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The Crossfire is especially interesting to retro-design buff Denies (his hobby is searching out “antique” modern furniture from the ‘60s) because like the 1995 Chrysler show car, the Atlantic, which captured the essence of prewar Bugatti and Talbot Lago coupes, the Crossfire was influenced by prewar aesthetics, especially that era of the ‘30s when the world’s automakers were going gaga over “aero’ The Crossfire’s detailing takes its inspiration from the art deco movement of the ‘20s and ‘30s, when the world fell in love with machines and elaborately finished metal became a decorative element. Denies saw the assignment as a challenge because the concept had been built “to evoke a strong, passionate, emotional response. We had to retain that. We want to polarize our audience—we want people to love it or hate it’. Read more…

If you don’t like SUVs, don’t get one. But America wasn’t created so that a few stiff-necked prigs could tell the rest of us what to wear. If 1 could have any costume I wanted, for everyday getting-there wear, I’d choose a minivan. Those fearing they’ll be seen in a minivan have it all wrong. Nobody will see you. Nobody will even look. Minivans are invisible. Nobody wants to see them. They shed witnesses like DuPont’s Silverstone sheds bacon fat. Give me a light gray one, a little dusty, and I’ll get down the road beneath all notice.

Ever see a minivan pulled over by the speed squad? Enforcers click on interesting cars, not appliances. Still, there could be a better choice. Instead of minivan stealth, what about a car that says, “You don’t want to know.” I’m talking rolling don’t ask, don’t tell. In New York you see big sedans, usually black, ruiming red lights or parked flagrantly on the sidewalk or blurring past you on the BQE. Read more…