Janis Joplin Drove A Porsche 356
We love Janis Joplin for her indelible audacity. She remains a rock n’ roll icon, who rejected strict notions of gender and instead turned toward fantastical style to present her guttural material in her short lived life and career. Her famous customized Porsche represents her longstanding statement and memorable blend of the heady 60s [...]
Richard Phillips Captures The New York Auto Show
The New York International Automobile Show was first held in 1900. As the oldest American automobile exhibition, it’s also the modern day show that draws the highest number of visitors. This week, the general public comes to the auto show to car-gaze at the practical and impractical manifestations of the contemporary vehicle. Design is paramount [...]
LaFerrari by Ferrari
LaFerrari: The car that matters most to gearheads at the Geneva Motor Show. We like the drama of the name that’s driving everyone else crazy. LaFerrari is electrified and produces 963 hp in a single punch. Tweet This Post
A Day at the Races
Our very own Lee Quinones lets off some steam at Englishtown Raceway. Tweet This Post
Kate Upton Answers Seven Questions
Kate Upton has razzle dazzle. Look no further than the digital Super Bowl buzz for the Upton oompf. Kate Upton’s cameo in the Mercedes-Benz Super Bowl ad spot has been the talk of the town leading up to Sunday’s big game. The German automaker, which is also the title sponsor of the Mercedes-Benz Superdome in [...]
New Exhibition: Vision in a Cornfield
We love abandoned robot cars. The fantastical exhibition “Vision in a Cornfield” is open at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, bringing together classic Detroit art rebels Destroy All Monsters, the activist perspective of Ogun and the fascinating electromechanical collective Apetechnology. The exhibit offers a chance to see into the creative foundations of the [...]
New Exhibition: Syd Mead at BravinLee
Syd Mead is in the brains behind the sets of Blade Runner, Tron, and Mission Impossible III, but he’s also one of the most prolific designers of the modern era, who has designed for Ford, Sony and architectural firms. Mead is also an accomplished painter who exhibited at Document 6 in Kassel, Germany in 1973. [...]
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New Exhibition: Syd Mead at BravinLee
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Artist Prints For LACMA By Paddle 8
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New Expression: Quintessence by Grand Marnier
Grand Marnier releases it first expression for the...
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New Exhibit: Grab at the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian
Grab: The Exhibition is on view at the Smithsonian...
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New App: Guitar Heroes at the Met
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The Dogs of Central Park: For Puppy Lovers
The daily dog show in Central Park has been documented....
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Man and Machine
Janis Joplin Drove A Porsche 356
We love Janis Joplin for her indelible audacity. She remains a rock n’ roll icon, who rejected strict notions of gender and instead turned toward fantastical style to present her guttural material in her short lived life and career. Her famous customized Porsche represents her longstanding statement and memorable blend of the heady 60s [...]
First Drive: 2013 Mercedes-Benz GLK250 Blutec 4Matic
The most popular number this spring goes to number 42. 42 in the minds of movie goers is baseball, progress, equality, and the man who wore it — Jackie Robinson. (Bill Clinton Was another famous 42.) But there’s another number that’s buzzing around the car blog headlines this season — number 33. That’s tally on [...]
Car of the Day: 2013 Cadillac XTS
The Car: 2013 Cadillac XTS AWD Premium Collection Where I drove it: Motor City First Impressions: Cadillac has transformed itself into a bit of a hard body. The sharp angles on every exterior of the XTS are testament to the new form language of Cadillac: Triangles have replace trapezoids. The era of the squishy Devilles [...]
Richard Phillips Captures The New York Auto Show
The New York International Automobile Show was first held in 1900. As the oldest American automobile exhibition, it’s also the modern day show that draws the highest number of visitors. This week, the general public comes to the auto show to car-gaze at the practical and impractical manifestations of the contemporary vehicle. Design is paramount [...]
Bond Takes Manhattan: Daniel Craig and the Range Rover Sport
The Range Rover Sport made a spashly debut off Broadway when Daniel Craig drove through the city. A short film by acclaimed Hollywood director Jonathan P. B. Taylor showed off the Sport’s aluminum body and more refined assets. Land Rover is donating a vehicle to S.A.F.E., a charity that Mr. Craig supports. Tweet This Post
Design and Drive: The 2013 Infiniti FX37 AWD Limited Edition
The 2013 FX37 AWD does it all with room to grow on. It’s a big body, bulbous presence on the road that’s loaded with standar technology, a formidable cockpit and grounded performance. If you’re riding with five adults, the leg room leaves something to be desired, but here is a capable contender for the lifestyle [...]
Car of the Day: 2013 Volvo XC60
The Car: 2013 Volvo XC60 Where I drove it: New York First Impressions: One of my greatest friends is a Swedish immigrant, and when the cold hits, no one is better prepared than she, dressed in the proper layers of chunky wool from head to toe. Not that all Swedes think alike (though I differ to [...]
Car of the Day: 2013 Audi Allroad 2.0T quattro tiptronic
The Car: 2013 Audi Allroad 2.0T quattro tiptronic Where I drove it: New York City First Impressions: If a car is supposed to say something about the driver’s mindset and persuasions, what’s a Saab buyer to do? Well if the Subaru Outback wagon just doesn’t have the interior design acumen to cut the mustard, and [...]
Car of the Day: 2013 Cadillac ATS
The Car: 2013 Cadillac ATS AWD 2.0T Perform Collection Where I drove it: Detroit, during the North American International Auto Show. First Impressions: There was a time when Cadillac nearly stopped being a car brand. The Escalade was both blessing and curse for General Motors’ luxury marque. It boosted sales, profits, and was the marquis [...]
The 2013 Model Year In Cars
Last year I test drove 54 cars that are now in car dealerships. While I come nowhere close to Hilary Clinton’s miles, I covered considerable ground. Here are the highlights: • Cars have exited the homogenous era — there’s so many ways to do it modern, depending on your taste, mindset and preference. Now you [...]
Kate Upton Answers Seven Questions
Kate Upton has razzle dazzle. Look no further than the digital Super Bowl buzz for the Upton oompf. Kate Upton’s cameo in the Mercedes-Benz Super Bowl ad spot has been the talk of the town leading up to Sunday’s big game. The German automaker, which is also the title sponsor of the Mercedes-Benz Superdome in [...]
Kate Nash Behind the Wheel in Death Proof
Kate Nash looks great behind the wheel in the video for her new song “Death Proof.” The EP goes on sale Nov. 20. The film “Freak” and the director Quentino Tarantino are her inspirations. Tweet This Post
Lee Quinones Dances with the 2013 Ford Mustang
Artist and Detroit-made car lover Lee Quinones muses on the design of the very noticeable 2013 Ford Mustang. Composition and overall design: Let’s start with the Ford Mustang dash. I see a well composed layout of dials, gauges and lights just below the brushed aluminum facade panel that stretches across from side to side. The [...]
Subaru Impreza: From the Inside Out
Gotryke test drivers artist Lee Quinones and editor Tamara Warren spent a week tooling around in the Subaru Impreza. They were both big fans the 2012 Subaru Impreza Sport by the end of the journey. “It reminds me of itself being a nice simple package ready for the masses. One of a kind indeed,” Quinones says. [...]
Driving Cubism: 2013 Kia Soul
If car designs were assigned to art movements, the Kia Soul would be considered a cubist. There’s the George Braque, Fernand Leger and then there’s the Soul. One poet, Kenneth Rexroth, described cubism as ” the conscious, deliberate dissociation and recombination of elements into a new artistic entity made self-sufficient by its rigorous architecture.” That’s [...]
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