This rally culture lifts up its competitors – by design. Ashley Lee, a three-time Rebelle Rally veteran, picked me up from the airport on Thursday morning to take me out to the final stage of the competition. The night before, she called me to offer her advice and answer any questions I might have about…
How Lincoln Created a Sanctuary of Luxury and Elegance in its New SUVs
Life is loud. Tune it out and relax. Work, conference calls, video calls, video games, kids, pets, ringtones, construction, and more assault your sense on a daily basis and sometimes we just need a break. That’s why spas use soft, relaxing music and the atmosphere is quiet and peaceful. Lincoln has set out to recreate…
Used 2017 Kia Cadenza Limited Review: This Luxury Sedan Might Be Kia’s Best-Kept Secret
Its luxe touches and unassuming sleekness will surprise you. In my next life, I’m going to pursue a career in car color naming. For example, the 2017 Kia Cadenza Limited I took on a recent road trip was dubbed Gravity Blue. Doesn’t that evoke a sense of floating above Planet Earth, looking down on its…
Tackling the Circuit of the Americas: Driving Performance Cars On This Track is the Chance of a Lifetime
And I Wasn’t About to Pass It Up. The cars were lined up along Pit Row, a beautiful array of colors, shapes, and sizes, like toys on display to lure kids into play. each was assigned one of more than a dozen categories for evaluation and the 40 or so journalists were in attendance at the annual Texas Auto…
2021 GMC Yukon: A Bigger, First Class Ride in Full-Size SUV Form
The Yukon is bigger (yes—even bigger!) and better than ever. Back in January, before the world fell off its axis, I was invited to Vail, Colorado with GMC. They were launching the 2021 Yukon and Yukon XL with excitement and fanfare, and we made the most of the snow with the Yukon prototypes. This is…
Want to Test Drive a Wild and Unusual Car? Try Hagerty’s DriveShare
In case you hadn’t tried to rent a car lately, it’s kind of crazy out there. When travel slowed down last year, rental car companies’ business sputtered too. As a result, rental fleets were decimated by the sale of dormant vehicles; even mainstay Hertz reported a 40% reduction in cars between the end of 2019…
CRASH Jewelry Recreates Car Wreckage into Gorgeous Wearable Art
If you can’t have a Ferrari, wear one! Christi Schimpke is unlike most people in that when she sees a luxury car that has been in a minor crash, she sees not damage, but art. She was working with metal as a jewelry designer when she moved her studio into her husband’s luxury-car body shop,…
6 Safe Driving Tips to Model and Teach Your Teens
If we knew then what we know now, we would have been safer drivers. I was more than six months pregnant with my son and picking up some new-mom supplies at the local Babies R Us. Stepping into my Nissan Altima carefully and settling my burgeoning belly into the seat, I looked behind me and…
First Drive Review: Five Reasons to be Wild About the 2021 Ford Bronco
This GOAT is back and ready to conquer the mountain. As I drove a two-door 2021 Ford Bronco in Cyber Orange through the tiny town of Marble Falls, Texas, I saw more than one person snapping photos and taking video, and one lady in a Jeep Wrangler Rubicon stopped me at a light to ask…
Father’s Day Lessons from a Car Fanatic
Dad taught me a lot about cars… and life My dad grew up with three brothers on a farm in New Jersey, and he learned to drive at a young age. Cars have always represented both a passion of his and a watershed, life-changing moment: a devastating car crash as a teenager. Raised with bunch…