Category: The Drive

I drive Aston Martin”s new, $1 million, plutocratic flagship, and somehow find a way to pronounce it virtuous.

“It’s the baby.”

The winner is obvious.

Building a car without rules for an elite unconstrained by them.

3D-printed, architect-designed, inside-out, plastic Italian shoes, obviously.

Tisha Johnson runs Volvo’s North American design studio, and she is obsessed with her Becker surfboard.

All the coverage you need from the North American International Auto Show

1) How to Visit Detroit Without Being a Jackass

2) The New Mercedes-Benz E-Class Will Control Your Mind

3) Henrik Fisker: Optimist, Genius, Huckster, Hero?

4) Getting Our Colors Done at the Detroit Auto Show

I apply the bitchy wizardry of subjectivity to the rational world of electric vehicles. Sparks fly.

In the battle of V vs V, everyone wins. Except the losers.

I wrote brief, bitchy New Year’s resolutions for a dozen of my favorite, and least favorite, automakers. Let’s hope they stick to them in 2016.