Aaron Bragman

Maybe the idea of a luxury three-row crossover-style SUV appeals to you but you haven’t found one on the market that you’re comfortable with. The Tesla Model X comes with baggage, like odd falcon-wing doors; the Mercedes-Benz EQS SUV is pricey and requires astronaut training to use its multimedia screens; and the Rivian R1S fits the bill, but maybe you don’t trust a brand that’s still new enough to not have a long reliability history.

Like other Mazda CX-50s, the hybrid version is a sharp-handling, good-looking compact SUV — but the new hybrid powertrain thoroughly ruins the fun in favor of efficiency.

We recently charged our all-electric long-term Kia EV9 at a Tesla Supercharger and came away feeling we’ll stick to much faster non-Tesla DC fast chargers for quick charging.

For the 2025 model year, Toyota has made some small changes and added a trim level to its biggest SUV, the Sequoia.

We provide you with actual real-world charging data for the 2024 Kia EV9 to give you a better idea of how fast it charges and what that can mean for your ownership experience.

It used to be that the RDX was the baby in the Acura showroom, serving as the entry point to a lineup of cars and SUVs based on more mundane Hondas that had been spiced up, leather-lined and given a boost of extra grunt. But over the years, the RDX (along with the rest of the Acura SUV lineup) has gotten bigger, more expensive and, let’s just admit it, porkier. With the RDX now pushing $46,050 to start (all prices include destination fee) and the bigger MDX now starting at an eye-popping $52,550, Acura figured there was room at the bottom end of the showroom for a new model — and the ADX slips nicely into that spot.

The Kia Sportage gets mild styling updates and some new equipment for the 2026 model year, including a new tablet display.

Since it was introduced in 2021, the Genesis GV70 compact SUV has become one of the South Korean luxury brand’s most popular models. So it was about due for its first refresh, and that’s what’s arrived for the 2026 model year for both the gas-engine and all-electric versions. But don’t feel bad if you gaze upon the SUVs pictured here and think “… What exactly did they change?” Despite brand representatives hyping up the new GV70 as the “next direction of Genesis design language” before the tarps came off, many of us in the audience looked at each other in confusion as soon as they were uncovered. They didn’t seem any different.

Subcompact crossovers really are the new economy cars of today — especially since most of the economy cars seem to have disappeared as automakers chase profits and ever-escalating sticker prices. The 2025 Volkswagen Taos sits at the bottom of the VW SUV lineup in the U.S. and has filled its role admirably since its introduction. It’s simple, comfortable, surprisingly spacious and carries enough family resemblance to the rest of the brand’s lineup that there’s really no mistaking it for anything else. Those are all good things in our eyes, and the big update the Taos has been given for the 2025 model year only seems to make a good thing better. We took a closer look at it during the 2024 Los Angeles Auto Show.

We’re geeked to see the new 2026 Hyundai Ioniq 9 and are sufficiently impressed to call it our pick for Best in Show.