By Barbara & Bill Schaffer One of our favorite recreations is go exploring in areas where we?ve never been before. After living in the Portland/Vancouver metro area for the last seven years, we?ve pretty much exhausted all the virgin areas nearby. That means we have to take longer drives to get to unexplored territories. Identifying…
By Barbara & Bill Schaffer We had both driven the 2014 Kia Cadenza at various events and introductions during the last year, but we?re excited to get a little more time in it at home. Usually a car like this calls for a road trip, but our travel time was limited so we had to…
By Bill Schaffer Del Mar, Calif. — As a longtime Kia watcher, I am amazed by each generation or new model because each one is a major leap forward ? not simply an evolutionary remake or cookie-cutter variation. For example, look at the innovative designs and features brought forward with recent Kia releases of the…
By Barbara Schaffer Phoenix ? Kia made an interesting move with the Sorento CUV for 2014. Rather than waiting for a more customary five to seven years between all new re-engineered and redesigned models, it took the Sorento, which was all new for the 2011 model year, and?re-engineered?it for 2014. The other thing that was…
