No prizes for guessing what type of vehicle our most popular news stories concerned this year
- 1. Toyota LandCruiser Sahara ZX 2022 Review
- Read a 2022 LandCruiser Sahara Review
- 2. Toyota LandCruiser 70 Series Wagon 2022 Review
- Read a Toyota LandCruiser 70 Series Wagon 2022 Review
- 3. Best Mid-Size SUV 2022: The Verdict
- Read the 2022 Best Mid-Size SUV verdict
- 4. Best Small SUV 2021: The Verdict
- Read the 2021 Best Small SUV verdict
- 5. Best Small SUV 2022: The Verdict
- Read the 2022 Best Small SUV verdict
Every year more Aussies buy more new SUVs than utes and traditional passenger cars combined, so it comes as no surprise that our five most popular car reviews of 2022 all involved the high-riding wagons that now dominate our roads.
Nor should it shock you to learn that of the 375 reviews we published in 2022, the two most widely read road tests of the year both involved the evergreen Toyota LandCruiser – one brand-new, the other not so new…
1. Toyota LandCruiser Sahara ZX 2022 Review
Few new models have generated as much interest as the upmarket new 2022 Toyota LandCruiser 300 Series, and the luxurious flagship of the range – the $138K Sahara ZX – attracted more eyeballs than any other review this year.
Read a 2022 LandCruiser Sahara Review
2. Toyota LandCruiser 70 Series Wagon 2022 Review
Dating all the way back to 1984, the 70 Series might at the other end of the LandCruiser scale in terms of age and technology (but not off-road capability), yet it still attracts an 18-month wait list and plenty of readers.
Read a Toyota LandCruiser 70 Series Wagon 2022 Review
3. Best Mid-Size SUV 2022: The Verdict
Medium SUVs form the biggest single new-vehicle sales segment and almost as many readers lapped up our Best Mid-Size SUV 2022 award.
Read the 2022 Best Mid-Size SUV verdict
4. Best Small SUV 2021: The Verdict
Underlining their rapidly increasing popularity, small SUVs were the subject of our second most widely read Best award in 2022 – in this case the 2021 edition published in May last year.
Read the 2021 Best Small SUV verdict
5. Best Small SUV 2022: The Verdict
And rounding out our list of the five most popular reviews of this year was the 2022 edition of Best Small SUV, which was published in May and is sure to feature in next year’s top-five review list too.
Read the 2022 Best Small SUV verdict
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