Russia might be considered east of the United States, but these days it looks more like a wild west.  It’s home to threats of terrorism against the upcoming Winter Olympics, violent outbursts against homosexuals and scary-as-hell dash cam videos: A BMW X6 owner thought they could get away with some unorthodox parking in an Astrakhan [...]

Confession: If I saw a live jungle cat running and roaring anywhere outside of a zoo cage, I would turn the other way and run for my life.  I know, I know – I’m weird like that.  But if I was present when CAR Magazine unleashed a Jaguar on the Circuit de Catalunya in Barcelona, [...]

I used to date a woman who was not very knowledgeable about cars. One day, I informed her that Ford F-150 SVT Raptors are rare, awesome beasts.  It didn’t take long for several of them to come out of the woodwork while she and I were driving around and make me look like a liar. [...]

“Finally!  I’ve made it.  I’ve got a sweet red Ferrari.  No more waiting in stupid lines for this guy.  I’m a Ferrari owner, now.  I’ve achieved true boss status.  At long last, my life is perfect.  Wait…  It won’t shift out of neutral?  I can’t even  get it towed?  I have to fix the problem [...]

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 [...]

/DRIVE’s Mike Musto has it rough.  Recently, his grueling job made him go out to the Chuckwalla Valley Raceway in sunny Southern California to zip around in the 2014 Ford Fiesta ST.  Poor guy. A Fiesta?  Aren’t those the cars that pizza delivery guys used to drive in the ’90s?  Perhaps, but they’ve come a [...]