Posts Tagged ‘AWD’
Photo & Review by Stu Wright Kia Motors, based in South Korea, is the country’s second largest auto manufacturer, trailing only Hyundai, its one-third owner. As recently as 1986, Kia only produced 26 automobiles, but the total was 1.6 million last year. The two combined companies have exploded on the scene to become the world’s fourth [...]
Tags: AWD, car, Detroit Auto Show, door, driver, game, gas, GM, guidance, Hankook Optimo, Kia Motors, Kia Sportage, model, parking, road, Signal Red, South Korea, SX, TT, USB
Photo & Review by Stu Wright Volvo builds the XC60 in Ghent, Belgium, and the car has been the company’s best seller since its introduction in 2008. It is a compact crossover SUV that was unveiled at the 2007 North American International Auto Show in Detroit. I tested one this past week both in Denver and [...]
Tags: ABBA, AWD, car, climate, Denver, Front Range, Greeley, highway, IKEA, Mamma Mia, North, North American, parking, problem, roof, side, Super Trouper, SUV, USB, week
Photo & Review by Stu Wright Lexus, the luxury line of Toyota automobiles, made headlines this past week with the announcement that the company would begin producing some of itsr product in the United States. A plant in Georgetown, Kentucky was selected for the production of the ES line of sedans, and the start date was announced as [...]
Tags: Akio Toyoda, AWD, body, car, company, ES, highway, Kentucky, Lexus Enform, line, Mark Levinson, rate, roof, RX, second, Several Lexus, Standard Lexus, SUV, Toyota Motor Company, week
Photo and Review by Stu Wright Years ago I owned a 1995 Cadillac (leased, actually) and always admired the six ducks in the logo on the hood and trunk. I have found through research that those birds were merlettes, present on the family crest of Antoine Laumet de La Mothe, sieur de Cadillac, the founder [...]
Tags: Antoine Laumet, ATS, AWD, car, carbon, control, door, gas, Henry Leland, highway, La Mothe, model, Performance Collection, road, sound, speed, tradition, week, Wheels, year
Photo and Review by Stu Wright Horace and John Dodge started building auto parts in 1900 (for Ford and Oldsmobile), and fifteen years later went into full-fledged auto production. Dodge Brothers Corporation came to that decision when brother John became, in his own words, “tired of being carried around in Henry Ford’s vest pocket”. Dodge [...]
Tags: AWD, brother, car, control, cross, Denver, Dodge Durango, driver, guidance, Henry Ford, John, mph, path, second, show, speed, system, time, transfer, week
Photos & Review by Stu Wright Lexus has been in a position to offer the most popular luxury SUV since its introduction in 1998. My latest test car was the RX450h hybrid model available since 2009. It came in Stargazer Black metallic paint and featured saddle tan leather seating for five. This was a loaded RX, [...]
Tags: AWD, car, control, driver, Dunlop P235, Grand Trek Touring, LCD, LED, Mark Levinson, model, movement, parking, road, RX, side, sound, Stargazer Black, SUV, system, vehicle
Photos and Review by Stu Wright It may not be a good characterization of the Cadillac ATS test car’s color, but the paint on it was extremely white, and attractive. It was a Diamond Tricoat (a three-layer painting process) upgraded color that added $995 to the Cadillac’s window sticker. The song, “A Whiter Shade of [...]
Tags: ATS, August, AWD, car, control, Diamond Tricoat, end, Guy Stevens, highway, Keith Reid, LED, Michelin Primacy, note, Performance Collection, process, Procol Harum, Procol Harums, road, someone, speed
Photos & Review by Stu Wright 1st The first impression of this car was good. Front visibility! Nimble and quick, I had to check the specs to see it had no turbo. Black everywhere, but that’s OK; it looks pretty. The leather front buckets are supportive, and in the back there appears to be [...]
Tags: AWD, car, control, day, driver, EPA, Friday, highway, Kersey, lot, Mazda Adaptive Bi Xenon, morning, night, OK, parking, Pirate Radio, roof, SUV, system, Toyo P225
Photos & Review by Stu Wright Lexus, the luxury division of Toyota, has been producing the GS series of sedans since 1993. The new 2013 model that I drove this last week represented the manufacturer’s fourth generation offering, and it came in Riviera Red Metallic with black leather seating. The GS Lexus sedan is a [...]
Tags: Adaptive Variable Suspension, AWD, car, Denver, driver, Dynamic Rear Steering, EPA, foot, GS, highway, model, mph, park, Red, Riviera Red, Ruth, speed, Sport Plus, USB, week
Photos and Review by Stu Wright The GMC Yukon XL is a version of the General Motors (GMC/Chevy) Suburban that has been around since 1935. In fact, several manufacturers offered a “suburban” for years, but GM landed an exclusive trademark on the name in 1988. For the 2007 model year, GMC rolled out the latest, [...]
Tags: Association, AWD, Bose Centerpoint, Chevy Suburban, Club, control, Denver, Denver Press Club, driver, Driver Shift Control, General Motors, GM, GMC, lot, model, parking, speed, Summit White, vehicle, Vortec V8
by Stu Wright This past week I was presented a new Chevy Equinox crossover to test. It was painted Tungsten metallic (dark bronze) with a light titanium and black leather interior. The combination resulted in a lot of compliments during the week, although personally I’m a fan of red, white or black vehicles. Chevrolet was [...]
