The one in the trunk is mine, it’s a Leica Digilux 2. Read more

This gallery is sheer, sheer perfection. Read more

I’m quite aware of the term’s meaning and how many people misinterpret it by dressing in an overtly fussy or pointlessly idiosyncratic way. Metcalfe’s dress sense is so fascinatingly careless that, for me, it crosses a line and becomes a statement of elegant carelessness in itself. It’s like saying, hey, I wear what… Read more

I simply adore Harry Metcalfe’s sense of dressing badly. He’s the very pinnacle of sprezzatura. Jeremy Clarkson and company sometimes look like they’d invested a lot of effort into dressing as terribly as they dress but Metcalfe is a complete natural. I say this without a hint of irony. If you’re gonna dress badly, do… Read more

Yeah, Miles pretty much wins this round: Read more

As long as your comment is not bigger than the entire post it reflects on. Read more

Maybe not second tier but Argentina, like my dear native Hungary, is certainly a part of the Second World. Read more

What’s happened to the headlights? I thought Maseratis were supposed to have beautiful headlights? These look like melted plastic. Read more

I once had to change planes in Bologna and like the self-respecting car geek I am I used the layover to beeline for the nearest city bus, ride out to Sant’Agata and spend an hour at Lamborghini’s factory.

Totally fucking made my day and it was a pretty good day to begin with! Read more

Would my wife have ever turned an ugly car into an Italian salad of grilled bell peppers, black olives, arugula, baby tomatoes, and a sprinkling of ground white pepper through a stencil for the Ferrari logo? She would not have.

It’s suddenly made me realize that Gawker’s NYC office is two blocks from where CBGB’s used to be while Gawker’s Budapest office is two blocks from Tommy Ramone’s birthplace. I take this as, well, a Talmudic sign that the Beetle will be back. Read more

On the one hand, so incredibly fucking sad. On the other, what a perfectly Miura way to go. I’ll try to be all Buddhist on this one. Read more

A Jeroboam is a very big bottle (3 or 4.5 liters). For some reason, large wine bottles have badass Biblical names. A fifteen-liter bottle is, I kid you not, a Nebuchadnezzar. Read more

Until the pizza places on Via Tribulani in Naples stay open, I will not complain. Read more

I guess you’re right. Speaking of which, I could so use one. A beer, not a Venn diagram. Read more

I gather this is an opportunity to post my favorite photo I’ve ever taken of a Miura. Doesn’t look like it but totally spontaneous capture. It’s a 1969 Miura S like the one above—possibly the exact same car.

A view from above my too-long thighs (also, sandal action because we’re in Arabia).