Casey Williams

I know, I know, Matthew McConaughey drives a Lincoln. So did Elvis Presley, who owned a Mark III and gave away Mark IVs like party favors. The King made them cool, but McConaughey is making them relevant. His commercials highlight the fact Lincoln has transformed from building block-long plushmobiles to offering all versions of SUVs…

If you take a look at the Kia Forte GT and think it could just have easily been a Volkswagen or Audi, your mind isn’t cloudy. A good portion of Kia’s design team and engineering gnomes come from The Fatherland. And, that rapid insolence carries over on the road where the car kicks it like…

Ford makes the best-selling pickup of all time, its full-size F-150, but not everybody needs to pull a 30-foot RV or haul a ton of rocks.  The Ranger is a tidier package for city dwellers, but it costs nearly as much as an F-150 and certainly enjoys a tall drink of fuel.  For those of…

When I recently drove the Kia EV6 electric crossover, I suggested it was a car from 2030 available today.  But I realize not all of you are ready to make the full journey to the future and still worry a lot about driving range.  I get it, and may have a better choice that takes…

Last week, my co-worker and I were having a rousing debate about what would be a good practical car for daily driving and wouldn’t be completely boring.  Both of us are fans of Corvettes and German steeds, but neither fit our salaries unless they’re old or wear VW logos.  Our discussion wandered to the Honda…

Too many automakers have tried to update classic designs with a retro flair to put an amber light on their boring product line.  That’s not the case with the 2023 Nissan Z.  While design references the original 1970 Z, and the chassis dates to the last Z, absolutely nothing about the driving experience or technology…

It’s Saturday afternoon and I find myself traveling on the highway while drinking a soda, eating a sandwich, and casually watching the road.  My daughter spent the night with her grandparents sixty miles away, so I’m retrieving her, all of her stuffed animals, roller bags, and whatever haul grandma bought.  Fortunately, the 2022 Chevrolet Bolt…

It seems all of the news about cars these days focuses on the latest electric vehicles and automated driving, so it’s refreshing to drive the redesigned 2022 Subaru WRX.  It’s a larger car, a more mature car, but it retains all of the click-click, turbo-kick that’s shoved it down the road for decades.  It’s the…

I feel like when a car’s paint color is called Thundernight Metallic, and it’s a $550 option, the car wearing it better be impressive. You may imagine that color to be some mysterious murky gray, but it’s actually eggplant purple. With sparkle. Fortunately, the 2022 BMW M240i has the performance, style, and luxury to back…