Are you a commitment-phobe? Afraid to settle down with just one vehicle that scratches the off-road-capable but dear-god-not-another-SUV itch? Fear not: VW has your back. It’s going after the wagon dominator, Subaru, with the 2017 Volkswagen Alltrack — the capable, spacious and enjoyable baby step […]
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Judgin’ at the Concours d’LeMons: Grease and Villiany
The fog hasn’t yet lifted on the Monterey Peninsula and I’m standing around what has affectionately been temporarily renamed “Goose Shit Park.” A collection of rusted out, Bondo bodied, barely running cars are still rolling in past our picnic table to find their allocated […]

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 […]

Car Tech: Driving a Baby Supercar the McLaren 570S
I sent my mom a photo of the grey, alien-looking sports car hunkered low in my driveway. “What is THAT?” She typed back. “McLaren 570S,” I thumbed at the screen, followed by an elaborate string of emoticons. The truth is there probably aren’t enough […]

First Drive: 2017 Kia Sportage
It’s hard to get excited about most mainstream crossovers, but the truth is this is one of the hottest segments of the market right now. The automotive space is saturated with a glut of these profit-making, two-box, semi-practical, soft-roading vehicles, and the tide isn’t likely […]

First Drive: Mercedes-Benz GLS
Time takes its pound of flesh from everyone. Butts sag, jowls wobble, bellies bubble over their beltlines, and while we are all flesh and bone, sometimes we feel compelled for help in fighting gravity’s pull. It’s as true for humans as it is for […]

Driving Bentley’s New SUV: The Bentley Bentayga
For years, a Cold War-style stand-off has kept super-luxury automakers from treading on each other’s domain, with ambition limited by resources. That fragile peace has been shattered, and let history show it was Bentley which fired the first missile. The 2016 Bentley Bentayga makes the […]

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 […]

The Rolls-Royce Ghost Series II: “Don’t call it a facelift”
For a piece for Automobile Magazine, I traveled to Dallas, Texas and drove the $280,000, refreshed Rolls-Royce Ghost Series II–a rolling piece of art. I also ended up shooting the images featured on the site. Check out my piece here.

Driving a 651hp Ferrari FF on Ice
Driving a 651hp all-wheel drive super car is one thing…driving a car with that kind of power on an ice track is a whole other ball game. It was a blast–and an awesome learning experience. And P.S. I wasn’t the one that put it into […]

The almost-perfect supercar–The McLaren 12C Spyder
A few months ago I had the opportunity to spend an entire weekend behind the wheel of one of the most magnificent machines I have ever driven–the McLaren 12C Spyder. It was simply mind blowing–well all except for a couple of little gremlin-y things–like the […]