By Jim Meachen
Editor, MotorwayAmerica.com

(October 27, 2024) It seems the popularity of the compact CX-5 crossover can't be diminished. Return customers as well as new-to-Mazda buyers continue to make it the company's best seller despite an onslaught of new products — including a couple with Mazda name tags — and the fact it has been eight years since a complete redesign in 2017.

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By Jim Meachen
Editor, MotorwayAmerica.com

(October 13, 2024) The Ford Explorer has been a leading vehicle in the small-to-midsized sport utility vehicle segment — later branded as "crossover" — for nearly 35 years since the first Explorer was introduced in March 1990 and entered showrooms as a 1991 model. Amazingly, the Explorer remains a leader even as the competition has exploded. Sales figures for the first six months of 2024 show just under 105,000 sales, nearly identical to first half 2023 sales.

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By Jim Meachen
Editor, MotorwayAmerica.com

(October 6, 2024) The Mazda CX-50 entered showrooms more than two years ago as a 2023 model, the first vehicle to come off the  Huntsville, Ala., assembly line at a new manufacturing plant shared with Toyota. Built on a new platform, the CX-50 is aimed at such heavyweights as the Hyundai Tucson, Nissan Rogue and Toyota RAV4. It portrays a more rugged persona than the near-same-size CX-5, a trait that has suddenly become popular inside the industry.

By Jim Prueter
MotorwayAmerica.com

(September 24, 2024) Having debuted some 35 years ago, Ford's Explorer — the all-time best-selling SUV in America — receives its first major refreshing since 2019 and is now offered in just four trim levels: Active, ST-Line, Premium, and ST, our tested version. Ford discontinued the Base, Limited, King Ranch and Timberline editions for 2025. Top to bottom there is about a $20,000 price variance in trim levels.

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By Paul Borden
MotorwayAmerica.com

(August 20, 2024) If you are looking for a way to stump drivers from Generation Z (those born between 1997 and 2012), here is a good one. Put them behind the wheel of a manual transmission car and hand them an instruction sheet written in cursive. Odds are they won’t be able to handle it.