SAN DIEGO — I love the Mercedes-Benz S-Class. For decades, the S has been the industry leader in technology, luxury, comfort, sophistication, and just about every category you can imagine. It’s enormous, powerful, and makes […]
SAN DIEGO — I’m a car journalist which means, by industry practice, I love wagons. They’re practical, with ample cargo space like a crossover, but they still provide a sporty and excellent driving experience like […]
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — In the same way a dog does, the car you drive says a lot about you. If you roll up to the school drop-off line in a Mercedes-Benz G Wagon, you want […]
WINDHAM, N.Y. — The Rivian R1T electric pickup truck was a revolution when I drove it last year. Even aside from the electric powertrain (which gave it a 0-60 mph time of just 3 seconds thanks to […]
SAN DIEGO — There are some cars that outdo the competition. With dozens of car brands and dozens upon dozens of different vehicles available from those brands, competition in the automotive space has never been […]
SAN DIEGO — Pickup trucks have been popular in the US for decades, but for many years they were primarily work vehicles. They were tough and rugged and built to haul. When my grandfather bought […]
“Dead by Dawn,” by Paul Doiron (Minotaur) As Mike Bowditch leaves a cluster of mobile homes known as “Pill Hill” and steers down a twisting mountain road in the dark, he is driving straight into […]
The time-traveling “The Tomorrow War,” set largely in an alien apocalypse future, is a kind of throwback. Summer sci-fi spectacles like this — a sprawling, slightly sloppy, sometimes serious, often knowingly ridiculous extravaganza — aren’t […]
LOS ANGELES — There has, thus far, been a pleasing interchangeability to the titles in the banging, clattering action oeuvre cultivated by Liam Neeson and Spanish genre maestro Jaume Collet-Serra. “Unknown,” “Non-Stop” and “Run All […]
LOS ANGELES — As if the original “Kingsman” weren’t cartoony enough, with its blade-legged Asian assassin and gratuitous exploding-heads finale, the sequel has gone and pushed the franchise’s cheeky brand of absurdity even further. The […]
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