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Our 2019 Genesis G70 Left Us Wanting for More Power Annie White © Andi Hedrick - Car and Driver After 40,000 miles with the Genesis G70 2.0T sedan, we would have enjoyed it even more if it had the optional twin-turbo V-6. 40,000-Mile Wrap-Up When Hyundai launched the Genesis luxury brand in 2016 with the S-class-wannabe G90, we were impressed but not enthused. Genesis had potential, but its debut vehicle and its follow-up act, the G80 mid-size sedan, stood out mostly for their value. Then came the G70, the first Genesis that wasn't essentially a rebadged Hyundai. It was a r...

More People Buying Toyota Land Cruiser Now That It's Being Discontinued Colin Beresford © Andi Hedrick - Car and Driver January was the best sales month for the Land Cruiser in a decade, and December 2020, the month Toyota said it would be discontinued, was second-best. Toyota sold more Land Cruisers in January 2021 than in any other month in the last decade. The second-highest sales month in the past 10 years was December 2020, the same month that Toyota announced the Land Cruiser would be discontinued after the 2021 model year. Toyota saw a 221 percent increase in sales ...

2021 Mercedes-Benz Metris Weekender: Four-Wheeled Escapism Annie White © Andi Hedrick - Car and Driver Benz's new Metris-based Weekender camper van seats five, sleeps four, and is perfect for light adventures. If you're going to have an adventure, you'll want to be familiar with sunk-cost bias. It's the idea that if you've spent a lot of time, money, or energy trying to accomplish a goal, you'll be inclined to keep at it even if quitting is the wiser move. You know Green Boots, the man whose frozen corpse is a landmark on the northeast route to the summit of Mount Everest? ...

GM's Big SUVs Can Stop Shorter Than a Mazda 3 Annie White © Andi Hedrick - Car and Driver That's an improvement of roughly 30 percent over the past few decades and proof that autonomous tech isn't the only way to prevent crashes. GM's family of large SUVs has significantly improved braking distances in the new generation. GM attributes the improvement to changes to the trucks' suspensions and the composition of the stock tires. The best of these large trucks now stop as short as plenty of sedans and smaller crossovers. When a vehicle enters a new generation, we expect...