Quick Spin

By Autoweek

What's Quick Spin about?

You love cars. We do, too. Tune into Quick Spin, the short-form podcast that takes you into the car with Autoweek editors as they deliver honest reviews of the best rides in the world from the inside out.

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Quick Spin episodes:

05.28.2024
2024 Lexus LS 500h Review: Soft Quiet Luxury
The Lexus LS has been a staple of the brand’s lineup over the last three decades, and it doesn’t seem to be resting on its laurels. While the most recent generation kicked off for the 2018 model year, the mid-cycle...
05.21.2024
2024 Ferrari 296 GTS Review: Bringing Sunshine and Speed
The Ferrari 296 GTB and GTS have been in the company’s lineup since 2021 and hold the door open for would-be new Ferrari sports coupe owners. Following legendary machines like the Ferrari 458, 488, and F8, the 296 GTB has...
05.14.2024
2024 Subaru Crosstrek Wilderness: Adding Character
The Subaru Crosstrek might be one of Subaru’s best ideas since it brought the WRX to the United States. Subaru’s Crosstrek entered its third generation last year and added the popular Wilderness trim to its lineup. Like other Subaru models that wear the...
05.07.2024
2024 Volvo V60 Polestar Engineered Review: PHEV Performance
Volvo might be best known for helping the three-point seat belt find its way into passenger cars, and for wagons. The wagon shape has been a staple of Volvo’s products and helped carve a dedicated niche for the brand. Well, with time, all things must...
04.30.2024
2024 Toyota Crown Review: Moving the Sedan Upright
The sedan has come a long way over the last seven decades. Once dictated by an adult’s ability to wear a hat, the styling has changed dramatically to reflect the styles of the time. Well, ironically, Toyota has gone back to the modern sedan’s...
04.23.2024
2024 Hyundai Kona N-Line Review: Going Bold
Hyundai expanded its crossover lineup with the first generation of its popular Kona all the way back in 2017. After seven years, and one N Variant, Hyundai’s Kona entered its second generation for the ’24 model year. This second-gen Kona carries over the powertrains...
04.16.2024
2024 Mazda CX-50 Review: The Mazda CX-5 Grows Up
Mazda is responsible for some of the most beloved sports cars, race cars, and powertrains to ever hit the pavement. While enthusiast cars have helped put Mazda on the map, and in the hearts of sports car fans around the...
04.09.2024
2024 Acura TLX Type S Review: Daily Performance
The Acura Integra Type S might be the most talked about performance Acura now that the NSX is off the assembly line, but it’s not the only hopped-up Acura sedan in the company’s lineup. Acura’s TLX entered the Acura stable...
04.02.2024
2024 Land Rover Range Rover Evoque Review: A Small Mouthful
Land Rover’s Defender might be carrying a lot of water for the brand, but the company’s luxe on-and-off roader Range Rover lineup is also putting in the work. Kicking off the Range Rover line is the small Range Rover Evoque....
03.26.2024
2024 BMW i5 M60 Review: An Electric 5-Series
BMW’s 5-Series has been a staple of the brand's portfolio for over 50 years and has been the home to many of its greatest hits. However, with time comes change. The latest generation of BMW’s venerable 5-Series also ushered in...
03.19.2024
2024 Lincoln Corsair Review: BlueCruising the Open Highways
Taking the space of Lincoln's discontinued MKC, the Lincoln Corsair works as an entry point into Ford’s legacy luxury arm. While the Corsair name was used as a highly-optioned Edsel, and as a sedan in other markets, Lincoln’s bite at...
03.13.2024
2024 Audi RS5 Sportback: A Complete Package
The Audi RS5 is closing in on two decades inside Audi’s coupe and sedan lineup. Based on the Audi A5, the RS5 follows the same formula as its competition: take a nice, compact executive sedan, and turn it into a...
03.05.2024
2023 Ford F-250 Super Duty Review: Torque Machine
The towing and torque wars are here, and we’re all in the trenches. Ford unleashed an updated PowerStroke diesel in 2020 and moved the production-grade heavy-duty diesel world into four figures worth of torque. Naturally, Ram punched back with a...
02.27.2024
2024 McLaren 750S Review: Improving Greatness
The McLaren 720S is a fascinating car. The aesthetically integrated aero in the nose, the gobs of performance from the 4.0-liter V8, and its minimalist interior all add up to a treat to drive. Though, as McLaren shows with the...
02.20.2024
2024 Ford Maverick Tremor: Flexing Compact Muscles
The Ford Maverick might have been the answer for a lot of compact pickup fans' woes. The small pickup’s low price, small size, and useful bed have shaped up to create long wait times for prospective customers. Despite no shortage...
02.19.2024
Talking Cars with the Boss: 2023 Toyota Corolla Cross and 2023 Mazda CX-5
The era of the crossover is here. Once the sedan was king, then the wagon became the family hauler, and then the minivan. Now, it’s time for crossovers. Naturally, that means automakers will keep finding spaces to throw new models...
