Martin Parr’s Photo Book of Beat Up Cars

Photographer Martin Parr has focused on a specific, nostalgic topic for his latest limited edition book. Called “Abandoned Morris Minors of the West of Ireland,” the book features photos of charming, beat up old cars abandoned in equally compelling surroundings. The photographs hail from Parr’s archive, and the 36-page volume (in an edition of 500) is available for purchase now.

Interview: Massimo Bottura

We speak with the poetic Italian chef about the flavor of cars

Chef Massimo Bottura, owner of three-Michelin star Osteria Francescana, in Modena, Italy is a master and an artist who speaks like a poet. Given their shared hometown, Maserati partnered with Bottura to look at cars through the lens of food and brought him to the Geneva Motor Show for an unexpected food-focused press conference. “I compress in to edible bites my passion,” he said during …

The Automotive Retrofuture

At this year’s Geneva Motor Show, what’s old was new and what’s new felt old

The Geneva Motor Show stands out from the other car shows in the circuit for its high concentration of super cars, specialty coach builders and generally esoteric automotive presentations. It’s for this reason that we love the show and also consider it a glimpse of what might come next for the industry at large. The curiosities of this year’s show were inarguably dominated by a …