How I learned to stop hating and love–or at least like–the BMW X1. Learn all the intriguing details, at Vanity Fair.
Five (More) Cars From the Department of WTF
Our second annual compendium of gloriously ridiculous new cars that venture heedlessly into bizarre terrain, pronounce their allegiance to nonexistent lands, and otherwise answer automotive questions no one was asking. Find it all, and more, at Vanity Fair.
Hypercars Go Hyperactive
In the era of $214 million apartments, a $4 million car is a relative bargain. Right? Read all about the subject, in Vanity Fair.
Top 15 Cars of the NY Auto Show (and 5 That Suck)
The shrewdest, swankiest, and bitchiest countdown of the best and worst new cars revealed at the New York Auto Show. Read all of the straight dope, at Vanity Fair.
I Take Over Road & Track
I have three articles in the new, re-launch issue of this month’s Road & Track magazine. This makes sense, since I’m now a contributing editor to the magazine. One is a feature story on why today’s youth hate cars, one is a little interview with G.M.’s Chris Webb about why he loves his toothbrush, and one is an even littler series of interviews with Paul Goldberger and Richard Phillips on why they love the Lamborghini Miura. If you care about me at all, you should probably just buy the magazine–it’s on newsstands now. Or if you’re a chintzy bitch, you can just look at the crappy scans below.
Putting the “car” in reincarnation
Stick Shift anticipates Easter with nine new cars that are the spiritual resurrection of nine older cars–for better or for worse. Click and worship, over at Vanity Fair.
Aston Martin Rapide S
Big Mouth Strikes Again–my latest for Yahoo! Autos, in which the 2014 Aston Martin Rapide S drives rings around the fountain, and charms this charming man.
Examining the Ferrari LaFerrari
The all-new, $1.5 million Ferrari LaFerrari is a gorgeously potent, rabidly bat-winged, bafflingly ventricular, impossibly muscular, murderous mollusk-python-cheetah-pterodactyl thing. And we love it. We take you behind the Rosso Corsa velvet rope for an intimate tour, at Vanity Fair.
Top-Off One-Off
The one and only (and we mean that literally) Lamborghini Miura Roadster reared its stunning and topless blue-flake head at the Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance this past weekend, and I caught up with it for long enough to craft a silly story on its beauty for BBC Autos–my first for this stiff upper lipped automotive outlet. READ.
Stars & Cars: Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance Edition
Our second annual roundup of the famous (and fame-adjacent) classic cars at the Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance, featuring stellar vehicles owned, or driven by, or once located in proximity of folks like Mel Blanc, Elvis Presley, Bill “Bojangles” Robinson, and Kaiser Willhelm. Delight yourself, and your senses, at Vanity Fair.