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Eric's Autos: 2025 Chevy Malibu
At one time, you had multiple options if you were interested in a midsize family sedan and didn't want to spend more than about $25,000 for it.
Your options have been reduced to one: the 2025 Chevy Malibu.
What It Is
The Malibu is the last car Chevrolet still sells -- and the last midsize family sedan anyone still sells with a base ...Read more

Eric's Autos: 2025 Kia K4
Kia's forte is undercutting its rivals (and then some) on price -- without cheaping out. If anything, the new K4 sedan -- which replaces the Forte as Kia's most affordable offering -- looks expensive.
Even though it's the least expensive new sedan you can buy.
What It Is
The K4 is a compact, entry-level sedan that competes ...Read more

Eric's Autos: 2025 Nissan Murano
Practically every car company has been trying to maintain the power/performance of the smaller engines that have been replacing larger engines -- in order to comply with federal fuel efficiency and emissions regulations -- by turbocharging these smaller engines.
Nissan has been doing that too. But it has also been doing something else.
Have ...Read more

Eric's Autos: 2025 Mini Cooper
If you are looking for a small car, there are just a few left to choose among -- and only one that's instantly recognizable and like none of the rest.
It's the Mini.
What It Is
The Mini is the iconically British three-door hatchback made by BMW. The modern -- BMW-built -- iteration is actually a larger car than the original Mini ...Read more

Eric's Autos: 2025 Subaru WRX
Finding a new car that comes standard with a manual transmission is almost as unusual as finding a new car that still comes standard with a manual, grab-handle emergency brake.
How about one that comes standard with both?
What It Is
The WRX is the street-legal iteration of the World Rally Cup Experimental race cars that Subaru racing teams ...Read more

Eric's Autos: 2025 Kia Sorento
A couple of months ago, I reviewed the plug-in hybrid version of the Kia Sorento crossover and compared it with its Hyundai-badged fraternal twin, the Sante Fe.
This week, the comparison's with the non-hybrid version of the Sorento.
What It Is
The Sorento is one of just three small crossovers that has room for seven rather than just five ...Read more

Eric's Autos: 2025 Nissan Rogue
The Nissan Rogue is an unassuming small crossover that is also Nissan's bestselling model. More finely, Nissan sells so many of these unassuming small crossovers -- around 270,000 per year -- that it makes up for Nissan's other models that aren't selling well.
So it's really important -- to Nissan -- that lots of people keep on buying new ...Read more

Eric's Autos: 2025 Ram 1500
When something is replaced by a new thing, it is assumed the new thing is an improved or otherwise better thing. A good way to find out is to compare the thing that was replaced with its replacement.
The 2025 Ram 1500 pickup used to be available with a 5.7-liter (and 6.2-liter) V8. Those V8s have been replaced with a pair of ...Read more

Eric's Autos: 2025 Volvo XC60 Polestar
There's a Volvo you may be very interested in if you're looking for something like a Porsche Macan GTS that looks like a Volvo.
A Volvo with close to twice the standard power -- and for about $15,000 less to start than what comes standard in the Macan GTS.
What It Is
The Volvo XC60 is a compact crossover made by the Swedish brand ...Read more

Eric's Autos: 2025 Lexus UX300h
"Economical" is not usually what you get when you buy a luxury-brand car, but there are some that are. Perhaps the most famous example of the species is the Mercedes 300D sedan of the '80s. It was a luxury car that was almost as economical to drive as many economy cars of its time, because it had a diesel engine under its hood.
Diesel engines ...Read more

Eric's Autos: 2025 VW Jetta GLI
Remember when what was once commonly referred to as a standard -- that is, a manual -- transmission was ... commonly standard? And automatics were generally optional, with the exception of luxury-brand (and "loaded") vehicles?
Fast-forward to the present. It isn't easy to find a manual transmission as an option -- in anything. Even the...Read more

Eric's Autos: 2025 Honda Prologue
The Honda Prologue isn't really a Honda -- in that it's based on the Chevy Blazer EV -- but it is different in a couple of ways that may make it worth a look if you're wanting an electric vehicle sold by Honda.
What It Is
The Prologue is a midsize/two-row electric crossover based on the Chevy Blazer EV.
It differs from its ...Read more

Eric's Autos: 2025 Mazda CX-90
It's not easy to pick a crossover from among all the other crossovers because so many of them are more or less the same.
One that's different in a big way is the Mazda CX-90 -- because it comes standard with an inline six-cylinder engine. This bucks two trends. The first is the one that's been trending toward the replacement of six-...Read more