My dad had a gas station in Houston when I was just a knee-high ball of curls, and occasionally, when he would come home at the end of the day, he’d tell me about all the cool cars he had seen. Thing is, I didn’t know them then as what cars they actually were; I knew them as what they […]
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First Drive: 2012 Volkswagen Beetle Turbo
Quick: in five seconds, pick the most iconic Volkswagen model ever. Done? Good. Yes, the correct answer is The Beetle. If you said anything else, you’re either fooling yourself by saying GTI or trying to sound clever by throwing out Veyron. Just get out, seriously. Want my point to be cemented? 60 years ago, they just called this car “Volkswagen.” […]
Games Grid: F1 2011 Review
I spent a great deal of time this year dragging myself out of bed in the early morning hours to watch another tumultuous Formula 1 season, and this one was as crazy as ever. One Gran Prix was cancelled, another one was added, and both constructor and driver championships were decided well before the season ended. My respect for the […]
First Drive: 2012 Toyota Camry XLE
Much like a parent of an honor roll elementary school student, Toyota cannot be more excited about the 2012 Camry. Toyota is very keen on focusing on the success of the Camry as a whole,and It’s hard to blame them. Very few companies can really tout the “Best Selling Car in America” card, and Toyota aims to capitalize and build […]
Pumped Up Kicks: 2011 Hyundai Genesis Coupe 3.8 R-Spec Review
It’s time to talk about choices. Remember in Trainspotting when Ewan Macgregor is going on about choice? Choose this, choose that and the other? While his diatribe bookends the character’s tumultuous heroin decent, what the rest of us who aren’t on smack can take away from this is that a potential and life-changing side effect in engaging in choice is […]