Test Drives, Trends & Events

I am sitting in a 2008 Audi S5 and thinking about the stuff that makes people happy. Personally, I love putting on a brand-new pair of socks. Fresh out of the package and not stretched out yet, a new pair of socks just feels right. Unfortunately, new socks are only new once.

However, for those lucky few who own a 2008 Audi S5 (like the Quartz Gray Metallic one I am driving around in) you can have that feeling every day... More...

Summer is officially here and for my family, that means road trips. When I was a kid, car road trips meant driving as fast as you could go to get to your destination, without sightseeing along the way.

As an adult, I have learned that a true road trip is about the journey, not the destination. With each road trip vacation, my husband and I have let the road guide us instead of being a slave to our travel guide. Finding the unexpected and having the time to truly experience, it has often been the most memorable part of each car trip.

On a road trip on the California coast, we piloted our BMW 6 Series convertible (my road test car for that week) on a curving, mountainous road inland to the seldom-visited Mission San Antonio de Padua. When the Ford F-150 was redesigned a few years ago, we drove the pickup a circuitous 1,800 miles from Texas to California, stumbl...