Too busy to attend the LA Auto Show? Thinking of going but not quite sure if it’s worth it? Avoid the parking, the crowds, the food, the traffic and enjoy this 10 minute slide show containing most of what you would see if you fought the traffic, paid for parking, purchased a ticket, bought a snack...

Since its inception, Mercedes-Benz has strived to capture the essence of luxury in their cars. And to be honest, they’ve always done a fairly good job. Such a good job in fact, that for a driving purist like myself, I’ve always found Mercs to be a little bit like teddy bears that I would describe...

Whenever I think of the Jaguar XFR I can’t help but think of the most popular misunderstood characters from literature and film. Take Captain Jack Sparrow from Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy for example. Here’s this devilishly handsome, infuriatingly charming criminal who the audience...

When consumer GPS devices first became available, back when cell-phones were the size of bricks, we were so impressed by their ability to communicate with satellites, that we were willing to put up with their quirks just so that we could get rid of the Thomas Guide that had sat beside us on oh-so-many...

In what seems to be “the year of the V6” at Audi, the folks over in Deutschland have done it again with the A6 3.0 TFSI Quattro Tiptronic Premium. This supercharged little beauty provides a nice pasture for 300 ponies eager to hurl you out of the corners with a tremendous 310 lb-ft of torque available...

The Cardo S-800 Bluetooth Device comes equipped with a long list of features, giving users more options at the touch of a button. This unit is attractively designed and much welcomed on long car trips, Cardo produces a Bluetooth option that offers a compelling choice. For users that appreciate more widgets,...

“Try stuff that you don’t know will work and that’s how you be creative.” - Burt Rutan With the current economic drama that has most folks gasping into brown paper bags as they stumble into the bank, I worry that the next few years will be plagued by relentlessly boring eco-boxes that are sure...

There is an intrinsic quality about people. In the back of our minds, behind all of the logical reasoning and good ideas, we all have this voice that we really should never listen to. This voice is always taunting us with the allure of some incredibly fun, yet generally bad, idea. And when we get into...

I recently came back from spending three weeks in Europe, loaded with a suitcase full of the latest technologies. A variety of vendors were kind enough to provide their latest wares for our real world testing. The field included Garmin’s latest portable GPS, Palm’s new Treo™ 680 smartphone,...