The first big auto show of the year is on in Chicago. The 2021 Chicago Auto Show, which normally happens in February, runs for 5 days (down from 10) from July 15 to July 19. and is about half the size. I ran through a quick preview today, and it’s easy to call out the
Every Thursday the Sixtysix newsletter delivers the latest creative news, designs, and insights straight to your inbox. Here are this week’s highlights. Not on the email list? Subscribe now. *** Ford introduces new hybrid pickup truck, the Maverick. + Based on a shared chassis with the Bronco Sport, the Ford Maverick was designed 20 months faster than any vehicle
Standing in a room of 15 souped-up vintage Porsches, I had to ask the obvious question. Does Magnus Walker ever get speeding tickets? “Yes I do,” Magnus replies, a bit of rebellious pride in his voice. He got his most recent speeding ticket on the Angeles Crest Highway—a two-lane highway just northwest of downtown LA—in
After a 230-plus trophy career racing motocross Dirk Oehlerking changed the format of his passion for motorcycles—he went from racing them to customizing them. Since 1985, when he became the German champion and went to the World Cup in Spain, he’s built Harleys, Triumphs, Yamahas, and Hondas, but his recent obsession is with air-cooled BMWs.
Chris Force escapes Chicago’s winter in a 2020 Lincoln Aviator Reserve to see Sarasota’s modern architecture.
Every Thursday the Sixtysix newsletter delivers the latest creative news, designs, and insights straight to your inbox. Here are this week’s highlights. Not on the email list? Subscribe now. *** Kristin Bedford’s photographs demystify Mexican-American lowrider culture in LA. + “Underlying all of my projects is an interest in social justice and how communities express their civil rights
Every Thursday the Sixtysix newsletter delivers the latest creative news, designs, and insights straight to your inbox. Here are this week’s highlights. Not on the email list? Subscribe now. *** Check out the winners of the first-ever 2020 International Automotive Photography Awards. + Founded and judged by Hedi Sersoub, Amy Shore, and Drew Gibson, the awards announced the
A 2,500-mile drive in the 2021 Volvo V90 Cross Country ends at Ted Turner’s Vermejo Park Ranch.
“I’m always in a three-piece suit,” Niels van Roij says. “They’re tailor-made with fabric from cars I’ve worked on.” The 36-year-old designer’s studio specializes in coachbuilding, a throwback to the days when cars were sold as a rolling chassis and the body was custom-built. “The design was up to the client, and in a way
“I have a very creative mind. I don’t sleep much,” says Dave Kindig of Kindig-It Design, a premium custom car shop and the subject of the reality TV series Bitchin’ Rides, now in its seventh season. Dave built a special ’58 Lincoln Continental named Maybellene. “It’s still one of the greatest custom cars we’ve ever
Some people prefer a valley view when they look out their window; others want to see a city skyline. At architecture studio Bureau Fraai’s Black Gems townhome in Amsterdam, one couple sees their most prized possession on display—a Jaguar XJS convertible. The project was born out of one idea: How can you enjoy a car
“It’s complicated,” says Paul Wraith, the chief designer behind Ford Bronco. This is not the answer I was looking for. I had asked, in a long, meandering, chat-cast kind of way, essentially this: “So, how did you create the all new Ford Bronco?” Dumb, I know. “It’s so complicated,” repeats Paul, his steely British tone
We rode through Vietnam with Moto Mucci, who talks about his process, his dream projects and the best bikes being built now.
A quick look at the design history of these legendary bikes, as well as an exclusive glimpse of the latest designs from the designer in charge of the new BMW 2021 GS lineup.
A closer look at what it took to make this transformative EV motorcycle
Daniel Simon wants to do more than design cars. The German automotive designer wants to make driving autonomous, changing driving as we know it.
It was 1977. At the Consumer Electronics Show, then held in Chicago, the world’s first personal computer, the Commodore PET, was announced. Apple Computer was incorporated. Star Wars hit the movie theaters, and Harley-Davidson released the very first Low Rider motorcycle, a bike that would help shift the trajectory of American motorcycling. Designed by Willie
“No more boring cars.” This is the mandate of Akio Toyoda, president of Toyota Motor Corporation and great grandson of Kiichiro Toyoda, father of the Japanese industrial revolution. It’s a simple sentence from a powerful person. Toyota is the world’s largest automobile manufacturer and the 10th largest company in the world. But what happens when boring is the enemy?
We hit the road with Bose Automotive to tour one of the world's most vibrant cities.
We ride the Kawasaki Z900RS through the deserts of Southern California.
He's designed everything from cameras to office accessories to swords. Now the Japanese-born whiz is steering us towards the autonomous, electric future.
"I started Rivian to deliver products that the world didn’t already have," says Rivian founder R.J. Scaringe. It looks like he's delivering.
In this digital reality, sports cars, California sun, and midcentury design fuse into pleasant mayhem.
David Gwyther mixes up a love of spray paint with an obsession with mortality, transforming everything from car hoods to coffins.
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