On the occasion of his retirement, after nearly 30 years on the job, I chatted with outgoing Mercedes-Benz design chief Gorden Wagener to discuss his lengthy tenure, some of his favorite vehicle designs, and some near-misses–including the one that caused his boss to shout “It looks like a school bus. Get it under control!”
We’ve always had big cars. So why do some look so HUGE? For the latest issue of Road & Track, I explore this subject with car designers, design instructors, and a UVA psychology professor who literally wrote the book on the subject of perception.
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I have a new short story out, “After Face,” which was just published in “Eleventh Hour,” a literary journal out of SUNY Binghamton.
An oddball Packard Twin-Six–the world’s first production V-12-powered car–single-handedly encompasses everything about the early luxury car market in Detroit, and much more.
Volvo, the 99 year-old Swedish automaker faces a confluence of crises in one of its biggest markets. I ask its new regional president how it can pull through?
With nearly everything in the world working against it–from failed product strategies, to a polarizing new design language, to a corporation-shuttering cyberattack–how is Jaguar doing? I chatted with top executive Rawdon Glover to find out.
This new book, “Life After Cars,” is worth reading, despite its title, as its proscriptions will make the world better, while simultaneously making driving better for people like us who love to drive.
Though Honda has developed and produced motorcycles, scooters, e-bikes, ATVs, boat motors, cargo vehicles, and even jets, launching a competitor to Elon Musk’s SpaceX seems to stretch beyond even Honda’s wildly diversified capabilities.
Riley Schlick-Trask and her family are on a mission to get kids back into carbs.
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