The 2016 Jaguar F-Type R Convertible delivers a driving experience that makes you shout, “oh, it’s good to be bad!”

The weather here in Austin, TX is finally warming up, but Northern Sweden is still plenty cold. It’s the perfect place for testing the performance of vehicles in extreme temperatures. It’s also where Rolls-Royce went with the development mule for the car that will eventually become the convertible version of the Wraith.

Just as the Phantom has its coupe and convertible variants, it is only natural  that Rolls-Royce would launch similar two-door versions of their smaller Ghost sedan. The first of these, the Ghost coupe, has already been launched in the form of the 2014 Wraith. Soon we’ll be seeing a the final version of the Ghost […] More »

The Porsche 928 is an odd duck in the company’s history. It’s a front-engined, V8 coupe with a bulbous backside. Back in the early 1980s, Carelli Design made the P-car even more unusual by making it into a convertible. It was certainly a rare breed: the firm only produced eight examples of the Carelli Design […] More »

The end is near for the Jaguar XK. You can blame its advanced age and the popularity of the new F-TYPE for that. It will not go out with a whimper, though. Jaguar will end production of the model with the loaded and powerful Final Fifty Limited Edition. The Coventry automaker will make 25 coupes […] More »

Convertibles are wonderful, aren’t they?  You can take in the limitless expanse of sky above you, hear the wildlife singing a few feet away.  All while the wind tousles your hair and the sun warms your skin.  If you were to do that in the 2013 Audi RS 5 4.2 Cabriolet, you’d be overlooking something […] More »

When I was a teenager, I collected the books of Garfield comic strips.  One day, I came home from school to discover that Bear, my family’s Rhodesian Ridgeback dog, had eaten one of my beloved volumes.  I was angry.  Not as steamed as Royston Grimstead must have been, though. His border collie/spaniel Luce treated the […] More »