Saying the premium compact SUV category is crowded is like saying it rains a bit in Seattle where I was invited to spend the day driving the Infiniti QX30 compact…
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If you’re looking for a high performance sport utility vehicle, you’d be hard pressed to find one that does both sport and utility as well as the Range Rover Sport SVR. I had the pleasure of spending some time behind the wheel of this beautiful Estoril Blue Metallic beast on the streets of suburban Chicago […]
“Voodoo,” that’s the code name Ford engineers gave the engine in the new Shelby GT350 Mustang. After spending a morning driving around Road America in Ford’s ultimate pony car, I can see why. I am completely under its spell. This magical power plant is a 5.2 liter naturally aspirated, all-aluminum V8 engine that makes 526 […]
The streets of Chicago in late spring/early summer are, in a word, horrendous. There are potholes roughly the size of the Vredefort Crater. Expansion joints here look more like fault lines. And, the long stretches of broken pavement resemble the aftermath of a climactic battle in a Michael Bay action film. So when McLaren called […]
Sometimes the only way to get respect is to face your nemesis head on. In middle school there was a kid who picked on me relentlessly. Maybe it’s because I was a snot-nosed punk or maybe it was just because I was new in town. All I knew was that he was bigger than I […]
I am one of the lucky ones. Over the past two years, I’ve been able to drive a Rolls-Royce Wraith more than a handful of times. At the car’s North American launch in Phoenix, again in Sea Island, Georgia and I’ve even enjoyed time in the passenger seat while lapping Circuit of the America’s with […]
One of the cars I’ve been wanting to get behind the wheel of since its unveiling late last year is the Mercedes-Benz AMG GT S. I finally got my chance at the Midwest Automotive Media Association Spring Rally at Road America on a chilly day under cloudy skies that seemed to perfectly complement the $146,330 […]
Luxury isn’t about cost. It’s about perfection. And, while much of what we present on these pages is incredibly expensive, rare and spectacular, if you use perfection as a standard, then the 2016 Mazda MX-5 Roadster belongs here in spite of its affordability. I was lucky enough to be one of the first people in […]
The folks at Bentley are smart. On the week when Cadillac and Lincoln introduced their new, top-of-the-marque full-size luxury sedans, I was handed the keys to a 2015 Flying Spur and told to enjoy it for four days. Why was that smart? Because the driving the Flying Spur reminds me of the heights Cadillac and […]
Large luxury SUVs are a very hot right now and as such it’s one of the most competitive categories in the market today. With gas prices low, the completely redesigned 2015 Cadillac Escalade is now selling faster than sunscreen on South Beach, stuffing profits into GM’s corporate coffers at a clip of $10,000 per vehicle. […]