There’s a reason they call it Black Friday – it’s an ugly, brutal orgy of consumer mayhem. If you’re hoping to wade into it and come out the other side intact, you’re going to need a vehicle designed to handle such a situation.
As we prepare to skip out of work to attend to our family celebrations, we’d like to take a moment to wish all of you, our readers, a safe, happy, and fun Thanksgiving with your loved ones.
As we prepare to skip out of work to attend to our family celebrations, we’d like to take a moment to wish all of you, our readers, a safe, happy, and fun Thanksgiving with your loved ones.
Despite its age, the CX-9’s utility and driving character make it a fine choice for those that need utility but still value driving pleasure. If this sounds like you, then you should get down to your local Mazda dealership.
I had a busy weekend with the Infiniti FX, first with shuttling my wife and myself from Ann Arbor to Detroit, then from Detroit to East Lansing, then from there back to Ann Arbor. Picking up leftovers at each stop along the way. Later in the weekend, the FX served to run errands, particularly bringing boxes of Christmas decorations between my home and my wife’s store, as we got it ready for holiday shoppers. I even had some time to myself to drive the car as I pleased, though mostly in the dark, sloppy weather we typically enjoy this time of year.
Despite being a pretty bad long weekend for convertible driving—Michigan offered up a very par-for-the-course November compliment of damp, cold, cloudy days—my Thanksgiving drive did serve as a fine counterpoint experience in the 650i convertible. When I drove the car for the first go-round, it was nothing but top-down and sunny-weather driving through the balmy Mexican countryside. That’s nice and all, but it certainly didn’t give me much of a frame of reference for cold-weather driving in the new 6er, nor really for a lot of top-up stuff.
With a very long Thanksgiving weekend ahead of us, we’re thankful that we’ve got some great cars to speed us through the first part of the holiday season. To celebrate, we’re going to run a three-way Ask It post. We’ll tell you (below) which of us is driving what over the holiday weekend, and you can fire away with questions about the vehicles we’re testing. Next week, we’ll put together a follow-up with individual answers to your posts.
Thanksgiving is upon us, and we imagine many of you are getting ready to carve birds. If you’re like us, you’ll likely spend Turkey Day gabbing with the relatives about all things automotive.