Records show that Hitchcock ordered the car on May 20, 1958, eight days before his acclaimed film Vertigo would open in theaters. Delivery was exactly one month later. Hitchcock likely would have been ...
Some of you may think I have strict, scheduled plans for my weekly column fodder. But I assure you nothing could be further from the truth. Sometimes I mean to write up a car I really love—like a ...
I was flogging the big Mercedes as fast as it would go, considering I hadn’t a clue which way the course went, artfully dodging occasional cars, bicycles, and buses full of tourists. Beside me was my ...
The average price of a new car is $48,644, or about two-thirds of the U.S. median income. There are more than 300 million people in this country and about 16 million new cars are sold every year, yet ...
This week’s Our Two Cents comes from a conversation I had at a local cars and coffee style show. I tend to be a condescending jerk thought-provoking conversationist in these settings, so a gentlemen ...
That heinous whine, heard off in the distance? Something sideways this way comes. It’s a Shelby muscle car, belting a V-8 power ballad from four-inch stainless steel exhaust tips. You know it, you ...
Loop Road is a 23.5-mile detour that runs along the Tamiami Trail, which is otherwise known as U.S. Highway 41, and slices east-west across the Everglades at the southern tip of Florida. At one end—we ...
How do you like to take in the flowing form of a Ferrari Dino or the wedge-tastic lines of a Lotus Esprit? Do you hold your distance and try and see the car as a whole, appreciating its completeness ...
When I attended the Art Center College of Design at the original building on 3 rd Street in Los Angeles, I felt as if I had reached the first step to a long and fulfilling career in photography.
It’s Nimso’s 40th birthday, but the gifts are all going to fans. That’s because Nissan’s racing and performance parts division is remanufacturing a wide range of components for the R32 “Godzilla” ...
The France family—most notably chairman Jim France, 79, and his executive-vice chair, niece Lesa France Kennedy, 63—has been running the sport that they largely own, NASCAR, as a “personal fee stub ...
Pickups have long been among America’s most popular vehicles, with the Big Three unsurprisingly winning the hearts and minds of those who’ve needed the ability to haul stuff around over the years. In ...