I’m currently sitting in the nose of a Boeing 747, in first class, bound for LAX from London’s Heathrow airport. Earlier today, I caught a flight from Nice, France after a weekend stay at a hotel 10 minutes from Monaco that’s so fancy it sits on its own peninsula, surrounded on three sides by the [...]
I bring home a lot of cars and my wife gets to ride in most of them, although from her perspective, she’s forced to ride in them. I gave her a 0-100 mph blast in our new long term 2013 Nissan GT-R. Her conclusion? “It’s bumpy and loud.” From time to time she has to [...]
If you’re reading this, it is no longer March 9, 2012. Instead I reckon it’s sometime in mid-April. I’m writing this because everything I did this week was A) gearhead nirvana type stuff B) totally embargoed. Over the last three days, here’s what I’ve driven: $290,000 Rolls-Royce Ghost LWB with $62K worth of options, Subaru [...]
If you’re reading this, it is no longer March 9, 2012. Instead I reckon it’s sometime in mid-April. I’m writing this because everything I did this week was A) gearhead nirvana type stuff B) totally embargoed. Over the last three days, here’s what I’ve driven: $290,000 Rolls-Royce Ghost LWB with $62K worth of options, Subaru [...]
“Might that make an interesting blog entry? Get the fanboys chatting? Wouldn’t need to be much more than what you had below, cleaned up and toned down a half-shade.” So said our technical director, Frank Markus. I had fired off an angry email to him concerning a line in our story about the new Mercedes-Benz [...]
I’m driving home, stuck in mega-traffic on the downtown portion of L.A.’s 110 Freeway. Let’s call it a normal Wednesday night. With nothing better to do, I start flipping through our long-term Cadillac CTS-V Sport Wagon’s XM music stations with predictable results. Bad, worse, crap, worse than crap, acoustic nonsense, tired old hair metal, Jimmy [...]
We just ran an 8-car comparison test of entry-level sport sedans and the big winner was the all-new BMW 3 Series. Specifically, the 328i. As if the BMW 328i besting all the actual competition wasn’t enough, we discovered another feather for its burgeoning cap: The 328i is a better car than its sibling, the more [...]
I mean, right? Our resident hot shoe Scott Mortara recently drove and tested the Nissan Juke R in Dubai, and he not only totally dug it, but has led me to the following automotive conclusion: If there’s one thing the world’s lacking it is an amphibian-look 485 horsepower 4-door micro-SUV with but two seats that [...]
“I’ll never forget the 2009 show,” Christophe Georges, the president and COO of Bentley said to me as we admired his new V-8-powered Continental GT but also the buzz in the air. “It was grim.” And if the 2009 Detroit show was grim, the 2008 Los Angeles show was frostbitten. To refresh your memory, Chrysler [...]
I turned 16 in 1991, and that means that the first time I drove a Range Rover was in 1990. Yes, I was only 15-years-old. Let me explain. My friend’s father was an editor at “Trailer Life” magazine and from time to time he’d get press cars. Typically 4x4s and typically the Livingstone family would [...]