Lamborghini”s Polo Storico has nothing to do with Ralph Lauren, ponies, or debonair Argentines, but it”s still sexy and exclusive.
Piñata Calamity Aversion™
I didn”t hear anything when we almost crashed into the balloon E-Class. But as with other invisible saviors, like extraterrestrials or god, one cannot disprove the existence of the imperceptible.
We Want to Live in Syd Mead’s Future
Did you see Tron, Blade Runner, Star Trek, and Johnny Mnemonic? Syd Mead designed their futuristic worlds.
He just won a well deserved award, in Geneva.
Everything That Matters from the Geneva Motor Show
When I wasn’t getting drunk, or running around the Palexpo convention center conducting interviews (or both), I was sitting quietly in a corner writing articles on my iPhone. Here are the six I produced so far.
Ferrari GTC4Lusso Is Our Favorite Kind of Weird
The Volvo V90 Will Convince Americans to Love Wagons Again
The McLaren 570GT Puts the Grand in Grand Touring
Bugatti’s Chiron is a Purposeful Instrument of Errant Domination
Levante is not a Contraction for Leviathan and Anteater, it’s a Handsome Maserati SUV
Putting the “Red Car” in Red Carpet
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,”ť 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.”ť
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.
My latest for Travel + Leisure
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 Coupé. Also, a dedicated parking space in the garage of his Modernist masterpiece home, designed by radical architect John Lautner.