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AutoGuide Wrapped: The 10 Reviews Readers Liked Best
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10. 2025 BMW 550e xDrive Review: The Discount M5
Sitting before me is the 2025 BMW 550e xDrive, the latest evolution of the brand’s long-running mid-sized sedan. When it launched a little over a year ago, the G60-generation model arrived on these shores with a choice of full-gas and full-electric powertrains, the latter providing the range-topping i5 M60. And then the M5 came along, a 717-horsepower bahn-storming plug-in hybrid.
9. 2025 Toyota 4Runner Road Test Review: Change, For The Better
As I settle in for my first drive of the 2025 Toyota 4Runner, “Self Esteem” by The Offspring comes on satellite radio. A dated yet familiar anthem from the '90s, the track takes me way back. For a long time, that’s what driving a 4Runner was like. Familiar, yet from another time.
8. 2025 Volkswagen Taos Consumer Review
Three years ago, we nearly bought a Volkswagen Taos. It was a finalist during our vehicle shopping process, but ultimately lost out as my wife couldn’t get use to the performance/behaviour of the dual-clutch transmission.
Fast forward to today, and it’s time to new car shop again as our lease is about to end.
7. 2026 Hyundai Palisade First Drive Review: The New Standard
The 2026 Hyundai Palisade has just made my job harder—and easier.
It’s a well-worn auto journalist trope that most of us love minivans, almost as much as we love suggesting them to would-be buyers. It’s typically pretty easy: folks want a three-row family vehicle, and what else offers the level of real-world usefulness?
6. 2025 Volkswagen Tiguan First Drive Review: Upscale Right-Sizing
Is this the Goldilocks Tiguan? The smallish SUV that’s just right sized for Volkswagen?
The original Tiguan was tiny. It was arguably ahead of its time, arriving ahead of the current craze of small SUVs. Many consumers thought it too small, so for the 2018 model year, Volkswagen swung the pendulum the other way, biggie sizing the Tiguan into one of the largest compact SUVs on the market. In fact, it even had a third-row option.
5. 2025 Honda Civic Type R Review: Precision Instrument
Sometimes, the universe has a way of righting a wrong.
Due to scheduling issues back in 2023, I had to sit out on our sport compact comparison. Hot hatches are my jam: as a city dweller, the combination of ample power, tidy footprint, and plenty of practicality is a powerful one. I’ve learned to mostly avoid FOMO in this business—there’s simply too much to do—but that one still stung.
4. 2026 Toyota GR Supra Final Edition First Drive Review
You’ll miss it when it’s gone.
It’s impossible to ignore the thought as I’m winding the 2026 Toyota GR Supra MkV Final Edition around Sonoma Raceway. To say this fifth-gen Supra has been controversial would be an understatement. The Bavarian ties are numerous and obvious, and for some, that’s been a sticking point since 2019. “Nice BMW,” they sneer, with all the originality of a Borat impression.
3. 2026 Hyundai Palisade Hybrid First Drive Review: Flagship, Evolved
It’s nice to be right.
Ever since I drove the 2026 Hyundai Palisade earlier this summer, I’ve been convinced it would be the clear segment leader if not for one missing feature: a hybrid powertrain. The standard 3.5L V6 is good enough to fend off the competition’s default engines, but something with more power, better fuel economy—or ideally, both—would cement its position at the front of the pack.
2. 2025 Chevrolet Silverado 1500 Diesel Review: Road Trip Royalty
It’s not the most glamorous vacation vehicle, but it makes the most sense.
Canada’s East Coast is gorgeous, and the distances between landmarks can be vast. For a five-day trip, my wife and I were presented with a few options, and landed on the largest: the 2025 Chevrolet Silverado 1500 High Country. It’d be right at home in the vast openness of Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island, we figured. Of the internal combustion choices, this would also be the most fuel-efficient, as it packed the torquey Duramax diesel.
1. 2025 Toyota Corolla Cross Hybrid Consumer Review
My job, on most days, is trying to help consumers navigate the muddy waters of the automotive landscape. Everyone has different needs, tastes, and priorities. At AutoGuide, we put ourselves in the proverbial other person’s shoes to assess every new car, truck, and SUV we drive.
This week the shoe is on the other foot. I'm now the consumer as the vehicle in for evaluation centers around replacing our household’s primary family car. Our lease is up soon, and it’s time for a new family steed.
