As the saying goes: cars is hard. On one end, Rivian drove their first production RITs off the line. On the other, GM has increasing demand from customers to buy back their defective Bolts. Some might jump to the conclusion that this is where giants fall, but as the saying goes: cars is (and always will be) hard.
Reads:
🏁 Schumacher is officially out on Netflix (it’s fantastic, btw). Highsnobiety takes a look back at the seven-time F1 World Champion’s iconic off-circuit outfits.
🛣 MotorTrend drives the Rivian R1T on the Trans-America Trail and wrote a two-part series on the experience. Also, Rivian shipped its first customer cars this week.
✍️ Bentley’s incoming design director Andreas Mindt on the brand’s impending electric future: a simplification and purification of design.
📣 Monza is Racing’s Perfect Amphitheater — coming off the long-awaited (for me, anyway) McLaren win in Italy last weekend, a closer listen to what makes the iconic track so acoustically ideal.
🔥 Some Chevy Bolt owners are over it as GM recalls ~141,000 of them over battery defects.
📐 BMW’s M2 CS meets the iconic 2002 over at Road&Track. The 2002 may make the “stripped down” CS feel like a Rolls, but the M2 is still the perfect link to the best BMWs of the good old days.
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Everyone who complains about not being able to buy a new, small, performance-adjacent V8 sedan better order a Lexus IS 500 F Sport Performance. Today!
James May drives his Alpine A110 — a car we all wish could make its way across the pond.
The 992 battle we all were wondering about: is a Porsche 911 GT3 actually faster than a Turbo S?
Remember when Chris Harris was banned from reviewing Ferraris? Glad that’s over. This one’s interesting because it seems like a video that would usually appear on the BBC Top Gear channel, but here it lives on Collecting Cars. Maybe it’s goodbye Top Gear? Maybe he’d rather make videos to support his own brand? Either way, good one.
Auction Finds of the Week:
1984 Mercedes-Benz 500SL — this one, you want.
2021 Ram 2500 AEV Prospector XL — hilariously overkill.
2006 Aston Martin DB9 — Summer’s not over yet, babe.
1989 Honda Pilot FL400R — the only yoke we recognize.