I spent a gorgeous few days in Vail and the surrounding mountain area to get a peek at the new Volvo V90 Cross Country. It was a gorgeous day and a really breathtaking car. Check out the inside scoop I got from top execs on […]
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The Coolest Cars at the Concorso Italiano in Pebble Beach
To the northeast of the city of Monterey is the Black Horse Golf Club. Here, on the Saturday before the uber-rare cars take to the 18th Hole of Pebble Beach, owners and fans gather in the presence of some of the most beautiful Italian-designed cars […]
Splitting the Hairs of Luxury in the Kia Cadenza
Splitting the difference in luxury is like splitting hairs. Does luxury maintain its appeal if it’s available to nearly everyone? Kia thinks so, and with the new 2017 Cadenza, the automaker is targeting anyone who has ever wanted lots of premium features and miles […]
Fun with Physics in the Lamborghini’s Advanced Composite Laboratory
A young man wearing a black lab coat with “Prototipi” on the back and a raging bull over the heart is enthusiastically talking about the history of carbon fiber. Behind him a machine flexes a honeycomb panel almost 4 inches before the panel cracks like […]
Flying High, And Upside Down, With The Breitling Jet Team
The man they call Douky is humming along happily right after he’s checked on me for the second time since we took off. “You ok, Abby?” he says into his microphone a smile in his voice. I’m sitting second seat of an L-39C Albatros, a […]
Driving the Brand New Baby Infiniti: The Q30
Love Mercedes-Benz but can’t afford one? Drawn to Infiniti’s new design language but don’t love the drive? The 2017 Infiniti Q30 may be just what you need. With the hardware supplied by Mercedes-Benz and the software provided by Infiniti, the 2017 Infiniti Q30 hits a […]
First Drive: Infiniti QX50
Back in 2007 Infiniti launched the EX35, the shrunken version of their popular FX luxury SUV. Thanks to revamped naming conventions at Infiniti, the EX35 has now become the QX50 and it’s getting what Infiniti is calling a “light refresh,” to make it slightly bigger […]
Launching a Luxury Men’s Skincare Website: Tenzing Skincare
Late last year I had the opportunity to work with the great guys over at a brand new skincare company to help them hone their marketing materials, choose and build their Shopify website and write, edit and create the copy and images for their ecommerce […]
It’s an SUV, it’s a Car, it’s….. the Mercedes-Benz GLE Coupe–First Drive
It’s a car! It’s an SUV! It’s a…. Fastbacks have been around since the 1930s when automotive designers started using airplane shapes to smooth out square angles and rough edges on boxy vehicles. Some of the resulting designs are iconic, breathtaking, and fast. Other end […]
The Lincoln Continental Makes a Comeback
At the New York Auto Show unveilings abound. One that was particularly special–and particularly controversial was the revitalization of the Continental nameplate by Lincoln, the beleaguered American luxury brand. I had a chance to check out the car before it hit the show floor and […]
Burnouts in a Bentley Mulsanne Speed
Yep, you read that right….. On a trip to Austin, Texas I had the chance to take the big brawler out for a spin and write about it for Yahoo Autos. Check out the story, in which I discuss Derek Bell, cows and burnouts, over […]
The Ultimate Grocery Getter: The Mercedes-Benz C63 AMG
You’re a sports car nut, but two doors aren’t always enough. If you’ve lusted after the AMG GT S, but bemoaned the lack of passenger space, we may have found the perfect object of desire. Meet the 2015 Mercedes-AMG C63 S: it has nearly the […]