It was actually pretty easy. I just said it would be fun if he did and BAM! in he went.

The car-crazy home of Hollywood did not miss its chance to put its most fetching lads and ladies in front of its most fetching new cars at the LA Auto Show.

If you're around the LA area, they've probably finished fumigating the Staples center and doing extensive renovations on the bathrooms to get the auto-journalist stink out, making the LA Auto Show ready for the general public.

While at the LA Auto Show I had the chance to talk to the very poetically-named Solomon Song, lead designer of the Lincoln MKZ. I'll admit that we at Jalopnik haven't had the most confidence in Lincoln as of late, but I did find Song engaging, easy to talk to, and very forthright about the car he's designed, and the …

First, let's just get this out of the way. This V8 micro-Beetle is likely the Best In Show of the Los Angeles International Auto Show. Incredible power-to-weight ratio, classic styling, and, because it doesn't look like there's any way to actually get in and drive it, infinite fuel economy and zero emissions, since I…

When some automaker puts a styling touch into a car and you've never seen it before, it's bound to prompt others to quickly follow and adopt a trend. But as time wears on, too many models in too many segments start to get trendy and that styling loses its distinctiveness and just becomes overplayed.

We have seen the beauty that is the Jaguar F-Type in person and lordy, it looks as good as it does in the pictures. Enjoy it in its freakishly orange sexiness.

You know that feeling you get when a doctor prescribes an opium-based painkiller you're not used to? It's a dull, detached feeling. You're not quite asleep, but you don't really care about much.

Are you near a window? Good. Is it near a road? Okay, great. Look out that window for me. If your're looking at most American roads or parking lots, chances are disappointingly good that the sea of cars you're observing, face smushed against the glass, is largely composed of neutral colors. Silvers, whites, greys,…

The Lexus LFA feels old. It may have only gone into production in 2010, but it was on the concept car circuit for five years before that. That's an eternity.