The Premium Sports Car Value LeaderThere are few more enjoyable experiences than sharing a persons' first visit to a town as overwhelmingly large and outrageously heterogeneous as Los Angeles. Such was the case during a recent trip to tinsel town, where I shared the cockpit of Chrysler's new
Crossfire Roadster with a first-timer from
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| Driving a brand new Crossfire Roadster down Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills, with a Bvlgari store on one side and Tiffany's on the other, it's hard not to smile. (Photo: Trevor Hofmann, Canadian Auto Press) |
Quebec. Hugues kept giggling, unable to hold back his exuberance, pinching himself that he was actually driving down Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills with a Bvlgari store on one side and Tiffany's on the other, and then through Hollywood on Sunset Boulevard with the sun beaming down through towering palms into the cabin of our gorgeous convertible. I've been to L.A. so many times now I had become almost complacent. My friend's unbridled joy made me appreciate just how lucky I was all over again.
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| L.A. was the ideal location to debut a car that will sell better here than anywhere else in the world. (Photo: Trevor Hofmann, Canadian Auto Press) |
Remembering back to a similar feeling, which with regards to L.A. was when I was about thirteen years old and in the back of the family wagon making my first trek to every North American child's Mecca, Disneyland, I most recently felt the travel buzz of excitement about four years ago while arriving in Manhattan for the first time ever. I thought I was a mature, sophisticated businessman cum journalist, but no, I succumbed to the Big Apple's overwhelming presence like a kid at his first big screen movie, jaw agape while oohing and aahing at the Chrysler building through a yellow cab window.
