At the turn of this century, I was working at a dot-com in Seattle where our business model centered...
Last week, I bought a house—or, as your uncle on Facebook might chime in, my bank bought a house,...
The warm days of late summer have succumbed to the crisp days of autumn: Winter is coming. On the...
The Dakar Rally is the pinnacle of off-road endurance racing—thousands of miles of navigating untrodden desert dunes and the...
We used to talk about whether a car—or a motorcycle—was built with “49-state emissions” equipment, or “California emissions” equipment....
What’s your earliest memory with the BMW brand? When you think back to your first BMW, your first group...
As a child of the 1980s, I was started down the slippery slope of car obsession by the original...
Two winters ago, I found myself being coaxed out of my hibernation by my good friend Brandon Mindt, who...
There are times in our automotive journeys when we find ourselves at a proverbial crossroads. The itch for something...
I like driving in the American West. I like the vistas, and seeing a hill ahead that you won’t...
As a society, we’ve talked a lot about cities this year. It’s been too long since we’ve talked about...
Sometimes there are certain cars that you just connect with. It isn’t because they are the fastest, or the...
I want to like Formula E. I really do. Maybe it’s the high-pitched whirring that conjures up sound bites...
Everyone is different when it comes to their tastes, and the automobile may perhaps be the ultimate expression of...
Renée, my most significant other, is part of the organizing team for a classic car rally. The organizing team’s...
We can’t have a win every time. Try as we might to find a good car, the annals of...
There are few BMWs that make a statement quite like the E28 5 Series. The 1982–1988 E28 was a...
While my great-grandfather didn’t pass his mother tongue of German down to his children, I sure wish he had....
You’ve heard the expression “We live in a disposable society.” Whether it’s a TV, a refrigerator, a computer, or...
One thing led to another, and we awoke in Germany. Sharp memories are few for me in the period...
Several weeks ago, while packing my 1979 7 Series for a cross-country move, I got a text from a...
The E39 M5 (2000–2003 model years in BMW-speak) was one of the best BMWs ever produced—period. Like every M5...
Going wide-open-throttle over varying terrain with a co-driver screaming directions and numbers at you while you narrowly avoid sending...
The other day I was browsing Craigslist, as we car folk do. I won’t get too far into the...
Went shopping—casually—for a replacement for our ’11 X5 last weekend. Maybe upgrade is the better word; the Gray Whale...
You’ve heard it before: The world may never return to what we considered normal prior to the pandemic. It...
I am no stranger to E30 Tourings, having owned one for nearly three years when the 25-year exemption first...
I think that at this point we can safely rename “cars and coffee” to “dogs and coffee.” If you’re...
I used to subscribe to something of a modern Malthusian theory that would someday see fierce global competition over...
When I moved to the Colorado mountains last year, I kind of lucked out: My commute to the office,...
