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Matt Schmitz

Former Assistant Managing Editor-News Matt Schmitz is a veteran Chicago journalist indulging his curiosity for all things auto while helping to inform car shoppers.

This week in pickup truck news, we drive the 2020 Ram 1500 EcoDiesel, tow a boat with the 2019 Ford Ranger, grab a Nissan Titan XD for a fuel economy run and more.
For the second week in a row, a safety recall tops our list of the week’s 10 biggest news stories; this time for the Honda CR-V.
A recall of the 2019 Toyota RAV4 and RAV4 Hybrid beat out our expert review of the 2019 Mazda CX-9 to reach No. 1 on our weekly list of the 10 biggest Cars.com news stories.
Updates to the 2020 Hyundai Santa Fe SUV top our list of the week’s 10 most popular stories.
Our editors were split roughly down the middle on the general utility of the otherwise well-liked 2020 Hyundai Palisade’s beverage receptacles. Here’s a deeper dive on what they’re all about.
True to their respective steep-cliffside and mountainous model names, the 2020 Hyundai Palisade and 2020 Kia Telluride have summited our list of the most popular Cars.com news articles of July. See the full list here.
Sometimes, a car model is so popular that shoppers want to know everything about it — even if it probably doesn’t affect them. Such seems to be the case with the 2019 Subaru Ascent in our most popular news stories of this past week. Check the full rundown for more here.
Here are the top 10 news stories Cars.com readers couldn’t get enough of in the past week, led off by the reveal of the 2020 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray.
Despite its tight backseat and sloping rear roofline, the 2019 Ford Mustang sports coupe scored well in our Car Seat Check.