Drivers

[ad_1] Here lyes the body of M. Samuel Brown Dec’d May ye 3d 1739 in the 43d Year of his age Poor Sam Brown. His slate tombstone has grown moss-covered in just the six years since I saw him last, and more of his neighbors’ memorials have cracked and crumbled. The last decade has […]

[ad_1] Driving along the northern coast of Spain with the morning sun shining on the Atlantic Ocean outside San Sebastian, the 2024 Mercedes-Benz CLE Coupe comes into focus for me. This is the grandest of tours, and the CLE Coupe is more of a grand tourer than the E-Class Coupe […]

[ad_1] Not five minutes into my drive of the 2024 Mercedes-Benz AMG S 63 E Performance, the car has decided I need to relax. Maybe I’m tense about tapping into all 791 hp from this plug-in hybrid powertrain…or taking advantage of the performance suspension to slice through these roads in […]

[ad_1] The rock staircase climbed up from the sand, flanked by chaparral and sagebrush. As the red sandstone steepened into nearly a 30-degree pitch, the terrain appeared brittle, like the inside of a Butterfinger. This was no candy bar.  A 2024 Jeep Wrangler Willys skittered on a loose rock, the […]

[ad_1] Don’t talk numbers.  Among the many threads connecting the Rolls-Royce of the past to the Rolls-Royce of the electric future, one of the most important is the fact that the company’s first production electric car, the Spectre, softens its focus away from the numerical. In a world of acceleration […]

[ad_1] Mediterranean to the left, the cliffside village of Roquebrune to the right—from this vantage point I have a birds-eye view of the principality of Monaco, its ancient walls, a dozen clay tennis courts where who knows, maybe Roger Federer has played, even the corners of the F1 street circuit. […]

[ad_1] Calling the Eletre a Lotus takes a big leap of faith. A large, heavy, electric SUV couldn’t be a greater departure from the lithe sports cars that drove Lotus into the hearts of enthusiasts everywhere. Just looking at this 2024 Lotus Eletre, you can imagine Colin Chapman rolling in […]

[ad_1] Getting into the Prodrive P25 for the first time brought on waves of nostalgia—for what I simultaneously knew well and had never truly experienced.  Like many in a cohort of car-obsessed Gen Xers, I became aware in the 1990s that there was more to motorsports than NASCAR, Formula 1, CART, […]

[ad_1] Giving it the beans along Big Tujunga Highway in Southern California’s Angeles National Forest, this 2024 Ford Mustang EcoBoost feels familiar but different. Dynamically, the seventh-generation Mustang doesn’t change much, but it has a lot more technology to experience behind the wheel. The seventh-generation Mustang, known internally as S650, […]

[ad_1] Tooling along the canyon roads of Southern California’s Angeles Crest National Forest in the 2024 Ford Mustang GT, I have a mission: Experience the many toys the new Mustang offers in both the coupe and the convertible. That’s a pretty tall order as Ford throws everything the enthusiast driver […]

[ad_1] If America were a vehicle it would be the GMC Hummer EV pickup truck. The rolling contradiction just might be the single best and worst vehicle I’ve ever driven. It wraps all of GM’s EV knowhow into one massive, incredibly heavy, wildly inefficient, hilariously expensive, yet unbelievably awesome and […]

[ad_1] Subaru is clearly contemplating what comes next as an edgier alternative to the WRX.  One such possibility is the WRX by Prodrive, a thoughtfully upgraded performance version of the current model for track days and performance driving.  The edgy alternative at Subaru dealerships used to be the WRX STI, […]