Automotive Reviews

2017 BMW 530i Review The passage of time often makes one forget about the things that made you remember why you fell in love with your Ex. After all, you did "trade her in" for a new model. Perhaps, with age, her luster seemed to fade. The excitement of a new shiny, sleek and beautifully updated chassis caused you to...

2017 Ram 1500 Lone Star Is A Solid Choice For Truck Lovers As I spent a week driving the new 2017 RAM 1500 Lone Star Crew Cab I took time to reflect on the trucks of old from this company. You know the trucks that wore the name badge, 'Dodge'. After all, even though there are still some out in...

I've written a lot about the Nissan Rogue in the past year. The reason...Nissan designers and engineers keep coming out with new features. Yes ... I have something new to say. They have done it again! A whole new model of the Rogue. As if the "regular" Rogue did not live up to it's name with sport embodied in...

Well, Hello There V8 You don't find V8 engines in a lot of vehicles these days. I was excited to see that the 2017 Chevrolet SS Sedan delivered to me for a week-long test drive sported one. I vowed to put all 415 horses to work at my first opportunity. They did not disappoint. I shot out of the parking lot...

2017 Car Of Texas Chosen By Texas Auto Writers Association at COTA AUSTIN, Texas, May 8, 2017 - The Texas Auto Writers Association (TAWA) gathered for the annual Texas Auto Roundup to drive and evaluate 42 vehicles within 11 categories at the Circuit of the Americas May 5-8. Fifty-two journalists evaluated vehicles on the Formula 1 racetrack and chose the...

Sleek and Fast - the 2017 Infiniti Q60 She was absolutely beautiful. The moment I saw her it was love at first sight. I could hardly wait to experience the luxuriousness of her splendid body – so smooth, so sleek, so enticing. The real question, was she the total package? Was there substance lurking beneath her beautiful frame? I entered the...

I have to say I was pleasantly surprised when the new 2017 Chevrolet Trax was delivered to my office. The prior week I had been supplied a Buick Encore, a sibling of the Trax, and I envisioned a more Spartan version of that vehicle. Wrong! The interior of the Trax was beautiful. In fact, it was more fully decked out than...

Team Rogue Warriors Win Rogue Trip Competition Auto writer Wayne Gerdes nailed it when he predicted a win by Focus Daily News Digital Operations Director Kristin Barclay and Simply Real Moms owner Jasmine Cosme in the Nissan Rogue Trip event. Nissan Motor Company presented a check to Ms. Barclay and Ms. Risso made out to the National Breast Cancer Coalition...

This is part of an article written by Wayne Gerdes from CleanMPG. Wayne discusses his prediction on why our own Kristin Barclay and #RogueTrip team #NR6 have an inside track to a win. It is reprinted with his permission. I urge everyone who reads this to go to Kristin Barclay's InDeepH2O page and Jasmine Risso's FB page Simply Real Moms on Facebook....

2017 Buick Encore...That's A Buick? I would have never known the Encore I was provided to test drive for a week was a Buick were it not for the badging. It has been literally years since I have been in a Buick. I’m not sure why. I guess they haven’t had many launches or there haven’t been many in the...