My best friend drives a bright orange Volkswagen Beetle convertible, and boy do I love that car. It conjures up so many great memories that every time I see another…
September 2016
From crash tests to autonomous emergency breaking, lane assist alerts to back-up cameras, making your car safer is an industry itself. And it’s easy to feel comfortable, swaddled in our…
How the Chevy Bolt’s advanced battery has changed the EV game
Chevrolet made huge headlines this week, justifiably so; they’ll be selling the first affordable electric vehicle with more than 200 miles of range by the end of this year. The…
When you ask a creative novelist to write a review of her favorite drive, you expect something special and different. That’s just what we got this week from Nicole Kelleher.…
Remember those hundred self-driving Uber cars coming to Pittsburgh by the end of this year? We reacted with more than a bit of scepticism given Uber only has two years…
Add one more to the ever-growing list of concepts we’re expecting out of the Paris Motor Show later this month. Lexus announced they will unveil the UX, an all new…
At Rides & Drives we love our music. From The Stones to Stravinski, we’ll listen to just about anything as long as it’s good. It also helps when that music…
When you think of Newport, Rhode Island you probably think of America’s Gilded Age and old moneyed families like the Vanderbilts, Astors and Wideners who built palatial summer “cottages” with…
Cult classics come in a lot of forms. Strange but appealing movies, TV shows, even food items are remembered and loved for decades, long beyond what critics originally predicted. And…
Maybe it’s because I’ve been both a very public and relentless critic of their signature spindle grille. Maybe it’s because they’re getting ready to launch their LC500 super-premium sports coupe.…