Five years ago, most in the automotive media were ready to bury Lincoln. For good reason. Their vehicles, for the most part, were thinly veiled Fords with lackluster performance, ungainly…
Even with Toyota’s long history of building winning racers and fun-to-drive performance cars like the 86 and new Supra (more to come very soon on that front), most people aren’t…
When the velocity blue F-150 4X4 Supercrew Lariat FX4 PowerStroke Diesel showed up at Rides & Drives World Headquarters, I was looking forward to living with the truck I enjoyed…
There are products that transform companies and change what they stand for in our minds. Think iPhone for Apple, Lite Beer for Miller, or Seinfeld for NBC. For Kia, we…
It was billed as a Scandinavian Adventure on the invitation, and since we were driving all the updated and new 2020 Volvo vehicles through some beautiful landscapes, that’s technically true.…
It’s hard to make a bolder statement than Oliver Blume, Chairman of the Executive Board of Porsche AG, made this morning about his 70-year old iconic car company. “This day…
If you’re going to visit Napa, this is a pretty good way to do it. Starting with a 15-minute helicopter ride from San Francisco to Napa County Airport and a…
When it comes to blending efficiency, comfort, capability, safety, and utility, it’s hard to beat the 2019 Toyota RAV4 Hybrid Limited AWD. On the baseball field when a player has…
There’s an aphorism among automotive journalists, “The more exotic the location for a press event, the worse the car.” So when Hyundai named their latest compact utility vehicle Kona and…
Just a few hours north of San Francisco lies California’s “Lost Coast,” so named because of the area’s rugged shoreline and sparse population. It feels like it belongs to another…