Adobe’s $25 Billion Buyback Is a Bet on Itself
Adobe’s board has authorized a $25 billion share repurchase program running through April 2030, replacing whatever remained of prior buyback capacity and setting a new ceiling that dwarfs most of what…
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Against the Bougainvillea: A Ferrari 308 GTS in Taormina
The Ferrari 308 GTS does not require a good photograph to look like what it is. It requires only sufficient light and a clear line of sight, and the rest follows inevitably from the Pininfarina body…
Number 2: The Mercedes-Benz R129 SL and the Case for Keeping the Top Up
Every car in this Sicilian rally has its top down. The sun is present, the roads are scenic, the event is a procession rather than a race — the conditions for open-air motoring are as favorable as…
Number 26: The Fiat 124 Spider and the Long Argument for Undervaluation
The Fiat 124 Spider has spent most of its existence in the shadow of cars that were more expensive, more powerful, or more famous, and has spent the last two decades quietly becoming one of the more…
Number 33: An Alfa Romeo Giulietta Spider in Its Natural Habitat
There is a category of car that does not need to be anywhere other than where it already is. The Alfa Romeo Giulietta Spider — Pininfarina’s body on Alfa’s twin-cam four, produced between 1955 and…
Number 46: A First-Generation Mustang Convertible on a Sicilian Road
The first-generation Ford Mustang does not require introduction, which is precisely its problem and its enduring strength. It is the most recognizable American car ever made — more immediately legible…
Number 5: The Alfa Romeo Duetto and the Shape That Ended the Argument
The Alfa Romeo Spider Series 1 — universally known as the Duetto, though Alfa Romeo used that name only briefly before a trademark dispute ended it — was Pininfarina’s last personal design project…
Red, Loud, and Unapologetically Fake: The Neo-Classic Roadster as Rolling Philosophy
There is a particular kind of car that makes no apologies for what it is. Not a survivor. Not a restoration. Not an original anything. It is a deliberate fiction — a vehicle engineered to look like…
Silver Series 4: The Alfa Romeo Spider's Unglamorous Final Act
The Alfa Romeo Spider ran for twenty-eight years across four distinct series, which is long enough to accumulate both a devoted following and a complicated critical record. The Series 4, produced from…
The Oldest Car in the Field: A Pre-War Tourer on a Sicilian Road
There is a point at which a car stops being a classic and becomes a document. The two-tone cream and black open tourer photographed somewhere on the Sicilian rally route — wire wheels, fold-flat…