Last Chance to Visit Something You Didn’t Know Existed
Go soon, this month, before the whole thing is sold off. (Did I mention that one of Liberace’s cars is there?)
The Opposite of Marie Kondo
More like Hoarders, for cars, but way more fancy.
Know Your Designers III: Tom Tjaarda
Tom Tjaarda had not intention of following his famous father into the car design business. We’re glad he did.
The Little-Known Tale of the Only African-American Carmaker
Patterson-Greenfield was the largest black-owned manufacturing company in the United States.
Mercedes Builds A Boat
We were happy to have gone as quickly as we did, and glad to have not gone quite that fast.
A Personal Ode to the Boeing 747
A party, in a storage locker, converted to human use, until such a time that it was no longer tenable. Like the Paradise Garage.
Another Failure
Six years ago, I took this Millennial New York kid on the greatest automotive tour of Los Angeles ever devised–picked up from the airport in a Rolls, blasting through the Malibu canyons in a Lamborghini, tracking a 911 with Patrick Long at Willow Springs, off-roading in a Raptor at Brian Deegan’s private mud pit, riding the 6th Street Bridge with legendary low-rider artist Mr. Cartoon, and more–to try to convince him that cars are cool. He still doesn’t have a driver’s license.
Cadillac XT6 is Not a Mini-Escalade
For better or for worse.
Designing for Autonomy
How do you design a vehicle no one knows if they want for a market segment that doesn’t exist around technology that isn’t available?