Day 36Today was going to be a Bucket List kind of day, especially for my wife. She’s a Stephen King nutter, I mean a Stephen King fan, and has been since she was 13 years-old. He was the reason that she started writing, so when she heard about the ‘SK Tour’ in Bangor, it was added to our Must-Do list.We got picked up at...
Five Things I Liked About the 2019 Porsche Macan S Before Porsche Italy very kindly gave me the Panamera Turbo S e-Hybrid Sport Turismo to drive across Italy for 10 days, they lent me a new 2019 Macan S to use for a day to drive around Milan and Lake Como while the Panamera was getting ready. While I didn’t have enough time...
Three electric vehicles are among the 10 finalists for New Zealand's most prestigious automotive award.Candidates to secure this year's New Zealand Car of the Year are, in alphabetical order:Audi e-tronFord FocusHolden AcadiaHyundai Santa FeJaguar I-PaceMazda 3Mercedes GLEPeugeot 508Tesla Model 3Toyota RAV4The e-tron, I-Pace...
Day 29The drive to the car
ferry that will take us from Orient Point, New York to New London, Connecticut was
an easy 45-minute drive, all the way east on Long Island. We spied the Atlantic
Ocean – the first ocean we’ve seen since leaving LA, 3 weeks ago.Boarded and readyGoodbye, New York stateArriving in New...
What’s the best way to cover 2000 kilometres in Europe with enough style, performance, and space to not get bored? There’s one one obvious answer - the Porsche Panamera Sport Turismo. It literally has the Italian word for ‘touring’ in its name and the version of the Panamera I have happens to the best. The Sport Turismo...
Day 22It was only a few hour’s drive to Bowling Green, Kentucky, to visit the National Corvette Museum. From the outset of the planning of this road trip, I wanted to go to this museum, regardless if we bought a Corvette, or not.Some of you may
remember in 2015 when a huge sinkhole appeared, and sucked down 8...
Day 15Leaving Albuquerque, we had one mission today; get to Amarillo by 6pm for a horse trek ‘with real cowboys’ that we’ve booked in. Since it’s only 500km or so, that should be easy and means we can take our time and scope out a few of the car museums in some of the old Route 66 towns that are off the interstate.We hit...
The Gumboot Rally is a twice-yearly event run in New Zealand by a small group of committed petrolheads. The purpose being to explore and enjoy the best lesser-travelled roads in New Zealand, see some out of the way places, join in a scavenger hunt and have a great time. Each event is themed and teams put in quite an effort dressing up...
Diesel cars may have their days numbered but that doesn’t mean there aren’t any worth your time. The investment in R&D on diesel engines, especially by the European manufacturers, over the last two decades has been immense. Audi and Peugeot showed the world that diesel could be successful in sports cars racing on a global scale...
How do you improve on something that’s already very good? It’s a question I often ask myself, as we mourn the passing of a certain model that is loved by all who drive it. Just how much more can you do to develop a car to exceed what it can already do?Mercedes-Benz took that bull by the horns, and have given us a new GLE...
