Traxadaisical: 2017 Chevrolet Trax First Drive Like the Buick, the Trax has a single engine choice: a turbocharged, port-fuel-injected, 1.4-liter four that produces 148 lb-ft of torque at 1850 rpm. It doesn’t reach its peak power of 138 horsepower until the crankshaft is spinning at ...
Although it’s not fuel efficient by any means, just like most hatchbacks and superminis from that time, it’s still a car that could still be a good first car, since it’s easy to maintain and modify. Mods First of all, i’d say something that was recommended to me by Rotary Fan...
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Tempo, Cabrio, GV, GV Plus, GVX, and GVL. Yugo engines were fitted with a carburetor until well into the 1980s before fuel-injected models (starting with the Koral 65) were introduced beginning with the GVX-EFI (an Electronic fuel injection system), which featured a 1300cc engine. ...
This T5turbochargerwas simply a bolt-on design that was installed onto a special version of the F85 Cutlass called the Jetfire. It remains one of the best names ever given to a car. Some people say it was the first turbocharged production car in the world. Others say the Chevrolet Corva...
The 2017 Hyundai Elantra Eco delivers impressive fuel economy, but that's not its only strength. Read the first-drive review at Car and Driver.
Much like the Chevrolet Bolt EV and the electric Hyundai Ioniq, Honda has added four levels of regenerative braking that become progressively stronger with each tap of the paddle located behind the right-hand side of the steering wheel. In max regen, the Accord hybrid comfortably slows while ...
Honda turned the Japan-market Vezel into the HR-V, Chevrolet’s Trax had been on sale in several foreign countries before it was introduced here, and Ford soon will bring the South American EcoSport to our shores. Now Nissan joins the trend by tapping its European Qashqai for duty as the...
This time around, with virtually every model in the segment (the Nissan Altima, the Honda Accord, the Ford Fusion, the Chevrolet Malibu, to name a few) freshly redesigned and aiming for the top of the charts, Mazda has wisely chosen to go its own way—we’ll spare you the classic-...
EPA combined fuel-economy ratings top the outgoing SRX’s by more than 15 percent. An eight-speed automatic is standard on both front- and all-wheel-drive models. The AWD system has a clutch in the transaxle to disconnect the driveshaft when maximum traction isn’t needed. Two more ...