It was on a recent Wednesday that would soon come to be known as the beginning of Winter Storm PAX that we found ourselves headed north on Capital Boulevard, past I-440 and then I-540 on our way to Leith Toyota in Raleigh. Thankfully it was about 11 in the morning, a scant two hours or […]
Well, that’s impressive. Wireless mobile phone charging has been a nice dream mainly relegated to airplane magazines for the past couple years for reasons that no one really knows. Even though our phones are more advanced computers than NASA had when they went to the moon, everyone still has to ask that fundamental question every […]
It seems as though there has existed a time-honored tradition for automakers to manufacture pick-up trucks with a very limited appeal. Often marketed and lauded for their towing capacity, these vehicles exude pure masculinity. They have built a reputation for unabated strength, yet so many are difficult to handle, feel unstable through bends, and lack […]
We were sitting in the Octagon last Wednesday–that’s what we call Leith Toyota’s showroom–looking out the window, wondering when it would start snowing. The Octagon feels more like a cafe. Its unique shape puts you in the midst of all the display cars, and there are a number of tables scattered throughout the room. The […]
For our sake, we are glad when disparate design influences in a single vehicle come to fruition. If F. Scott Fitzgerald was right that “the test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposing ideas in mind at the same time,” it could be that the sign of a first-rate car is […]
