Likely, you’ve heard of Apple CarPlay by now: It’s the software that allows you to project a version — albeit limited — of your iPhone’s iOS onto your car’s in-dash screen. However, unless you have a brand-new car, you probably haven’t had a chance to play with it. That’s because very few cars sold before…
Video: kayvan ghavim I climbed out of the all-new 2017 Acura NSX and sat next to the Thermal Club race track outside Palm Springs, California in a huff. The reason for my snit was simple: After four laps of the track, the car hadn’t performed as I hoped it would. The exhaust note wasn’t deep,…
Video: kayvan ghavim Since I was a kid, I have felt that being really into cars is lame. Even as a grown man who now obsesses over cars, and makes his living writing about them, that feeling lingers to this day. For better or worse, that notion buzzes in the back of my brain every…
I figure if you’re thinking about the MINI Cooper Convertible, you’re going to want to know about its fun-ness. I am pleased to report it is very much fun. That’s because it takes the potent twee aspect of the Cooper Hardtop and adds sunshine to the equation. It has the same stiff chassis, the same…
“Trust the grip, Nick … just trust it!” I shouted to myself as I threw the BMW M2 Coupe into the 90-degree Rainey Curve on the Laguna Seca racetrack at speeds well in excess of 90 mph. With a swift turn of the steering wheel to the left, the car dove into the corner, my…
I felt like a real jerk, turning to my friend sitting in the passenger seat and admitting to him that I just wasn’t that smitten with the 2016 Mercedes-AMG GT S. We’d spent the afternoon pushing the limits of the GT S on the strip of asphalt that runs between Pasadena and the small town…
When a Cadillac representative told the group of journalists that I was with — all present to be some of the first people in North America to drive the 2016 CT6 full-size sedan — that the car was 1,000 pounds lighter than a comparably equipped Mercedes-Benz S-Class, I winced. That’s because lightness has never really…
Reviewing the Bentley Mulsanne Speed is like turning a critical eye on the moon. That’s because they’re both gigantic, awe-inspiring things that are accessible to only the most elite of elites. Like the moon, people look to the Mulsanne as a beautiful but unattainable force of nature — something to be admired but never really…
Recently, I wrote that the 2016 Mazda Miata was all about connecting with the road. But, if I’m honest, the Alfa Romeo 4C Spider is, too. If the Miata is connecting with the road, it does so in a familial, gentle way, like how your grandmother envelopes you in a big, soft and warm hug.…
If you had told me five years ago that General Motors — more specifically, Cadillac— was going to make a car like the ATS-V, I would have callously laughed at you in disbelief. That’s because nothing in the carmaker’s history would suggest it could go from making woefully outdated, quasi-luxury geriatric land-barges into producing a…