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First Drive: 2025 Hyundai Santa Cruz – Updating the Urban Adventurer

First Drive: 2025 Hyundai Santa Cruz – Updating the Urban Adventurer

by | Sep 10, 2024 | , , , , , , ,

The Hyundai Santa Cruz is the modern incarnation of the compact pickups wildly popular with then-young Baby Boomers a half-century ago. But it’s no retro-mobile. Santa Cruz gets a distinctive design that blends the functionality of a pickup with the decidedly modern curves of today’s Hyundai Tucson. Barely three years after the Santa Cruz made its auspicious debut, Hyundai is ready to roll out a mid-cycle update. It tweaks the truck’s distinctive design, adds a variety of new features and fixes some of the original model’s problems. Here’s our review of the 2025 Hyundai Santa Cruz.

First Drive: 2025 Hyundai Tucson Takes Aim at Toyota, Honda

First Drive: 2025 Hyundai Tucson Takes Aim at Toyota, Honda

by | Sep 4, 2024 | , , , , , , , , , , ,

It may trail the leaders, Toyota and Hyundai, in the compact crossover market, but Hyundai is determined to give them chase and, based on the updated 2025 Tucson, the competitors need to be looking over their shoulders. Headlight.News spent time checking out the Korean CUV and files this review.

First Drive: 2025 Volvo EX90 Twin Motor Performance

First Drive: 2025 Volvo EX90 Twin Motor Performance

by | Sep 3, 2024 | , , , , , , , ,

If you ask CEO Jim Rowan, the new Volvo EX90 “is a statement for where we are and where we’re going.” It’s not the first all-electric model from the Swedish automaker but it’s certainly the most powerful and lavishly equipped, serving as a counterpoint to the familiar XC90. To get a sense of what the new model is all about I spent a couple days driving the top-line Twin Motor Performance package around the Southern California coast. Here’s what I learned.

First Drive: 2025 Lincoln Aviator

First Drive: 2025 Lincoln Aviator

by | Aug 28, 2024 | , , , , , ,

While Navigator may be the Lincoln flagship, Aviator serves as the more likely choice looking for an upscale, 3-row SUV considering it is, at a starting price of $60,475, far more attainable for most buyers. The 2025 Lincoln Aviator gets a number of welcome updates, especially with the Black Label package, though the automaker has abandoned the sportiest package powered by a plug-in hybrid drivetrain. Here’s what we discovered during our first few days behind the wheel.

First Look: “Ultimate” Chevrolet Corvette ZR1

First Look: “Ultimate” Chevrolet Corvette ZR1

by | Jul 25, 2024 | , , , , , , ,

When the eighth-generation Corvette made its debut four years ago, some long-time fans questioned how much further Chevrolet could go after rolling out the first mid-engine version of what has come to be known as “America’s sports car.” They got their answer Thursday night when the bowtie brand rolled out what is likely to be the “ultimate” version of the ‘Vette – at least an all-gas model. What’s clear is that the 2025 ZR1 is the fastest, most powerful – and most intimidating model in Corvette history. Here’s a closer look.