award, Kia Telluride takes top SUV

January 14, 2020 Tom Krisher | The Associated Press

DETROIT — The new mid-engine Chevrolet Corvette won the North American Car of the Year award on Monday. The Kia Telluride took Sport Utility of the Year honors and the Jeep Gladiator won the Truck […]

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New cars for 2020

January 2, 2020 North State Journal Staff

RALEIGH — While 2019 saw the end of several small and midsized sedans, 2020’s lineup of new and redesigned vehicles is loaded with sport and power. In the all-new model category, Toyota, Volvo, Tesla and […]

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Adventure Refined: The 2019 Toyota RAV4 review

December 4, 2019 Jordan Golson

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

November 27, 2019 Jordan Golson

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

November 18, 2019 Jordan Golson

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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Living large while going green: The 2020 Volvo XC90 T8 review

October 30, 2019 Jordan Golson

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

October 23, 2019 Jordan Golson

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 […]

Business

Road rocket: The new 2020 Chevy Corvette Convertible

October 9, 2019 Jordan Golson

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

September 25, 2019 Jordan Golson

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 […]

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