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2017 Honda CR-V brings back the volume knob

Honda’s popular CUV is all-new for 2017 with a striking new looks, higher-quality interior materials, new turbocharged motor option and the best tech in its class. The new look features chiseled lines and an in-your-face schnoz with a back-end that’s unmistakably a CR-V.

Like its smaller sibling, the Civic, the 2017 CR-V is available with an optional 1.5-liter turbocharged four-cylinder motor cranking out 190 HP. The excellent naturally aspirated 2.4-cylinder motor continues on as the base motor. Both motors are paired to Honda’s CVT. I’m not the biggest fan of CVTs, but I found the 1.5-liter turbo and CVT combination in the 2016 Civic excellent.

The new CR-V gains a new 7-inch infotainment system that supports Android Auto and Apple CarPlay. A volume knob returns to the CR-V, but Honda continues to stick with capacitive touch buttons for other functions. A Garmin-powered navigation system is optional for those that don’t want to rely on smartphones.

Honda Sensing driver assist technology is standard on EX and higher trim levels. The driver assist technology suite includes automatic emergency braking, forward collision warning, lane keep assist, lane departure warning, road departure mitigation and adaptive cruise control (ACC).

ACC is full-speed on the 2017 CR-V, which can completely stop the car and hold it for a more relaxing drive in stop and go traffic. Only the Subaru Forester and Jeep Cherokee offer a full-speed ACC option in its class.

Expect the 2017 CR-V to go on sale later this winter in LX, EX and Touring trims.

What’s new?

All-new and bigger inside and out

Optional 1.5-liter turbocharged motor

Apple CarPlay and Android Auto compatibility

Enhanced Honda Sensing technology with full-speed adaptive cruise control

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2017 BMW M4 : Competition Package

First drive : 2017 BMW M4

This is the first drive of the 2017 BMW M4 with the Competition Package lets get in and check it out!

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2017 Nissan GT-R : First Drive

Hiroshi Tamura is chief product specialist, NISMO and GT-R, for Nissan Motor Company, Ltd.

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First Look : 2017 Nissan Pathfinder

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First Drive of the 2017 Mercedes-Benz GLS

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Test Miles Radio August 28, 2016

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Inside look : 2017 KIA Cadenza

  First Drive of the 2017 KIA Cadenza

  Americans only buy about 250,000 non-luxury full size sedans a year and that means the segment is highly competitive with automakers filling their vehicles with style and content to gain attention and sales. KIA have added some interesting technologies to the 2nd generation cadenza. They have used new construction materials making the doors more dent resistant. Now when you park your car at the mall you have less chance of getting a door ding from the car next to you. The materials and finish clearly go after the luxury buyer, with Alcantara suede pillars and interior liners, along with the latest tech, Apple Carplay and Android Auto. Although the cadenza is technically a non luxury full size sedan it goes goes up against some of its luxury competitors like the Lexus ES and the Acura RLX.

  Although the Cadenza is a front wheel drive it competes with the Chrysler 300 and the Dodge Charger along with Chevy’s Impala and Toyota’s Avalon. The exterior design of the Cadenza has a Maserati look to the nose, and lower grill. It now comes with an led lighting package with a stand out set of daytime running lights that give the cadenza strong personality while in motion. Its clear from every aspect of this vehicle the quality is top notch from the driving to the materials and construction. The car handles like something ½ its size. The challenge is to convince Americans that a full size sedan is in their best interest!

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2016 Honda Ridgeline : Truck or SUV

  Honda Remakes the Truck with the Customer in Mind

Honda has challenged the American truck market. Honda broke all the rules while building the new Ridgeline. But the managed to find a way to still make a vehicle that Americans will want. It is constructed in the same way as a car, not the way all American trucks are made.

Technically it’s an SUV with a truck bed. Inside and out, Honda‘s truck share’s many of the parts of a Honda Pilot. Four-wheel-drive is standard but the front wheels ar

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e favored. I have never seen a front wheel drive truck in America. It is aerodynamic and cuts through the air perfectly, the American truck we have come to know may have turned in a different direction.

  The Ridgeline is roomy, comfortable, easy to drive, well made and has more safety features that many luxury vehicles. It is a great choice as a single, family vehicle, and it is inexpensive to buy, own and maintain. The tailgate opens two ways, it has a 400-watt plug in the back. Strong enough to make my fruit smoothie from my blender, it uses the bed walls as speaker cones so you can one heck of a tailgate party with rear bed music.

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If you make the occasional trip to the dump, have small home DIY projects, needs to move lawn mowers, motorbikes, quads or a friend or family member into a new apartment this might to your nirvana. I don’t want to call this a truck. It’s a new breed of SUV with a truck bed, but since we don’t have a name for that yet how about a sport-utility-truck or SUT. Now the Ridgeline starts at just under $30,000 this particular Black Edition is around $44,000, and the best fuel economy we had was around 26 mpg.

