Aaron Bragman

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.

2024 GMC Hummer EV SUV 3X | Cars.com photo by Christian Lantry

We recently brought you a review of the new 2024 Lucid Air Sapphire, the upstart electric automaker’s supercar-killing flagship luxury performance sedan. With a quarter-million-dollar sticker price and performance numbers closer to an F-22 Raptor fighter jet than a passenger sedan, it’s accurate to say the exotic experience the Air Sapphire provides is one only a handful of people will ever experience. But we wondered what life was like at the other end of the Lucid showroom: How does the entry-level $70,000 Lucid Air Pure compare with the eyeball-flattening Sapphire?

We didn’t just like the Ram 1500 best, it also performed the best in a number of categories where its numbers simply beat the other two trucks.

2025 Toyota Crown Signia (top) and 2025 Subaru Outback | Cars.com photos by Aaron Bragman

The redesigned 2025 Nissan Armada recaptures a lot of the space, power and utility that made the original so popular, making it fully competitive with the rest of the full-size SUV class.

Nissan’s Murano returns to being a trendsetter for the 2025 model year, but its beauty runs more than just skin deep.

Everything is an SUV these days, including Dodge’s mass-market volume model introduced for the 2023 model year, the Hornet. And if it looks really similar to the more expensive Alfa Romeo Tonale, well, that’s because it’s largely the same vehicle, but with slightly different front and rear styling and a different interior. For 2025, the Hornet gets very minor updates. Find out if you should get a 2025 Hornet or save a few bucks with a 2024 model.