Up next in my ongoing series about boutique shops that repair impossible-to-find parts for beloved vintage vehicles is this dispatch from Northern California. Andrew Villaseñor runs Andrew’s Mercedes Service, and rebuilds the self-leveling rear struts for the otherwise indefatigable 1970s-1980s Mercedes W123 Wagons.
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One night, legally blind neurodivergent Milwaukee used car salesman TW Hansen drunkenly decided to purchase a janky 1989 Ford E350 ambulance using his boss’s money. All manner of lunacy–car wrecks, car fires, cars dropped from cranes, cars driven off cliffs, cars towed around town by fenderless vans–ensues. As does one of the most heartwarming documentaries we’ve recently seen.
How Porsche, Volvo and Rivian Are Injecting Unique Driving Styles Into Self-Driving Cars
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?
As the shift to fully electric vehicles morphs, how are luxury automakers extending the life cycle of their gas-powered offerings?
“The smoke from burning buildings and cars is much more toxic than burning wood,” says Anthony Wexler, director of the Air Quality Research Center at the University of California, Davis.
CLICK, and SCROLL DOWN below this story on vile MAGA actors to read my investigative piece on how roasted EVs are creating additional challenges in containing the horrifying LA fires.
Are you getting old, like me, with creaky joints and painful nerve damage? It may be time to switch out of that vintage Lamborghini and into something with simpler means of ingress and egress. And, don’t worry, they’re not all bland crossovers and SUVs!
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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Andrea Iervolino has produced starry biopics of the founders of Italy’s most famous supercar makers: “The life of all of these guys is like ‘Rocky.’”
The innovative EV startup has, in many ways, relied on experimentation, mistakes, and accidents to define its aesthetic sensibility.