Chatting with the Governor (and future VP’s) team about vintage trucks, American manufacturing, and and the resurgence of unionization
Why I Love Driving at Monterey Car Week
The point of driving a car during Monterey Car Week is not to explore its limits. The point is to enjoy the landscape, to feel osmotically endowed with an understanding of the era in which the vehicle was built—what made it special then; what makes it special now—and, mostly, to luxuriate in the spectacle of doing so.
Most Expensive Cars for Sale at Pebble
Scroll through our list, go buy your lottery tickets, and let us know in the comments which one of these 10 you’d buy when you hit the jackpot.
Royal Rovers
To celebrate the royals’ longstanding association with the luxury SUV brand, a collection of 10 Land Rovers used by Queen Elizabeth during her 70-year reign will be on display at Pebble Beach this year.
Ultra Luxury EVs
The future of vehicles has arrived, and, despite newsworthy headlines about solar-powered or flying cars, the consensus is in. It’s electric.
Slathered in Verde Scandalo
Driving a Lamborghini allows one to experience, and delight in, novel forms of human loathing, ones tinged with exhilaration, avarice, and revulsion—the latter of which may be, but isn’t, the English translation of Revuelto.
French Cars We’ll Be Watching For at the Paris Summer Olympic Games
Spot all nine, and win the Gold!
When the Bauhaus Went to the Beach
When one thinks of epicenters of American modernist movement in the immediate post-WWII era, Southern California, with its Los Angeles Case Study homes and Palm Springs vacation pads, is top of mind. But in that same era, another influential enclave was being developed in a far less hospitable environment: the far end of Cape Cod, on Massachusetts’s Atlantic Coast.
The Most Cocaine Car, Ever
In Bianco Polo, a Countach–with its snowy suite of snortable strakes, nostriled intakes, and a wing broad enough to host kilos of hoovering–looks to be actually made of cocaine. (Lamborghini’s 80s build quality may support this theory.)
Here’s a link to the online version of this story, for all of you Chintzy Blt¢hes.
Cover Girl
My story on the wild, and wildly compelling, Ferrari 12Cilindri is on the cover of the latest issue of Road & Track. Click on the thumbnails to view a crappy scan, or just subscribe to the magazine already, you Chintzy Bitch. OR, you can now read this story online.