2011 Volvo XC60 T6 AWD R-Design My World Road Test and Review - VIDEO ENHANCED
Jul 26, 2011
DRIVING DOWN THE ROAD WITH CAREY RUSS 2011 Volvo XC60 T6 AWD R-Design I've spent plenty of time in Volvo XC60s, but before last week that time was never at and around home. At introduction was a lovely drive up California's scenic Highway One north from San Francisco, and more recently a thousand-mile trek on Interstat ... Continue reading
2012 Toyota Prius v 'Preview' Review - VIDEO ENHANCED
Jul 15, 2011
DRIVING DOWN THE ROAD WITH CAREY RUSS To say that the Toyota Prius has been successful is massive understatement. Where I live, it sometimes seems like every other car is a Prius. Prius owns the hybrid market, with over half the hybrids sold in this country and over a million sold here since its debut in 2000. And, acc ... Continue reading
2012 Fiat 500 Lounge Review - VIDEO ENHANCED
Jul 15, 2011
DRIVING DOWN THE ROAD WITH CAREY RUSS Fourth of July, 2011. I'm driving a Fiat 500, the Italian company's comeback car in the US marketplace, and the timing couldn't be better. Its namesake and ancestor made its debut in Italy on July 4th, 1957. Like many other European car makers, Fiat abandoned the US market when Ame ... Continue reading
2011 BMW X3 xDrive35i Review - VIDEO ENHANCED
Jul 7, 2011
DRIVING DOWN THE ROAD WITH CAREY RUSS BMW cashed in on the American SUV craze in 2000 in its own way, with the X5 "Sport Activity Vehicle", or SAV. A mid-sized unit-construction crossover (in the days before that term was popular), the X5 was everything that an SUV of the day wasn't -- a quick, responsive driver's mach ... Continue reading
2011 Jeep Liberty Sport 4x4 Review - VIDEO ENHANCED
Jun 30, 2011
DRIVING DOWN THE ROAD WITH CAREY RUSS By its specification, the Jeep Liberty should be called a crossover. After all, it's built with rigid, car-like unibody construction, with independent front suspension. A solid rear axle is the only (alleged) concession to SUV status, but there's more. Your basic crossover is front ... Continue reading
2011 Nissan Rogue SV FWD Review - VIDEO ENHANCED
Jun 23, 2011
DRIVING DOWN THE ROAD WITH CAREY RUSS After the great SUV boom of the 1990s went bust came the Age of Crossovers, "crossover" here meaning built like a car but taller, with styling more like an SUV. Well, originally⦠because as time progresses and crossovers proliferate, they're looking less and less like SUV-wann ... Continue reading
2011 Audi A4 2.0T quattro Review
Jun 16, 2011
DRIVING DOWN THE ROAD WITH CAREY RUSS Audi, over the past decade and a half, has quietly gone from almost cult status to a major force in the luxury automobile marketplace. How? Fine cars and excellent design, both inside and out. Many of the styling features now common in cars in the luxury and luxury-intender markets ... Continue reading
2011 Chevrolet Volt Review and Week Long Live With Road Test
Jun 10, 2011
Chevrolet Volt Review and Road Test Several months ago I had the opportunity to spend enough time with a Chevrolet Volt to get a good first impression of GM's entry in the high-tech automotive field. Based on that, I wrote a first-drive driving impression, not expecting to find one available in the local press fleet. N ... Continue reading
Jun 6, 2011
2011 Lincoln MKX AWD Review The American luxury car has been converging with its European counterpart in recent years, to better attract a new generation of customers. This has meant smaller cars, especially as SUVs and crossovers . So, for something a bit larger inside, does the newest iteration of the MKX crossover. ... Continue reading
2011 Volvo XC60 T6 R-Design - RoadTest Review
Jun 5, 2011
2011 Volvo XC60 T6 R-Design Volvo's press events are always noteworthy for the amount of seat time involved. Some other manufacturers may have as little as an hour or two of drive time, and four or five is typical, with a couple hundred miles of mostly back roads covered. Volvo's recent "2011 XC Adventure" was anything ... Continue reading
2011 Volvo XC60 T6 R-Design Road Test - VIDEO ENHANCED
Jun 2, 2011
DRIVING DOWN THE ROAD WITH CAREY RUSS Volvo's press events are always noteworthy for the amount of seat time involved. Some other manufacturers may have as little as an hour or two of drive time, and four or five is typical, with a couple hundred miles of mostly back roads covered. Volvo's recent "2011 XC Adventure" wa ... Continue reading
2011 Jaguar XFR - Road Test Review
May 15, 2011
DRIVING DOWN THE ROAD WITH CAREY RUSS - © 2011 - WEEK 20 If you believe the Germans, they invented and perfected the sports sedan, particularly the sports-luxury sedan. Eyebrows might be raised at Jaguar after hearing that, though, as that company's Mark II, produced from the late 1950s through the late 1960s, combine ... Continue reading
May 12, 2011
DRIVING DOWN THE ROAD WITH CAREY RUSS The Toyota Corolla is not exotic. Adolescent boys do not have posters of Corollas on their bedroom walls. Corollas have not racked up hundreds of victories in racing series around the world (although highly-modified examples have competed, and won, in the World Rally Championship l ... Continue reading
2011 Volkswagen Routan SE Road Test Review
May 5, 2011
2011 Volkswagen Routan SE Road Test Review, Carey Russ Reviews the 2011 Volkswagen Routan SE MiniVan. ... Continue reading
2011 Infiniti G37 Sport Coupe Review
Apr 28, 2011
2011 Infiniti G37 Sport Coupe 6MT Nothing evokes images of high-dollar exotica, mostly of Italian origin and costing more than your house, quite like "2+2 sports-luxury coupe". And most of those are "+2" only if the two in question are preschool children⦠But there are exceptions, and one of the most notable is th ... Continue reading
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