Automotive
Automobile
2015 Alfa Romeo 4C Coupe And Alfa Romeo 4C Spider
Alfa Romeo announced in 2008 it would kick off a legitimate American comeback.
6 min |
January 2017
Automobile
Keeping The Faith
ALMOST NO CARS remain iconic through generations, but I can think of a few that have, and along with the Mercedes S-Class and the Subaru Forester, the Volvo wagon is one of them.
4 min |
January 2018
automobile
look past dead eyes
a 700-mile lap around massachusetts helps us understand acura’s hybrid supercar
8 min |
march 2017
Automobile
Frank Lloyd The Wright Stuff
Seeing the Lincoln Continental from the perspective of America’s most celebrated architect.
8 min |
February 2017
Automobile
Breathalyzer Test
2018 Audi TT RS vs. 2017 Porsche 718 Cayman S: Which Blows Hardest?
5 min |
February 2017
Automobile
2017 Porsche Panamera 4S
Stuttgart’s latest four-door is just like the original—in name only.
6 min |
January 2017
Automobile
Remembering David E.
UNLIT ARTURO FUENTE in hand, I scanned my home library’s shelves for something to peruse while enjoying an afternoon cigar.
3 min |
January 2018
Automobile
Dreams Delivered
IT’S CHILLY AND gray, and reasonably hard rain is coming down, casting a pall over the otherwise lush, rugged beauty of this German-flavored slice of Switzerland. A terrible day to drive, a great day to be driven. I’m in the backseat of the all-new Rolls-Royce Phantom, and I roll down the double glazed acoustic-glass window to get a quick blast of fresh Swiss air. A cacophony of wind and water rudely intrudes into the cabin. Enough of that. The metal window button is cold to the touch when I press it, and as the window hits the seal it’s as if a set of noise-canceling headphones has suctioned over the car. Time to recline the seat, let my head hit the pillow, and enjoy the magic carpet ride.
6 min |
January 2018
Automobile
Electrics on the Autobahn
AMERICA MIGHT BE AWASH WITH cheap, gas, but China’s appalling smog problem and the growing backlash against diesels in Western Europe’s crowded cities have forced Germany’s premium automakers to re-evaluate their markets, especially since last year the Chinese bought more than 22 million vehicles, and the Europeans bought 14 million.
4 min |
May 2017
Automobile
All is Right With the World
From a top-flight crop of candidates, six emerge as 2017’s elite
4 min |
May 2017
Automobile
Surviving Is Priceless
I ENJOY AUTOMOBILES of every shape and form, but to me nothing beats driving a classic, being whisked back through time amid the shimmies of aging sheetmetal, the unfamiliar whir of a decades-old engine, and the aroma of sunbaked leather and unfiltered exhaust, all the while straining to pick up the echoes—the words and curses and happy whoops—of all those who’ve held this steering wheel long before I did.
3 min |
August 2017
Automobile
Ford GT
FORD’S ALL-NEW GT BRINGS SOME OF RACING’S BEST PRACTICES TO THE STREET
10 min |
August 2017
Automobile
3D Revolution
You get the feeling Jay Rogers is used to being the smartest guy in the room.
4 min |
December 2016
Automobile
Cool Cat
At 90, Bruce Meyers—the man who gave the dune buggy to the world—is still a kid at heart.
6 min |
December 2016
Automobile
Wrangler Genes
IN HIS JUNE 2016 COLUMN, MY esteemed and always insightful colleague Jamie Kitman, while opining about what he sees as the curious I product strategy of Fiat Chrysler Automobiles, asked, “What happens when every yahoo who ever wanted a four-door Wrangler either has one or soon will?”
3 min |
December 2016
Automobile
Head Of Genesis Design - Leading Man LUC
LUC DONCKERWOLKE ROAMS THE GLOBE TO SUPERVISE TUDIO WORK AND LURE NEW DESIGNERS TO HIS TEAM. BUT HE DOESN’T WANT TO BE A BOSS.
5 min |
March - April 2018
Automobile
Lexus LC 500
DESIGN OF THE YEAR
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March - April 2018
Automobile
Tesla's Business Model: It's Complicated
OUR CHOICE OF the Tesla Model 3 as Design of the Year does not mark the first time we recognized the design and engineering acumen of Silicon Valley’s “disruptive” car company.
3 min |
March - April 2018
Automobile
Wither The Electric Stove Bolt, GM?
IN CASE YOU haven’t heard the news, the electric Chevrolet Bolt—with its official 235- mile range (or more, as I ran up 267 miles)— is great.
5 min |
March - April 2018
Automobile
Le Mans Like You've Never Seen It
SWISS STUDIO TURNS MCQUEEN’S CULT CLASSIC INTO 64-PAGE GRAPHIC NOVEL
1 min |
June 2017
Automobile
Turning Point
JAGUAR LAND ROVER IS ON A ROLL. THE PATIENCE of parent company Tata Motors—and its willingness to invest in new product—means the two British luxury brands are healthier than ever. Land Rover, riding the global boom in SUV sales, is setting the pace and making the lion’s share of JLR’s profits right now. Jaguar, a latecomer to the SUV party with its new F-Pace, is playing catch-up as it moves away from relying on increasingly unfashionable sedans and niche-market sports cars. But both face near-term challenges.
3 min |
June 2017
Automobile
The Baker, the King, Range Rover, and Me
ONE OF LIFE’S BITTERSWEET things is if you live long enough, many people you love, like, and admire will predecease you. That is the way it always was and, for the time being at least, the way it must be. But such realism was cold comfort today as I sat down to write about a couple sad car-world deaths, only to read of another, which I mention first.
4 min |
June 2017
Automobile
Monster Ball
BMW finally gives its 7 Series a dose of magic
5 min |
June 2017
Automobile
Meet Socal's Phantom BMW Collector
The property in the midst of an older industrial estate looks more like a car graveyard than a collection’s home. Behind the wire fence rest a good dozen incognito casualties, protected against weather by yellow covers or gray tarp. Behind the gate, however, a tightly packed array of shining BMWs from the ’60s and ’70s await us in what is half warehouse, half workshop. When he ran out of floor space, 48-year-old Rey (last name withheld on request) started stacking the surplus stock on hoists.
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June 2017
Automobile
Ice Capades
Dancing with Volvo’s latest lifted wagon on a slushy Swedish lake.
5 min |
June 2017
Automobile
High Plains Drifters
The New Alfa Romeo Giulia Meets Its Predecessors in the Wild West
9 min |
June 2017
Automobile
Right Call, Alfa
Right Call, Alfa With 505 Hp and Character to Match, There Is a New Four-door Benchmark.
6 min |
February 2017
Automobile
PSA In The USA!?
If and when French cars return to America, hopefully they’ll be as eclectic as those in the annual Tour de Bretagne.
7 min |
February 2017
automobile
the electric era of tuning
finally, a model x that looks as quick as it is.
5 min |
march 2017
automobile
retake five
the daunting task of messing with a very good thing.
6 min |