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Muscle Cars

 Kobe Bryant, the 20 year Laker Veteran recently took a trip to Maranello, Italy to test out some of the finest European supercars Ferrari has to offer. hitting the track in the all new Ferrari F12 TDF and heard screaming down the skinny roads of Maranello int GTC 4 Lusso, and later photographed outside the office of Enzo Ferrari, a classic picture of a legend with a legend.

Also visiting the factory, Kobe showed interest in the manufacturing, personalities, as well as behind the scenes look at the designing and a walk through the history of Ferrari. Spotted exiting Kobe’s Ferrari was PGA Star Justin Rose with a big smile most likely from the exhilarating ride, or that’s what we would like to think.

    Many legendary celebrities share the immense faith in the 77-year-old Luxury Supercar maker, including Scottish born, 16 Michelin Star winner, and TV personality Gordon Ramsay who recently purchased the sleek new 816,000 F12 TDF, and also recently Purchased LaFerrari, you can see, once you have one Ferrari, you have to have them all. However the largest Ferrari Collector I know does not want to be named but will allow me to say he has more than any Celebrity, according to his research, which just goes to show that you don’t have to be a Celebrity to own a Ferrari

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Northwest's Green Vehicle of the Year Award

The results are in. Our local journalists have chosen this year’s Northwest Green Vehicle of the Year! The Northwest Automotive Press Association had their annual drive revolution event in portland this week, with members of the automotive media judging the best northwest green vehicles available. And we have the winners

There are 4 categories. Hybrids, plug-ins, green luxury, and the best overall green vehicle. In the hybrid category, honda took the win with the new accord. 49 miles per gallon, good looking, well made and starting out at $30,000, but topping out at $35k. Its has room, reliability, and gobs of safety

In the plug-in category, the car that got the most votes was theVWw e-golf. The E-Golf model starts at $35k but the car is almost identical to the regular golf and that is a huge plus for those that don’t want an electric car that looks like an electric car. Luxury green cars are a fast growing category, the new Acura NSX got the most votes by far. 3 motors one v6 twin turbo engine, AWD, a top speed of 191 miles an hour makes it a home run. Who wouldn’t look good in this is the real question.

But finally, the best car that was tested over all was the Chevy Volt. This car is an absolute masterpiece of engineering. Well made efficient, beautifully designed and with an electric range of 53 miles and a total range 420 miles. It starts at $33,000 and if you are in the market for a green car it is a must for your shopping list. I would be bold enough to say it is the best car chevy have made for 20 years. Those cars that won will receive award trophies at a ceremony in Oregon later in the year. Now these vehicles range all the way from a starting price of $30k all the way up to $205k.

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America has Spoken, "We need more SUV's!"

  SUV’s, Gaining More and More Popularity

This is the Mercedes-Benz GLE coupe. It is not an SUV, it’s not a sports car it is somewhere in between. Chances are you either love or hate the SUV coupe. They are a combination that initially seems like the bacon doughnut. An interesting but strange idea that just seems to work.

Mercedes like to call the GLE coupe an SUV with the heart and soul of a sports car. But this is a vehicle that fills the purposes, a 4 door SUV with the space to pack in everything you need for your everyday life and the performance to excite you when you drive the open road or take a road trip.

Mercedes-Benz invented the four-door coupe idea back in 2006 with the CLS. But the 4 door coupe sedan became a design buzz with everyone jumping on the bandwagon from VW with the CC to Aston Martin Rapide S. The SUV Coupe was relatively unsuccessful when it was first introduced. Hondas Crosstour and Acura ZDX were complete disasters and ended up being discontinued. When automakers added performance parts to the SUV Coupes, buyers started to become more interested.

It’s not just Mercedes who have leaped head-first into the sports car SUV combination. BMW made the x6, which combines a large and powerful SUV and sports car as well as the BMW x4 which does the same but in a slightly smaller way. I am personally a fan. I have 5 dogs so I need that room, but I have a led foot as you well know and like to push vehicles to the top end performance when the road conditions allow. So I can have my SUV and sports car together. If BMW is known for superior performance, Mercedes are definitely superior in tech with near autonomous driving features in the GLE coupe. I was able to put the GLE coupe on adaptive cruise control, and take my hands off the wheel allowing the car to drive itself for minutes at a time before it asked me to put my hands back on the steering wheel. Mercedes are now also introducing a smaller SUV coupe to the family with the GLC-coupe that should be in dealers later in the year.

But for now, the GLE coupe can be ordered in several versions. With up to 577 horsepower and 0-60 times well under 5 seconds, for me, the combination of 4 door SUVand sports car seems very unlikely, like peanut butter on a hamburger, but somehow it just seems to work! The price of the brand new GLE coupe starts at just over $65k the best fuel economy is 29 miles per gallon and you will find them in dealerships right now.