Road Trip: LA to Santa Barbara

We use Silvercar's seamless service to explore some gems along the Californian coast

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California’s coast offers so many types of adventure as it stretches from the warm Baha border through the crisp cutoff of Oregon’s forests. Yet there’s nothing quite so alluring as the lush, beachy mid-section of the state: California’s central coast, an area ripe for road tripping along the famed 101 Freeway and Pacific Coast Highway. When traveling north from Los Angeles, the central coast offers …

Test Drive: 2018 Maserati Levante

We put the luxury SUV to the test in the desert of the UAE

Until a couple of years ago, crossing the Sharjah desert in a Maserati would have been impossible. But in the Italian sportscar maker’s new sport utility vehicle, it’s both possible and pleasing. Maserati’s first-ever SUV, the Levante, went on sale in 2016 and quickly rose to the top of the brand’s stable, outperforming the Quattroporte and Ghibli in annual sales. Yet Maserati continues to tweak …

Test Drive: 2019 Infiniti QX50

Good looks, a motor developed over 20 years, NASA tech in the seats and more

by Andrew Maness When it comes to crossovers, there’s little choice other than to go all-in and create a design that will turn heads. Some manufacturers reach to extremes and end up bringing a car to market with an overcomplicated, fussy design. Subtlety is increasingly hard to find in the automotive arena, particularly in the booming crossover segment, but leave it to Infiniti to find …