Films have entered a new era of destruction. It seems like every big budget movie, every summer blockbuster features another big city getting torn down or blown up. There are enough explosions in movies these days to make Michael Bay blush, and he practically invented the gimmick. The super hero movie epidemic is another big […]
Archive | April, 2014
Leith Celebrates Earth Day
Waking up, today did not feel like an important day. Today felt like any other day. It felt like Tuesday, only Tuesday, a day that has three other days coming after it before the weekend. On days like Tuesday it is difficult to fight our default settings. We wait ten minutes after the alarm goes […]
NYAS: 2015 Kia Sedona on the Floor
It was announced earlier this week, but now the 2015 Kia Sedona is in the flesh at the New York Auto Show. We’ve been waiting a long time to find out how Kia’s new design philosophy would work with a minivan, and most agree that it works quite well. Exterior improvements aren’t the whole story, […]
The 2015 Kia Sedona: Mighty Minivan
Designer Peter Schreyer has worked his way through the bulk of Kia’s lineup, reworking and reforging extant models into the recognizable faces you see all over the road today. He does this partly by improving the look of the cars, tailoring each to fit the aggressive tiger-nose grille and wrap-around headlights, and partly by turning […]
Beware of Pollen: Take Care of Your Car this Spring
Spring fever is settling in, along with its most visible emissary. That most deleterious denizen of all flora. The king in yellow. Boon to plants and bane to paint jobs. Pollen. If you walked out to your car in the last week and didn’t recognize it under the fluffy, yellow coating it had received, you […]