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Inside, an elegant dash with open-pore wood and leather with contrasting piping make it a very cushy place to park your tush.

Whether you have the RT with its 5.7-liter, 360 horsepower V8 Hemi, or the 3.6-liter V6 with its 295 ponies in the luxury Citadel, the truck is a performer.

In this day and age, that’s a positive steal for a car this well equipped.

When you drive the latest edition of the Chrysler 300 with the “S” package, you might have to rethink your definition of power.

But getting all this, plus Toyota quality and resale for just under $20,000 is a feat in and of itself, and a reminder of why we all came to love them in the first place.

The Toyota Avalon Hybrid has come a long way from its origins as part of the AARP motor pool.

In a time when so many cars from Asian manufacturers looked, well, cookie-cutterish, the cars from Mazda went their own way.

Our friends at Kia don’t like calling the new Sedona a minivan. They prefer the phrase “multipurpose vehicle.”

Lots of automakers have tried to make some kind of an SUV that gives you truly good performance and handling. Until now, only the Subaru Outback came close for me, but Mazda’s smallest crossover, the CX-5, may take the crown.

I recall a time when the folks at Hyundai had to add what’s known in the trade as a “pronouncer” to their signs at auto shows so folks would know how to say the company’s name.