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  • One-Take Video Review: 2024 Ford Ranger XLT 4×4

    One-Take Video Review: 2024 Ford Ranger XLT 4×4

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    Note: After fifteen years of writing car reviews, I have decided to venture into video. I am starting off slowly and rather amateurishly, so please bear with me. These videos can only get better (maybe). These will be one-take videos. I’ll only discuss the vehicle, and you won’t even have to look at me. Additionally,…

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  • One-Take Video Review: 2024 GMC Canyon AT4X AEV Edition

    One-Take Video Review: 2024 GMC Canyon AT4X AEV Edition

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    Note: After fifteen years of writing car reviews, I have decided to venture into video. I am starting off slowly and rather amateurishly, so please bear with me. These videos can only get better (maybe). These will be one-take videos. I’ll only discuss the vehicle, and you won’t even have to look at me. Additionally,…

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  • 2024 SL 63 AMG Roadster Review: Two steps forward, one step back

    2024 SL 63 AMG Roadster Review: Two steps forward, one step back

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    Mercedes revamped the long-running SL roadster for 2022, with the R232 SL-Class perhaps embodying the model’s biggest transformation in the nameplate’s seven generations. Now sold under the Mercedes-AMG brand heading rather than its traditional Mercedes-Benz lineage, with this comes a deviation in the core of its existence in that the SL was co-developed to live…

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  • 2024 Volkswagen ID.4 Pro S: Review

    2024 Volkswagen ID.4 Pro S: Review

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    This is my third foray into reviewing Volkswagen’s ID.4 Pro S. I took Hooniverse through the ins and outs of the 2021 and the 2023. During the first round in 2021, I was frustrated with the user interface, the relatively dull exterior style, and the unimpressive performance. On round two in 2023, I noted that…

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  • 2024 Hyundai Santa Fe Calligraphy: Review

    2024 Hyundai Santa Fe Calligraphy: Review

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    One of the latest design trends is “retro-futurism,” and no one has embraced it more than Hyundai. While the trend is technically defined more along the lines of depictions of how people saw the future back in the day, it’s also been used to describe designs with a science/geeky slant. Wait, maybe this is just…

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  • 2024 Toyota Tacoma TRD Pro: Review

    2024 Toyota Tacoma TRD Pro: Review

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    I’ll admit it: there have been times I really didn’t get the appeal of the Toyota Tacoma. For some time, it was one of the only midsize trucks available. However, it got bigger and bigger to the point that I couldn’t see the rationale of buying one over the plethora of full-size trucks on the…

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  • 2025 Porsche Taycan 4S – A Good Car Made Great

    2025 Porsche Taycan 4S – A Good Car Made Great

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    The Porsche Taycan was already a pretty solid EV, but now Porsche has updated it, and the resulting machine is even better: more power, more range, and faster charging. What more could you ask for? Well, sure, you could ask for it to be less expensive. I feel you there. The one I drove in…

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  • 2025 BMW Z4 M40i Review: Hidden gem

    2025 BMW Z4 M40i Review: Hidden gem

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    BMW’s new-for-2025 Z4 M40i has a lot going for it: Six-speed manual gearbox, 3.0-liter turbocharged straight-six cylinder engine, rear-wheel-drive, and the roof can be lowered at the touch of a button. It’s a drop-top Toyota Supra draped in German clothes, and somehow it makes for one of the most surprisingly enjoyable cars on sale today.…

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  • 2025 Audi SQ7 and SQ8 – First Drive

    2025 Audi SQ7 and SQ8 – First Drive

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    The 2025 Audi SQ7 and SQ8 are two sides of a very similar coin; one is a 500-hp 7-passenger SUV that can dispatch a twisty road with surprising ease, while the other is… well, a 500-hp 5-passenger SUV that can dispatch that same road with the same level of ease. Seriously, these things drive far…

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  • 2024 Jeep Gladiator Mojave Review

    2024 Jeep Gladiator Mojave Review

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    It wasn’t long ago that if you wanted a factory-built Jeep and a pickup truck, you had to buy both; and, it wasn’t long ago that if you wanted a desert-running factory-built pickup, it meant buying a Ford Raptor. Jeep finally alleviated buyers of this dilemma for the 2020 model year with the Gladiator, and…

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