Posts by Gabriel Olakunori
2025 Volvo EX90: A Modern EV With Tasteful Scandinavian Spice
What’s the formula for remodeling a well-laid gas-powered SUV into an all-inclusive EV? We may not be sure, but with the new EX90, we know Volvo knows a trick or two. The 2025 EX90 is part of Volvo’s voyage into an electric future. Simply put, it is an XC90 with a green makeover, except it…
Read MoreThe 2025 Land Rover Defender Is an SUV Classical With A Modern Luxe Twist
As you’d expect of defenders in a sports game lineup, the Defender is the most rugged and physical player on JLR’s lineup. It is also one of the best in the entire off-road SUV league. Defender is a classic nameplate that the manufacturer discontinued in 2016 and reintroduced in 2019 with a reimagined version. But…
Read MoreElectrifying Rebirth: The 2024 Acura ZDX Resurrects a Buried Nameplate
The 2024 Acura ZDX is what comes out of a room when you put the competent Honda and the luxury-obsessed General Motors teams together in one. It marks the start of Acura’s SUV electrification game, but it’s nothing like a rookie, thanks to getting a hand from an excelling automaker in the EV space, GM.…
Read More5 Future SUVs Our Fingers Itch to Drive (Spoiler Alert: They’re All EVs)
Some promising SUVs are leaving the plants and queueing up at the starting line, waiting for the gun to hit our roads soon. Automakers are making promises, some intensifying our anticipation, and others coming off as too good to be true. In the past few decades, SUVs have come from behind to dominate the automotive…
Read MoreThe Off-Roading GOAT? Exploring The 2024 Ford Bronco
If you interpreted GOAT as Goes Over All Terrain, then yes, the Ford Bronco is the SUV with that exclusive feature. You are also correct if you think the Bronco is a mountain GOAT compared to many other off-roaders because its ease on challenging terrains is mind-blowing. But if it means Greatest Of All Time…
Read MorePurist Yet Eclectic: The 2024 Jeep Wrangler is Astonishing
Frankly, the Jeep Wrangler needs no introduction, but editorial guidelines mandate this paragraph; plus, you can never talk (or read) too much about the revered off-roading beast of an SUV. The 2024 Jeep Wrangler intensifies the competition in the long-lasting Wrangler-Bronco-4Runner showdown. Interestingly, some of the higher trims of the new Wrangler might sneak into…
Read MoreTrust Your Crazy Idea: Couple Went Pole to Pole in a Nissan Ariya, proving EV Adventure Worthiness and Setting a Record
If any SUV were to travel 17k miles crossing three continents, it must be one of those brutal off-roading champs with a daring combustible engine, right? You don’t want to get stranded with a drained battery in no man’s land, so an EV is a no-no, right? That point of view expired in December 2023…
Read MoreThe 2024 Escalade Is How You Live Large on Urban Streets
Almost as though it has no dictionary definition, the word “Escalade” conjures a mental image of an unmistakable full-size SUV. It creates the caricature of an oversized people-mover that, on the one hand, appears muscled up to climb the rocky hills, leaving a trail of spinning stones. But, on the other hand, it looks too…
Read MoreThe 2024 Toyota Land Cruiser Is Back From the Gym and Ready to Bruise
While everyone expected a 2022 Land Cruiser by the end of 2021, Toyota discontinued the legendary off-roader in the United States. In the real sense, Toyota didn’t drop the Land Cruiser – it instead took it for a calory-burning exercise. Three years later, the Land Cruiser would return with smaller and narrower looks, and more…
Read MoreDriving Away From Civilization: Road Trip Enthusiast Says Everyone Should Experience It At Least Once
Where would your destination be if you and your friends had eight free days and a couple of Porsche Cayennes ready to go? Perhaps the mountains, a new city, or even the beach – or any other exciting destination the Cayenne can take you. To get some real-life insights, Global SUV linked up with auto…
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