Trucks and Towing

2023 Cadillac Escalade V with drag queens

2023 Cadillac Escalade V Review: Break ‘Em Off Something Proper Like a Real Show Stopper

By / November 9, 2022

There are certain cars in this business that come close to being perfect. This one is the perfect family crossover, that one is the perfect sport sedan. You know the type. And then there are others that are imperfect, sometimes in a bad way and sometimes in a this-has-an-abundance-of-character way. The 2023 Cadillac Escalade V …

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2022 Toyota 4Runner TRD Pro Lime Rush

2022 Toyota 4Runner TRD Pro Review: Due for Replacement, Yet Remarkably Charming

By / August 4, 2022

I was a rising senior in college when the current generation of Toyota 4Runner first launched. A few years later, I had graduated and was working at my first “big boy” job, for a company that no longer exists – AOL – and Toyota gave Ye Olde 4Runner a facelift. Eleven years have passed since the fifth-generation …

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Porsche Cayenne Diesel with Enclosed Trailer

My Porsche Cayenne Diesel Impressed Towing an Enclosed Trailer Through the Allegheny Mountains

By / August 1, 2022

Pittsburgh International Race Complex, better known as Pitt Race, is a heckin’ fun racetrack located about 45 minutes west of Pittsburgh proper, in the mountains of Pennsylvania. I’d been a few times in the past, but not since purchasing my Spec3 BMW 325is racecar and joining my new series. Two NASA regions – Great Lakes and …

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2022 Ford Bronco Wildtrak red

2022 Ford Bronco Wildtrak Review: Smart, Capable, and Very Endearing

By / May 23, 2022

I am not an experienced off-roader, nor are there very difficult trails within a day’s distance of my home in Washington, DC. I generally prefer my convertibles to be sporty and look for lowering springs instead of lift kits. Vehicles like Ford’s Bronco and its archrival Jeep Wrangler aren’t really… my thing. But I love …

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2022 Ford Explorer Timberline in mud

2022 Ford Explorer Timberline Review: Real Hardware Helps for Mild Off-Roading

By / May 1, 2022

My gut told me I should avoid the goopy, muddy tracks. I’d spent an hour exploring a fairly easy off-road trail with the 2022 Ford Explorer Timberline, a route that took me up a lousy fire road to a clearing that was just muddy and uneven enough to see how the Explorer Timberline would handle …

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2022 Ford Maverick Lariat

2022 Ford Maverick Lariat EcoBoost Review: All the Truck Most Need

By / April 25, 2022

The entire internet has bemoaned the ballooning size of pickup trucks for what seems like forever. “Give us the old Ranger and S10,” keyboard warriors (quietly) shout. Ford’s kept the Ranger nameplate on a slightly larger truck, but brought back another old name for their new truck that is, well, kind of an old Ranger …

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2013 Porsche Cayenne Diesel oil leak

Fixing an Oil Leak on my 2013 Cayenne Diesel Cost Porsche $12,310 – and Cost Me Nothing

By / March 31, 2022

If you were paying any attention to the news in oh, 2015 or so, you might have heard about the “Volkswagen Diesel Emissions Scandal,” more lovingly coined Dieselgate by everyone obsessed with adding -gate to words. The gist of it is that Volkswagen AG was caught using a software tune that could detect the EPA’s …

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2023 Mazda CX-50 Zircon Sand

2023 Mazda CX-50 First Drive: Excellence On-Road with More Off-Roading and Towing Capability

By / March 27, 2022

Overlanding has seen a rise in popularity – or if nothing else, a rise in media coverage – as the world recovers from the stay-home mindset of a pandemic. This style of light to moderate off-roading encourages Americans to get out of the house, explore their beautiful country, and go a bit further into the wilderness …

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2022 Nissan Pathfinder

2022 Nissan Pathfinder Review & Towing Test: Great Improvement, but Misses Some Details

By / February 10, 2022

The 2022 Nissan Pathfinder loses its CVT for a torque-converter automatic with actual gears. If you read nothing else, that is the reason to buy a new Pathfinder over the outgoing model. Nissan, among others, has been CVT-obsessed throughout the last decade or so. It’s been an adventure, one that seems to be fraught unless …

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