To celebrate the royals’ longstanding association with the luxury SUV brand, a collection of 10 Land Rovers used by Queen Elizabeth during her 70-year reign will be on display at Pebble Beach this year.
Ultra Luxury EVs
The future of vehicles has arrived, and, despite newsworthy headlines about solar-powered or flying cars, the consensus is in. It’s electric.
Slathered in Verde Scandalo
Driving a Lamborghini allows one to experience, and delight in, novel forms of human loathing, ones tinged with exhilaration, avarice, and revulsion—the latter of which may be, but isn’t, the English translation of Revuelto.
French Cars We’ll Be Watching For at the Paris Summer Olympic Games
Spot all nine, and win the Gold!
When the Bauhaus Went to the Beach
When one thinks of epicenters of American modernist movement in the immediate post-WWII era, Southern California, with its Los Angeles Case Study homes and Palm Springs vacation pads, is top of mind. But in that same era, another influential enclave was being developed in a far less hospitable environment: the far end of Cape Cod, on Massachusetts’s Atlantic Coast.
The Most Cocaine Car, Ever
In Bianco Polo, a Countach–with its snowy suite of snortable strakes, nostriled intakes, and a wing broad enough to host kilos of hoovering–looks to be actually made of cocaine. (Lamborghini’s 80s build quality may support this theory.)
Here’s a link to the online version of this story, for all of you Chintzy Blt¢hes.
Cover Girl
My story on the wild, and wildly compelling, Ferrari 12Cilindri is on the cover of the latest issue of Road & Track. Click on the thumbnails to view a crappy scan, or just subscribe to the magazine already, you Chintzy Bitch. OR, you can now read this story online.
You Can’t Always Get What You Want
Even when creating a $4 million ultra-hypercar, designers have to compromise.
An American Blt¢h Visits France’s National Car Museum
While I was in France last week, I visited the National Motor History Museum, which has a collection of over 400 cars, including 80 Bugattis (!!) and many others that are Bugatti-adjacent.
Brutalism Returns to Car Design!
“We had a more obtuse design phase in the late 1970s and 1980s, and that’s coming back in customer requests, because our commissioning clients are now people that grew up in that era. And this is changing what people are looking for in their collections.”