Do US automakers deserve a bailout?
[Excerpted; full post here] Today at the Vista Group luncheon, we’ll be discussing the US auto industry’s desire for a government bailout. My view: of course it’ll be great to protect US manufacturing jobs, since the situation is not of the plant workers’ doing. As mentioned in one of my papers, ‘Saving Detroit’, the troubles […]
Porsche shows revised Boxster and Cayman at LA
Porsche has shown its new mid-engined Boxster and Cayman models at the LA Auto Show today. In some respects, this is a facelift for the cars, now looking more aggressive. Under the skin, the changes are more thorough, with new flat-six boxer engines and the new Porsche-PDK double-clutch gearbox. Below, videos of the new Boxster […]
Charlize Theron, UN Messenger of Peace
In the main part of our site today, photographs of and quotations from Charlize Theron as she is inducted by United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon as a Messenger of Peace, focusing on violence against women. As we reveal, this matter is very near and dear to Theron’s heart, and she has spent a great deal […]
‘Milliner to the stars’ opens showroom
Her handiwork has dazzled on the dance floor, won awards and is set to feature in Peter Jackson’s upcoming film The Lovely Bones. Such is the demand for her fancy hats and quirky fascinators that milliner Amy Jansen-Leen has opened her first atelier—Amy Jansen-Leen Millinery—in Te Aro, Wellington. With the race day season kicking […]
GM’s Opel Insignia is European Car of the Year
I hope this is the last car post for a while since we are in danger of turning into a car blog. The Opel Insignia has won European Car of the Year, so I was wrong on my guess that a Ford would take the position. The Ford Fiesta lost by one point: 320 […]
New technologies from BMW at LA Auto Show
BMW will present a some of its new technologies at the Los Angeles Auto Show this year. The new shape some BMW fans will want to see will be the 7-series, which will also appear at the show as an Active Hybrid concept. We’ve video of some of the other technologies that BMW will be […]
Jaguar XF at bottom of US reliability survey
I hope this doesn’t mean that Jaguar has gone back to its old ways as a US survey puts the Toyota Prius at the top of its reliability list, and the Jaguar XF (left) at the bottom. Both cars have been nominees in Lucire’s Car to Be Seen in awards: the Toyota in 2004–5, the […]
La Milonga: romance and tango at Miami Short Film Festival
Wandering Films and Minx Films’ short film, La Milonga, has been chosen as an official selection of the Miami Short Film Festival. The festival will take place November 17–23. La Milonga will screen on November 20 at 7 p.m. at the Tower Theater. Now in its seventh year, the Miami Short Film Festival was […]
I have a feeling that tomorrow, we will hear that the Ford Ka, as driven by Olga Kurylenko in Quantum of Solace, will be European Car of the Year. It has a good chassis, it’s a subcompact car that ?ts modern European sensibilities, and it has cross-Europe appeal. Our second pick would be the Alfa […]
Today in Lucire: Stanley Moss visits Grover Cloth House, a New Delhi tailor which boasts President Bush, Cherie Blair and Chelsea Clinton as clients. The pashmina scarf photographs are lovely—and they can be picked up for a song at Grover’s. You may also like Australia’s Juli Grbac uncovers India’s fashion secrets Elsewhere on the Lucire […]
