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2024 Jeep Compass Trailhawk 4X4

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Compass has lost its way
among compact crossovers

By Jim Prueter
MotorwayAmerica.com

(January 19, 2025) The Jeep brand recently discontinued sales of its subcompact Renegade for the U.S, market making Compass the company's entry-level vehicle. A week behind the wheel testing of the current Compass serving duty as a daily driver on a mix of urban, suburban and some time tackling off-road trails, brought us up to speed on a vehicle we've not tested since its last fresh off a complete redesign for 2017 and a year before its next generational redo. 

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2025 Chevrolet Equinox

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PHOENIX — Who knew that apart from  the Silverado pickup truck, the Equinox compact crossover/SUV is Chevrolet's best selling model? With more than 200,000 Equinox sold last year, its best sales year ever, It has remained virtually unchanged since its last redesign in 2017. Now for the 2025 model year Chevrolet has introduced a completely redesigned fourth-generation Equinox.

2025 Chevrolet Blazer EV

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MIAMI — Chevrolet’s use of the Blazer nameplate dates back to the late 1960s and the vehicle itself has gone through many incarnations since debuting as a pickup truck for the 1969 model year before eventually morphing into the familiar SUV we know today. It even went through a production hiatus that lasted 14 years until the company resurrected it for 2019 as a mid-size, 2-row Crossover SUV with a base 4-cylinder engine and optional V6.

2025 Subaru Forester

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MISSOULA, MT. — Have you ever been to Montana?  As I found for my first visit recently, it’s a big place — the kind of wide open, horizon-to-horizon, nestling mountains, and wide-open Interstates kind of place where you just want to drive, drive, and drive.  Turns out, it was the perfect place to meet the redesigned 2025 Subaru Forester.

Vehicle of the Week

2025 Volvo XC60 plug-in hybrid — The Volvo evolved

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By David Boldt
MyCarData

It’s been almost 30 years since Volvo, taking a page from the well-received Subaru Outback, provided its adventure-ready wagon with more ground clearance and a rough-and-ready exterior, dubbing its new confection the XC70.  I, along with other journalists, had an opportunity to preview the then-new XC in California’s Baja Peninsula; both the XC70 and Baja proved to be everything a Swede might want in the middle of a Nordic winter.

Here's the Thing

Buick Enclave moves into third generation with 2025 model

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By Paul Borden
MotorwayAmerica.com

(January 17, 2025) The 2025 Buick Enclave opens the third generation of the company’s flagship SUV with a new, slightly more powerful and fuel efficient engine and a 30-inch touchscreen display that incorporates the instrument panel and infotainment functions into one wide display.

Rising oil costs bring gas prices along for the ride

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(January 17, 2025) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Oil costs hovering around $80 a barrel have helped push the national average for a gallon of gas four cents higher since last week to $3.10. 

New-vehicle prices climb higher for fourth straight month

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Average price reaches $49,740,
an increase 1.3% year over year

(January 16, 2025) ATLANTA — New-vehicle prices in December climbed higher for the fourth consecutive month and were close to the all-time high marked in December 2022. Average transaction prices (ATPs), as measured by Cox Automotive's Kelley Blue Book, typically peak in December, as high-priced models from luxury makers often sell well in the final month of the year. New-vehicle ATPs were $49,740 last month, an increase of 1.3% year over year and higher by 1.5% compared to November 2024.

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Inside the Industry

2025 marks end of the line for Lexus RC and RC F sports cars

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Lexus will offer an RC F Final
Edition as production ends
    
(January 18, 2025) PLANO, Texas — After a decade on the market and more than a combined 90,000 units sold across 62 countries and regions, the Lexus RC and RC F will officially be discontinued at the conclusion of this model year. Offering consumers one last taste of their performance and grace, the RC and RC F will cross the proverbial finish line in harmony as 2025 comes to a close. 

BMW Motorrad presents strongest sales result in company history

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(January 17, 2025) MUNICH, Germany — After selling 210.408 bikes in 2024, BMW Motorrad was able to achieve the strongest sales result in company history. Germany stays the largest market and carries a significant share on the sales record of BMW Motorrad, with the regions Europe, USA, Asia and Latin America.

Subaru adds hybrid system to 2026 Crosstrek

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(January 17, 2025) Subaru has announced the new 2026 Subaru Crosstrek Hybrid. The third-generation Subaru Crosstrek returns with a hybrid model for 2026, equipped with a next-generation Subaru series-parallel hybrid system and standard Symmetrical All-Wheel Drive for enhanced range and capability. 

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Abandoned Car of the Week

A mid-20th Century VW lineup

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This lineup of 1960-70s Volkswagen nostalgia was discovered in Oregon, possibly belonging to a VW afficionado. From left, a '60s Beetle, an early 1970s VW Bus, and a hopped-up Beetle. (Photo by Jim Prueter)