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It’s been more than two decades since a summer job landed my narrow butt in the single-piece seat of a 1994 Porsche Speedster. It was red. It made a cackling wail. It smelled like leather and oil and gasoline. It felt special and rare and like something that would last. All of those memories flooded […] More
During our first few days with the 2020 McLaren GT, only one passerby asked, “Is that the new Corvette?” It was dark, and the gas station was lit with flickering florescent lights. But once we looked back at the GT, we couldn’t unsee its resemblance to Chevrolet’s new mid-engine sports car. Then a neighbor made […] More
“Would You Rather” is a game in which players challenge one another with a choice of hypothetical questions. For example, would you rather have as your only form of transportation a llama or a pretty tame ostrich? Of course, car enthusiasts play it a little differently, and we found ourselves asking “This or that?” while […] More
Trailed by a mile-long wake of dust, the Land Rover Defender cuts an unmistakable silhouette across the African landscape. Land Rover brought us here—to Namibia, specifically, but also directly into the Technicolor wanderings of a brand marketing manager’s wildest dream—to put the new Defender to work on roughly 500 miles of wilderness, rocky passes, sand, […] More
Originally from the July 1996 Issue. John, if we ever get home, let me book you an appointment for a very thorough CAT scan.” So said senior editor Phil Berg, upon observing the first of three 1000-foot cliffs we would somehow have to surmount in southern Utah. I felt that Berg had possibly overreacted. After […] More
Originally from the November 1992 Issue. I’ve written a number of stories about the Michigan country—the country is always true—what happens in the stories is fiction. —Ernest Hemingway, in a letter to his father, Paris, 1925. Interstate 75 is unusually empty as the Land Rover rolls north from Ann Arbor. Ahead lie the woods, streams, […] More
Originally from the February 1994 Issue. What do you buy when you want your transportation to be athletic and distinctive but find that when you’re behind the wheel of a sports car, your driving record accumulates so many points that the state threatens to shred your license, incinerate the scraps, and bury the ashes in […] More
It’s easy to love the robust powertrain, but it’s the refined chassis that makes the M340i even more compelling. More
