Aaron Gold

1 week ago | motortrend.com | Aaron Gold

Last summer, our Big Test of Small SUVs compared eight high-spec subcompact sport utility vehicles, and we concluded buyers in this segment are indeed lucky. The Hyundai Kona narrowly beat a covey of closely clustered competitors, and a matter as trifling as a poorly behaved powertrain was enough to push the otherwise competent Kia Seltos into last place. No question, there are lots of great choices in this segment. A couple of promising new prospects hit the market for 2025.

1 week ago | motortrend.com | Aaron Gold

New A6 delivers much the same styling as its distant A6 E-Tron relative, but with traditional gas power. We’ve seen the electric A6 E-Tron, those in Europe lucky enough to be guaranteed the opportunity to buy the new A6 Avant wagon have seen that model, and now, at last, we have the sedan most ordinary: Here’s the 2026 Audi A6 sedan, in all its fossil-fuel-burning glory. If it looks familiar, that’s probably because its styling is very similar to that of the A6 E-Tron, both outside and in.

2 weeks ago | motortrend.com | Aaron Gold

Who says the pickup truck has been perfected? Oh wait—the poor sales and dismal receptions of these trucks do. How hard can it be to build a pickup truck? You need a place for people to sit at one end, a bed to load stuff into at the other, a powerplant somewhere and perhaps a trailer hitch. Boom. Done. And yet, in the years—nay, decades—since this most utilitarian form of transportation has been more-or-less perfected, automakers have come up with some inexplicably strange variations.

3 weeks ago | motortrend.com | Aaron Gold

Jeep’s newest limited-run paint scheme isn’t like the juice we can afford. We’ll admit it, only to deny it later: We follow Jeep’s ever-changing paint palette with the undue attention some of us secretly devote to reality television. We cheered when not-pink Tuscadero returned last spring and mourned the loss of Bikini Blue, Mojito! Green, and Punkin’ Metallic.

3 weeks ago | motortrend.com | Aaron Gold

These once-concept-fantasy two-doors are closer to production-ready, but will we see them in showrooms? Genesis, the luxury division of Hyundai, has been teasing us with stunning coupe and convertible concepts since the X Concept of 2021 and the X Convertible Concept from late ’22. At this spring’s Seoul auto show, Genesis unveiled a pair of concepts derived from both that look much closer to reality, enough so that we don't think they really qualify as concept cars in the traditional sense.