A trip to Wolfsburg, some thoughts about the Bugatti brand, and a reflection on people and their passion for the irrational. Also featuring former East German leader Erich Honecker and a few pigeons who find the whole thing rather odd.

Beyond the sea lies the unknown. And that’s exactly where we’ve always been drawn. Adventure beckons. Our imagination kicks in. “Somewhere beyond the sea . . .” – those are the opening lines to a song that has long since become the cultural soundtrack of our yearning. 

During our car wash conversation with Frank-Steffen Walliser, the Bentley CEO not only gave the Continental GT a good dusting. Talk also turned to tradition and modernity – and to the kind of thing you don’t talk about, but just deliver.

The expression “happy as a clam” comes from American English and is a shortened form of “happy as a clam at high tide.” Content as a clam in the tide. And us? Let's flood our world with joy with lots of motorized clams. And all the other beautiful treasures found on the beach of life. We just need to get started.

A car like a monument. The Rolls-Royce Phantom turns 100 – and instead of a dusty retrospective, it gets a staging as wild as the myths that surround it.