National Motorists Association Blog

Lincoln won’t be making the Continental sedan after the end of this model year or any cars at all after this year. Henceforth, all Lincolns will be SUVs, such as the Aviator that’s the subject of this review. People seem to like the layout better, probably because that’s what’s popular, which creates a feedback loop […]

The Mazda3 just got speedier. In addition to its standard 2.0-liter and optional 2.5-liter engine, you can get it with another engine. A turbocharged version of the 2.5-liter engine—partially resurrecting the idea, at least, of the old MazdaSpeed3, the high-performance version of the 3. That one hasn’t been available since 2013. Now it’s almost back. […]

What killed the Lexus GS350? After 27 years in production, it looks like 2020 will be the final year for this mid-sized luxury-sport sedan, which was one of the first of its kind not made by BMW or Mercedes-Benz. Lexus sold it for less than BMW and Benz—charged for their mid-sized luxury-sport sedans (models like […]

VW was the small car company. It made Beetles by the bushel that fit in your back pocket, almost. But America super-sized and small cars like the Beetle stopped selling. So VW stopped selling Beetles and started selling models like the Atlas, a massive three-row VW SUV big enough to carry a Beetle piggyback, plus […]

Really small crossovers are the new in thing—chiefly because bigger things can come inside taller packages. The new Hyundai Venue, for instance, is nearly a foot shorter than Hyundai’s smallest sedan, the Accent, yet it can carry more than twice as much stuff because of its shape. Stubby but tall makes all the difference. The […]