After market touches rejuvenate an older model car. You know how replacing the buttons on a vintage coat can make that coat feel fresh and new? You can also add a few upgrades to an older car to make it feel fresh – and more palatable to a teen or millennial. We bought a 2013 Mazda…
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What Drives Her: Sarah Robinson Burns Rubber as a Michelin Test Driver
Michelin’s first female test driver for now leads Michelin Motorsports. It can be hard to catch up to Sarah Robinson because she moves fast, whether behind the wheel or through life. Sarah, the Motorsports Marketing Manager at Michelin North America, was a test driver for Michelin tires and she works in her ‘spare’ time as a…
Get It While You Can: The 2016 Chrysler 200 Sedan
This Might Be the Best Deal In Town, But It’s Not Here For Long. There are many things we love about the Chrysler 200: Its elegant exterior, which resembles more expensive European cars. The luxuries that come standard. The innovative features like the dial shifter, the arm rest that offers flexible space and its self-parking technology (yes,…
2017 Honda Accord Hybrid Review: Is MPG Like This Really Possible?
Yes, it got 74 MPG. If I hadn’t spent a week with the physical reality of the 2017 Honda Accord Hybrid I would have thought the car was a fantasy: a luxuriously appointed sedan with incredible gas mileage. We got more than 50 miles per gallon, above the EPA estimated mileage of 49 city/47 highway. The Honda…
2016 Chevrolet Tahoe Review: Eye to Eye With the World
It’s why we love high heels. They put us at eye level with the world and make us look great. And while a stunning pair of Saint Laurent’s are not as practical as an SUV, they help us to accomplish the same thing: conquering our world, one step at a time. So, we don’t mind…
What Drives Her: Destined To Race Cars For Audi?
Lea Croteau kills it behind the wheel of the Audi R8. Race car driver Lea Croteau found her way to Audi, but she thinks it may have been pre-ordained. After all, she learned to drive in her father’s Audi 5000 and though she was born in England and, as a military brat, she spent much…
Rethinking Flying: Road Testing the 2016 Toyota Avalon Hybrid
Taking the 2016 Toyota Avalon hybrid for a ride. Ever since the ban on liquids on airplanes, travelers have had to rethink what they bring when they fly. So when my husband and I were invited to a wedding in Cincinnati for a couple of craft cocktail lovers, I knew the perfect present (for a…
Self Driving Cars in Pittsburgh?
Ubers driven by robots! You know those awkward blind dates when you have nothing to say to the guy across the table? That’s how it can be in a cab. You just want to sit back and scroll through your Instagram feed, not make chit chat. But no, the cab driver insists on asking how…
How Mercedes-Benz is Born to Run
Mercedes-Benz is not just about luxury. Ask almost anyone about Mercedes-Benz and he or she will wax eloquent about the brand’s dedication to luxury and German engineering. But Mercedes wants you to rethink that. That German engineering is moving to American soil; the company broke ground July 27 in Charleston, South Carolina, for a plant…
Drink Up: Ford Develops Tequila By Product for Car Use
Has Ford gone nuts? Tequila for cars? No, actually, Ford is acting responsibly, testing a sustainable agave waste product. Reduce, reuse, recycle is not a mantra often uttered by car company executives, but Dr. Deborah Mielewski of Ford has been finding innovative ways to reduce the company’s environmental imprint for almost 30 years. Her newest…