Fourteen Top Auto Writers Choose the Car They’re Most Looking Forward to Driving In 2014. Another of our famous roundups, at Vanity Fair.
Two Monkeys Hug, One Throws Scat
Want to listen to a conversation between me, Road & Track Executive Editor Sam Smith, and Car and Driver Senior Features Curmudgeon Jeff Sabatini? Of course you do, because the topic is cars and the Detroit Auto Show, and everyone loves cars and the Detroit Auto Show. Also, this conversation aired today on Sirius/XM channel 104, which also features a talk show hosted by Fran Tarkenton.
Ford F-150 Leads the Pack in Detroit
The most important car at this year’s Detroit Auto Show wasn’t a car at all. It was the Ford F-150 pickup. Find out why, and find out about our nine other hot picks from the floor of COBO, at Men’s Journal.
Motown Hit-Makers–NAIAS 2014
This year”s Detroit Auto Show witnessed the unveiling of more hot, fresh American meat than a retracting stadium roof at a college football game. Read all about this thrilling domestic resurgence at Vanity Fair.
WDET NAIAS Breakdown
Listen to me discuss button-tufted Mercedes leather, hulking Ford pickups, compelling Asian concept cars, and the Detroit resurgence during my annual Detroit Auto Show interview with Detroit Public Radio station WDET’s The Craig Fahle Show.
Details February 2014
My first cars page for DETAILS magazine, featuring the Alfa Romeo 4C, artist Richard Phillips, and autonomous cars. Click on the crappy scan above (and then click it again to expand it further), or just buy it on the newsstand yourself, you chintzy bitch. (p. 46)
The Wright Stuff
We drive the Jeep Grand Cherokee EcoDiesel from New York City to Frank Lloyd Wright’s masterpiece, Fallingwater, encountering some other delightful Wright and Wright-adjacent architecture along the way. And enjoying the Jeep immensely. For Vanity Fair.
Rally for the Lane Motor Museum
The Lane Motor Museum holds one of the largest and oddest collections of tiny, weirdo, orphan cars ever assembled. And once a year, you can pay to drive some of them. Or, if you’re me and writing about it for the February 2014 issue of Road & Track, you can drive them for free. Click the image above to view a crappy scan of the article (and then click it again to make it bigger and more legible). Better yet, just buy the magazine on the newsstand, you chintzy bitch. (p.22)
Category 11 Storm Heads for U.S.!
The driver”s control area in the new Lamborghini Huracán is inspired””like most adolescent fantasies of speed, power, and destruction””by a fighter jet. Foucault would have a field day deconstructing this thing.
Must Have Parenting Advice
My one piece of must-have parenting advice for 2014, in the Chicago Tribune.