The Rolling Stone Road Test
Musicians have a special relationship with their cars. When they’re starting out, before there’s a team and an entourage and a tricked-out tour bus, it’s just them and their equipment piling into whatever beat-up hatchback or van they were able to find, hitting the road to win over fans, city by city. And when they finally make it, a dream car is usually one of their first big purchases.
So naturally, when Rolling Stone set out to report on the hottest new rides, it made sense to consult with some experts. Our crack team of test-drivers — Margo Price, Quavo, Dawes frontman Taylor Goldsmith and Struts frontman Luke Spiller — took the wheel of the latest-model vehicles we could get our hands on (a King Ranch edition Ford F-150, a matte-black Mercedes G-Wagon, a sneaky-quick Volvo XC60 and a show-stopping Rolls Royce Phantom) and gave us their unvarnished opinions. Along the way, they spun tales about their first cars, their hometowns and their early days on the road. Hop in for a memorable ride.
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Margo Price in a Ford F-150
Image Credit: Alysse Gafkjen for Rolling Stone Braking to let some deer pass by, Price has a devilish thought: “I’d like to find a big, open field that we could go rip some donuts in.”
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Quavo Kicks Back in a Mercedes G-Wagon
Image Credit: Diwang Valdez for Rolling Stone “The drive is way better,” Quavo says, comparing the AMG-G63 to his own G-Class 4×4. “The old G-Wagon is wobbly as fuck.”
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Luke Spiller of the Struts in a Rolls-Royce Phantom
Image Credit: Christaan Felber for Rolling Stone “If this was mine,” Spiller says while being chauffeured in the 2019 Phantom, “I’d want a white roof and a black body. The interior would be royal red with my name stitched into the pillows.”
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Taylor Goldsmith of Dawes Drives a Volvo XC60
Image Credit: Nathanael Turner for Rolling Stone When he had to give feedback on early Passwords tracks, Goldsmith would sit in the driveway and crank them on the stereo of his wife’s Volvo. “I never had any notes about the mixes,” he says. “I think part of that is because I was listening on such a good sound system.”