Just in time for summer, we've put out a special edition of Winding Road Magazine -- our road trip issue. Since our magazine is all about great cars on great roads, we've gone through and not only detailed some of the best cars for all different types of road trips, but we've selected over thirty of our favorite roads all across the country. But that's not all we have in our special issue, so be sure to give it a read! 

Just like every other issue of Winding Road, this special edition is free to read online, or you can download a PDF at our NextNewsStand website. You can also post about your favorite drives on our forums. In any case, we hope you enjoy this extra content and hope any summer road trips you have planned are truly enjoyable.

Content in this issue:

• My Winding Roads - East, Midwest, South, West
• How to vacation in style
• The best road trip cars
• Discovering the desert

 
 
Greetings, drivers (and web surfers)!
 
We’re excited to announce that we are preparing to launch a new, improved version of our website, and we would love to get your input. The new site will be more closely aligned with the style and voice of Winding Road, but only if we can get your feedback.
 
In an effort to perfect our new website, we look to you, our loyal readers, to be our beta testers. You’ll be telling us what you like and dislike, so we can provide the best online experience for our audience. If you’re interested in volunteering to test our new site-in-progress, send us a line at editor@windingroad.com with the subject line “Beta Tester.” Give us an email address where we can reach you, and we’ll contact you within the next few weeks, when we begin testing.
 
Thanks so much for all your help.
 
 

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To say that Kia has made a lot of changes to the Sorento for the 2011 model year doesn’t quite capture the spirit of it. It’s roomier, lighter, more efficient, offers different powertrain options, and is built in the U.S. to boot. While it is by all means a crossover, Kia has tried to keep the new Sorento from falling in with the rest of the herd, and has created what promises to be a formidable competitor in the otherwise dreary and uninspired segment of affordable CUVs.

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According to TheNewspaper, the Utah Department of Transportation, which raised speed limits to 80 miles per hour on certain stretches of I-15, reported no downside to the experimental increase.

The UDOT selected stretches of road to increase the speed limit by five miles per hour based on crash histories. After watching and evaluating these roads, they discovered very little increase in actual speed.

“With the speed limit posted at 75 MPH, 85th percentile speeds measured between 81 and 85 MPH -- barely different from the 83 to 85 MPH speeds under the higher 80 MPH limit. The 85th percentile speed represents the speed at which 85 percent of free-flowing traffic feels is the safest. Engineers have determined that the greatest safety can be achieved when speed limits match the 85th percentile speed.”

So far, the UDOT is declaring the experiment a success, and will continue to monitor the interstate, meanwhile evaluating the future of other roads.

We are also pleased by this news, and hope to see this program expand to other parts of the country that could benefit from such experiments. We also want to know what you think. Would you support this experiment on your highways? Talk about it in comments.
 

For those of you who might not have heard just yet, Issue 51 of Winding Road has just been launched. In addition to the great stuff you’ll find in the latest issue—Porsche 911 Turbo, convertible comparison test, Greenformance Awards, and tons more—you’ll likely be quick to notice that we dramatically upgraded the digital reader experience for this issue.

For starters, we’ve gone for a much larger, clearer, and more beautiful format size for Winding Road, meaning a better look at the hot photography we stuff into each issue. Better still, we’ve confined ourselves to just one banner advertisement at the top of the page, for a less distracting read. Big wins both, we’re hoping.

We’ve also streamlined the process of using the magazine, by simplifying the navigation interface. Use the blue arrow buttons to flip forward or backward through the issue one page at a time. The new Next Article and Previous Article buttons will allow you to move through the issue once piece of content at a time. Finally, the Contents button will bring you to the issue’s table of contents, allowing you to select an individual article directly. Easy stuff.

Please take some time to read through our newest issue (a super one, natch) and try your hand at the new navigation bar. Then, be sure to tell us what you think, problems you’ve had, or how much you love us in comments, below. Thanks.

+ Winding Road 51

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