Weekend Driver San Diego

2010 Nissan Frontier Website The Frontier proved it was up to the morning’s task, easily (thought not smoothly) rolling over the rocks, cracks and crevices in Bear Valley Road. Comfortable, though busy on the highway, the Nissan came equipped with shift-on-the-fly four-wheel-drive high and low, high ground clearance and 265/70 R16 OWL BF Goodrich Long [...]

The Cadillac proved well up to the task. GM has invested a lot in the SRX, hoping to younger buyers with the SRX4 2.8T. It has all the luxury expected of a $54,000 vehicle, with leather everything, a nearly full-length sunroof (the first third opens), navigation and XM Satellite Radio. The six-speed automatic transmission has [...]

2009 Mitsubishi Galant Sport website My ride for this drive was an ’09 Mitsubishi Galant Sport, a spiffy trim version of the marque’s midsize flagship. A capable freeway cruiser, it was easily surprised on the curves but quickly recovered. Of course, it’s not a sports car, but this is one of the sleepers in the [...]

My quick review of the Audi diesel SUV is now online. Check it out on my website.

One down, 12 to go (actually 14), as I’ve posted my quick review of the 2010 Acura TSX V-6 online. Check it out.

I drove 14 new cars or something in two days, including the Honda hydrogen car. Loads o’ fun. Watch the website for capsule reviews.

The Chrysler 300 proved itself as a great weekend cruiser, frankly surprising me. For a full-sized car, it handled very well, gobbling up the curves; when I checked the rear-view mirror for the three blonde heads in the back seat, they were hardly leaning. Our test car came with the Heritage package, which made this [...]

Holy Studebaker… the Forester has Hill Holder. One of those features going way back to Stude is a gizmo that engages the brake when the clutch is depressed while sitting on a hill. It keeps the car from rolling backward during that frantic takeoff from stop on assent. Imagine my surprise when I found it [...]