Can the ultimate outsider, outside, active lifestyle car brand go autonomous?
Drinking, and Driving II: The Taxi
Taxi rides are way down, but not as down-the-hatch as this 1913 cocktail. Will you drink to the cab’s demise? Or toast to its revival? (Does the presence of Absinthe in the recipe change your mind?)
Pharrell Williams on Surviving in Trump’s America
I Interviewed Pharrell about art and life in Trump’s America. He told me, “It is time to galvanize.”
Where is Car Design Going?
Top design expert predicts that car of the future will be creasy, retro-styled, windowless, electric bathroom.
Working for The Weeknd
Thanks, Abel Tesfaye, for continuing to love cool cars and make music videos. You are keeping my employment with Billboard secure.
The Volvo Wagon Was an Accident
If the Volvo brand were a Rorschach blot, most Americans would see a station wagon. But it’s existence was a fortuitous accident.
Click on the thumbnail above (and then click on it again) to view a crappy scan of my triumphant return to the pages of Car and Driver, or just buy the magazine on the newsstand, you chintzy bitch.
Does Justin Bieber’s Name Add Value to a Used Ferrari?
But maybe Steven Tyler’s does to a Hennessey Venom GT that he once stalled outside the Beverly Center while driving with deadmau5.
Ralph Gilles Likes to Kiss His Alfa Romeos
“I have a Giulia – and I love it. I’m literally in love with that car. I kiss the emblem when I get home from work,” Gilles says.
Bahn Burning Benz
The new Mercedes-Benz E63S is a sleeper, but it certainly won’t put you to sleep. (Also, Hammer!)
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The Ultimate Self-Driving Machine?
Our ideal self-driving future, if it is ever to actually arrive, is predicated on the idea of cars communicating with one another and with their human subjects. It will thus require collaboration and caution.