2024 Hyundai Kona is steeped in style and performance to earn its precious price (video included)
By Casey Williams - MyCarData
Like many of you, I’m acutely aware that the prices of new cars have ridden the inflation curve like a SpaceX rocket heading to Mars, but even then, I wasn’t completely prepared for the precious nearly $35,000 sticker on the 2024 Hyundai Kona. I mean, the Kona is one rung from the bottom of the Korean automaker’s crossover hierarchy. I thought, “I sure hope it’s worth it.” Fortunately, it mostly redeemed itself with the style and value for which Hyundai is renowned.
2024 Subaru Solterra Touring — Sub Rosa
If you weren’t aware that Subaru had been offering a dedicated battery electric (BEV) for most of the past two years, you’re not alone. The Subaru Solterra, sharing a platform with the equally anonymous Toyota bZ4Z, has received little attention from Subaru’s marketing execs, and even less attention — if that’s possible — from the buying public.
2024 Hyundai Ioniq 5 addresses issues buyers might have shopping for an EV
The 2024 Hyundai Ioniq 5 addresses at least two of the more-common concerns shoppers have when they are looking into buying an all-electric vehicle (EV), namely driving range and charging times. Received with high praise in its debut 2022 model year, the South Korean’s compact SUV can be had in models that offer just over 300 miles of driving range between charges when equipped with the extended range battery. (Hyundai puts range for the standard range battery at 230 miles.
2024 Hyundai Santa Fe Calligraphy — Dramatic redesign
Almost everybody who looked at this Earthy Brass Matte-painted crossover wondered what the “H” it was — and that was even after they saw the “H” emblem on it. Yes, it is a Hyundai, but nothing like most of the recent designs to come out of the company with big stylized chrome or gloss black grills, stacked low-mounted headlights and faceted, curved flanks on fairly streamlined shapes.
2024 Lexus RX450h+ is the sumptuous luxury electric crossover that can travel near and far
By Casey Williams - MyCarData
A well-respected automotive journalist recently went on a rant about plug-in hybrids. To his point, they’re not efficient. When running as an EV, they must tote around an unnecessary gas engine. And, when running in gas mode, it’s lugging heavy batteries. I’m all in with his logic…until I have to plug in somewhere away from my garage. While I may like owning a Tesla Model Y, Cadillac Lyriq, or Genesis GV60, it might be easier to own a Lexus RX450h+ plug-in hybrid.
Subaru’s BRZ tS — Cut loose. Footloose.
To paraphrase singer Deniece Williams (briefly) and the Footloose soundtrack, LET’S HEAR IT FOR THE BOYS! Regardless of the auto industry’s recent efforts at gender diversity (and there are many), a tightly drawn 2+2 with a horizontally opposed four and manual trans could only have been executed by a small, brief outpouring of testosterone. At 12 years old and now in its second generation, Subaru’s BRZ and its platform stablemate, Toyota’s GR 86, are knocking on the door of adolescence with a refined 2.4 liter powertrain, more maturity throughout, and in Subaru’s new tS guise, track day credibility — you know, to tear up the town…
2024 Hyundai Palisade — An excellent family hauler
If you are looking for a three-row SUV to meet the needs of your family perhaps the Hyundai Palisade should reside at or very near the top of your shopping list. Hyundai's mid-sized three-row crossover, which was introduced for the 2020 model year, offers a near-perfect blend of utility, value, performance and luxury at a good price and with an extraordinarily long warranty.
Redesigned 2025 Subaru Forester reaches for horizons, but pack your patience (video included)
By Casey Williams - MyCarData
Have you ever been to Montana? As I found for my first visit recently, it’s a big place — the kind of wide open, horizon-to-horizon, nestling mountains, and wide-open Interstates kind of place where you just want to drive, drive, and drive. Turns out, it was the perfect place to meet the redesigned 2025 Subaru Forester.