A Trunkful of Hobbies
October 26, 2026What does the stuff we carry in our cars say about us? A trunk full of racing equipment and sporting clays gear becomes an unexpected reflection on hobbies, identity, and the soul of the automobile.
What does the stuff we carry in our cars say about us? A trunk full of racing equipment and sporting clays gear becomes an unexpected reflection on hobbies, identity, and the soul of the automobile.
A week with a BMW X7 M60i raised a familiar question: what makes a car feel like more than transportation?
Synthwave, back roads, and the strange way the future we imagined in the 1980s has actually arrived—just not quite in the form we expected.
What happens when a beautiful car is failed by its own design? The result is an aesthetic that its capability can’t sustain.
From smartwatches and distracted drivers to Ferraris and an Art Deco sewing machine, the tension between pixels and pistons is ultimately a question of design—and of what deserves our attention.
I’ve never been a Ferrari fanboy—but Maranello still exerts its pull. A visit to Ferrari’s home becomes a meditation on attainability, heritage, and whether the future of the automobile must trade pistons for pixels.