02.13.2024
2024 Mazda CX-90 Review: Stiff Competition
With Mazda’s CX-9 going away, the company needed to replace its largest offering with something more competitive in what might be the most competitive space in the car business. Not deviating too far from its established naming convention, Mazda showed...
02.06.2024
2024 Morgan Super 3: Funky and Fun
The Morgan Motor Company discontinued its legendary 3-Wheeler a few years back, but it would be hard for Morgan to move on without a three-wheeled machine in its roster. While the Harley-Davidson-based V-twin is gone, the Morgan Super 3 carries...
01.30.2024
2024 Bentley Flying Spur Review: Rising to a Name
The Bentley Flying Spur dropped Continental from its name nearly over a decade ago but doesn’t leave the name’s heritage. From the mythos of the Blue Train to the demands of its clientele, Bentley’s large Flying Spur sedan has big...
01.23.2024
2023 Toyota GR Corolla: A Rally-Inspired Treat
The Toyota GR Yaris is one of the coolest and weirdest cars to ever leave a Toyota factory. The combination of an altered Yaris shell, a high-strung turbocharged three-cylinder, and an all-wheel drive system made hot hatch fans in the...
01.16.2024
2023 Toyota GR86: Budget Fun
After nearly a decade, the Scion FR-S or Toyota 86 saw a successor. Now planted formerly under the Toyota banner, the sports coupe has formally entered its second generation. The second-gen Toyota 86 adopts the Gazoo Racing naming conventions and...
01.09.2024
2024 Alfa Romeo Tonale: Alfa's Mainstream Play
Alfa Romeo might be best known for its Formula 1 presence, or its sporty convertibles that help stop weddings in major motion pictures. Unfortunately, the two-seat cabriolet isn’t exactly helping major automakers keep their lights on. Steering into the meat...
01.02.2024
2024 Rolls-Royce Spectre: Ultimate Luxury
When it comes to luxury cars, it’s hard to picture something more opulent than a machine from Rolls-Royce. The folks at Rolls-Royce have made some of the finest luxury cars on the road over the last century, and it seems...
12.26.2023
2023 Dodge Challenger Swinger: Instant Nostalgia
The Dodge Challenger is officially gone. Celebrating its departure, Dodge and Chrysler rolled out special Last Call models of its popular Challenger, Charger and 300 models to celebrate what was and put an exclamation mark on a run of reborn...
12.19.2023
2023 GMC Yukon Review: Comfort Over Cargo
Like the Cadillac Escalade from a few weeks ago, GMC’s body-on-frame SUV is predictably posh on its upmarket trim variants. Also like Cadillac’s Escalade, the GMC Yukon is based on the General Motors body-on-frame platform that underpins a Chevrolet analog....
12.12.2023
2023 Hyundai Elantra N: Keeping Sport Compacts Alive
Hyundai’s N Division is just over a decade old, but it’s already helping once-thriving segments. Once upon a time, the world was flooded with sporty compacts from automakers across the board, from Ford’s Focus and Fiesta hot hatchbacks to the...
12.05.2023
2024 Buick Envista: Budget Doesn't Mean Cheap
The low-priced car is all but dead. However, taking its place is the low-priced compact crossover. At least, relatively low priced -- the days of the $6,000 brand new car are all but memories. Starting south of $25,000, Buick’s Envista...
11.28.2023
2023 Subaru Ascent: Subie People Mover
Before 2018, Subaru’s three-row efforts hadn’t exactly been noteworthy. In fact, more people talk about the odd rear seats in the bed of the Brat than think about the short-lived Tribeca nameplate. Despite existing for nearly a decade, the Tribeca...
11.21.2023
2023 Cadillac Escalade: Super Cruising in Comfort
Cadillac’s Escalade might not have always carried the weight of legendary models like Brougham or Biarritz. However, after two decades sitting atop luxury SUV sales charts, and becoming a part of popular American culture, the Escalade has easily risen to...
11.14.2023
2024 Nissan Z Nismo: Canyon Fun for a Price
The Nissan Z is one of the most important cars in the company’s history. It might not be its best seller, but Nissan’s Z-cars helped put the company on the map over half a century ago. Most recently, the Nissan...
11.07.2023
2023 Honda Civic Type R: Something Special
Honda’s Civic Type R was a forbidden fruit among Honda fans and collectors until it was formally added to the U.S. Honda lineup with the introduction of the 2017 Civic Type R. This 10th-generation Civic was a watershed moment for...
10.31.2023
2023 Alpina XB7 Review: The Ultimate X7
Alpina has a similar story to that of its rival in Affalterbach. Once known for upgrading BMW products, and even an independent automaker, the company was rolled into BMW in 2022. While Alpina is probably still best known for upgrading...
10.24.2023
2023 Porsche 911 Carrera T : Sacrifices Comfort For Fun
Porsche’s legendary 911 ushered in its eighth-generation sports car just a few years ago in 2019. While the 911’s main layout has carried on effectively unchanged since its inception over half a century ago, it has grown up, added some...
10.17.2023
