Celebrity Drive: Comedian and Host Thomas “Nephew Tommy” Miles – MotorTrend

Quick Stats: Thomas Miles, comic/host The Steve Harvey Morning Show and OWN’s Ready to Love
Daily Driver: 2010 Rolls-Royce Ghost (Thomas’ rating: 10 on a scale of 1 to 10)
Other cars: See below
Favorite road trip: Pacific Coast Highway
Car he learned to drive in: 1980 Cadillac Coupe DeVille
First car bought: Acura Legend

Comic and host Thomas “Nephew Tommy” Miles may have a Rolls-Royce and a Bentley in the garage, but his heart will always be with his less flashy 2012 Ford F-150, because it was his dad’s last car.

He bought the F-150 for his dad, who passed away three years ago. “After my dad passed, my sister and I purchased my mother a home. My mother lives in my neighborhood and [we] share the pickup truck. We’re a big fishing family. She’ll take the truck and run to the lake or to the ocean in Galveston and go fishing. When she comes back, she’ll say, ‘Hey, you need the truck?'”

For the emotional comfort it offers to be able to sit where his dad sat the last time he drove, Miles gives the Ford a perfect 10.

“I love it, and it’s my dad’s. It’s sentimental and means a lot to us. My dad had a dent on this car and I told my mom, ‘We’re not getting rid of the dent. We’re going to keep this dent,'” he says with a laugh.



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