Let’s address the obvious first: The Nissan Cube is pretty eccentric looking. If cars attended middle school, the Cube would be mercilessly teased of its foreign appearance and ousted from any association by the cool cars. It would be forced to hang out with the other misshapen outcasts. The Cube would have lunch with the Aztek. But out in the […]
Test drive
First Drive: 2011 Ford Fiesta
Ain’t no party like an NYC party, ‘cuz an NYC party don’t stop. Unless the party is more of a fiesta, specifically the 2011 Ford Fiesta, and you mire it in bumper-to-bumper traffic. The party at the very least slows to a crawl at that point. No worries, though, since the Fiesta is specifically designed for the urban stop-and-go environment, […]
First Drive: 2011 Ford Mustang GT 5.0
At Ford H.Q, when the sheet was pulled off of the 2011 Mustang GT that would sport the 5.0 V8, a fellow journalist leaned in to me and muttered a painful truth I was attempting to ignore: “looks like you’re gonna have to upgrade.” My heart sank. No one likes to hear that their automotive pride and joy is to […]
Clever Girl: 2010 Ford F-150 SVT Raptor
The majority of us, if not all who read this, spend a great deal of their day on the endless cement network of highways, back roads, main streets, parkways and parking lots. Regardless of whether or not we’re in the most mundane of family shuttle or face-melting speed machine, there is always, at some point, the inescapable sense of confinement. […]
Lexus HS 250h Review
We’ve come a long way in a short while, when climate change and carbon footprint entered the lexicon, and the helpless automobile was borne aloft as the anathema to all things pure and natural. Naturally, alternative fueled cars had their time to shine, and to the staunch petrolhead, this was something to turn ones nose up at, be it […]