Compacts/Hatches

The Toyota GR Yaris — better known to devoted fans of the type as the Yaris GR4 — has been more universally hyped in…

The 2020 Honda Civic Type R doesn’t look dramatically evolved but its subtle updates are worthwhile. Mostly, the CTR…

The 2020 Nissan Sentra SV is a user-friendly, competent getaround car and surprisingly luxurious for $24,000. It’s…

In 2006, Mini decided to supercharge its reborn hatchback and connect it to a manual transmission, making one of the…

A few years back I reviewed the Toyota Prius Prime and overall I found it to be a technically impressive car. It…

If you want a reliable, compact, and economical car, you’ll consider a Honda Civic. I don’t care who you are. And if…

You don’t really notice how truly huge everything else on the road has gotten until you’re behind the wheel of a…

The 2020 Mini Cooper SE is a hack-job electric car with parts from the BMW i3 that somehow only gets an estimated…

Some cars are just good—not the kind of good that impresses a large audience simply by virtue of its badge or the…

A thing you should all know by now is the 2020 Hyundai Veloster N is an incredible, everyday hot hatch. But since…

If you had told any of us five years ago that arguably the best value in the hot hatch segment would not just come…

Minis are probably some of the most recognizable cars on the road, even though they’re not all that common anywhere…

It’s an interesting era for high-performance hatchbacks. The Ford Fiesta ST, Focus ST and Focus RS have abandoned us.…

It’s impossible to talk about Russian cars without delving into stereotypes. And this is because America is among…

The moment I laid eyes on the 2019 Nissan Leaf Plus, I knew it had been improved. The front was finally fixed.…

I underestimated Mini once and I promised myself I would never let that happen again. A few years back I tested the…

Ford has purged its non-truck catalog of American cars, meaning that the 2019 Focus ST won’t be sold stateside.…

The 2019 Mercedes-Benz A-Class is a refreshing take at the luxury compact segment. It looks dashing—especially in…

When Honda first started breaking into the mainstream in America in the 1970s, it did so with a simple philosophy:…

One slightly unfortunate consequence of our current era of cars, where everything is faster, safer, cleaner, more…