Artist Heidi Mraz is still cleaning up orange powder from her latest commission.
Lincoln Logs the Future
In 2040, you might drive a car that looks like this.
Honda Civic: All Growed Up
Like a benevolent, self-generating replicant bent on constant improvement, a new Honda Civic has hatched, on average, once every four and a half years since 1973. This is the eleventh version of the nameplate.
Embracing Vintage Cars, Upstate
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.
Doofy Old Journalist Drives Pristine Old Car, Renders Puerile Verdict
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.
Shopping for an Electric Car
Trying to take my own advice, “Your next car will be an electric car.”
Automania at the MoMA
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.
I’ve Got a Fast Boat
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.
Your Next Supercar Will Be Electric
And that’s a good thing.
Porsche Will Now Do Almost Anything to Customize Your Porsche, For a Price
“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.”