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…
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…
Ten Affordable and Fun Manual Transmission Cars That Will Fire Up Your Stick Shift Dreams
It’s just like riding a bike. Really! Do you remember learning how to ride a bike? It starts with balance. You start, wobbly, with your feet firmly planted on flat ground (unless your parents were daredevils, of course, and started you on a downhill). As you navigate the pedals and the handlebars, you feel clunky,…
9 of the Sexiest Cars We’ve Driven (So Far!)
You can’t help falling in love with these beautiful machines. Raise your hand if you fell in love in a car—or even with a car. It’s no secret that automotive brands use words like “sexy” and “sensual” when describing the bodies of their cars because it appeals to us, and none so much as a…
90210’s Brian Austin Green Traded in His Muscle Cars for a Family Jeep
From glitzy bachelor cars to the family Jeep. In the height of his popularity as character David Silver on Beverly Hills 90210, actor Brian Austin Green went through cars like the rest of us change clothes. He and co-star Jason Priestly had early-90s Land Rover Defenders, and in one instance they drove the Defenders out…
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,…
Movie Cars That Outshine the Stars
Cars + movies = ultimate entertainment. If you love cars, like I do, you might also love to watch movies that feature beautiful cars, like Gone in 60 Seconds, or The Fast and the Furious, or American Graffiti. When I was a kid, the TV show Knight Rider was all about a dreamy car and…
Three Good Reasons a Woman Should Own a Motorcycle
I had a boyfriend with a motorcycle when I was 19 – it was a blazing red Kawasaki Ninja and it was FAST. As in, oh-my-stars-this-is-insane fast. Once, he let me drive it and he sat behind me and helped me shift. It was an exhilarating feeling, the wind rushing past me, and I…
Ghosts of Cars: Past, Present and Future
In the quintessential holiday movie A Christmas Carol, Ebenezer Scrooge is visited by three ghosts: the ghost of Christmas past, present, and future. We thought it would be fun during this Christmas season to celebrate the car “ghosts” of our lifetimes, too. My husband, for example, drove a Nissan 4-door pickup in high school in…