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Washington, D.C., Bureau Chief

Fred Meier

Former D.C. Bureau Chief Fred Meier, who lives every day with Washington gridlock, has an un-American love of small wagons and hatchbacks.

Articles by Fred Meier

Nearing the end of the road for this generation, the Rogue shows its age in interior design, media tech, loose driving dynamics and raucous CVT behavior.
Toyota has released a teaser, actually a 3-D illusion, for the redone 2020 
 Highlander SUV that it will unveil at the New York International Auto Show 
 next week.
Subaru has confirmed with a teaser photo that its redone 2020 Outback 
 will debut next week in the shadows of the new Hudson Yards skyscrapers 
 at the 2019 New York International Auto Show.
This week brought news that Tesla is rolling out updated Navigate on 
 Autopilot and will offer Enhanced Summon, as well as free Wi-Fi at 
 charging stations for planned in-car video.
Mercedes-Benz has teasers photo and video of its AMG CLA35, a warmer 
 version of the redesigned 2020 CLA-Class. It will debut this month at the 
 2019 New York International Auto Show.
In our 2019 Compact SUV Challenge testing seven compact SUVs, the 
 2019 Volkswagen Tiguan got high marks for drivability, but also finished 
 mid-pack in real-world gas mileage.
 
The 2019 Mazda6 mid-size sedan gains newly standard safety tech for the 
 base model, loses the manual transmission option and gets a price bump.
The redesigned 2019 Toyota RAV4's real-world gas mileage beat six other 
 top-of-the-line AWD compact SUVs in testing for Cars.com's 2019 Compact 
 SUV Challenge.
The Toyota-built Yaris hatchback, which Toyota said earlier this year would 
 have no 2019 model, will return for 2020 as a Mazda-built version of the 
 not-for-U.S. Mazda2 subcompact.
The 2019 Washington Auto Show moves to the spring this year and opens 
 April 5, with 600 vehicles from 35 brands at Washington, D.C.'s Walter E. 
 Washington Convention Center.