Toyota Highlander XSE
By: Tim Plouff Spring showers brought more than May flowers. They also created buds for native fruits, like Maine’s vast blueberry barrens with its luscious low-bush—and very healthy—wild berries. It only seemed fitting to photograph our equally luscious Blueberry Blue (actually, Toyota calls it Blueprint Blue) Highlander XSE in the middle of a blueberry field […]
Toyota Tacoma TRD Pro
By: Tim Plouff When you have the best-selling vehicle in its segment—small/mid-size pickup trucks—and you’ve led the class for a long time, you can become complacent and avoid risks. After all, customers are telling you that they like what you are offering, so why make dramatic changes? Toyota’s small pickup truck, the entry level vehicle […]
Mazda3 Hatchback – High Style Through All New England Seasons
By: Jeffrey Zygmont My only gripe against the Mazda3 is that its six-speed manual transmission can’t be paired with all-wheel drive. But that’s a personal complaint, not a professional one. As an impartial and experienced auto writer, I can’t quibble about Mazda’s decision to offer a six-speed manual transmission only in a front-drive version of […]
Infiniti QX80 – A Worthy Hauler is Challenged by Pump-Price Madness
By: Jeffrey Zygmont Infiniti – as the luxury-vehicle brand of Nissan – rounds the corners and smooths the edges of its big QX80 sport-utility vehicle, which helps set it apart from its very close cousin, the Nissan Armada. Both are essentially the same super-sized wagon. And both have the same problem du jour. Now that […]
PAYING A VISIT TO LUCID MOTORS’ NEW STUDIO IN BOSTON
By SCOTT WASSER My first reaction after receiving the invitation to visit a Lucid Air studio was, “No thanks; I stopped doing that sort of thing after graduating college.” Then my NEMPA colleague, photographer Kevin Nguyen, explained that a Lucid Air studio is an unconventional and elegant car dealership, not the kind of place where […]
What NEMPA Members Are Driving
Spring is in the passing lane and running at wide-open throttle, with the busy month of April behind us and May is off and running. After a two-year hiatus, the New York International Auto Show returned to host the automotive industry’s latest and greatest, and Earth Day shined a bit more light on the advancements […]