One of the first things I learned in business is, “It’s better to be everything to someone, than something to everyone.” The VW Golf R has spent the past two…
Compact sedans aren’t the hottest category in the auto industry right now, but for individual brands, these diminutive four-door sedans play an outsized role. They’re generally the first new car…
Road Trips
Road Trip: The California Coast in a 2019 VW Beetle Final Edition, A Dying Car for the Almost Dead
For driving iconic roads in iconic cities to hear iconic music in iconic venues, it’s best to have an iconic vehicle. If the cities are in California, best to have…
If you have ever doubted American car buyers collectively have a very short memory, look no further than Volkswagen. It was just three short years ago the company was in…
No matter what you hear sedans are not dead. Though SUVs and Crossovers continue to take market share away from four-door vehicles with a three box silhouette, over five million…
The Artist Heavy is the head that wears the crown. And in folk music, no crown is heavier than that of Woody Guthrie. Given that Arlo Guthrie is the oldest…
We have to be careful when we trundle down memory lane. Our brains have a tendency to romanticize our history and make everyone of and everything in the old days…
People in Wisconsin are a hardy bunch, either that or crazy, I’m not sure which. Every year in February, thousands of them tow a variety of makeshift shacks onto the…
As the home show of the German Auto Industry, the Frankfurt Motor Show is one of the biggest of the year and certainly the most important show in Europe. As…
The Italian-born Chairman and CEO of Pirelli NAFTA, Pierluigi Dinelli, didn’t just race up the automotive corporate ladder. It turns out he’s also got a need for speed in the…
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