New Vehicles

It wasn’t too long ago – about five years – that more car models were available to new-vehicle shoppers than crossover/SUVs. But the car wars are over and, apparently, crossover/SUVs have won. Two years from now, new-vehicle shoppers will have…

SUVs and crossovers are on a roll. Consumers have been buying a lot more of them than traditional cars. So, Automotive Science Group (ASG) rated the best-performing crossovers and SUVs in its 2019 awards recognizing “ecologically sustainable, socially equitable and…

The best-performing cars aren’t just those that accelerate quickly from 0 to 60 mph. But whether they also are “ecologically sustainable, socially equitable and economically viable,” according to Automotive Science Group (ASG) in its 2019 performance ratings report. ASG, which…

Car resale value is important because your new vehicle probably is not an investment. About the best you can do in the case of most new-car purchases is to minimize the amount of value you lose before you sell it…

Americans think it’s more likely that most vehicles will be self-driving rather than electric by the end of the next decade. But lack of knowledge of the two emerging technologies may be the reason. Even the best electric vehicles of…

Can you afford to buy a pure electric vehicle? Not too long ago that would have been a realistic question, when Tesla probably was the only brand many car shoppers could name and the price of the Model S reached…