Considering our vehicular future beyond the SUV (amen!) with some of the world’s smartest and most influential designers and analysts.
Also, in print!!
What Comes After the SUV?
Die Yuppie Scum
“Triumph of the Yuppies” excavates the heinous, depressing history of 80s Boomer culture, and its ruinous contemporary legacy in income inequality, corporate greed, nihilistic consumerism, Trump, and more.
How Tuberculosis, Wurlitzers, and Steam-Powered Buses Gave Us The Clean Air Act
Frank Lanterman was an air-obsessed scion of a generational La Cañada real estate and water empire, and long-term California Assemblyman, who helped usher in some of the nation’s earliest automotive emissions standards, and was mocked/rewarded at his life’s end by having a section of freeway named after him.
Aston Martin: “We 🖤 Gasoline”
When asked about the brand’s plan to discontinue the use of internal-combustion engines, Stroll delivers a flat response. “We have absolutely no plan to do anything of the sort.”
Got Wood?
How To Build A Classic Car Collection
Playing expert on collecting vintage vehicles, with genius nuggets like this: “Of course, old cars are also a nightmare.”
Yes. Volvo made a limousine. And it is exactly as rational and un-luxurious and wonderful as you would imagine.
How Did the Blandly Boxy Volvo 240 Become So Unerringly Cool?
Despite having none of the characteristics that typically evince a vehicle’s collectability—speed, rarity, sensuousness, toplessness—the Volvo 240 has become a desirable classic.
Volvo’s Flagship Electric SUV Gives Us The Silent Treatment
Blessedly, and with supreme Swedish rationality, the new all-electric Volvo EX90 does not pipe in a soundtrack under acceleration that mimics an internal-combustion engine, or a retrofuturistic spaceship, or a turkey imitating a theremin.
I Wanted to Love the Electric Mercedes G-Wagon…
..Sadly, I Didn’t.