“Our goal is to become one of the most trusted car companies in the US,” Mike Drongowski, Senior Product Planner for Nissan, explained at a recent event for the Juke in Vancouver, BC. “Juke is a segment buster — it’s something between a sports coupe and a crossover.” That wasn’t all Nissan marketing speak. The [...]

Even though I drive cars for a living, when it comes to a vacation I like to fly. But all that changed last week after we drove 10 hours to our lake-front rental. The road trip was a game-changer for me. I have come to the conclusion that driving is the way to travel. OK, [...]

The 2011 Kia Sportage has the kind of style that will make it a stand-out. I just returned from driving it in San Francisco. Here’s the scoop: Heads up: The Sportage is a 5-passenger CUV, otherwise known as a crossover utility vehicle. Kia claims the young single guy as their target audience. Thus, the raked [...]

(part one of a series on Bentley Mulsanne) In the new Bentley Mulsanne, there’s a handcrafted wooden drawer that glides out as seamlessly as silk to hold your iPod. Then again, what else would one expect? The 2011 Mulsanne, Bentley’s newest entry to “British luxury motoring” is much more than a sports sedan. This Grand [...]

The Mercedes-Benz E-Class Cabriolet was hot enough to be featured in the upcoming “Sex and The City 2” along with the S-Class, G-Class and Maybach. Can we take a stretch and say that Mercedes-Benz is getting sexy? After test driving the 2011 Mercedes-Benz E-Class in the mountains of Tennessee, I can definitely say yes. This [...]

“This is the way God intended a sports car to be,” enthused Scott Tobin, Ford’s vehicle line director for cars and crossovers, at the recent reveal of the much anticipated 2011 Mustang. “We know these folks and what they want… a world class athlete that’s well dressed and ready to beat the competitors.” And yes, [...]

Part one of two posts I recently test-drove the Rolls-Royce Ghost in California. At the dinner the night before driving,  I sat next to Ian Cameron, Chief Designer of Rolls-Royce Motor Cars. At one point during the conversation he noted, “Design is like music, if the parts don’t fit together you have noise and not [...]

Inspired is the word that Infiniti is using to describe the all-new 2011 Infiniti M line. Along with inspired you can count in trumped up performance, mind-boggling technology and luxurious design. From the soft touch leather seats, hand-polished and buffed silver-powdered interior wood accents to the 420 hp direct inject 5.6-liter V8 engine, Infiniti M [...]

“Our goal was to stand out,” explained Andre Hudson, Design Manager for Hyundai North America. Sweeping his eyes along the long, low profile of the 2011 Hyundai Sonata, he pointed out the dark chrome grille, the large headlamps, the chrome strips that extend flank to flank and the 6th back window that was put in [...]

Several years ago, Jaguar, like Gucci and Burberry, repackaged its image to appeal to a more hip demographic audience. The previous generation XK, which went out of production in June of 2005, was Jaguar’s all-time best-selling sports model. In 2007,  Jaguar raised the ante, with its all-new 2007 XK 2+2 sports car and convertible. For 2010 [...]