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…
Road Trips Need Tunes: Here’s Our Ultimate Playlist
Sweet Sixteen and Ready to Rock ‘n Roll: Must Have Tunes! I could not wait to get my drivers’ license when I was 16. I had completed Drivers’ Ed: driving around and between orange cones in the parking lot at my high school and proving that I could parallel park, and I was ready….
Five Things to Love About the All-New 2021 Ford F-150
Trucks like the 2021 Ford F-150 are now form AND function, and they’re jam-packed with features. It used to be that trucks were simply functional tools. It was all about payload, towing capacity and the size of the truck bed. More than ever, though, truck manufacturers are looking to reach the recreational market. Nissan, Ram,…
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…
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…