This isn’t really about my first Alfa Romeo. If it was, I would have started with the significance of this brand and worked my way to the specifics of the Stelvio. But instead, this is about how I got here and how that is in some ways perhaps way more significant. My wife thinks I[…]
The Aftermath I have had four of them walk in to my life. I walked out on all four of them. Not once did it get easier. The void that remained felt exactly the same. In fact the entire day when you sell your car feels like a déjà vu of terrible affairs. In[…]
The next attack I haven’t told her about this. It can be excruciating, the want of a car. Not any car, but that car. There are elements of pure joy and hurt. These moments are interspersed but not in equal measure. The pain takes the lead role until you get the keys in your hand.[…]
In a race of my own, for scraps and for everything. Motorsport and I share a complicated relationship status. For starters, I love it far too much. Having studied vehicle dynamics, I understand a large portion of what is required for one to be fast around the race track. When I couple that confidence with[…]
On to the third… You are the second one that I am entering the third year with. And while that says a lot about you, it does highlight my new found affinity for things that aren’t flimsy. It doesn’t stop me from lusting after other eight cylinder variants but your four cylinders with a turbo[…]
Race tracks have an aura about themselves. There are not merely random asphalt spaghetti laid down between patches of field and grass. But rather, they string together a heightened sense of danger and anticipation that no other normal road can. As you approach a race track, you become aware of the clings of automotive wrenches[…]
At work we often struggle to convert subjective qualities of vehicle performance into measurable objective variables. Even if we do it successfully the results tend to surprise us. It is a necessary evil that automotive engineers like me have to deal with. Lately I have been convinced that the Aston Martin DB V12 vantage is[…]
Twistiest junkie.. While a straight road is undoubtedly the fastest way of getting to your destination, I find that to be the most uninspired of way of transporting yourself in a car. Recently, it has become wonderfully clear to me that I am destined to get to my destination not at the earliest but rather[…]
In white, she felt just right. It just never gets old. It is always a stupendously wonderful moment where the dealer hands over the keys to your new car without much pomp or vigor. And you grab them in your slightly cold hands with a silent exhale. I count myself fairly lucky to have had[…]
Mine. Was. If you ever owned a car since she was brand spanking 9 miles old and then had to sell her a few years later, you would know then that is by far, one of lowest gut wrenching feelings of your speeding adulthood. I still remember clearly, the spring of 2006 when I first[…]