If “you didn’t build that” – then you might be interested in driving this: The 2013 Infiniti Q56. Few things on wheels give the finger to the OWS proletariat as lustily as this 14 MPG roller. WHAT IT IS The Q56 is Infiniti’s maximum effort, full-size, ultra-luxury SUV. It’s bigger than a Cadillac Escalade...
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2013 Ford Flex 2013 Ford Fusion 2013 Scion FR-S (the other twin) 2013 Lexus ES300 Hybrid 2013 Toyota Avalon 2013 Lexus GS 350 F Sport 2013 Dodge Dart 2013 Jeep Compass 2013 Nissan Sentra 2013 Buick Verano 2013 Cadillac ATS 2013 “Sciobaru” BRZ/FR-S 2013 Nissan Murano 2013 Dodge Challenger 2013 Lincoln MKS 2013 Volvo...
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How many car brands have died-off over the past ten years? How many will die off during the next ten? Among the dearly departed: Pontiac, Saturn, Hummer, Mercury, Oldsmobile, Daewoo, Isuzu, Saab, Plymouth. That’s nine. Which is a lot. History. There are still arguably too many contenders for too few buyers. Hair-thin profit margins...
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The battleship Iowa and her three sisters managed to survive not only World War II but a post-war world in which they’d long since become anachronisms. Amazingly, these massive gunboats lingered on as active duty warships for decades – into the 1990s. But everyone knew they had been living on borrowed time for a...
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The Hummer may be history but there are still ways to stick your finger in the eye of political correctness. For instance, you could buy a new Infiniti Q56. It is Elvis in full rhinestone flower, circa ’74 and the Live From Hawaii special. A no-holds-barred, joltin’ juggernaut of pearlescent clear-coated gaudiness. A 14...
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The Hummer may be history but there are still ways to stick your finger in the eye of political correctness. Such as buying an Infiniti Q56. It is Elvis in full rhinestone flower, circa ’74 and the Hawaii special. A no-holds-barred, joltin’ juggernaut of gaudiness. A 14 MPG, $60,000 spectacle of unashamed consumption –...
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Back in the mid-’90s, Lincoln was riding high. Ford’s primo brand was actually outselling GM’s Cadillac division, which at the time was purveyor of stolid starter caskets to the AARP crowd. It was Lincoln that birthed the idea of taking a big SUV from the lower-key Ford line, chroming everything that wasn’t plastic and...
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It stands alone, unchallenged … the master of all it surveys. Not merely surviving but thriving. The Hummer came – and went. So also the Ford Excursion – a mere Ford, too for that matter. No, if you want the Biggest Kahuna – a luxury SUV that can swallow the others whole and beat...
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Cadillac was built on big engines – from the V-16s of the art deco era to the big V-8s of the ’50s, ’60s and ’70s. But within a year, for the first time in living memory, Cadillac will no longer have a regular passenger car in its lineup with a V-8 under the hood....
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So, what’s the real-world mileage of Audi’s Q7 TDI? I wish I could give you an exact number but while I was trying to get the Q’s fussy trip computer to spit it out, I inadvertently cleared the memory. Hulk smash! But, I can tell you this: I have driven “down the mountain” (and...
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