I drove the best Lamborghini Countach in the world. It still sucked.
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Mercedes-Benz is no stranger to using its signature three-pointed star logo to mark its products. But it is the Maybach sub-brand that has fully embraced this tired, if tireless, trend.
The compact pickup has returned to America and is poised to become the next big (little-ish) thing in a competitive and fragmenting category.
Current and forthcoming pedestrian-protection regulations emphasize softer edges, creating a challenge for Lamborghini. “Our design language is very sharp and very cutting edge,” Borkert says.
New-old rivalries, startling product entrances and exits, six-figure pricing: What gives?
Will the new Benz-branded Mercedes Places Miami tower succeed? Or, will it literally sink into the sand, like recent proximal towers by Porsche and Bentley? And, since it’s being built in association with a developer with innumerable legal woes, will it sink the brand’s reputation as well?
At the turn of the 21st century, automotive design presented two distinct approaches for proceeding into the new millennium: one backwards looking, one controversially faceted. Did either win? Did we?
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Drift King Keiichi Tsuchiya lends his Bridgestone-burning skills to Hyundai to make its already delightful Ioniq5 N more smokily sideways-able. But is he ready to trade in his famed Toyota AE-86 “Hachi-Roku” for one?
Since the battery-powered muscle car “mixes things that are usually mutually exclusive,” Dodge chief of design Ralph Gilles believes the brand is “going to be able to check a lot of intellectual alibis.” Check it out and see if you agree.
The point of driving a car during Monterey Car Week is not to explore its limits. The point is to enjoy the landscape, to feel osmotically endowed with an understanding of the era in which the vehicle was built—what made it special then; what makes it special now—and, mostly, to luxuriate in the spectacle of doing so.