I’ve rented a variety of cars recently. Car magazine does a nice job of rating autos using their “Good, Bad & Ugly” approach. Here goes:

• The Good

  Mazda6. Excellent handling, mileage, four cylinder engine overworked, turning radius not great (reminds me of the soon to be retired Taurus’s poor turning)

  Toyota Camry Machine like, excellent quality, could use some style.

  Nissan Altima Points for some style, decent handling, V-6 reasonably fun

• The Bad:

  2004 Toyota Avalon Terrible handling… difficult to read dashboard

  2004 Ford Mustang. I assume the 2005 will be much, much better

• The ugly

  Ford Expedition Hard to see the point, very big, poor mileage, essentially a very expensive pickup truck.