Kyle Patrick

After plenty of teasing—not to mention the launch of its Euro-market version— the 2025 Volkswagen Tiguan finally debuted in LA last week.With similar dimensions, the third-generation model ditches the rare third-row option, while promising more power and better efficiency thanks to a lower curb weight.There’s the expected influx of tech as well, plus tweaked looks outside and—especially—within.We got to poke around the new middle model of the Volkswagen SUV lineup at LA.Here’s what impressed us most ahead of its launch next year.

Fast and somewhat furious.Toyota says the 2024 GR Supra 45th Anniversary is “an ode to the 1990’s (sic) models.” What the bright orange paint and large rear spoiler say is that it’s the closest Toyota could get to a Fast and Furious tribute without those pesky things like contracts and licensing fees.Winking reference to living life a quarter mile at a time aside, the latest special edition Supra offers the same goodness the two-seater has had since the six-speed manual joined the lineup a few years ago.That is to say, it’s fun and exciting in a way few cars manage under six figures.

Well, it’s happening.The new era of Jaguar (or, as it’s now styled, JaGuar) is around the corner.Not only is Jag ditching gas engines, but the British brand is setting its sights further upmarket, hoping to peel off would-be buyers from the likes of Bentley and Aston Martin.Whether that is possible is a conversation for another day.

Hello from Tennessee, where Nissan is hosting AutoGuide and various other media for the launch of the 2025 Armada and Murano.As one of the last events of the year, this one’s got a packed schedule: today not only will I be driving the Armada on-road (in Platinum Reserve trim), but off-road in the new Pro-4X guise.After that, we’ll be getting some time behind the wheel of the Murano.

Fitness for purpose.That is the focus for the 2025 Volkswagen Taos.The German brand’s littlest SUV was already a big deal even before this facelift.After launching in 2021, it quickly became a cornerstone of the brand’s lineup.

The 2025 Volkswagen Taos tweaks the brand's smallest SUV, with new looks hiding an improved powertrain with more power and better fuel economy. What's more, there's more standard tech—and some models even see a price decrease. On first impressions, it all adds up to an even better small SUV all-rounder.

After the outgoing model was on sale for nearly a whole decade, the 2025 Nissan Armada has arrived with a vastly more modern look and feel. Gone is the V8, but a turbo V6 offers more power. Read the full first drive review here.

Williamson county is consistently the most affluent in Tennessee, and in fact one of the top-ranking counties in the whole country.This being the launch location for the 2025 Nissan Armada sends a clear message.After the outgoing model trundled along in the market for nearly a decade, Nissan’s big body-on-frame SUV is new again, offering buyers a modernized 2020s experience that the brand says better addresses customer demands.The Armada is marching upmarket with a look and feel (and price) that says the folks around here are prime potential customers.

It’s happened, it’s really happened: Nissan has updated the Murano for 2025.After roughly a decade of the current model, it’s safe to say there are a lot of questions floating around this fourth-generation model.Chief amongst them are “what took so long” and also “why does it look like the love child of a Kicks and Ferrari Daytona?” Perhaps more pressing: “why should we care?”Nissan is reframing its middle-child mid-sizer, moving the Murano away from its sporty roots and towards a calmer, more upmarket experience.

When is a GM product not a GM product?When it’s a Honda.At this point, it’s fairly common knowledge that the 2024 Honda Prologue sits atop General Motors’ platform-formerly-known-as-Ultium.It was more of a fling than a long-term partnership too: Honda has since announced it is moving its own EV development forward, making the Prologue and related Acura ZDX the only results of the pairing.What might be less apparent is that the Prologue is the second-best iteration of this platform (after the Cadillac Lyriq).