The Truth About Cars

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

The Kicks is also squarely aimed at younger buyers who have less to spend on a new car – though it’s likely that active empty nesters will also be a high percentage of Kicks buyers. I should point out here that we were driving upper trim cars – loaded SRs with all-wheel drive. I found the brakes to be smooth and firm.

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Baua Electric

JUNE 12, 2024

This and more, here at Green Car Reports. In a review of the 2025 Honda Civic Hybrid , we found this models to be a class above the Toyota Corolla Hybrid, with a quieter, punchier, and more pleasant driving experience than the non-hybrid Civic. It’s a great way to get nearly 50 mpg with no compromise.

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 9, 2023

The Toyota Corolla is the bestselling car of all time, and it remains as relevant in the new vehicle market as it ever was. For around $25,000 you can get a comfortable compact sedan with all-wheel drive and an EPA rating near 50 mpg. That’s because in terms of value for money, the Corolla still has the market cornered.

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 22, 2022

Which Toyota high-mpg hybrid model is gaining all-wheel drive? This is our look back at the Week In Reverse—right here at Green Car Reports—for the week ending October 21, 2022. In a review of the 2023 Honda CR-V Hybrid, we found this model to be the brand’s best.

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The Truth About Cars

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

I will start my first drive review of the 2025 Hyundai Tucson Hybrid with a minor confession of sorts. So it is with cars, too -- it's easy to take a flamethrower to the bad ones and to heap praise on the good ones. The EPA numbers for this vehicle were 35 mpg across the board, by the way. Images © 2024 Tim Healey/TTAC.com.

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Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Porsche reveals the first Formula E car for Gen3. And we take a last drive in the new 43-mpg Avalon Hybrid. This and more, here at Green Car Reports. With the 2023 Toyota Crown arriving soon, a recent 2022 Toyota Avalon Hybrid test drive reminded us what a tough act this big, comfortable, efficient 43-mpg sedan.

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Green Car Reports

AUGUST 3, 2021

This and more, here at Green Car Reports. Its 32-mpg. And what does “clean hydrogen” mean to Congress and its infrastructure bill? We drove the 2021 Hyundai Santa Fe Hybrid, and found this midsize SUV to occupy an ideal middle ground for midsize SUVs.

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The Truth About Cars

MAY 13, 2024

The Crown’s fuel-economy numbers are listed at 29 mpg city/32 mpg highway/30 mpg combined. The Platinum, however, was good enough to make me reconsider things a bit after a week with the car. I’d still love to spend some more time with the lower trims to see if I’d take a softer stance than I did a year ago.

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The Truth About Cars

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

The more I review crossovers and utility vehicles, the more I evaluate them by how well they just simply work for commuting duty. Us reviewers get a car for several days up to two weeks – owners have years to get used to their rides. The Atlas is a bit thirsty, at 19 mpg city, 25 mpg highway, and 21 mpg combined.

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The Truth About Cars

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Very few people head into car shopping with the intent of buying something bland and boring, I’d imagine. The line that comes to mind here is the Toyota Corolla Cross Hybrid is the car to buy when you don’t want to buy a car. This is not a car for drivers. I’m not damning the car with faint praise here.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

People might be bored reading about the Prius but a review on four Priuses (2004, 2005, two 2006s) that my family owns that ran a total of 913k km (570k miles) should be interesting, right? It was time to buy our first car. I was nervous as this was the first time that I was buying a car, so the experience was new to me.

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The Truth About Cars

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

To be sure, the Prius is no sports car. liter four-cylinder/electric motor pairing – 194 horsepower now for front-wheel drive models like my test car, and 139 lb-ft of torque for all models – erases the pokiness of the past and brings the car up to date. mpg -- and the computer wasn't reset when I picked up the car.

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Prius Toyota Fuel Economy Las Vegas 109

The Truth About Cars

APRIL 29, 2024

I mentioned the abysmal fuel-economy numbers – they are 10 mpg city/15 mpg highway/12 mpg combined. Get the latest& news, features, TTAC takes, and everything else that gets to the truth about cars first by subscribing to our& newsletter. At least the fuel tank holds 36 gallons.

