It was like something from George Lucas' supercharged imagination. Bounding over landscape as arid and magnificently desolate as Luke Skywalker's twin-sunned home planet of Tatooine was a toweringly tall, massively long, incredibly wide vehicle. Nothing like it had been seen on this side of the gala
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It was like something from George Lucas' supercharged imagination. Bounding over landscape as arid and magnificently desolate as Luke Skywalker's twin-sunned home planet of Tatooine was a toweringly tall, massively long, incredibly wide vehicle. Nothing like it had been seen on this side of the gala
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Our premise for this test is simple: Today's mega-dollar, leather-swathed, sport/utility vehicles are as prevalent as BMWs in Beverly Hills, but are they any good when the road turns to rocks and scorpions outnumber Starbucks a million to none? Simply put, are luxury SUVs merely tarted-up wimps or t
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Our premise for this test is simple: Today's mega-dollar, leather-swathed, sport/utility vehicles are as prevalent as BMWs in Beverly Hills, but are they any good when the road turns to rocks and scorpions outnumber Starbucks a million to none? Simply put, are luxury SUVs merely tarted-up wimps or t
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Ford argues, "size does matter" with its behemoth Excursion sport/utility vehicle, on sale late September 1999. Measuring a 226.7-inches long, up to 79.5-inches tall, and 80-inches wide, the Excursion casts a formidable shadow over all SUV-dom, including the current Chevrolet/GMC Suburban (219.5-inc
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The mega-'ute segment is limited to two players--as good as it is, we don't consider the Toyota S...
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The mega-'ute segment is limited to two players--as good as it is, we don't consider the Toyota S...
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When buying a full-size sport/utility, most people look for stump-pulling power for hauling. Ford...
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We'll skip all the millennium stuff and get right to point. We've been handing out this award for more than 25 years and testing new trucks for almost 40. One day, we're bound to get it right. However, as long as manufacturers keep coming out with new or subst
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It's a love/hate deal. We love testing new vehicles but we hate the weeks of filling in the judging books, pondering the minute details of every vehicle, and ranking the vehicles against each other. Sure it's satisfying to emerge from a locked office at the en
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People who say size doesn't matter haven't driven a Ford Excursion. In the sport/utility world, i...
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