When deciding what car to send your newly minted college student away to school in, you often have to balance your child’s desires against your sensibilities. With that in mind, DECISIVE’s auto experts were asked to enumerate three choices for the best new set of back to school wheels––taking into consideration pricing, safety, economy of operation, and the all-important “cool factor”.

Nissan and Mitsubishi both unveiled compact crossover vehicles at the New York Auto Show.

As far as SUVs and crossover introductions go, the MINI Cooper Countryman and Infiniti QX56 represent the large and small of things. 
After several years with minimal changes, Scion's three-model lineup gets a much-needed freshening in 2011. The xB gets a minor facelift, while the tC and all-new iQ bring the total number of Scion nameplates to four.

The New York Auto Show is right around the corner, and everybody's gearing up to impress the money people. Manhattan is where Wall Street is, after all, so while NYC isn't exactly the most car-friendly environment in the country, everyone's bringing out their latest and greatest to preen for the financial folks. The show opens April 2 and runs through the 11th, with the press preview taking place March 31 and April 1. In addition to already-introduced vehicles like the Audi e-tron, MINI Beachcomber, GMC Granite and C
The interior--perhaps more than any other aspect of a vehicle--lends itself to customization, to the expression of a personal style, a desire, a conviction. The question is, how far to go? How different, how comfortable, how functional, how wild? Whatever the answer might be, this book will help you get there.

