I have a couple pieces in the August issue of Road & Track, but my favorite is this one (on page 26), reported from the Shanghai Auto Show, on how China’s dominance of the automotive marketplace is influencing global car design in fascinating and unpredictable ways. Click on the image above to see a crappy scan, or just buy the magazine on the newsstand, you chintzy bitch.
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.
Another review of the new GMC Sierra pickup, this one for the Road & Track website. Professional Grade!
Apparently I can’t count. This is the last piece in the ten-part series on automotive evolution I did for Road & Track. And, of course, it’s about hot (and not) bodies. Click and learn.
There is more to the automotive palette than black, silver, and (especially) white.
The final installment in my ten-part series on automotive evolution, for Road & Track.
Celebrating Father”s Day with Five Trucks That Are Much More Effective (and Healthier) for Your Dad Than Typical Testosterone-Replacement Therapies. Read all about it, at Vanity Fair.
The Bentley Flying Spur defies the laws of physics and the bounds of believability, calling into question our elemental assumptions, and engendering anomie. In a good sense. My latest for Road & Track.
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.
