Month: April 2025

Cars are about to get a lot more expensive. Thankfully, affordable vehicles like this Kia K4 GT-Line Turbo still exist—and they’re still really good. With a sticker price of $31,465 fully loaded (for now), this Kia might soon be all the car you can afford. But it’s also quite possibly all the car you need. …

Perhaps for the first time in history, someone has accurately described a three-row crossover as being “Scandi flickable.” For those who don’t speak Rally English, the Scandinavian flick is an old rally technique where, to get a car sliding in a corner, you huck it in the opposite direction first, creating a pendulum effect. One…

Chinese manufacturer BYD is bringing its new premium brand, Denza, to Europe. The name for its first model, Z9 GT, is meant to summarize its positioning in the market: Z being the “highest” letter in the alphabet and 9, in Chinese numerology, being synonymous with prestige. The Denza Z9 GT is a large, sporty station wagon designed to demonstrate BYD’s…

Usually, rain on a track day is disappointing. At worst, you watch helplessly as the rain washes out all the sessions. Sheltering beneath a Skip Barber tent at Sonoma Raceway during a particularly aggressive downpour, I wondered whether this two-day event with BFGoodrich would, in fact, be a washout. Instead, it became the perfect opportunity…

There are two types of off-roading. The first is the kind marketers want you to think you’ll do; rock-crawling with recovery ropes, winches, and shovels. It’s done at dedicated off-roading parks by people who treat it as their main hobby. On a statistical level, though, it barely exists. The second type of off-roading involves taking…

Last year, Nissan sold 245,724 Rogue SUVs. That’s a lot. The Rogue finished ninth in total sales in the US and third in SUV sales behind the Toyota RAV4 and Honda CR-V. And there’s a reason Nissan sells so many Rogues: It’s a damn-good compact SUV. The Rogue gains minor technology updates for 2025, but…

Kumho is attempting to claw its way into the performance tire market with a new line of Ecsta rubber, launched late last year. The Ecsta Sport A/S, the Sport, and the Sport S make some big promises, with the brand telling media it outperforms big-name tires from tiremakers like Michelin, Bridgestone, and Pirelli, all while…

Ford is good at finding unclaimed ground in the truck market. The company introduced the modern luxury half-ton we all know today, essentially invented the super-truck with the F-150 Raptor, and reignited the mini-truck segment with the Maverick. For 2025, Ford is pressing that advantage with a new car-based street truck for the lowrider set….

This is one of those cars that feels like hitting a reset button. In a world where we vacillate between too much and not enough, the 2025 Audi S3 is neither. It’s one of the best answers to so many questions. And now, some notable tweaks below the surface—including an important piece of hardware from…

The Ram 1500 TRX died so the Ram 1500 RHO could live. Gone is the beloved supercharged 6.2-liter Hellcat V-8, and in its place is a new twin-turbocharged 3.0-liter Hurricane inline-six. But it’s not all bad news. Although many hardcore enthusiasts will immediately knock the RHO for its six-cylinder engine and unnecessary name change, in…