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 […]

Dr. Henry Jekyll was educated, mild-mannered, stylish and sophisticated. His alter ego, Mr. Edward Hyde was rough, powerful, mysterious and dangerous. That pretty much sums up the difference between the Lexus RC 350 and its evil twin, the incredibly satisfying Lexus RC F. It’s rare that two cars built on the same platform and bearing […]

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 […]