At our test track, we found an easy recipe for cooking up a homemade supercar without resorting to tuner-shop tweaks that could break the bank or void the warranty. Here's our recipe: Take one fresh Scion FR-S, available at your local ...
Macworld - With build-to-order options, the new Mac mini makes a giant leap in performance. The $799 standard configuration Mac mini comes with a 2.3GHz quad-core Core i7 processor, 4GB of RAM, and a 5400-rpm 1TB hard drive. We customized ...
Tags: Mac Mini, Fusion Drive, Macworld Lab, MathematicaMark
When shopping for a new car,it is natural to want to get a great value for your automotive dollar.And that's what our latest best new-car values analysis is designed to do. Simply stated:Vehicles that are reliable,perform well,and ...
Tags: test score, Toyota Prius, champion, Honda Fit
As the year winds to a close,it is natural to look back and recall the high points.But,it is also useful to remember the lows,including those cars that disappointed.Here,we commemorate the worst models in our ratings. These are current ...
Tags: lowest-scoring vehicle, Jeep Wrangler, Scion iQ, Smart ForTwo
TCA Prep is bringing to high school students at the beach, on the road, and in their homes, a very unique SAT/ACT prep program that couples intensive, targeted prep sessions with the most interactive online classroom experience. The ...
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Consumer Reports has completed testing several new or updated family sedans, and the results are a bit mixed. Honda Accord The all-new Honda Accord looks very much like last year's model, but the sedan demonstrated a real improvement in ...
Tags: Family Sedans, Transportation, Honda
It's rather unprecedented for a car company to launch a mid-cycle freshening after merely 18 months on the market. But that's exactly what Honda did after our criticism of the 2012 Civic. Shortly after Honda launched the 2012 Civic, we ...
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Portable dashtop navigation devices have evolved through the years to be richly featured, affordable travel aids. As competition has seen the market whittle down to essentially three dominant brands, it has become easier for consumers to ...
Tags: Car Navigator, Navigator, Portable dashtop navigation devices
The Porsche Panamera: a really fast washing machine ?Jaguar XJL: a leather-lined toaster? Audi A8: an aluminum-crafted blender made for the autobahn? This is one way to interpret comments by Tony Posawatz, the new CEO of Fisker Automotive, ...
Tags: Porsche, Audi, Fisker Automotive, consumer electronics
The striking Fisker Karma extended-range electric car has turned heads for months in our test program, from its distinctive design to its sci-fi hum soundtrack. During that time we've experienced far more than our share of frustrations. And ...
Tags: electric car, extended-range, luxury sedan, sedans, Chrysler 200
With new products, it is easy to be lulled into believing that each updated model will be better than the one before. That's not what we're seeing in our portable GPS navigation tests. Our latest test group features eight models, spanning ...
Tags: GPS navigation, entry-level, full-featured, Garmin Nuvi 3550LM