2025 VW Jetta GLI: Save the manuals, but not like this
Specs mean nothing if you get the feel and execution wrong.
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Jim Resnick
A veteran of journalism, product planning and communications in the automotive and music space, Jim reports, critiques and lectures on autos, music and culture.
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2025 Subaru WRX tS review: A scalpel-sharp chassis lets this car dance
Lots of suspension tweaks but no extra power for this WRX variant.
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Everything you ever wanted to know about four-wheel steering
With roots in early 20th-century trucks, 4WS is not widely understood.
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What happens when you trigger a car’s automated emergency stopping?
Experiencing the sequence of events in a car programmed for automated emergency stopping.
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Here’s why electric vehicles need EV-specific tires
The differences between ICE vehicles and EVs go all the way down to the tarmac.
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Driving the Jeep Magneto, an electric concept with a manual transmission
Axial-fluxing in Moab, we explore new territory in Jeep’s latest mobile think tank.
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Turn up the sport, turn down the utility: The 2020 BMW X5 M and X6 M
BMW’s M-powered SUVs scorch the road and your checking account.
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Lexus’ new 2021 LC500 Convertible puts on the pretty
Slicing the roof off improves what was already the most attractive Lexus in years.
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Entry-level doesn’t mean spartan with the 2021 Kia Seltos
Style, interior panache, and it also inches beyond the entry level in size.
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The baby Benz has grown up—the 2020 Mercedes-Benz CLA, reviewed
A little gem in some ways, full of useful tech, but the back seat is unlivable.
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Don’t dismiss the 2020 Toyota Supra just because of the BMW bits
Traditional handling and high-tech appointments make for a diverse sports car.
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The mid-engined Corvette was 60 years in the making—now we’ve driven it
Decades of aborted plans and concepts led to the production mid-engined ‘Vette.
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As capable as a Jeep, as reliable as a Toyota—it’s the 2020 4Runner SUV
New infotainment and driver assists make the 4Runner more fit for suburbia.
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The 2020 Mercedes-Benz GLB gets good infotainment, but don’t get the AI
The GLB takes a niche slot and throws shade at the smaller GLA.
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The 2021 Toyota Mirai hydrogen fuel cell car has more luxury, less ugly
With its second-generation fuel cell, Toyota could be turning a tech corner.
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The 2020 Jeep Gladiator Rubicon, tested
Everyone’s favorite rock-hopper gets a pickup.
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The VW Jetta GLI: A Golf GTI with a trunk, or cost-cut spiced-up sedan?
If the Golf GTI is VW’s soul, what does that make the American Jetta GLI sedan?
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The fastest SUV? Our first drive in Lamborghini’s 641-horsepower Urus
26 years after the LM002, Lamborghini unleashes its biggest and heaviest bull.
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Don’t buy a Mercedes-AMG GT R unless you plan on taking it to the track
How an imposing 3,560-pound supercar shrinks when performing on its intended stage.
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“Change like we’ve not seen in decades”—high-end auto designers go electric
Whoever you ask, EVs mean far greater freedom for designers, engineers, and marketers.
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2018 Honda Clarity Plug-In Hybrid: Put simply, it’s complicated
The complexity can be overlooked, which then questions the point of including it.
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The 2018 Audi RS5 is where it’s at: 444 hp via two turbo-tables and a baritone
Done: Naturally aspirated V8s. Bonne: twin-turbo V6s.
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Jaw-dropping Genesis Essentia stole the show in NY—and it may never be built
This concept wants to rekindle the passion we feel for cars.
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Mercedes-AMG’s C63 S Cabrio has it all: Power, sound, fuel use, and cost
Driving fun is worth something, but at over $100,000 as tested this one isn’t perfect.
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Review: Toyota’s new Prius Prime needs more battery
2018 plugin hybrid is good—but the battery needs more energy density.
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America finally gets Honda’s best: The 2018 Civic Type R
With wings, vents, scoops, and 306 horsepower, it’s a wolf in wolf’s clothing.
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If you can’t beat them… Lamborghini joins the SUV set
Able to gobble up roads, trails, and dunes… as well as your nest egg.
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Camaro goes nuclear: Chevrolet escalates the muscle car war
Racing-derived dampers, a fist full of aero and a Superman V8.
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2018 Audi SQ5: A danger to sports sedans or window dressing over good bones?
As the SUV takes over the Earth, Audi refreshes its sporting sport-ute.
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New 2018 Mercedes-AMG GT C roadster: German brute or exotic alternative?
The proportions may seem traditional, but the performance is cutting-edge.
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First-ever US Honda Civic Type R finally arrives with 306 horsepower
UK-assembled, US-powered, the global Civic Type R finally hits America this June.
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Toyota is testing heavy-duty hydrogen trucks at the Port of Long Beach
For use in short-haul routes, full testing begins this summer.
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Range Rover raids Manhattan with US debut of posh new Velar SUV
Slipping between the Evoque and the Range Rover Sport, its newest model hits NYC.
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Lighter weight, lower drag, and more power—the Jaguar F-Type SVR
Part supercar, part muscle car, part driftable wildcat.
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The all-new Land Rover Discovery: More versatile than a Swiss Army Knife
Land Rover’s latest Discovery is over 1,000 lbs lighter than the previous model.
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Performance overkill? The 2017 Chevrolet Camaro ZL1
It uses the engine from the Corvette Z06 for mind-bending performance.
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