News By Topic: Steve Purdy

2012 Audi A7 Supercharged Review: A Fantastic Car - VIDEO ENHANCED

Jul 20, 2011

2012 AUDI A7 SUPERCHARGED - A FANTASTIC CAR! A Fantastic Car for the Well Heeled By Steve Purdy TheAutoChannel.com Detroit Bureau This is a fantastic car. The new Audi A7 Supercharged is one of those cars I really hate to give up at the end of the week, and one I wish I had the wherewithal to own. What a sophisticated ... Continue reading

2011 Dodge Avenger Heat - V6 Review

Jul 20, 2011

2011 DODGE AVENGER HEAT V6 Contender for Most Improved By Steve Purdy TheAutoChannel.com Detroit Bureau With Fiat now managing Detroit’s smallest car company model updates are coming at a rapid pace with a new Durango, 300, Grand Cherokee, 200 and lots of others. I’ve driven most of them only around the block ... Continue reading

2011 Subaru Legacy 3.6R Limited Review By Steve Purdy

Jul 15, 2011

2011 SUBARU LEGACY 3.6R LIMITED A Fast, Lovely, Functional Sedan By Steve Purdy TheAutoChannel.com Detroit Bureau Lansing MI July 15, 2011; My pretty blonde and I vacation in New England occasionally. I recall a few years ago having breakfast in a lovely little diner in Northern New Hampshire watching rush-hour traffic ... Continue reading

2011 Subaru Forester 2.5X Premium Review and Road Test By Steve Purdy

Jul 13, 2011

2011 SUBARU FORESTER 2.5X PREMIUM A Boxer Without Rhythm By Steve Purdy TheAutoChannel.com Detroit Bureau I was a bit disappointed in the new Subaru Forester. Not that it isn’t a perfectly good crossover, or that it wouldn’t be a fine ride for anyone needing, or wanting, an all-wheel drive hauler of people an ... Continue reading

2011 Subaru Impreza WRX Road Test and Review

Jul 7, 2011

2011 SUBARU WRX A Rally Racer for You and I By Steve Purdy TheAutoChannel.com Detroit Bureau Subaru won the World Rally Manufacturers Championship three years running in 1995, ’96 and ’97. They haven’t won it since (though they’ve had some driver’s championships to boast about) and dropped out ... Continue reading

2011 Mercedes-Benz E350 4Matic Review and Road Test

Jul 5, 2011

2011 MERCEDES-BENZ E-350 COUPE A Rare “Pillarless” Hardtop By Steve Purdy TheAutoChannel.com Detroit Bureau The E-Class Coupe is a beautiful car. Yes, I know, beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and indeed subjective, but there’s no denying this one is a head-turner. Bold, brash lines flow from front t ... Continue reading

2012 Prius v (nee Toyota Prius) First Drive

Jun 28, 2011

Not a Toyota Prius Anymore, Just a Prius v By Steve Purdy TheAutoChannel.com Detroit Bureau The smart folks at Toyota have decided that they will make a separate breed of the popular Prius hybrid and add a family of other hybrid vehicles to that stable. Much like Lexus luxury division and Scion youth division the new P ... Continue reading

2011 Jaguar XJL Supercharged Review

Jun 20, 2011

JAGUAR XJL SUPERCHARGED Jaguar XJL (long wheelbase) sedan have in common with the littlest, cheapest car in the world, the Tata Nano? Well, they both have four wheels, Jaguar Jaguar ambiance, imposing values that reflect something other than the classically British sense of a sports car or sport sedan. So far our worri ... Continue reading

Happy Father's Day It's Time For EYES ON DESIGN 2011

Jun 19, 2011

EYES ON DESIGN 2011 Spending Father’s Day With Collector Cars By Steve Purdy TheAutoChannel.com Detroit Bureau Ahhhh, Father’s Day, what a great time for a car show! A Father’s Day tradition for me over the past 22 years or so has been the fascinating EyesOn Design car show on the beautiful, expansive la ... Continue reading

2011 Scion xD Review - VIDEO ENHANCED

Jun 17, 2011

A big road trip in a little car By Steve Purdy TheAutoChannel.com Detroit Bureau This is the tenth year that the Chicago-based Midwest Automotive Media Association has organized their Spring Rally. Each May they bring about 80 dedicated journalists to the famous Road America race track near Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin alon ... Continue reading

What's New With EVs and Other Green Vehicles? Not Much!

Jun 16, 2011

Not much, say experts at Automotive News conference this week By Steve Purdy TheAutoChannel.com Detroit Bureau We spent a couple days this week talking about electric cars, and listening to experts and advocates talk about the future of automotive electrification as well as many other kinds of environmentally friendly ... Continue reading

2011 Toyota Yaris Review - A Big Man In A Small Car

May 31, 2011

FYI: Toyota Yaris Specs, Comparisons and Prices – Toyota Buyers Guide 2011 TOYOTA YARIS S A Fine Little Commuter Car By Steve Purdy TheAutoChannel.com Detroit Bureau Yaris is Toyota’s tiniest car in the US . . . so far. Later this year, rumor has it, we will see the cute little city car we saw running around ... Continue reading

2011 Toyota Tacoma PreRunner Review - Late Production

May 23, 2011

2011 TOYOTA TACOMA PRERUNNER ACCESS CAB compact pickups, review By Steve Purdy TheAutoChannel.com Detroit Bureau Of all segments in the car and light truck market in the US one of the weakest is what are sometimes called compact pickups. Compare to:Nissan Frontier, Suzuki Equator, Chevy Colorado, Ford Ranger (due to go ... Continue reading

2011 Kia Optima EX Review and Road Test - Amazing

May 16, 2011

2011 KIA OPTIMA EX REVIEW Another Fine Korean Sedan By Steve Purdy TheAutoChannel.com The new Kia Optima, Amazing front-wheel drive, mid-size, 5-passenger sedan is perhaps the most car you can get for the money in its class. The 2011 Kia Optima is indeed all new. The platform was developed for both the Optima . ... Continue reading

2011 Mitsubishi Lancer EVOlution Review and Road Test

May 13, 2011

2011 MITSUBISHI LANCER EVOLUTION SE An Everyman's Rally Racer By Steve Purdy TheAutoChannel.com Detroit Bureau We've spent much of our time these last few months evaluating mainstream, practical cars so we’re thrilled to find in the driveway this week something truly exciting – the new 10th-generation Mitsubi ... Continue reading