What was the midsize car to beat in 1983? According to this slightly delusional vintage Chevy commercial it was clearly the Celebrity. No import at any price could match "the room it gives you for the mileage it gives you at any price".
This image, captured by WRCB-TV, is our first look at Volkswagen's new mid-size sedan, which is set to go into production in 2011.
The Car You Knew America Could Build (but wish they would have about 15 years ago) has just added another trophy to its collection. The 2008 Chevy Malibu received top honors in the mid-size car category of this year's J.D. Power (and his various associates') Initial Quality Survey, beating out the fugly Mitsubishi…
Mazda's new-generation, globally oriented Mazda6 may be the closest thing US buyers will get to the high design of Ford Europe, at least until the Taurus gets a makeover. (And even then.) It portrays the company's current attention to an aesthetic theme that pulls from nature, while staying true to a form most feel is…
With Renault set to reveal its latest Laguna on June 4, the company's sent out some teaser shots of the 2008 model, which we'll examine as a purely academic exercise. The Laguna's always left us sort of clammy, with looks that appear backdated, even in light of today's drab-plus-one entrants like the Volkswagen Passat…
Take the body kit off the Dodge Avenger concept and what do you get? If you said "my next rental at Dallas—Fort Worth" you'd be partially right. It's the production Dodge Avenger, caught testing ahead of the Detroit auto show, where it's expected to debut ahead of a quickie rush to dealers by early '07. If you've been…
Dodge won't pin the Stratus badge on its next-generation midsize sedan. Instead, it will reportedly go with Avenger, a name that badged a Dodge sport coupe during the late 1990s. Dodge also chose the Avenger name for the 2003 concept vehicle (pictured), which introduced the world to the new, car-truck design direction…
According to Edmunds Inside Line, Toyota is nudging its next-generation Camry in a more stylish direction, calling on design forms from its European Avensis sedan (pictured, below) to punch up the current Camry's contagious-yawn styling. Toyota will likely draw from the Avensis's a graceful, sloping rear section and…
