Category: Architectural Digest

The royals have been driving the world’s coolest cars since the earliest days of the automobile. These are 7 of our favorites, including Princess Diana’s $850,000…Ford Escort??

Hyundai revealed its largest vehicle, the IONIQ9, in Los Angeles at the famed Sheats-Goldstein house, designed by sui-generis mid-century architect John Lautner.

Today, in a meta-Möbius comic strip of brand extension retailing, you can buy a Tumbler from a Wayne Enterprises website set up by Warner Brothers. For $3 million.

To celebrate the release of the new Navigator, Lincoln teamed up with AD100 designer Corey Damen Jenkins—who is, like the automaker, a native of Detroit—to decorate the interior of a modern house on the Monterey Peninsula in a style inspired by the new vehicle.

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.

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.

Pinnacle automaker Bugatti has released it’s latest ultra hyper-car: the $4 million, 1800 hp, Tourbillon

The World’s First Electric Muscle Car Is as Powerful as It Is Stunning

We loved the black ceramic coating on some high-touch surfaces, perfect for a visit to Lisbon, were decorative tile-work production holds such importance that there is an excellent tile museum (visit if you go; we loved it.) Also, the 80s revival Lucite-esque, light-up shift paddles behind the steering wheel, which glowed red in Sport mode, matching some of our mom’s chunky costume jewelry from the era.

Our annual list of the cars we’re most excited to learn more about—and, hopefully, drive. And for 2024, they’re all electrified.