Category: Stick Shift

An all-new Mercedes S-Class will arrive in the U.S. this fall, giving us a perfect excuse to bitchily rank all nine generations–and sixty years–of Benz’s glorious range-topping sedan. This week’s car column, for Vanity Fair.

A Working Theory of Porsches and Douches. At Vanity Fair.

Is the $200,000 Aston Martin Rapide S a Silver Bullet? (Answer: Yes) Our latest from Vanity Fair.

How do we kick off our month-long celebration of Stick Shift’s 5th birthday? With a $500,000 Rolls-Royce Convertible, of course. Join the party at Vanity Fair.

In this month’s “Four-Wheeled Future,” we take a ride around Manhattan in New York City’s forthcoming Taxi of Tomorrow, and cue you in to all its cool new features and accessories. All hail, at Vanity Fair.

Following a trend of treating exquisite automobiles as pieces of fine art, Nashville’s Frist Museum mounts a show of eighteen Art Deco cars, called “Sensuous Steel.” And never has a exhibition’s title been more legit. You’ll see what I mean, at Vanity Fair.

Aston Martin celebrates its 100th birthday in just the right way: with a crushingly hot concept car. Read, view, and weep tears of joy, at Vanity Fair.

As part of our ongoing proselytization campaign, we test drive America’s newest and oldest Mercedes-Benz diesel-engined vehicles: a 2014 GLK 250 BLUETEC and a 1958 180D. Learn the history, at Vanity Fair.

The MazdaSPEED 3 wants to kill you, and you will relish every minute of your victimization. Read all about our adventures with this pocket rocket, at Vanity Fair.

Carbon fiber, pink alloys, and gold basket weaves. And not a single rim job joke. Read all about the future of what’s going around and coming around, in Vanity Fair.