2023 Bentley Bentayga Review: English Extravagance
Bentley’s Bentayga helped bring Bentley into the modern crossover battles when it surfaced in 2015. Bentley updated its hot-selling Bentayga in 2020 with some styling and tech enhancements to help make it even more competitive in a hotly contested luxury...
10.11.2023
2024 Jaguar F-Type R 75 Review: Heritage Hallmark
The Jaguar F-Type is unquestionably one of the most exciting cars to leave Jaguar’s workshop in decades. Maybe dwarfed by the absurd XJ220, the F-Type took inspiration from legendary two-seat Jaguars of yore and brought them into the modern age....
10.03.2023
2024 Acura Integra Type S Review: Taming the Type R
Honda’s Civic Type R made a big splash when it launched in the late 1990s. The Civic Type R gave sport compact buyers around the world a potent front-wheel drive hatchback and fueled the growing interest in Japanese imports. The...
09.26.2023
2024 Jaguar F-Pace SVR Review: More Sport than Luxury
Jaguar started its big crossover push in 2016 with the launch of its F-Pace. Considering the luxury crossover space is full of brute 'utes, it only makes sense that Jaguar found another home for its 5.0-liter supercharged V8. Even though this...
09.19.2023
2023 Land Rover Defender 110 Review: Blending Luxury and Legacy
Land Rover’s legendary Defender nameplate made its return to the United States just a few years ago. This off-road legend was barred from the United States since it departed before the turn of the century, and made an even bigger...
09.12.2023
2024 Jeep Wrangler Rubicon 392 Review: Off-Road Fun
The latest generation of Jeeps Wrangler launched as the JL-generation in 2017 for the 2018 model year. Almost immediately, car customizers that specialize in Jeeps were stuffing third-generation Hemi powerplants under the hood of Jeep’s legendary Wrangler. It was only...
09.05.2023
2023 VW Arteon Review: Going But Not Gone (Yet)
Volkswagen is cutting bait, and unfortunately, the Arteon is going to end up on the cutting room floor after 2024. Still, the short-lived nameplate showed that VW can churn out stylish sedans. Joining VW dealerships in 2019, the Arteon sat...
08.29.2023
2023 BMW 760i Review: Mobile Movie Theater
The BMW 7-Series has sat atop BMW’s sedan hierarchy for nearly five decades. This flagship sedan has changed its look over the years to keep up with trends but has always brought its best to the interior. Despite a shift...
08.22.2023
2023 Kia EV6 GT: Battery-Powered Rocket
The Kia EV6’s been around for a couple of years, with its debut taking place a couple of years ago. In fact, we’ve already taken the EV6 through the Quick Spin wringer a year ago. Well, if the base-power EV6...
08.15.2023
2023 Audi S6 Review: Road Trip Ruler
Audi’s S6 takes the tried and true formula of taking a normal, commuter-grade vehicle and adding a dose of excitement with extra power. Nearing its 30th birthday, Audi’s S6 is sticking to the original formula of turning the perfectly serviceable...
08.08.2023
2023 Dodge Hornet Review: Steering into the Trend
Dodge’s small-car history goes all the way back to the 1960s with the A-body-based Lancer, which was quickly replaced by the legendary Dart in 1963. Later down the line, Dodge’s compact car portfolio gave us ‘80s icons like the Omni...
08.01.2023
2023 Mini Cooper SE: Electric Motoring
Mini’s latest battery-electric Cooper launched a handful of years ago as the Mini Electric. Though, you might know it better as the Mini Cooper SE if you live outside of the UK. This Mini Cooper SE takes the basic bones...
07.25.2023
2023 BMW M3 Competition xDrive Review: Autobahn Joyrider
The latest generation BMW M3 might be the most controversial shape in the nameplate’s history. Still, even amid the polarizing styling, BMW’s popular performance variant of its even more popular 3-Series sedan packs a hefty punch. BMW’s latest generation M3...
07.18.2023
2023 Ford Mustang Mach-E: Competitive and Controversial
The Ford Mustang Mach-E debuted with its polarizing name nearly four years ago. The battery-electric crossover Mustang hit production the following year and made its way to customers as a 2021 model. The battery-electric Mustang sees some jeers from pony...
07.11.2023
The 2023 BMW M240i: Reliving the Glory Days
The BMW 2-Series entered its second generation just a few short years ago. Initially debuting in 2014, the 2-Series garnered praise for being the smallish, rear-drive BMW that leans into the company’s sporting heritage. Well, for its second generation, BMW...
07.05.2023
2023 Toyota Supra Manual Review: Quirky Fun
The Toyota Supra has become a Japanese performance icon since it formally spun off from the similarly iconic Celica in the 1980s. Most notably, the fourth-generation or A80 chassis Toyota Supra has cemented itself as a cultural icon with its...
06.27.2023
2023 Honda Accord Hybrid: Volume Mover
Honda is ushering in the 11th generation of its famed Accord with the 2023 model year, and this might be the year when the hybrid finally takes the reins. Honda’s 11th-gen Accord brings a totally restyled exterior that follows the...

