SUVs : Car News And Reviews

Subaru makes several car models but only three of them have any interest for the car guy in me. They have the cool WRX, the BRZ, and the Crosstrek. I am not a SUV guy, but I really like the looks of the Crosstrek.

Land Rover kicks off a year of celebrations around the retirement of the iconic Land Rover Defender with the release of three limited edition models: The beautiful Autobiography Edition, the retro-styled Heritage Edition, and the bold Adventure Edition.

To show off the capabilities of their 2015 Cherokee, Jeep pulled off an impressive feat, transforming a street in downtown Vancouver, Canada into a rocky mountain road. For a commercial spot called “River in the City,” the company took unsuspecting drivers on a GPS detour onto a city street that was covered with boulders, rocks and sand to simulate an off-road driving environment.

The Toyota Highlander has long been one of the most popular mid-size SUVs on the market. Its most recent redesign was for the 2014 model year, and that’s the version I managed to spend some time with.

The Land Rover Defender 110 certainly has plenty of off-road capability even in its native form. But what if you were to squeeze a 6.2-liter V8 Corvette engine under the hood that produces 430 horsepower and 398 lb-ft.

If you ever had any doubt that Range Rovers could really handle extreme terrain, this video should convince you. This footage from a few years back shows both a Range Rover Sport and a Land Rover Discovery tackling the sort of extremely steep hill that give drivers white knuckles (and brown shorts) when behind the wheel.

This photograph looks like something right out of Field & Stream or Life magazine in the mid 1960s. The 1966 Ford Bronco is ready to take the family camping near a beautiful mountain lake. But this image isn’t all what it seems to be.

For those who have everything, Lexani Motorcars will transform you Cadillac Escalade into a luxurious experience, complete with a full home theater system. The Corona, California aftermarket specialists can create either a two-passenger or four-passenger layout in the back of your Escalade and buyers have a large set of finishes and accessories to choose from.

The Toyota Land Cruiser is not the first vehicle that comes to mind when you think of the tuner scene. But Japanese tuning house GMG’s Double Eight (88) line transforms the Land Cruiser into an imposing beast of an SUV.

The Range Rover Sport SVR is set to be offer pinnacle of performance for the Land Rover line. Developed by JLR’s Special Vehicle Operations team, the vehicle is powered by a 5.0-liter supercharged V8 engine that pushes out 550 horsepower, and 501 lb.-ft.

Russian Sergey Kon’kov, a graduate student at the Munich University of Applied Sciences, decided to design the ultimate off-road vehicle for his graduate thesis project and the result is the Qoros 8. The design isn’t as outrageous as some of the off-road custom vehicles we’ve seen in the past, but one of the goals was that the vehicle would be production ready.

Lamborghini isn’t a company that’s known for its range of sport utility vehicles, but, along with the upcoming Urus, the Italian automaker has produced a few SUVs in the past. And they built a pretty rugged one in the late 1980s and early 1990s: the LM002.

Joining the all-new XC90, the flagship of the Volvo product range, the Swedish automaker has just unveiled the details of the plug-in hybrid version of the SUV, the XC90 T8. Calling it the world’s most powerful and cleanest SUV, Volvo is positioning the vehicle as an uncompromising mix of performance, driving, and efficiency.

Volvo is certainly well known for emphasizing the safety of their vehicles, but part of being at the leading edge of automotive safety requires that Volvo continually improves its safety programs and testing techniques. One piece of equipment that was developed by the company was conceived by Volvo Cars’ safety expert Anders Axelson, who got the idea during a trip to an amusement park.

If there’s one SUV that I’m excited about driving in the coming months, it’s the new Land Rover Discovery Sport. The first of the new Discovery series, the Sport builds on the success of the already exceptional Evoque, but offering it in a larger, more family-friendly package, and at a very competitive pricepoint.