Aaron Robinson

3 weeks ago | hagerty.com | Aaron Robinson

As I sat waiting to turn left at a busy intersection, I noticed the five late-model cars across from me only because all of them were white. I looked around; every car waiting or whizzing through the intersection for a full minute was white, black, gray, or silver. Suddenly, a red Toyota Highlander appeared, and it stood out like Jessica Rabbit in a nunnery. The 1973 Land Rover in which I was trundling to the local cars and coffee is painted a yellowish tan known as Limestone.

4 weeks ago | hagerty.com | Aaron Robinson

This story first appeared in the March/April 2025 issue of Hagerty Drivers Club magazine. Join the club to receive our award-winning magazine and enjoy insider access to automotive events, discounts, roadside assistance, and more. No disrespect to the proud International Scout and its admirers, who must be thrilled that the long-dead nameplate is being excavated from the grave after 45 years, but Volkswagen picking it to be the name of its new electric brand is a head-scratcher.

1 month ago | hagerty.com | Aaron Robinson

If you drop almost 150 grand to buy a hot car, you’re entitled to ask what you’re getting for your money. What exactly is the deliverable? Is it speed alone, or can you also demand some emotion, some drama, some spine-tingling va-va-voom? The new 717-hp BMW M5 has us thinking, because while it is surely all ate up with speed, and it can do things no 5350-pound car ought to in a universe governed by Newtonian physics, it is something of an ersatz experience.

1 month ago | hagerty.com | Sajeev Mehta |Aaron Robinson |Eric Weiner |Nathan Petroelje

Performance brands create products we love to own, mostly because they are designed to outperform their competition. Who doesn’t want a piece of that winning formula? Some folks do not, and they pull at the purse strings of the companies behind these products. Chevrolet had the Super Sport (SS) for a long time, but applying it to vehicles like the Chevrolet Malibu MAXX might not have been the smartest long-term move.

2 months ago | hagerty.com | Aaron Robinson

More than 5000 car companies have existed in the United States alone, from Abbott-Detroit to the Zip Cyclecar Company. Yet some folks just can’t seem to find the perfect vehicle to buy, so instead, they build their own. This is the story of one of those people and one of those cars, a very special machine that sprang from the mind not of a shade-tree tinkerer or a reckless dreamer but from a talented engineer.