Posts Tagged ‘quick getaway’

Spotted in the wild: 1968 Lamborghini Islero

Saturday, May 31st, 2008
Click the Islero for a high-res galleryFor a car fan it's always cool to be wandering around somewhere and stumble across an extremely rare automobile. That's especially when it's out on the road in a most unlikely of locales. My wife and I took a little road trip this weekend in the new Saab Turbo......

Kelley Blue Book names Best New Road Trip Vehicles for 2008

Tuesday, May 20th, 2008
click to view more high-res images of the 2008 Dodge Grand Caravan SXTNext Monday is Memorial Day, which many think of as the official start of the summer driving season. That means it's time to pack your families and all their associated gear in the family truckster family sedan and head out to see......

Scooter-geek’s dream ride: Yamaha Vino scooter, fully farkled

Thursday, May 8th, 2008
Though it's usually the adventure touring crowd that excels at turning their motorcycles into rolling technology test-beds, we've recently run across a Yamaha Vino scooter that has been fully farkled. Featuring an on-board computer based around a VIA mini ITX form factor motherboard that's cleverly......

Inside Line pits Challenger against Challenger in Vanishing Point-inspired road trip

Tuesday, May 6th, 2008
Click either image for exclusive pics of Inside Line's road tripSeems like you can't revive a modern day muscle car these days without having a classic movie tie-in. The Ford Mustang has got Steve McQueen's classic Bullitt, and the Dodge Challenger has got Vanishing Point. In fact, we've already see......

Njection and Garmin partner to identify speed traps

Thursday, March 27th, 2008
Njection is a website for guys like us. In addition to their forums and picture resources, they have compiled a database of more than 50,000 speed traps worldwide -- areas with high radar use and speed cameras -- that works with Microsoft Live Maps. Njection is teaming up with Garmin, a leading manu......

3 days, 3,000 miles, 1 GT-R: Inside Line’s Godzilla road trip

Wednesday, March 26th, 2008
Photo courtesy of Inside LineAccording to our friends at Inside Line, there are seven U.S.-spec Nissan GT-Rs in the country at this moment. They have secured one of them, a white pre-production car handed over by Nissan's engineering team. (That's it above with IL's 308 long-termer.) With editors S......

2008 Road Trip Vehicles of the Year as chosen by Thule

Sunday, March 23rd, 2008
There are few words in the English language which can conjure up as much meaning, and likely so many memories, as these: road trip. We've all been on them before; some are the highlights of your life and some... well, not so much. But having the right vehicle can make all the difference in the world......

2007 Nissan Quest Video

Thursday, July 19th, 2007
Minivans are perfect for anyone with kids, especially when they’re in the younger ages. My four and six year old are constantly asking me when a minivan is coming to the office and were quiet ecstatic to hear that we would be taking a minivan to the beach for Memorial Day weekend. The Nissan Quest......

Road trip!

Sunday, March 13th, 2005
What greater words are there? Pack a duffel bag, fuel up the car, roll down the windows or roll back the ragtop, and get going. The road trip is the ultimate quick getaway. Of course, some roads are better to road trip on than others, and MSNBC was nice enough to point out 10 great one-day road trip......