First there was the minivan. The ubiquitous utility vehicle that roamed suburbia satisfying the needs of millions of American families from the early ‘80s on. But as we are wont to do in this country, once something becomes popular it becomes uncool and we’re off to the next new thing. So the minivan went by […]

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 […]

Dallas is a big town where you’ll find power, high style and the occasional contradiction. It’s a place where you’ll find high tech entrepreneurs sporting Lucchese boots, jeans and t-shirts sharing a table with bankers in tailored suits and Stetson hats. It’s a place where classic Mission architecture sits side by side with modern masterpieces […]

Some people play golf on the weekends. Others take trips to the beach. And then there are people like Chris Ruud, who finds himself at legendary racetracks pushing his Ferrari 458 EVO to the limit eight weekends a year in the 2014 Ferrari Challenge Series. Mr. Ruud – who became director and Vice Chairman of […]

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, […]

When you travel halfway around the world with Bentley to drive their Continental GT V8S from Frankfurt to Francorchamps, you can expect a few surprises. One of the more pleasant was running into a terrific gentleman and racing legend, Derek Bell, an official ambassador for the Bentley brand. We sat down during a lull in […]