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F-150 Ford MPG Carbon Fiber 104

The Truth About Cars

AUGUST 16, 2023

Toyota wasn’t the first to market a hybrid car here in the U.S. Despite that, the Prius has become the defining hybrid car of the past two decades or so, with the model name occasionally outshining the marque itself. My time in the Sequoia yielded readings in the 17 mpg range.

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Prius Toyota Tundra Fuel Economy 98

Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

We got some time behind the wheel of the 54-mpg Hyundai Elantra Hybrid. And could car carriers go wind-powered? This and more, here at Green Car Reports. Ford is building up a “digital ecosystem” for EVs that could also include building its own batteries. Tire and wheel size can matter a lot in EV range.

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 1, 2022

This is our look back at the Week In Reverse—right here at Green Car Reports—for the week ending September 30, 2022. Which automaker released an adapter that will allow it to use the vast majority of U.S. fast-chargers? We brought you a bumper crop of three.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 18, 2024

It’s a variety pack of Toyota news today, here at Green Car Reports. In a first drive of the 2025 Toyota Camry hybrid , we found that the hybrid system blends into the background—just like the rest of the car, which has now appropriately gone all-hybrid. Plus, reportedly, Toyota’s “bZ” nomenclature might already be toast.

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The Truth About Cars

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Size is the enemy of fuel economy, and even with a reduced cylinder count the numbers are a not great 14 mpg city/19 mpg highway/16 mpg combined. mpg – there was a discrepancy between the computer and my own calculations – across approximately 430 miles of driving. That’s … a lot.

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Jeep MPG Los Angeles Fuel Economy 104

The Truth About Cars

AUGUST 29, 2023

EPA ratings for a non-Tremor AWD Maverick - remember, same powertrain - are 22 mpg city, 28 mpg highway, and 24mpg combined. Compare that to the Tremor at 20 mpg city, 24 mpg highway, and 21 mpg combined.& How significant? Images: © 2023 Chris Tonn/TTAC.com] Become a& TTAC insider.

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Ford MPG EPA Escape 98

Green Car Reports

JUNE 21, 2022

As I report today in a full review of the HR-V over at The Car Connection, Honda has a very good vehicle—just one that, at 27 mpg combined. In this era of $6.00-a-gallon

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Honda MPG Hybrid Gasoline 199

The Truth About Cars

JULY 17, 2023

Part of the presentation that Volkswagen reps gave to assembled media in upstate New York last week centered on how Volkswagen has spent the last decade changing its product mix from one dominated by cars to one dominated by utility vehicles. They gave us a star chart, a coffee mug, and some fancy bar soap. The sole available engine is a 2.0-liter

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The Truth About Cars

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

All of these Raptors are like big, floppy rally cars, and up to this point, they’ve always needed to be scaled down. The car bounds along over almost any terrain like it's made of rubber, the V6 cracking and popping along, wind noise accompanied by the punctuated rush of air into the turbos. In like, an endearing sort of way.

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Baua Electric

JUNE 12, 2024

While the latest Prius is rather attractive, the 2025 Honda Civic Hybrid hits the 50-mpg mark in a discreet package that doesn’t scream, “I have a hybrid.” Here’s what you need to know after Green Car Reports spent a morning driving a 2025 Honda Civic Hybrid prototype around Montreal.

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The Truth About Cars

DECEMBER 28, 2023

In all honesty, I hesitate to recommend any such wee crossover when a similarly-sized subcompact car exists, simply as the general utility of the car is virtually identical and the resulting fuel economy is markedly better. And the prices are generally lower for a car, too.

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Hyundai MPG Mercury Hawaii 104

Green Car Reports

APRIL 20, 2021

This and more, here at Green Car Reports. A first drive of the 2022 Hyundai Tucson Hybrid told us that the superiority of this 38-mpg crossover over non-hybrid. We get drive time in the Hyundai Tucson Hybrid. And Toyota confirms an electric pickup in its future.

