2008 Mitsubishi Evo pre...

Mitsubishi Motors in Japan revealed an exterior image of the production version of the Lancer Evolution high performance sedan. The image reveals the subtle exterior details of the forthcoming production model, whose styling direction was first suggested with Concept X (2005 Tokyo Motor...

2006 Volkswagen VW Jett...

The Jetta — Volkswagen’s best selling car in North America — has sold more than 2.2 million units since its introduction 25 years ago. For 2006, the fifth generation Jetta gets a complete make over. This all-new model has grown in every respect: It is now 177-mm longer,...

2006 Mitsubishi Eclipse

One look at the fourth-generation Eclipse tells you it is a very different car – the plunging lines and muscular haunches making it look as though it’s ready to lunge at any moment. Slip behind the wheel and the radical approach continues, as the tester’s flashy orange and ivory...

Hyundai now ranked worl...

It’s not the top of the mountain, but Hyundai is getting closer. According to the trade publication Automotive News, Hyundai jump from the seventh to the sixth largest automotive manufacturer in the world. The Detroit-based weekly’s most recent survey of global automotive...

2006 Mercedes-Benz ML-C...

Ask Mercedes-Benz what spurred the original M-Class to market and the answer is long and somewhat convoluted. The real reason, however, is not difficult to find if you scratch the surface – when M-B polled its owner body most had an SUV (a Jeep Grand Cherokee usually) parked in the...

2006 Mazda MX-5 Miata

From its inception, the Mazda Miata has paid homage to the British Sports cars of the 1960s. Indeed, it’s fair to say the Miata represents what these fun-to-drive roadsters could have become had they been allowed to mature. And as with those early offerings, the Miata developed a...

2006 Lexus RX400h

A cursory glance at Lexus’s latest hybrid reveals little out of the ordinary. Indeed, rather than shouting its green status to the world the RX400h says it in very subtle ways. A closer look reveals a grille in the middle of the bumper fascia (to feed the hybrid its much-needed cooling...

2006 Lexus IS250

Lexus, Toyota’s luxury marque, has redesigned it’s IS sedan for 2006 in order to attract new, younger buyers. The IS sedan was originally packaged to compete with the perceived class leader, the BMW 3 series. For this road test I drove the rear wheel drive Lexus IS 250...