Game Review – Need For Speed: Shift

We have all found ways to satiate our car lust in the interim time that our supercar of choice is unavailable. Be it a hot wheel collection, a magazine or oft-visited website (made up of handsome, exciting and popular contributors), our greatest automotive fantasies are constructed with the materials available to us. Being just shy of 30 (renew!), I’m fortunate […]

2010 Shelby GT500: Hot Laps

We awaken the supercharged beast from it’s slumber for a spin around the track By Alex K. I remember when I bought my 2007 Shelby GT 500. It was shortly before Christmas, and I was shopping for gifts when I encountered it. Red, with white stripes all across the top, I couldn’t resist the urge to get a little Christmas […]

Review: 2009 Toyota Venza AWD 4-Cylinder

When is a car not a car? When it’s the 2009 Toyota Venza. The latest addition to the brand’s line-up is something of an instigator for semantic arguments. At first look, it’s easy to tell that the Venza, though built on the (shudder) Camry platform, is more towards a small SUV in stature. You’d be in the ballpark if you […]

Tesla NYC & Roadster Sport

Amongst the Chelsea art galleries in NYC, you’ll find Tesla Motors’ latest showroom and New York presence. You may be thinking that a car dealership would be a garish addition to such a charming district, but you needn’t worry. Tesla, mindful of the fact that building structures willy-nilly is slightly antithetical to their whole environmentally-responsible nature, has integrated itself comfortably […]

Working Class Hero: Ford Transit Connect Review

Today, I am a baker, delivering exotic, towering cakes across the city. I am a carpenter, picking up works of art to be ornately framed at my Beverley Hills gallery. I am a florist, arranging elaborate set pieces and decorations for lavish events big and small. Why the fluctuating vocations? Because today, I am in the Ford Transit Connect.