Back in the 1980s I was a copywriter at the advertising agency for Chevrolet, and one of my assignments was to help them sell trucks. As such I have a long history with and a deep affinity for the Silverado. I’m also a baseball fan, so when a representative from Chevrolet called and offered me a ticket to the 2015 MLB All-Star game and a new Silverado pickup as transportation from my home in Wisconsin to the game in Cincinnati, I was all in.
When you take ownership of a Rolls-Royce you have an obligation. Not to the car, your chauffeur or even your children, the favorite of whom will no doubt inherit your Rolls some day. No, you have an obligation to us, those who don’t live in the economic and cultural stratosphere you occupy. Your obligation is […]
When you’re one of Hollywood’s hottest stars and you team up with two of your hometown’s other celebrity citizens to raise money for charity, the impact can be stunning. Such was the case last weekend when National Championship winning coach Mack Brown, American Country Music Award winner Jack Ingram, and Oscar winner Matthew McConaughey came […]
My flight landed in San Francisco on Thursday just little before ten a.m. and a few minutes later I was handed the fob to a brand new BMW i8 for my drive down the coast and four days of automotive excess at Monterey Car Week. The silver and black i8 was delivered curbside at SFO, […]
As I was standing trackside at the Circuit of the Americas in Austin Texas watching the Infiniti Red Bull Racing Formula One car driven by Daniel Ricciardo speed past, I wondered: why has Infiniti, a car company with a heritage of interesting, performance-focused and high quality products, had trouble gaining traction among the elite luxury […]
It was late on our first day and we were running a little behind. A morning thunderstorm had slowed traffic near the Illinois border and even though we had been cruising comfortably for the past couple of hours at 85 miles per hour in our 2014 Cadillac CTS Vsport, we weren’t going to get to […]
Mini Takes The States is part road trip, part jam band festival and part summer camp. And it’s the most fun I have had with a group of strangers in a while. Why? Since I was behind the wheel of a 2014 MINI Cooper S Hardtop with a John Cooper Works accessory package, I was […]
Some things just naturally go together: champagne and caviar, leather and lace, Bogart and Bacall. Now after spending a day with the Bentley Continental GT V8S on the Autobahn, I know they too are a natural pair. I had a feeling they would be. It wasn’t until I actually drove the Bentley on the Autobahn, […]
I have a long, and somewhat checkered history with the Chevrolet Camaro. Back in 1974 my older brother came home with a 1967 Camaro RS. It was midnight blue with a black interior, and had a 290 horsepower, 327 cubic inch V8 engine. We bolted a Hurst manual transmission to the block’s backside, replaced the […]
From New York to Kennebunk for an autumn drive with Rolls-Royce motor cars and Grace Hotels. My flight to La Guardia landed late on a mild fall evening and I was met…