BOSTON — We’re nearing the end of 2019 and thus everyone has a smartphone. It’s a given. We use them for everything: buying stuff, making plans, taking pictures, playing games, listening to music, getting directions, […]
AUSTIN — An Aston Martin executive once told me that 87% of its buyers admitted that James Bond played a role in their purchase decision. Then he joked that the survey also showed that 13 […]
BOSTON — These days, just about every carmaker sells a whole range of crossovers. There’s a simple explanation for it of course: people buy them by the truckload. But strip the badging off and line […]
BOSTON — The first thing I noticed about my 2019 Lexus UX was the color. Nori Green Pearl. Usually I don’t notice a color unless it’s a bright orange sports car or something. Car colors […]
AUSTIN — Formula One is the best motorsport in the world. It has the best drivers, the most advanced technology, and the rock stars behind-the-scenes who make it all happen: the engineers. (Really.) As a […]
BOSTON — I’ll just come out and say it up front: I really like the Volvo XC90. I’ve written about a lot of Volvos, and liked all of them (and not just because Volvo’s current […]
BOSTON — Thanks to technology (and government regulations), cars are more fuel efficient than ever. The 2020 Chevy Silverado diesel — a full-size truck — manages an astonishing 33 mpg on the highway. The venerable […]
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — In the shadow of historic hardware with names like Saturn, Gemini, and Mercury, another famous name from the 1950’s appeared here in the Rocket Garden at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor […]
DALLAS — They say that everything is bigger in Texas. That’s certainly true of the 55-foot Big Tex statue that is the centerpiece of the massive Texas State Fair, and in his shadow we have […]
BANFF, Alberta, Canada — I’ve had an affinity for Volvo wagons ever since I was a toddler. In the mid-80’s, my father had a gold one (the 245 Turbo) and I grew up listening to […]
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