Category: Road & Track

I talked to Ron Howard about his new movie “Rush,” for the October issue of Road & Track. I figured they’d edit down our conversation, like magazines usually do, but instead, they gave it a giant five-part spread. Fortunately, I resisted my usual urge to hog all the good lines. Also fortunate, Ron is an incredibly thoughtful, smart, and interested guy. Click the images above to view a bunch of crappy scans (and then click them again to make them bigger and more legible) or just buy the magazine at the newsstand, you chintzy bitch.

The 2014 Bentley Flying Spur imposes and intimidates, whether you’re cruising through the countryside, or a smoggy capital city like Beijing, where I drove it. But the real news is in the back seat. Find out more in the September, 2013 issue of Road & Track by clicking on the crappy scan above, or just buy the magazine on the newsstand, you chintzy bitch.

I have a couple pieces in the August issue of Road & Track, but my favorite is this one (on page 26), reported from the Shanghai Auto Show, on how China’s dominance of the automotive marketplace is influencing global car design in fascinating and unpredictable ways. Click on the image above to see a crappy scan, or just buy the magazine on the newsstand, you chintzy bitch.

Another review of the new GMC Sierra pickup, this one for the Road & Track website. Professional Grade!

Apparently I can’t count. This is the last piece in the ten-part series on automotive evolution I did for Road & Track. And, of course, it’s about hot (and not) bodies. Click and learn.

There is more to the automotive palette than black, silver, and (especially) white.
The final installment in my ten-part series on automotive evolution, for Road & Track.

Celebrating Father”s Day with Five Trucks That Are Much More Effective (and Healthier) for Your Dad Than Typical Testosterone-Replacement Therapies. Read all about it, at Vanity Fair.

The Bentley Flying Spur defies the laws of physics and the bounds of believability, calling into question our elemental assumptions, and engendering anomie. In a good sense. My latest for Road & Track.

I wrote a two-part article on cars and architecture, for Road & Track. Learn about the hidden history of the home garage, the development of the D’Humy double-helix ramp system, and how Frank Lloyd Wright and LeCorbusier were influenced by the automobile. And more! Part I Part II

If a population of Hawaiian crickets can evolve to stop chirping, cars should be able to make similarly radical leaps. These 10 batshit outliers certainly did. [Part 5 in my 10-part series for Road & Track.]