Passengers React to Tesla’s Insane Mode

An owner of a new Tesla P85D shocked some of his family and friends by giving them a taste of the all-wheel-drive electric vehicle’s “insane mode.” Using a dashboard-mounted camera, the driver caught the screams, squeals and swearing of his passengers as they accelerated from a complete stop to 60 mph in just over three seconds. From children to a few older pals, nobody could …

Test Drive: 2015 Acura TLX in Park City, Utah

Auto-steering up the mountains to the Sundance Film Festival

En route to this year’s Sundance Film Festival, we hopped into a 2015 Acura TLX, the brand’s latest mid-sized performance sedan, to drive from Salt Lake City to Park City, Utah. Acura has been a premier sponsor of the festival for five years now, and the 37-mile drive in the TLX proved to be a thoughtful introduction to an event built upon showcasing creativity. In …

Skijoring with Bentley

Extreme sports with luxury cars in the Swiss Alps

Given the extreme winter weather in the Northeastern United States, we thought it would be appropriate and entertaining to resurface this story from 2012 Roughly translated to “ski driving,” skijoring is a Scandinavian-originated snow sport where a skier is towed; typically behind a horse or dogs. My introduction to the sport earlier this month [January 2012] came as an invitation from Bentley and Zai to …