Category: Vanity Fair

Back-To-School Cars for Every Type of Car-Hating Millennial Kid: a youth and cars compendium, co-written with my steadfast summer assistant (and actual young person) Benjamin Keeshin.

The VW XL1 is a paragon of petroleate parsimony. Sadly, it is forced to accomplish this while looking like something that might leak from the eye of a grieving Stormtrooper at the funeral of Emperor Palpatine. Learn all about it, at Vanity Fair.

We officially confer “Cult Favorite” status on the 1979-1986 Mercedes-Benz USA 300TD Wagon (W123), in the September 2013 issue of Vanity Fair. Check it out in this online slideshow version (slide 13), or buy the magazine on the newsstand to see the real spread, you chintzy bitch.

Kelly Rowland sings along to Britney Spears” when driving, and once lost a Gucci purse to a rusty hole in a date”s car. Our latest Stars & Cars interview, for Vanity Fair.

An all-new Mercedes S-Class will arrive in the U.S. this fall, giving us a perfect excuse to bitchily rank all nine generations–and sixty years–of Benz’s glorious range-topping sedan. This week’s car column, for Vanity Fair.

A Working Theory of Porsches and Douches. At Vanity Fair.

Is the $200,000 Aston Martin Rapide S a Silver Bullet? (Answer: Yes) Our latest from Vanity Fair.

How do we kick off our month-long celebration of Stick Shift’s 5th birthday? With a $500,000 Rolls-Royce Convertible, of course. Join the party at Vanity Fair.

In this month’s “Four-Wheeled Future,” we take a ride around Manhattan in New York City’s forthcoming Taxi of Tomorrow, and cue you in to all its cool new features and accessories. All hail, at Vanity Fair.

Following a trend of treating exquisite automobiles as pieces of fine art, Nashville’s Frist Museum mounts a show of eighteen Art Deco cars, called “Sensuous Steel.” And never has a exhibition’s title been more legit. You’ll see what I mean, at Vanity Fair.