How to cast cars for a movie set in the 1950s, rumored to be about a professional ping-pong player (?!?), and starring Timothee Chalamet, Gwyneth Paltrow, Tyler the Creator, and, even more unlikely, New York City masquerading as Paris.
The Driving Machine: Book Review
Witold Rybczynski has owned 15 cars in his life, and all of them make an appearance in “The Driving Machine: A Design History of the Car” (Norton, $29.99). In fact, the book is something of a paean to the famed design and architecture writer’s vehicles, which tended toward the utilitarian.
Street Legal and Socially Irresponsible
It looks poised to attack, consume your face, and then lunge off, cackling, in the direction of its next victim.
The Legacy of Hollywood’s Favorite ’70s Sports Car
The new Ferrari 12Cilindri owes a clear debt to the iconic Ferrari Daytona, coveted by movie stars and rock gods, and star of ‘The Long Goodbye,’ ‘A Star Is Born’ and Miami Vice.’
Whatever you want to call it, the car, sharply angular and muscularly curvaceous, looks resplendent in this hue, as auric and encapsulatory of human potential as the golden record we sent into the universe on the Voyager spacecraft—a disco disc distillation of the diversity of life on earth—in the ’70s, when the Daytona’s influence reigned supreme.
RIP Bruno Sacco
Bruno Sacco, the legendary Mercedes-Benz design chief, died on September 19 at the age of 90.
Sacco believed that Mercedes design must express the brand’s technical excellence and could never be used to mask or make up for a lack thereof. His work excelled not only in restraint and elegance—a representation of the product’s pinnacle positioning—but timelessness.
Check out my essay on his reign, and our slideshow of nine of his greatest Benz designs, and his one unmitigated (self-admitted) flop.
Fall Driving Tips For Us Olds
Autumn’s arrival cues — weather changes, shifting wildlife behavior, shorter days, the start of school and falling leaves — can all impact cars and drivers. Here’s what to know before you head out on the road.
New Bentley CEO Talks Failed EV Strategy
“The electric car is infrastructure-based technology. And the introduction of technology that is infrastructure-based is normally, for whatever reason, speed-wise, overrated, while the depth of usage is normally underrated.”
Artist Trades Ex-Cop Caprice for a Ferrari
“For Jason, the car was a vehicle for making art and creating new projects. And then when the project ended, the car stopped, and it became a sculpture in itself.”
Hollywood Can’t Ditch Its Teslas Fast Enough
As Musk has continued his vile trajectory into the MAGA-verse — pledging allegiance to right-wing conspiracies, amplifying racist and antisemitic messages, disparaging trans people, including his own daughter, and endorsing brain-addled authoritarian Donald Trump — his stock in Hollywood, and that of his brand, has plummeted.