This is Ross.
For those that have seen Ross Rides, you know I have a problem with bikes... but the car problem is bigger. Over 50 cars from hot hatches to luxury SUVs, supercars and shitboxes. It's been about the hunt.
There are cars I know to be good but I hate, and there are crappy cars I love. Things I would buy again (Land Rover Defender 90, 2025) and things I would never buy again (a champagne 5-door Citroën C4).
I love all cars — and bikes — for all reasons.
Methodology
Where a verdict applies, it's a single letter (S, A, B, C, F): S means buy one, A means a strong choice in segment, B means competent and worth considering, C means flawed but defensible, F means avoid. The verdict is what falls out when you put thirty years of contemporary reviews, owner forums, and spec data side by side and see what the consensus actually says.
This isn't a personal-experience site. It's a synthesis. The point is to do the reading you don't have time to do — pulling together what Car and Driver, Motor Trend, Road & Track, Edmunds, MotorWeek, Hagerty, the owner clubs, and the long-term forum threads all said about a given car — and turning it into something you can read in five minutes and act on.
The best hero cars you already love. The zero cars you already hate. And every era of sedan, muscle car, supercar and shitbox in between, compared on equal terms. Nobody pays for what gets written here. No manufacturers, no dealers, no advertising. The site exists because thirty years of car data is sitting in a hundred different magazines and forums — and it should be in one place, presented honestly.
Sources
Spec data comes from manufacturer technical specs, NHTSA recall and complaint databases, period reviews from Car and Driver, Motor Trend, Road & Track, Automobile, Edmunds and MotorWeek, plus current pricing from Kelley Blue Book, Edmunds, AutoTrader and Bring a Trailer. Anything you read on this site is cross-referenced against at least two independent sources. If a number looks suspect, it is flagged and corrected.
Where the site cites a specific lap time, period reviewer quote, or model-year data point, the source is named in the relevant article. Where the verdict is a judgement call ("the C7 Z06 is the best front-engined Corvette ever built"), it's clearly a judgement call — drawn from where the consensus has landed, not invented.
Independence
RossDrives takes no money from manufacturers, dealers, or marketing agencies. No press loaners, no embargoed launches, no sponsored placements. The synthesis is honest because there's no incentive for it not to be — nobody benefits from a particular car coming out well or badly except the reader trying to decide what to spend their money on.
This is the only honest way to do it. The mainstream motoring press has spent forty years compromising on this point, and the result has been the gradual hollowing out of trust in car journalism. Synthesising what they all said — independently, with no skin in the game — is one way to put that trust back together.
Disclosure
Some links on this site go to third-party retailers and marketplaces. Where they are affiliate links — meaning I earn a small commission if you buy something after clicking — they are clearly labelled. The recommendations on this site are not influenced by which links pay commission and which don't. If a non-affiliate product is the right answer, that is the product I recommend.
If I review a product I have been given for free (this is rare), I disclose it on the relevant page. If I review a product I purchased myself, I do not. Either way, the review is independent.
Get in touch
Spotted an error? Got a strong opinion about a car you think I have undervalued? Want to commission a comparison piece? Email is the best way: rossrides@gmail.com. I read everything. I do not always reply.
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