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Mar 7, 2018

Rundles Wrapup: Check Engine

Add that to the housing-cost woes and it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to see a day in the not-so-distant future that the most welcome sight for many people will be the “Welcome to Colorful Colorado” sign in the rear-view mirror.

Jan 25, 2018

Executive Wheels: Sparse, Spartan, Utilitarian – And Fun

The Metris is clearly one of the stranger vehicles I have ever driven, but it strikes me that this type of vehicle – with its commercial operation counterparts – has the versatility to stay around for a long time.

Dec 15, 2017

Executive Wheels: The Pleasant Mystery of the Mazda

Indeed, times have be tough for Mazda, as it has had many financial difficulties since founding in 1920, and it has struggled of late coming out of the 2008 Great Recession.

Dec 1, 2017

Executive Wheels: 2017 Subaru Brz Limited, Flat-Out Fun

Toyota refreshed the look as they brought out the new 86, and they added a more power to this 2-door roadster: a 2.0-liter boxer 4-cylinder with some 205 hp.

Oct 26, 2017

Executive Wheels: The Real Cherokee; The BIG 300

It’s not that one is bad and the other good – for what they are these are both very fine vehicles. No, it’s that they are totally different, and appeal to a totally different clientele.

Oct 12, 2017

Buyers Beware: Reports of Used Vehicles Requiring Repairs

The nation’s largest retailer of used cars, CarMax, has more than doubled the percentage of dangerous, defective, unrepaired recalled used cars for sale, according to Used Car Roulette, a new report released last week by the Consumers for Auto Reliability and Safety Foundation, MASSPIRG Education Fund and the Center for Auto S[...]

Sep 15, 2017

Executive Wheels: A winner. Hands down

I drove the newly redesigned 2017 Kia Cadenza Limited, a luxury (to the max!) performance vehicle so responsive and such a great road car that I made the drive there and back (three hours each way) with ease, and arrived each time feeling refreshed.

Aug 28, 2017

Rundles Wrap Up: No parking. For shame

All this density is, obviously a boon to developers and to city coffers. But in spite of the idyllic talk, the reality is that there are too many cars and no place to park them – except all over over peaceful neighborhoods.

Aug 25, 2017

Executive Wheels: Volvo s90 – Too much whiz-bang for its own good

As it turns out, this sedan, in only its second model year in the current configuration, is due for an overhaul. Volvo announced earlier this summer that all of its new models for the 2019 model year will be either fully electric or include an electric component, hybrids if you will.

Aug 11, 2017

Executive Wheels: Overcoming objections in the name of speed

STI is Subaru’s Subaru Tecnica International upgraded and tuned versions of the WRX, which is already a high-performance version of the Impreza featuring a 268 hp turbo engine.

Jul 13, 2017

Executive wheels: Can you hear me now? No

The Q50 has all of the modern bells and whistles that are required in today’s cars, especially so-called luxury cars, and this one is packed with electronics and safety equipment.

Jul 10, 2017

Denver's all grown up with no place to park

Denver added 13,028 people in the year that ended July 1, 2016, according to U.S. Census Bureau estimates released in March. And with more people come more cars — a reality that’s evident to anyone trying to find a parking spot in the city, whether it’s downtown or a surrounding neighborhood.