The Helpful Critics

I first became a fan of Volvo in 1998 when my sister bought an all-new S70, and loved it to bits. I’d had rich, suburban milf-moms who drove Volvos throughout the 80s because their cash-laden hubbies (who could never give them the wealth of my “auto” experience) wanted to give them luxurious cars that topped […]

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Is it just me, or has the market gotten sick of crossover SUVs yet? They’re too small to be SUVs and too big to be cars, so how do you build them? You can’t go with a truck chassis, but using a car chassis makes them underpowered, overweight and patently incapable of functioning as any […]

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This year Lincoln came out with its own crossover SUV for the American market. It’s a good car that is exactly what it purports to be, but it’s faced some pretty harsh attention from the critics. Not because it pretends to be something it isn’t, or because it isn’t a good car, but I think […]

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I’ve had more than a few friends who were runaway Jeep advocates over the years, and though I’ve only had a handful of opportunities to ride in them, I’ve never much been impressed. Historically these off-road throwbacks have been fun, with curb-appeal on tap, but it isn’t the sort of benefit that could make up […]

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