Performance

Updated styling makes the 2021 Volkswagen Atlas more palatable in superficial ways, and its fundamental strengths endure well beyond that.

Positioned to the left of the horn pad on the 2020 Corvette is a silver-colored button with a lone letter Z on it that controls performance settings.

Dual-clutch transmissions are designed to operate fully automatically or let the driver shift gears manually with paddle shifters or the transmission shift lever.

We’ve had to wait until now to see the full-bore BMW M3 and M4 performance versions, but now we know they’ll be the only U.S. BMWs to offer manual transmissions.

The 2020 Jeep Compass is unrivaled among compact SUVs when it comes to all-terrain capability, but it’s got some serious catching up to do in many other departments.

Acura refocuses its TLX sports sedan into something more upmarket, less mass market, for 2021.

Our second report on the status of our “CSI: Car Smell Investigation, 2020 Hyundai Palisade Edition” is far and away our most popular article of the past week.

The PMC Edition takes an RDX A-Spec with the Advance Package and adds goodies like gloss-black 20-inch alloy wheels, a body-color grille surround and black-chrome exhaust finishers.

Mercedes-AMG announced some enhancements to the GT coupe and Roadster for 2021: more power and a new Stealth model.

The newest Volkswagen, the all-electric 2021 ID.4, is VW’s first long-range all-electric vehicle in the U.S.