Praiseworthy lunatics are transforming GM’s final station wagon into street-devouring performance machines.
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Genesis’ X Speedium Coupe is a uniquely shaped and battery-powered two-door, four-passenger coupe, with a fastback roof that gives it a shape almost like a teardrop wagon.
Nostalgia is a potent elixir. This is particularly true in vintage-car purchases, where each generation, upon reaching middle age, becomes distanced enough from the horrors of their youth, and endowed with more than enough gelt to sustain themselves on ramen and Gallo, to be ensnared by splendidly horrible vehicles that were impossibly out of reach as new.
When she went to test drive a Range Rover, the Land Rover salesman told “Euphoria” and “The White Lotus” star Sydney Sweeney that the six-cylinder engine was enough power for her. “Why, because I’m a girl?” Sweeney slapped back?
She got the V-8.
Unraveling the history of this spectral lighting, and its (alleged) inventor.
“By adopting sites that are used predominantly for advertising, Kruger challenges the viewer’s expectations and creates a powerful art experience.”
Listen to my latest appearance on Matt Farah’s podcast, The Smoking Tire!
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There is something ominous about the High Desert sky at night. Without barriers at the edges, it can be almost too enveloping, especially during the longest nights of the year, around the winter solstice in late December. So, when I visited Yucca Valley at that time, I brought my own constellations.
Proving once again that midwestern garages are a cryogenic laboratory for the preservation of oddball Big Three “Malaise Era” physical culture.