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Quick Spin episodes:

2024 Lexus LS 500h Review: Soft Quiet Luxury

2024 Ferrari 296 GTS Review: Bringing Sunshine and Speed

2024 Subaru Crosstrek Wilderness: Adding Character

2024 Volvo V60 Polestar Engineered Review: PHEV Performance

2024 Toyota Crown Review: Moving the Sedan Upright

2024 Hyundai Kona N-Line Review: Going Bold

2024 Mazda CX-50 Review: The Mazda CX-5 Grows Up

2024 Acura TLX Type S Review: Daily Performance

2024 Land Rover Range Rover Evoque Review: A Small Mouthful

2024 BMW i5 M60 Review: An Electric 5-Series

2024 Lincoln Corsair Review: BlueCruising the Open Highways

2024 Audi RS5 Sportback: A Complete Package

2023 Ford F-250 Super Duty Review: Torque Machine

2024 McLaren 750S Review: Improving Greatness

2024 Ford Maverick Tremor: Flexing Compact Muscles

Talking Cars with the Boss: 2023 Toyota Corolla Cross and 2023 Mazda CX-5

2024 Mazda CX-90 Review: Stiff Competition

2024 Morgan Super 3: Funky and Fun

2024 Bentley Flying Spur Review: Rising to a Name

2023 Toyota GR Corolla: A Rally-Inspired Treat

2023 Toyota GR86: Budget Fun

2024 Alfa Romeo Tonale: Alfa's Mainstream Play

2024 Rolls-Royce Spectre: Ultimate Luxury

2023 Dodge Challenger Swinger: Instant Nostalgia

2023 GMC Yukon Review: Comfort Over Cargo

2023 Hyundai Elantra N: Keeping Sport Compacts Alive

2024 Buick Envista: Budget Doesn't Mean Cheap

2023 Subaru Ascent: Subie People Mover

2023 Cadillac Escalade: Super Cruising in Comfort

2024 Nissan Z Nismo: Canyon Fun for a Price

2023 Honda Civic Type R: Something Special

2023 Alpina XB7 Review: The Ultimate X7

2023 Porsche 911 Carrera T : Sacrifices Comfort For Fun

2023 Bentley Bentayga Review: English Extravagance

2024 Jaguar F-Type R 75 Review: Heritage Hallmark

2024 Acura Integra Type S Review: Taming the Type R

2024 Jaguar F-Pace SVR Review: More Sport than Luxury

2023 Land Rover Defender 110 Review: Blending Luxury and Legacy

2024 Jeep Wrangler Rubicon 392 Review: Off-Road Fun

2023 VW Arteon Review: Going But Not Gone (Yet)

2023 BMW 760i Review: Mobile Movie Theater

2023 Kia EV6 GT: Battery-Powered Rocket

2023 Audi S6 Review: Road Trip Ruler

2023 Dodge Hornet Review: Steering into the Trend

2023 Mini Cooper SE: Electric Motoring

2023 BMW M3 Competition xDrive Review: Autobahn Joyrider

2023 Ford Mustang Mach-E: Competitive and Controversial

The 2023 BMW M240i: Reliving the Glory Days

2023 Toyota Supra Manual Review: Quirky Fun

2023 Honda Accord Hybrid: Volume Mover