Palisade’s base price is up more than $1,700 compared to the outgoing model’s, but it wears boxy new styling and boasts a larger backseat, new hybrid powertrain option and new XRT Pro trim.

The way a car makes you feel matters more than how many hundreds of horsepower it has under the hood or how quickly it reaches 60 mph. A good example of that is the Mazda MX-5 Miata, which is nowhere ...