Auto Review

The new Chevrolet Colorado and GMC Canyon are winning applause and awards from everyone with access to a plastic trophy factory, and with good reason. They are great trucks.

When the folks at Honda dropped off a shiny, yellow Fit at the office, it was snowing. I found myself wondering, how will this little front-wheel-drive economy sedan fare in that daily Iditarod that is my winter commute.

A lot of folks may forget that Honda was the first of the Japanese makes to create a luxury division, like Cadillac or Lincoln. And like the two domestics, they took their bread and butter sedans, fitted them for a tux, jacked up the price and voila! You have instant luxury.

Even after all these years there are still some folks who, when you say Jeep, picture some sort of pseudo-military Wrangler type vehicle. Well, let me bring you into the 21st century with the new Jeep Grand Cherokee SRT.

This is the Fiat 500 Abarth, and I know what you're thinking. How cute, how funny, how goofy. Well, when gas hits $5.00 a gallon, you'll be amazed at how ungoofy this car looks.

Look at the new Mazda 6 mid-sized sedan. Frankly, this could be a small Jaguar, and compared to a lot of the timid designs in this class of car, looks like Pam Anderson at the Pillsbury bake-off.

I have to be honest; this was a very difficult car to get out of. Not, as you probably suspect, due to my age, but the fact that it is a Camaro, for crying out loud! And what a Camaro.

I want to speak to all those old fogey baby boomers, you know, like me, who yearn for an old-fashioned, fast, loud, gaudy muscle car. Gang, I have your ride.

You know, when Cadillac introduced the new front end styling a few years ago, I thought they looked like angry kitchen appliances or something. But you know, driving this lovely SRX around town, it's starting to grow on me.