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 23, 2021

Which automaker is keeping driving data in its cars for up to a year? This is our look back at the Week In Reverse—right here at Green Car Reports—for the week ending October 22, 2021. Which company revealed plans for three future EVs this past week?

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The Truth About Cars

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Fuel economy is a predictably dismal 11 mpg city/16 mpg highway/13 mpg combined. Get the latest news, features, TTAC takes, and everything else that gets to the truth about cars first by subscribing to our newsletter. I can’t imagine ever needing this vehicle or anything like it. But I gotta admit, I kinda want one.

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The Truth About Cars

JANUARY 23, 2024

It’s a heckuva package, showing 27 mpg in both my testing and on the window sticker. The standard hybrid, with CVT and sans turbo, can manage around 33 mpg, give or take depending on front- or all-wheel drive configuration. While my fingers are hovering around the top row of the keyboard, let’s discuss another number - that price.

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The Truth About Cars

JULY 14, 2023

Fuel economy for front-drive models is 20 mpg city/27 mpg highway/23 mpg combined. All-wheel drive models have some variation by trim, with the highest highway number being 27 mpg and the lowest city number being 18 mpg for the Peak Edition. The highest combined number is 23 mpg for a base Atlas.

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The Truth About Cars

APRIL 24, 2023

I had a chance to wheel both cars on a short drive loop through the exurbs at the edge of the Chicago metro area. Keeping that in mind, I found the Crown to handle a bit better than the somnambulant Avalon, though this is still a touring car. It’s Chicago, so most corners were either gentle sweepers or super-slow bends.

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The Truth About Cars

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

But their bread is buttered with their bread-and-butter smaller cars, much like the 2024 Subaru Crosstrek seen here. & That’s why I’m thinking that a car like the Crosstrek is an ideal choice for a dad to buy. An unexpected road trip yielded indicated highway numbers closer to 38 mpg than the EPA’s 33 mpg highway rating.

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The Truth About Cars

JULY 24, 2023

For most car enthusiasts, a Ford Mustang without a V8 under the hood is sacrilege. Depending on how you option your car, you get either two separate digital screens or a one-piece curved glass screen with the gauges in front of the driver (duh) and the infotainment stuff angled towards said driver. liter turbocharged four-cylinder.

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The Truth About Cars

AUGUST 4, 2023

It’s going to be the theme of just about every Wrangler (and Ford Bronco, for that matter) review that I write – these off-road rigs are quite annoying on road but that’s OK because that’s the point. Your combined MPGe is 49, and your gas-only combined MPG is 20. Oh, and because you can go doorless and topless, should you choose.

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Baua Electric

JUNE 6, 2024

Later this summer the 2025 Toyota Crown Signia will roll into dealerships and buyers will find a spacious, more practical iteration of the Crown sedan , which replaced the Avalon atop the automakers passenger car lineup. Passenger cars, which include wagons and sedans can’t come from the factory with tinted windows because of wonky laws.

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The Truth About Cars

JULY 11, 2023

Realistically, fuel economy isn’t really changed either - both the old V6 and the new turbo four manage around 24 mpg in mixed driving as rated by the EPA.& Otherwise, show me to the 36 mpg Highlander Hybrid, or, really, the Sienna hybrid minivan. Towing capacity is unchanged at 5,000 pounds.

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The Truth About Cars

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

mpg in both trucks. Get the latest& news, features, TTAC takes, and everything else that gets to the truth about cars first by& subscribing to our& newsletter. The pre-production Tungsten I tested came in as-tested at $90,535 while the Rebel I drove on the off-road was $81,835 as-tested.

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The Truth About Cars

JANUARY 29, 2024

The Canadians estimated that the six-speed manual transmission-equipped Tacoma returns 18/23/20 mpg city/highway/combined, while variants with the eight-speed automatic return 19/25/21. Toyota claims the new truck’s most efficient configuration is the 4x2 with an automatic transmission, which returns up to 21/26/23 mpg.

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