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We certainly can’t say 2017 was a boring year, so it’s with some pleasure that we look back at our most-read car reviews and see that they’re all about interesting subjects in one way or another. Despite the vast popularity of mostly soulless crossovers, the cars you most wanted to read about this year tended to possess character, distinctiveness, and in most cases, excellence. Here they are …
“Philip Koehn, the engineer directly responsible for the Phantom, told us over dinner that Rolls-Royce owners do care about things like steering feel and feedback, but in a rather nontraditional way. A Phantom must glide down the road, effortlessly, imbuing the saloon with what the automaker refers to as a Magic Carpet Ride. John Kay would surely approve.” – Jeremy Korzeniewski
“The LC 500 is one of the most drop-dead gorgeous cars I’ve driven this year. It’s simply a stunner … It attracts a lot of attention. Children on bikes rubbernecked. Evening walkers cast curious glances. A guy in an old pickup almost sideswiped me as he gawked while taking the corner fast.” – Greg Migliore
“To what seems like an absurd degree, Mazda’s engineers obsessively examined every nook, cranny, corner, and crevice to sniff out noise and eliminate it. Gaps were filled, insulation was injected, seals were added, air was redirected, glass was double glazed, and carpet replaced plastic coverings. It would seem that the Society of Persnickety Engineers is well represented at Mazda HQ.” – James Riswick
“After spending a solid day driving the reborn Compass over the rivers, through the woods, and everywhere in between, we’re more than happy to forget the ill-conceived first-gen Compass entirely. Put simply, to say that the new Compass is better than the old one is an understatement of Rubicon-size proportions.” – Jeremy Korzeniewski
“Soft, with better on-road manners – I realize it’s a bit practical to admire the new Discovery for what makes it more marketable. There’s an ingrained charisma to this SUV, a general Land Rover warmness. The leather is buttery, the steering wheel is meaty and the steering feel direct, the ride is crisp, and sightlines characteristically are excellent. It’s no chore to amble up a crooked pass, to roll up its pants and wade through the mud – and presumably effortless to crowd half of a soccer team inside and cross the ‘burbs to the field.” – Alex Kierstein
“(VW) is well-aware of the morgue filled with corpses and brands that tried to crash the exclusive party of upper premium German manufacturers. So the theme here is substance over marketing rhetoric: good design, fine materials, and excellent drivetrains, all tempered with advanced communications and safety technology, and skimmed over with a sheen of practicality.” – Andrew English
“It’s hard to find effective criticism against the new Nissan Leaf. Sure, Nissan doesn’t promise full autonomy like Tesla, but Tesla charges money for a feature that might not be legally allowed for many years. The Leaf doesn’t offer the range of the Chevy Bolt, but also doesn’t cost as much, and seasoned EV drivers know that the added driving range does more for pacifying range anxiety than actually providing day-to-day utility.” – John Beltz Snyder
“The Chiron’s leap to 1,500 ponies required considerable development, testing, and re-engineering. That exhaustive process saw significant challenges, even late in the game. Consider the high-speed testing incident in South Africa: despite extensive test-bench work, real-world driving revealed that the immense exhaust heat was melting the rear bumper and nearly igniting the car. The solution, it turns out, was to add a duct so airflow from the underbody could channel through and diffuse the heat. Hashtag: #1500HorsepowerProblems.” – Basem Wasef
“This is Lincoln’s flagship. It’s the most luxurious, comfortable and expensive vehicle the brand sells … And yet, the Navigator’s flagship status is a comeback story. It wasn’t too long ago that it was a black sheep confined to the distant back row of Lincoln family promotional photos along with the Town Car and a fichus added for decoration. It was never given one of the new-fangled MK names, and its V8-powered, truck-based status made it a thirsty dinosaur at a time of rising gas prices and an increasing number of crossovers.” – James Riswick
“Front to back, this car is really something special. It’s not only better than the last Accord, it’s as good or better than everything else in the class. There’s not one fundamental flaw or glaring issue that Honda left in. All of the criticisms of the past few years about complacency and a lost focus seem to have been addressed.” – Reese Counts
]]>https://briefnews.eu/autoblogs-10-most-read-car-reviews-of-2017/feed/0Autoblog's 50 most-read stories of 2017
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https://briefnews.eu/autoblogs-50-most-read-stories-of-2017/#respondFri, 29 Dec 2017 22:14:18 +0000http://briefnews.eu/autoblogs-50-most-read-stories-of-2017/ It was a big year for car news: new models, new technologies, and new directions for the industry and for the ways we’ll move around in the world. Out of the thousands of stories and hundreds of videos we’ve published this year, there was a lot of great content that got a lot of readership but didn’t make this list — reviews, rumors, inside scoops, breaking news, interviews with automotive newsmakers. Think of the stuff that’s not here: Nissan Leaf, Chevy Silverado, back-to-back new Volvo crossovers. Greg Migliore drove a Ford GT, for pete’s sake, and even that didn’t quite hit the top 50. And note the complete and utter absence of Tesla.
So why were these the most-read stories? Sometimes it’s obvious: Accord, Bronco, Demon, Stinger, F-150. Sometimes the stuff you liked surprised us. But these are the ones you really latched on to, for whatever reason — stories about cars and trucks, people and pictures, heroes and heels.
In Dick Clark countdown fashion, here are our 50 most-read stories, and a chance to revisit any you might have missed:
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The results were not entirely surprising. You chose a fastback instead of a convertible. You chose a GT Premium V8 over an EcoBoost turbo four. And you ran the table with an upgraded equipment package, Performance Package, and Magnaride suspension.
Two areas stood out:
Readers at first heavily favored the six-speed manual transmission, by 30 or 40 percentage points. That’s no surprise. But as voting went on, the new 10-speed automatic made a strong showing, ending just 8 percentage points behind the manual. (By the way, we made a point of not cluing you in to the running ballot totals, to keep the vote as honest as we could.) Even though the manual prevailed in the voting, we considered the surprisingly high level of reader curiosity regarding the automatic and decided to order that transmission. Like a lot of you, we’re curious about it too. Once we have the car, we hope to get an opportunity to test it against a Mustang GT that’s equipped with the stick.
But the closest race was for color. As you can see from the vote totals below, Orange Fury was the narrow winner, besting Magnetic Gray by just 18 votes. Kona Blue was a close third. Meanwhile, we got to see an Orange Fury Mustang at the Woodward Dream Cruise (video below), and a lot of you probably saw it there too. Seeing it in the flesh reassured us that it’s pretty great. So, orange it is.
In addition to the equipment we asked you about, we also added the $ 1,495 Safe & Smart Package. It includes adaptive cruise control, blind-spot information system, lane keeping, auto high beams, rain-sensing wipers, and forward collision warning with automatic emergency braking.
MSRP for the car as ordered, including destination charges, is $ 51,470.
Thanks for taking part. We’ll let you know when the car arrives, and we’ll have lots of stories to come about our time with it.