Editor’s Note: We are going to acknowledge right off the bat that this post is based on Gizmodo’s fantastic piece, “6 Freeway Removals That Changed Their Cities Forever” Once upon a time, the automobile was born. Wheat-chewing farmers and cigar-chomping industrialists regarded the new machine with wonder and avarice, respectively. Baseball-loving boys and gradually-liberated girls […]
Archive | March, 2014
Seriously? Another Reboot of the Blog? Yes, Actually
You’ll notice a few things about the new design: Space – Do you remember how cramped the old blog was? Reading an article there was like navigating a game of Tetris. Focus – A blog has one purpose: to be read. You don’t need pop-up chat windows, dozens of links, scads of unrelated images and […]
Indestructible Porsche FLA Ready for World’s End
There are two theories for how a craftsman may improve his work. The first is that he should dedicate himself to a single pursuit, over and over, day in and day out, for months, years, decades, even the term of his natural life. Every day is the same: a repeat of the day before. Eventually, […]
Macan Undergoes Polar Circle Stress Tests
Well, goodbye to all that. There’s a certain world-weariness that emerges in the cavernous reaches of winter in Raleigh. We like sweet tea. We like humidity. We like mint. Snow falls, and ice drops. Sleet rains and rain stings. These are alien notions to Southern democracy—neither what we stand for, nor what we’ll stand for—if […]
Macan Diesel and Plug-In Hybrid Electric Coming
Ah, Volkswagen, and your love of diesels, we see you there! You might not have been literally sitting on the shoulder of Porsche Chairman Matthias Müller as he unveiled the company’s plans the other week inside the Leipzig factory, but we detected your presence nonetheless. We are speaking, of course, about the official press introduction […]