Join us on the floor of the 2025 New York Auto Show. We cover the trends, or lack thereof, among automakers in attendance, the debut of several new Subaru models, and talk about which vehicles have the best chance of success in the market. Plus, we share our favorite vehicles from the show floor.
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SHOW NOTES
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00:00 – Introduction
00:15 – Lots of Nostalgia
01:24 – This Year’s Theme
02:35 – New Launches
14:04 – Marketing Choices
20:19 – Flash of Fun
21:15 – Success or Failure?
22:45 – Our Favorites
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Preview: The 2026 Subaru Outback Is Truly an SUV Now
Preview: 2026 Hyundai Palisade Is Larger, More Powerful, and More Upscale
Preview: 2026 Honda Passport Gets Tougher Looks and an Updated V6 Engine
Preview: 2026 Subaru Trailseeker Is a Bigger, Better Solterra EV
Preview: 2025 Subaru Forester Hybrid Brings More Power, Greater Efficiency
Preview: 2026 Kia EV4 Has a Long Range and Angular Styling
Preview: 2025 Ford Expedition Brings Off-Road Tech to the Three-Row SUV
You only need to pay for the damage to your exhaust system once before clearance is forever on your checklist. Flood survivability is useful. Acceleration is useful for traffic merging…
Yeah, but have the manufacturers realized yet that they could sell more cars if they brought prices in line with income levels?
Great job as usual.
Are cars are getting fugly?
The word you’re looking for is “poser” for city people who buy outdoorsy looking vehicles and never go off-road. I’m a whitewater guide and the vehicles I see most at the “put ins” are old beat up minivans. Same with the hardcore rock climbers.
The future is electric. No noise, no emissions, less fuel costs and less maintenance cost.
Legacy auto manufacturers are in trouble. They are too slow to adapt to the transition to electric vehicles.
Adapt, change or go bankrupt. Nokia and Kodak were once leaders in their industries but were slow to adapt to new technology.
Legacy auto dealers are a nightmare for legacy auto makers. They gouged customers trying to buy electric vehicles.
Legacy auto dealers abused their customers by adding market price adjustments to gouge their customers for EVs
They added pricey add ons and other costs to pump up the prices and their profits.
Tesla has the right idea. Buy online. No hassle. No sitting in a show room for hours. No salesman BS. No crazy markups.
No I have to see my manager BS. With Tesla you can buy a vehicle in 5 minutes or less online. The dealers have no one to blame but themselves. The dealers are dragging the legacy auto makers down with them. The problem with legacy auto makers having slow sales leads back to the legacy auto dealers. They try to talk people out of buying and EV an want to put them in a gasoline car. Many people hate going to legacy car dealerships. Many people call them stealer ships for a reason. New car, used car or going in for repairs you always walk out feeling cheated. People have no sympathy for dealers.
I don’t get so much about modern cars. They’re nearly all too big. Hell, I don’t even want a backseat let alone a third row. Efficiency, fun to drive, easy to park in a city is what I want.
It’s nice to have enough power to merge onto interstates. That’s why men want to know the time to 60mph. Of course, people don’t understand that, and it shows how traffic backs up at on-ramps because people do not know how to merge using their power.
I was looking for Mazda.
More of this is good with me
5:20 the forester won it last year, now it’s the outback this year 😕
This is why I canceled my subscription to Consumer Reports. Do you remember when Consumer Reports could be relied to tell you what the predicted reliability or past reliability of a vehicle was but they’ve done nothing but glaze some of the most notoriously bad and unreliable cars like the Korean piles of crand why are they still pushing the evs? They’ve yet to show a normal affordable car not a $130000 Ford expedition.
New York Auto Show rocks, best car would be high clearance, room for family of four, enough speed for highway merging, and reliability. My vote Subaru Crosstrek
The problem with the outback is the usual problem. The car is growing “up” into the next price and size category, and there’s a crosstrek waiting for its chance to gain a few pounds and dollars.