Category: Architectural Digest

Seven Ferraris that broke the mold (and now break the bank.)

Park Your Self-Driving Electric Car Next to Your Self-Driving Electric Lawn Mower

If there’s one thing Mr. Musk knows about, it’s hoarding power.

Mostly, it has to do with creative counting. And how miserably their cars sell in America.

The Bolt is a remarkable step forward in our zero-emissions future, the first affordable, long-range, fully electric vehicle. And it’s all the more remarkable because it’s built by a manufacturer about as affiliated with contemporary innovation as the Royal Typewriter Company.

Our ideal self-driving future, if it is ever to actually arrive, is predicated on the idea of cars communicating with one another and with their human subjects. It will thus require collaboration and caution.

The Detroit Auto Show, in the midst of the frigid Midwestern winter, kicks off its annual car convention that defines the year for auto journalists in much the same way that Milan, Paris, and New York Fashion Weeks do for their trendy peers. Here are my seven favorite new vehicles unveiled in the Motor City.

The interior of the future promises to allow passengers to socialize or mediate with one another, via individuated high-resolution screens, motion simulating activators, and, perhaps most importantly, the noise cancelling capacity to negate whatever it is that your cohorts are streaming.

Your Butt Is Floating in Space

“I probably shouldn’t say this, but I’m going to,” says Honda’s director of advanced design. “We’re trying to make a future that doesn’t suck.”