Tags: AWD, car, Chevy Equinox, control, driver, General Motors, GMC, highway, LFX, LTZ, model, OK, Ruth, second, speed, system, USB, vehicle, week, XM
Photo and Review by Stu Wright This white little Swedish number was waiting for Ruth and me at DIA upon our return from Chicago last week. In Latin, the word Volvo means “I roll”, so we rolled up to Greeley, and I was forced to familiarize myself with the controls in the dark (late arrival). [...]
Tags: AWD, car, City Safety, climate, DIA, driver, highway, list, lot, parking, program, roof, someone, speed, Sweden, system, USB, Volvo S60, week, word
Photos and Review by Stu Wright This past week in Illinois I was presented an Infiniti FX35 to drive around the state. Ruth and I picked it up at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport and set sail to the Northwest towards Rockford. Our ultimate destination was Galena, Illinois, an old lead mining town that is [...]
Tags: AWD, car, Civil War, FX, Illinois, Limited Edition, model, parking, Phoenix, rest, road, roof, Ruth, speed, state, top, town, USB, vehicle, week
Photos & Review by Stu Wright The word “juke” has multiple meanings, but in sports parlance, to juke is to feign or fake out, as, for instance, a running back might do. I suppose that is what Nissan had in mind when naming the mini-crossover that they introduced in 2010. I had one last week [...]
Tags: American, AWD, car, control, door, driver, Goodyear Eagle, highway, Integrated Control, Japan, month, night, North, North American, rally, RSA, side, SV, system, week
Photos and Review by Stu Wright Subaru automobiles have been produced by the Japanese firm, Fuji Heavy Industries, and since 1968 they have been exported to America. The man responsible for bringing Subaru to our shores was Malcolm Bricklin, a fact that I have mentioned in earlier Subaru reviews. Bricklin’s later brainchild, a car named [...]
Tags: AWD, car, CVT, Fuji Heavy Industries, GPS, Heavy, highway, Ice Silver, lot, Malcolm Bricklin, New Hampshire, Premium Impreza, rate, Subaru Impreza, Subaru Legacy, system, Time Magazine, week, XM, Yokohama Avid
Photos & Review by Stu Wright Infiniti’s extensive lineup of 13 models provides a vehicle for pretty much anyone’s taste, and in the middle of the group lies the EX35 compact crossover. Infiniti, the luxury division of Nissan Motor Company, has been selling automobiles in America since 1989, when the company introduced the Q45 and [...]
Tags: Around View, AWD, Bridgestone Turanzas, EX, FX, guidance, Infiniti Journey, June, JX, model, Nissan Motor Company, Premium Package, QX, system, top, Touring Package, USB, vehicle, XM, Zagat Survey
By Stu WrightBobby Goldsboro is a well-known singer-songwriter to me, but I didn’t know he was THIS well-known. THIS man had eleven top-40 U. S. Billboard Hot 100 hits, and twelve on the country charts. The Florida native that once played guitar for Roy Orbison broke onto the scene by himself in 1964 with his [...]
Tags: Australia, AWD, Bobby Goldsboro, car, country, cross, Denver, Funny Little Clown, line, Little Things, lot, place, roof, Roy Orbison, someone, speed, system, top, week, year
Photos and Review by Stu Wright Lexus, Toyota Motor Corporation’s luxury car division, has been producing GS series automobiles since 1993. The GS lies in the middle of the Lexus sedan lineup, between IS at the bottom and the LS series at the top. It is in the 4th [...]
Tags: AWD, car, class, control, door, driver, Dunlop Sport S100, ECO, February, GS, highway, lot, LS, mph, park, side, speed, top, Toyota Motor Corporation, year
Photos & Review by Stu Wright I have been presented three Infiniti automobiles for review, and must say I have enjoyed them all. The least expensive of those three was brought over last week, the G25x all-wheel drive four-door sedan. Infiniti is the luxury division of Nissan Motor Company, and has been shipping cars to [...]
Tags: AWD, card, door, Drive Sport, end, hand, highway, model, Moonlight White, Nissan Motor Company, rate, right, roof, RSA, size, snow, speed, top, USB, week
Review & Photos by Stu Wright Last week in Phoenix I was able to test drive a 2012 Infiniti SUV, courtesy of PageOneAuto of Chandler, Arizona. Carrie Owens, of POA, was nice enough to have the vehicle waiting at Sky Harbor airport for my visit to the Valley of the Sun where Ruth and I [...]
Tags: AWD, AZ, BMW, car, class, DVD, flight, FX, highway, Japan, KC, Nissan Motors, parking, Phoenix, POA, Ruth, spring, SUV, vehicle, week
by Stu Wright Since Toyota gave their sedan/crossover/station wagon/SUV a somewhat innocuous name, I’ll put it in a Julius Caesar Latin phrase. I came, I saw, I drove a Toyota sedan/crossover/station wagon/SUV! And this Toyota Venza is not at all hard to look at, and is a lot of fun to drive. The one that [...]
Tags: AWD, Base Price, caption, car, Cherry Creek, Denver, DOHC, door, Honda Pilot, JBL, line, lot, lunch, Nissan Murano, SUV, system, Toyota Venza, week, Whole Foods, XM
2011 Nissan Murano By Stu Wright Nissan Motors likes to call their Murano, which is named after a region in Italy, the “Premium Crafted Crossover”. Last week I had the pleasure of driving one both in Greeley and around Denver, and would tend to agree with their characterization of this car. My first drive was [...]
Tags: ABS, Auto Review, AWD, car, City Park, CVT, daughter, Denver, DOHC, driver, GM, Greeley, Italy, model, Nissan Motors, Premium Crafted Crossover, Stu Wright, SUV, SV, XM
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