Featured Cars

Toyota Highlander

The Toyota Highlander was one of the first midsize "crossover" sport-utilities to appear on the scene. With its carlike unibody design, the original Highlander provided a variety of benefits over Toyota's more traditional SUVs, such as better handling, less cabin noise, improved crashworthiness and easier entry and exit for passengers.

Like most crossovers, the Toyota Highlander appeals to consumers who want an SUV image, cargo-carrying versatility and carlike driving characteristics. Think of the Highlander as an elevated, oversize Camry wagon dressed for the great outdoors, and you've got the general idea.

Toyota Corolla

Here's the 2005 Toyota Corolla, the car that proves Toyota must be doing something right.Now in its eigth generation, the compact Toyota Corolla is the best-selling nameplate in automotive history. And with good reason: This is the quintessential economy car. It's small, inexpensive, fuel-efficient and reliable.

Over the last 40 years, Toyota has sold more than 30 million examples of the Corolla in 142 countries, earning this automobile the title of the world's best-selling passenger car on the planet.

The Corolla has a substantially more refined driving experience compared to other vehicles its size. Several competitors in the economy sedan class offer sportier dynamics and a wider range of features, but arguably none can top the Corolla when it comes to overall quality.

Nissan Pathfinder

Some sport-utility vehicles appeal to truck people, while others appeal to car people. The Nissan Pathfinder is one of the few sport-utility vehicles that actually holds some appeal for both. When it debuted in the late 1980s, the Pathfinder had the trucklike qualities of rear- or four-wheel drive, sturdy body-on frame architecture, angular styling and, when equipped with four-wheel drive, genuine off-road capability.

As the Nissan Pathfinder evolved through the years, it became larger and more refined. Its designers made changes that allowed it to walk the line between suburban family runabout and macho, rugged rock crawler. Now the Pathfinder is broad-shouldered enough to fit such new-millennium amenities as a fold-flat third-row seat, powerful V6 engines and a 6,000-pound towing capacity, while remaining tidy enough to fit easily in a standard garage space. It's also one of the rare SUVs to switch from unibody construction back to a truck-based body-on-frame setup, creating a sturdier truck but also adding weight.

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