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...

2005 North American Int...

Fresh from the 2005 North American Auto Show in Detroit, a couple things are quite clear. Fuel cell technology and alternative fuel vehicles are being developed that are bringing this technology much closer to the mainstream and will one day be the norm on many highways and city streets...

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...