By Jim Prueter
MotorwayAmerica.com

(June 26, 2022) At just over 17-feet long and more than 6 ½ feet wide, and taller than my 6-6” height and weighs just over three tons, the Infiniti QX80 is a behemoth to behold. It’s also handsome with seating for seven, carries a luxury-brand cachet, and the biggest SUV offering in the Infiniti product lineup.

By Jim Prueter
MotorwayAmerica.com

(June 23, 2022) PHOENIX — The days of the long, black luxury sedan is dead. The shape of prestige, social power and arrival is now the ultra-luxury, ultra-performance SUV. The bigger, the glitzier, the shinier the better. Rolls Royce now has an SUV, Bentley, Ferrari, Lamborghini and others in all their quilted-leather, hand-rubbed African Rosewood-paneled fabulosity.

By Jim Prueter
MotorwayAmerica.com

(June 14, 2022) I grew up in mid-east Michigan on a farm about 125 miles straight north of Detroit. Most families like mine were farmers or blue collar with most employment dominated by large auto factories and foundries, almost exclusively General Motors, surrounded on the outskirts by fertile farmland that mainly grew wheat, navy beans, alfalfa and sugar beets. In that part of the state pickup trucks were a hard-working tool and as much an elemental part of the landscape as grain trucks, tractors and combines.

By Jim Prueter
MotorwayAmerica.com

(June 5, 2022) For 16 years the Nisan Frontier has remained largely unchanged and in automotive speak a rolling fossil where new Oldsmobiles were still in dealer showrooms.  For reference, there wasn’t even such a thing as the iPhone. Yet while it was well past its freshness date the popular mid-size pickup still sold in respectable numbers. That’s not surprising, the old Frontier still looks good, it did most things extremely well and not everyone gets overly excited with the latest high tech and digital stuff they’ll never figure out how to use or even want to know.

By Jim Prueter
MotorwayAmerica.com

(June 3, 2022) The Sorento, that was all new last year has come a long way since it was first introduced some two decades ago as Kia’s first entry into the midsize SUV segment. The Sorento carries over for 2022 with minor changes to our tested X-Line Prestige that gains heated second-row captain’s chairs and a larger 10.25 touch screen now standard.

By Jim Prueter
MotorwayAmerica.com

(May 30, 2022) Back in 2008 BMW gave birth to an odd-looking vehicle that was the seemingly the offspring of its parents the X5 SUV and the upscale 6-Series Coupe resulting in the X6 Sports Activity Coupe, or SUV or something like that. The X6 is still around even though its sales have never really amounted to much. Still, BMW doubled down on the concept and in 2014 launched a smaller baby version of the X6 called the X4 that was importantly less expensive.

By Jim Prueter
MotorwayAmerica.com

(May 20, 2022) PHOENIX — A year ago, if I mentioned the name “Lucid Air” it may have you thinking of a '70s rock band rather than a luxurious all-new all-electric vehicle built in a sparkling new factory here in Arizona. Lucid Motors is a multi-billion-dollar startup with its sites set as a legitimate alternative to the only true electric vehicle success, Tesla.

By Jim Prueter
MotorwayAmerica.com

(May 17, 2022) One of the hottest automotive segments today is off-roading Pickup, SUVs and dedicated-rugged 4x4s eagerly ready to tackle the best of “hardcore rock-crawling” challenges. Vehicles like the Jeep Wrangler Rubicon, new Ford Bronco and Raptor pickup, Land Rover Defender and numerous others.