JR Chocco
2021 Toyota Land Cruiser Review: Heritage Like No Other
The 2021 Toyota Land Cruiser is a full-time four-wheel-drive icon with a handful of luxury touches. Its go-anywhere, haul-anything attitude is a direct link between utility vehicles from the past and modern luxury SUVs of today. It’s nostalgic and useful in all the right ways, but it’s not as comfortable as models that have embraced luxury more than utility. This...
2022 Hyundai Tucson Hybrid Review: From back of the pack to the front
The 2022 Hyundai Tucson swings for the styling and efficiency fences–and connects. The Tucson is a five-seat compact crossover that has been completely redesigned for 2022 to better compete in automotive’s most hotly contested segment. It competes with the Honda CR-V, Toyota RAV4, Ford Escape, and Nissan Rogue. The redesigned 2022 Tucson leaps to the top of its class due...
2021 Mercedes-Benz GLS-Class Review: The premier large luxury SUV
The 2021 Mercedes-Benz GLS-Class is a three-row crossover SUV that redefines luxurious family transport. The GLS-Class SUV is a masterful blend of performance, comfort, and luxury worth every dollar the automaker charges for its sublime ride, luxurious interior, and prodigious power. It’s so nice it’s hard to imagine how Mercedes will improve upon the GLS with an ultra-decadent Maybach...
2021 Volvo XC90 Review: Still our favorite large luxury SUV
Low-key luxury lies in the 2021 Volvo XC90’s crisp and clean styling, serene cockpit, and in its strong acceleration. The XC90 is a six- or seven-seat luxury crossover SUV. It’s often compared with vehicles like the Audi Q7, BMW X7, and Acura MDX, but it takes a different path to its luxury credentials. The 2021 Volvo XC90 puts bluff...
2021 Lexus NX 300h Review: The Avant-Garde Hybrid SUV
The avant-garde shape of the 2021 Lexus NX has stayed fresh with the hybrid powertrain keeping it current. The NX is a five-seat luxury crossover SUV that compares with vehicles such as the BMW X3, Acura RDX, and Infiniti QX50. It scores well above average, thanks to a high-quality interior and an efficient hybrid model. For 2021, Blind-spot monitors now...
2021 Kia Sorento Review: Surprisingly Competent
The 2021 Kia Sorento crossover SUV strikes out in a new styling direction, and brings hybrid and plug-in models along for the adventure. The Sorento is a seven-seat crossover SUV that slots below the big Telluride in the Kia lineup. It’s a rival for vehicles like the Ford Explorer and VW Tiguan, as well as the related Hyundai Santa...
2021 Toyota Tacoma Review: Die-Hard Capability
The 2021 Toyota Tacoma gains new Nightshade and Trail Special Editions this year, but otherwise carries over the things that keep it the top-selling mid-size pickup truck in the U.S. It’s excellent at off-road driving in TRD spec, has a useful pickup bed and an available crew-cab body, and can be configured with part-time four-wheel drive and a manual...
2021 Toyota Sequoia Review: Still Large and In Charge
Toyota developed a good, sturdy full-size SUV for the 2008 model year. Based on the body-on-frame platform from the Tundra pickup, the Sequoia got that truck’s robust structure and driveline components, including its muscular 5.7-liter V-8. But that’s about as much engineering as Toyota has put into the Sequoia since, only updating the interior and falling behind there, too. I...
2021 Buick Encore GX Review: Double the Pleasure
The 2021 Buick Encore GX steals the parking spot left between the smallest mainstream and luxury crossovers. Buick does a double take for the 2021 model year. It’s offering the older Encore hatchback while it introduces the new Encore GX, which isn’t much more expensive but slightly bigger. The GX is the Encore you want to drive, though, thanks...
2021 Audi Q5 Review: The Class Leader for a Reason
The 2021 Audi Q5 crossover puts a new face on a best-selling formula that doesn’t show signs of getting old. The new face and improved tech are just the start for the 2021 Audi Q5. As the automaker’s ‘tweener crossover between the smaller Q3 and bigger three-row Q7, the Q5 is a segue to electrification-curious shoppers, and even some...
