Category: General & Random

Five vehicles owned by stars from Hollywood”s glamourous heyday strutted the green (grass) carpet at this year’s Amelia Island Concours D”elegance, including a white Duesenberg from the Astaire/Rogers epic “The Gay Divorcee.” (Hello!) Check out the slideshow at Vanity Fair.

A quintet of overpowered neo-muscle cars and an adolescent memory inspired this five-leafed clover of a slide show. Burn rubber over to Vanity Fair to celebrate.

Wherein we drive the amazing Ferrari FF (in the snow!), and love it way more than the all new Ferrari F12berlinetta, which we haven’t driven. Read the full piece, at Vanity Fair.

A retrospective of the elegant and kinetic sculptures of John Chamberlain””many made from discarded automotive body panels””just opened at the Guggenheim Museum. Our sticky, shifty impressions, at Vanity Fair.

I talk with handsome actor Adrian Grenier about indulgent consumerism, peak oil, the electric vehicle revolution, and why he doesn’t advocate knee-driving. All of this–and more–at Vanity Fair.

Gloriously Piling Mewl Upon Scratch: Wherein I drive the fastest Jag ever made at 168 m.p.h. and write about it for Yahoo! Auto‘s new car blog, Motoramic. Check it out.

A slideshow of five non-hybrid vehicles that achieve what our divorced mothers, and cars, could not in the 1980s. Check it out at Vanity Fair.

Two affordable Japanese sports cars as similar as 80s Bermuda Bags, or Cyberdyne T-800s. But we still picked a favorite. Read all about it/them at Vanity Fair.

I have a new piece in this month’s print issue of Vanity Fair, all about some of the most compelling new concept cars out on the auto show circuit. Click on the thumbnail below to view a scan, or just go out and buy the magazine, you cheap bitch.

My fresh Businessweek book review, this one on “We’re With Nobody”– an insiders’ exposé on conducting political opposition research, by Alan Huffman and Michael Rejebian. Read the review, then read the book.