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I'm on the North American press launch for the BMW 7 Series and Mini Cooper Convertible. I don't have much time to go into the details, but I thought I'd pass on a few pictures from my day driving a 750Li around snowy San Diego county. That's right, it was snowing in the mountains...

Going live today on Edmunds.com is my test drive of the 2010 Mercedes-Benz GLK350 4Matic. I think the article speaks for my favorable opinions of the thing, but here's the behind the scenes story of the above photo. It was a rare rainy day in the Los Angeles area, which was good for flowers but crap for automotive photo shoots...

I've started to call this 2009 Nissan Frontier Pro4X "my truck." See, with the exception of one night, I've been driving it since last Monday, which is an absolute eternity around here. Even with cars I'm assigned to do road tests for, I'm usually in them for a weekend plus maybe two nights. That's because most cars get both an Edmunds and Inside Line write-up -- the Frontier's here just for Edmunds...

Even though I've driven most truck-based SUVs presently sold, I rarely get a chance to drive them. That's mostly because many are old models and therefore don't visit our garage, but also because they are quite simply a dying breed outnumbered by a whole heap of unibody crossovers better suited to the car-buying public. While truck utes like the Kia Borrego and Chevy Tahoe try their damndest to mask their true nature, the 2009 Nissan Xterra does not -- and it doesn't have to...

Greetings from Mississauga, Ontario. The hometown of one James D. Riswick...

It dawned on me yesterday that the most expensive car I've ever driven is now a Honda. Take that Rolls-Royce. With rain falling, Josh Sadlier, Warren Clarke, Paul Seredynski and I took the Honda FCX Clarity for a spin around the block to see what it's like to drive in the future...

Up until recently, I had a very dim view of Mercedes-Benz. Its cars seemed horribly overpriced, I heard they were horribly unreliable, their headlights looked like peanuts and I didn't find their interiors particularly impressive. I also had a dim view of their owners. A white Benz meant you were a rich suburban housewife...

This is how it looks when I drive the Subaru Tribeca. Note how the steering wheel is just slightly forward of my knees and just a smidge above them too. Note how its about parallel to the stereo volume knob...

I was assigned to write the 2009 Porsche Cayenne Edmunds model review this week and as I often do, I hit the manufacturer Web site's Build Your Own function to get acquainted (or reacquainted) with the vehicle's ordering structure. Since I have in the past pined away building 911s just for the hell of it, I already knew Porsches came with a staggering number of options that are mostly hilariously overpriced -- the Cayenne is no exception. So I decided to see just how loaded and how expensive I could get...

"They're replacing the Mazda 3? What for? It's still so good." That was the general concensus when I mentioned I was attending the all-new 2010 Mazda 3 press event...