Thursday
July 2021
Written by Brett, Posted in NY Times
Three new businesses recently opened right near my house upstate, and all of them are organized around vintage cars. So, of course, I had to write about them for the New York Times.
Monday
July 2021
Written by Brett, Posted in Road & Track
The CLK63 Black Series is the exception that proved the rule, by confirming that there were always people at staid and stolid Mercedes who relished the opportunity to put some rote in their colleagues’ sau.
Friday
July 2021
Written by Brett, Posted in Jalopnik
Trying to take my own advice, “Your next car will be an electric car.”
Wednesday
June 2021
Written by Brett, Posted in Vanity Fair
Our relationship with the automobile is at an inflection point. A new show at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City explores that, in all its confounding glory, through artworks from the museum’s permanent collection–including seven glorious cars.
The link above is to the online version of my story for the summer issue of Vanity Fair. The glorious print version will be on newsstands in early July, for those of you who are not CBs. A crappy scan is below.
Wednesday
June 2021
Written by Brett, Posted in Editoria/List
Slathered in Magmabeam Orange paint—a special color reserved only for this unique sports car—and tattooed in tessellated AMG logos, it features a kind of ombre fade, stern to bow, from orange to black, making it noticeable, even in the literal sea of candy-colored superboats that occupy the myriad waterways around Miami, where we enjoyed an afternoon of test rides.
Wednesday
June 2021
Tuesday
June 2021
Written by Brett, Posted in Editoria/List
“In the past, Porsche helped develop an airplane engine, and we once had a customer asking if they could integrate that in a road car. We could not.”
Monday
June 2021
Written by Brett, Posted in Car and Driver
This year, instead of another platinum-plated melon baller, brogued leather manscaping trimmer holster, cashmere onesie, or reclaimed barn wood wallet, why not get dad something elemental and sure to please?
Friday
June 2021
Written by Brett, Posted in Autoblog
It’s fun to imagine using a $700,000 Italian exotic to do counter-intuitive things like sneak up on valets, or back out of the driveway without antagonizing the neighbors.
Thursday
June 2021
