NYIAS

NYIAS 2015: Harman International and everyone else

April 19, 2015

There were a lot of tremendously awesome things to see and touch (or not) at the NYIAS this year. Alfa Romeo’s vintage roundup was an extremely distracting highlight, and it was only one of many. From a purely automotive side, there was [...]

NYIAS 2015: Maserati with Bowers and Wilkins

April 18, 2015

Many of my friends with car fetishes will wax poetic about the road-feel and handling of the new mid-engines Porsches, but all I hear is blah blah blah. Holy sh*t, was that a flipping Maserati? Yeah, I got a thing for the Trident. I mean, hell, if [...]

NYIAS 2015: Jaguar with Meridian

April 17, 2015

In eyes of teen-me, the Jaguar XJS was pretty much the greatest car ever made. The whole 12-cylinder engine thing was awesome and all, but it was the visual — all those swoops and curves — that got the hormones all skitter-scatter. Mmm, [...]

NYIAS 2015: Audi with Bang and Olufsen

April 16, 2015

The new Audi R8, here shown in a space-gray, is a rocket and there’s no mistaking it for anything else. The price tag starts at $116k, so I’m not sure what I was expecting. Perhaps more car? This is one of those times when the parallels [...]

NYIAS 2015: Lexus with Mark Levinson

April 15, 2015

Finding an actual Harman-branded display at the NYIAS was like finding a unicorn. For the record, it was our second. Unicorn, that is. I’ll get back to that later. But for now, we have Lexus and the Mark Levinson sound system. Seriously [...]

NYIAS 2015: Mercedes with Burmester

April 14, 2015

As a BMW owner, I’m not sure I’m allowed to like, much less fawn over, a Mercedes-Benz, but the new GT-S is going to have to be an exception. Holy-cow, that thing is awesome looking. Of course, I may just be a sucker for that long-hood [...]

NYIAS 2015: Lincoln with Revel Speakers

April 13, 2015

I’ll be honest, Lincoln isn’t really a car brand that crosses my mind. Pretty much ever. There was the Town Car, which was a hilarious wonderful car to rent (which I got to do about half a dozen times about 10 years or so ago). The [...]

Audio, an Auto Show, and The Cannonball Run

April 12, 2015

According to Google Maps, the distance between Manhattan and Redondo Beach is about 2,800 miles. Following the respective speed limits and abstracting away from pesky things like stopping for fuel or the necessities of nature, Google is confident [...]