Larry Webster

1 week ago | caranddriver.com | Aaron Robinson |Larry Webster

From the May 2003 issue of Car and Driver. Okay, so it has been five years since our last "First Annual Olympics of Rust." As you can see, our devotion to regularity basically ends with your subscription renewal notice. Meanwhile, your many letters of complaint have been scrupulously filed in the bottom of a parakeet's cage. Before subsiding deeper into this story, note that this new and hardly improved battle of the beaters has a different format, if you can call it that.

4 weeks ago | hagerty.com | Larry Webster

With 1064 hp, we knew the new Corvette ZR1 was going to be bonkers. Now we know the full and rather incredible scope of the fastest Corvette ever made. Today, Hagerty posted Jason Cammisa’s video review of the car, and superlatives don’t do it justice. Watch the film here. Across my 30 years of driving and reviewing Corvettes, I’ve been impressed with their strengths but also annoyed by their flaws. It’s gratifying to see the sports car reach such heights.

1 month ago | hagerty.com | Larry Webster

This week, the Wall Street Journal reported that General Motors is urging employees to help repeal California’s upcoming ban on the sale of gas-powered cars. The Golden State has mandated that only zero-emission cars be sold starting in 2035. Over a dozen other states have adopted the rules. In an email to employees, GM asked that they contact their senators. The Senate will soon vote on a measure to repeal California’s ability to set its own emissions standards.

1 month ago | hagerty.com | Larry Webster

One of my happiest of happy places is an asphalt ribbon on a mile-high ridge in the Blue Ridge Mountains called the Cherohala Skyway. This stunning 43-mile byway is our 2025 Road of the Year and should be on the bucket list of anyone who loves driving. You can read about it here.  We created the Hagerty Road of the Year to inspire folks to get behind the wheel.

1 month ago | hagerty.com | Larry Webster

After carving 43 miles of smooth asphalt that rises through meadows and dense forest on its way to a mile-high peak, a driver might conclude that the Cherohala Skyway was made purely for the fun of it. The history of the 2025 Hagerty Road of the Year suggests that conclusion isn’t too far from the truth.