Jack R. Nerad

Lexus Unveils a Pair: 2024 Lexus GX, 2024 Lexus TX

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Lexus has just unveiled two all-new vehicles that promise to shake up the burgeoning luxury SUV market in the United States. We were there for the “double feature” event where the Japanese luxury brand unveiled […]

Hitting the Desert Dirt in the 2023 Ford F-150 Tremor

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Jealously guarding its position as the maker of the bestselling pickup model in the United States, Ford develops and offers the Ford F-150 in a wide variety of work truck, personal-use, and off-road versions. One […]

2023 Lexus NX 450h F Sport Hits High Notes

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While the Lexus NX has underwhelmed many in previous incarnations, the 2023 NX 450h F Sport gets the recipe right. It is luxurious and fun to drive at the same time, as Host Jack Nerad […]

2023 Ford F-150 Raptor R Takes on Backwoods Maine & Patio Bricks

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The 2023 Ford F-150 Raptor R is the coolest truck in the Ford stable. This week AOTR Co-Host Chris Teague got the chance to match it up against the toughest tests Maine has to offer, […]

Inside General Motor’s Ultra Cruise: Exclusive Interview

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General Motors has been gathering many plaudits for its Super Cruise semi-autonomous driving system, but soon it will be supplemented by the even more sophisticated Ultra Cruise. To go in-depth on the intricacies of Ultra […]

All-New 2024 Ford Ranger Raptor: Hot Fun for the Summertime

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Ford has just pulled the wraps off the all-new 2024 Ford Ranger and Ford Ranger Raptor, and we’ll have an exclusive interview with the truck’s marketing manager, Gretchen Sauer. The all-new Ranger is a serious […]

2023 Mazda MX-5 Miata — Can an EV Ever Be This Much Fun?

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With the 2023 Mazda MX-5 Miata, driving is the thing. And as we roadtested the Miata this week, it struck us that all the fun to be had from driving a Miata might be lost […]

2023 Toyota Highlander or 2023 Hyundai Ioniq 5: How Will You Spend $50K?

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Car buyers are now being confronted with an interesting — and hard-to-answer — question: do I spend my money on an all-new battery-electric or do I spend it on a larger, more accommodating conventionally powered […]

HOT Hybrid: 2023 Toyota Corolla Cross Hybrid Makes Efficiency Fun

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The Corolla Cross Hybrid is a low-priced, high-value crossover SUV, a vehicle type American consumers just can’t seem to get enough of. In little more than a year on the market, it has already become […]

Cross Country Road Test: 2023 Lincoln Corsair Plug-in Hybrid

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The 2023 Lincoln Corsair PHEV is a full-featured 5-passenger luxury crossover filled with high-tech features like Lincoln BlueCruise 1.2 and other niceties. As we found in our 800-mile trek in the heavily revised vehicle, it […]