Bluebitch Driveway 2013

When we were in St John back in 2011 we shot the the road and driveway to the place we were staying, the house is called “Bluebitch”, named after the native rock it is built from.  The owners, Albion and Ann have made some improvements since we were their last, so, we thought it would be cool to shoot another video!  If you are looking to unplug from the world, and enjoy the sun, then we HIGHLY recommend staying here.
If you are interested in renting Bluebitch you can find all the details here:
If you’d like more information on Albion and his Steelpan music you can find that here:

2015 GMC Canyon Debut

Sunday night before the start of the Detroit Auto Show, automakers like to have a few debuts to try and grab some headlines.  Tonight it was GMC showing of the new “Midsized” pickup, the Canyon.  Midsized in name only, this is about 85% the size of a Silverado/Sierra 1500.  Still it’s a good looking truck and we should see it on sale around November.

Reviewed 2013 Mazda MX-5 Club Sport: Sports Car Personified

In today’s world more is always more, more power, more brakes, more grip, and this is all evaluated on a spreadsheet.  Very rarely is there talk of more driving fun.  If the numbers don’t add up on the spreadsheet, then the car must not be good.

Those that are actually interested in DRVING cars rather than just evaluating how they look on a spreadsheet know that the name of the ESPN show “Numbers Never Lie” is false, great cars, memorable cars are not about the numbers, they are about the DRVING!

Like the British sports cars of old, MG’s, Lotus Elan, Triumph TR6’s and Spitfire’s, and more recently the Scion FR-S and Subaru BRZ, light weight chassis don’t require big horsepower numbers to be fun.

For 15 years now the Mazda MX-5/Miata have been that car.  Yes it has grown in weight and size some over the years, but it still stays true to the formula that fun can be had in small packages.  We can say, with no qualifiers, that every time we got in the MX-5 and drove it we had FUN!  Even if it was just heading through town to the market to pick up a couple things for dinner.  How many cars can you say that about?  And on top of all that, you can drop the top and let the sun shine in!

Reviewed 2013 Chevy Cruze Diesel: 45+ MPG Is Easy Like Sunday Morning

 

The auto enthusiast community has been clambering for a small diesel car, from a U.S. manufacturer, for quite some time.  Chevy has answered their call by bringing the 2.0 Turbo Diesel engine from Europe to the U.S. and placed it in the Cruze, and it is set to go head to head with the Volkswagen Jetta.
The Cruze on it’s own is a pretty solid car, however, once you put the clean diesel engine in the car, does it make it better, worse, or the same?  Will American’s take to a clean diesel car from a U.S. manufacturer that gets 30mpg in the city and almost 50mpg on the highway?
That is what we find out on this episode of Rumblestrip.NET and Ten Minute Test Drive.