What is the PowerSteering Blog?

You’re busy. You want to know what the top rated cars and trucks are on the market, you want to know exactly what makes them so good, and you wish someone would do the research for you and make it easy to find the answer. The JDPower.com PowerSteering Blog is that researched answer.

Every car reviewed in this blog is ranked highly for at least one of the following: quality, performance and design, dependability, safety, environmental friendliness, or fuel economy. Most meet multiple criteria from this list. Our test-drive team reviews only the models that meet one or more of these criteria, giving consumers the confidence in knowing that every car, truck, or SUV reviewed for this blog is among the best vehicles on the market.

Furthermore, our test-drive team is comprised of different kinds of people from different kinds of places who live different kinds of lives. Behind the wheel of our test vehicles, we have men and women of variable socioeconomic backgrounds ranging from 23-year-olds who just graduated from college to 55-year-olds with decades of driving experience. In other words, our test-drive team is made up of people just like you. Some are car enthusiasts but most are not, and we all want to make sure you make a good decision when purchasing your next vehicle.

We drive the cars like you drive yours. We drive to our jobs, to get coffee, to our kids’ activities, to visit friends and relatives, and on an occasional road trip using city streets, freeways, and two-lane roads, just like you do. We drive in the mountains and along the beach, on rough urban pavement and smooth blacktop byways. We do not drive the cars on a racetrack, because you don’t. And when we’re done driving, we report our impressions in this blog without boring you with technical detail. We tell you what we liked, what we didn’t like, and how the car made us feel. Because after all, that’s what you care about.

Enjoy these reviews, get to know the test drivers, and come back each week to see what we have to say about the top-ranked cars and trucks on the market. – Christian Wardlaw