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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.

Disneyland’s Autopia Goes Electric

Disneyland’s Autopia Goes Electric

by | Sep 9, 2024 | , , , , , , , , ,

It’s been billed as “The Happiest Place on Earth,” and environmentally minded visitors to Disneyland’s Autopia now have a big reason to smile – the popular auto-themed ride replacing its old, smoke-belching cars with new, all-electric models. Contributor John Faulkner has been a long-time visitor to Disneyland and dropped by to check out the newly updated ride.

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.

2025 Hyundai Ioniq 5 XRT Adds Off-Road Chops

2025 Hyundai Ioniq 5 XRT Adds Off-Road Chops

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

Who says EV sales are slowing down? Certainly not Hyundai where demand is up by double-digits this year. It helps to keep expanding the line-up with new models like the upcoming EV9. But the Korean carmaker also is expanding the array of variants spun off of existing models. And, for 2025, that will include its first off-road-ready EV, the Ioniq 5 XRT.

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.

Audi’s Best-Selling Q5 SUV Teased Ahead of Complete Makeover’s Debut

Audi’s Best-Selling Q5 SUV Teased Ahead of Complete Makeover’s Debut

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

Audi plans to make some big news next week, the German automaker set to reveal the next-generation version of its best-selling model, the Q5. Ahead of that formal unveiling, Audi released this teaser image and gave some hints as to what’s coming. Significantly, the midsize SUV will be offered with a range of powertrains, including gas, hybrid and all-electric. Here’s what we’ve learned so far.

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.

VinFast Launches VF 9 With Major Price Cut

VinFast Launches VF 9 With Major Price Cut

by | Aug 27, 2024 | , , , , , , , , , ,

Hoping to get it right after a botched launch of its original EV, Vietnamese start-up VinFast is ready to roll its second offering into U.S. showrooms. To increase the appeal of the three-row VF 9, VinFast has slashed the sticker price by more than $10,000 on the base model and $18,000 on the more lavishly equipped Plus package.

Sasquatch Takes the 2025 Bronco Sport to New Levels

Sasquatch Takes the 2025 Bronco Sport to New Levels

by | Aug 26, 2024 | , , , , ,

While it may be more affordable than its bigger sibling, the Ford Bronco Sport does sacrifice a bit of off-road moxie. But as it gets a welcome refresh for the 2025 model year, Bronco Sport gets some added off-road capabilities, including the introduction of the rugged new Sasquatch package. Headlight.News looks at all you’ll find on the 2025 update.

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