Because I simply couldn”t arrive at a Vanity Fair Oscar party in a white Ferrari.
Critic’s Notebook: Mercedes-Benz GLC300
It made me feel like a real estate agent from Burbank on a scouting mission, rather than the uniquely glamorous bitch I actually am.
Creampuff Dreamboat Time Machine
The fiendish glories of attempting to crest the Los Angeles hills in a 40 year-old, 3500-pound ingot of over-engineered German metal equipped with a wheezy diesel motor, a vinyl interior, and about as much traction as the O”Malley campaign.
Henrik Fisker: Dream Boat Dreamer
“I get bored easily and I only sleep a few hours a night,”¯ Henrik tells me in Miami, where he is stationed for a couple days to attend one of the world”s largest consumer boat shows. “But, this is exciting. I mean, this is like being in the dream business.”¯
Big In Japan?
What”s hot in the world”s trendiest (read: most fickle, and weirdest) collectible car market? If my experts are right, it”s Dodge Vans and Lotus Europas.
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Carchitecutre: Lautner + Rolls
Yesterday, billionaire real estate investor James Goldstein bequeathed to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) a gift of a 1961 Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud Drophead CoupƩ. Also, a dedicated parking space in the garage of his Modernist masterpiece home, designed by radical architect John Lautner.
Interior Designer Critiques Car Interior
“I feel like this is a two-hands-on-the-wheel kind of car,” Lucas says of the $200,000 McLaren 570S. “I don”t think I could drive with my knee and eat an In-and-Out burger like I do in my car.”¯
Bespoking a Bugatti
How to make your $2.5 million super-sports car just a bit more special: add titanium, porcelain, or a trailer hitch.
Wave Crusher
Crushing waves (and scaring myself shitless) aboard Mercedes-Benz’s 2200 horsepower, 100 m.p.h. Cigarette Racing superboat.
EXCLUSIVE: Buy This $17 Million Ferrari
Is Gooding & Co”s 1961 Ferrari 250 GT California Spider the Most Italian Car Ever?