The Chicago Auto Show is the Land of Misfit Cars. But as odd as the reveals there were, they were also oddly on-trend. Find out why in my latest for Popular Mechanics.
BMW Ice Machine
BMW builds an Olympic ice machine. And it’s powered by spaghetti and protein shakes. Well, sort of. My latest for Men’s Journal.
Fantasy Becomes Reality
As Billy Ocean said in 1988, “Get outta’ my dreams. Get into my car.” Check out this slideshow of six concept cars we really, really hope become real cars, at Vanity Fair.
City as Canvas
“City as Canvas,” an astounding exhibit of 1970s and 1980s New York City graffiti art from masters of the genre, opens at the Museum of the City of New York next week. Check out the teaser photos in this Vanity Fair piece I wrote, then make a plan to see the show.
Top 14 for 2014
Fourteen Top Auto Writers Choose the Car They’re Most Looking Forward to Driving In 2014. Another of our famous roundups, at Vanity Fair.
Two Monkeys Hug, One Throws Scat
Want to listen to a conversation between me, Road & Track Executive Editor Sam Smith, and Car and Driver Senior Features Curmudgeon Jeff Sabatini? Of course you do, because the topic is cars and the Detroit Auto Show, and everyone loves cars and the Detroit Auto Show. Also, this conversation aired today on Sirius/XM channel 104, which also features a talk show hosted by Fran Tarkenton.
Ford F-150 Leads the Pack in Detroit
The most important car at this year’s Detroit Auto Show wasn’t a car at all. It was the Ford F-150 pickup. Find out why, and find out about our nine other hot picks from the floor of COBO, at Men’s Journal.
Motown Hit-Makers–NAIAS 2014
This year”s Detroit Auto Show witnessed the unveiling of more hot, fresh American meat than a retracting stadium roof at a college football game. Read all about this thrilling domestic resurgence at Vanity Fair.
WDET NAIAS Breakdown
Listen to me discuss button-tufted Mercedes leather, hulking Ford pickups, compelling Asian concept cars, and the Detroit resurgence during my annual Detroit Auto Show interview with Detroit Public Radio station WDET’s The Craig Fahle Show.
Details February 2014
My first cars page for DETAILS magazine, featuring the Alfa Romeo 4C, artist Richard Phillips, and autonomous cars. Click on the crappy scan above (and then click it again to expand it further), or just buy it on the newsstand yourself, you chintzy bitch. (p. 46)