Haute Living Los Angeles March/April 2012
Mike
Mike Daly


Los Angeles-based feature writer Mike Daly has enjoyed an ongoing love affair with the automobile since the days of his earliest matchbox memories. Now regularly featured in national lifestyle and automotive publications, he strives to bolster the motorcar’s status as a cultural and historical icon worthy of the most pedigreed recognition. In addition to more than 10 years of freelance writing, he has cut his teeth in a variety of posts within the collector car industry, including positions at a leading auction company, a highline brokerage, and an automotive museum. Particularly versed in prewar coachbuilt cars, postwar European sports cars and modern exotics, he conducts test drives, covers new model unveilings and classic car concours d’elegance, and interviews recognized figures in the automotive industry and collector car niche.
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Supercar enthusiasts the world over were given cause to smile last week when Porsche A.G.’s supervisory board approved production development of the 918 Spyder, a mid/rear-engine concept car featuring hybrid technology that debuted at the Geneva Motor Show last March.
Aug 4, 2010 7:16 PM
 
The Phoenix Art Museum and the Petersen Automotive Museum have just put the finishing touches on a new exhibit that will run at the Petersen’s Los Angeles facility through late January. Titled Automotivated: Streamlined Fashion and Automobiles, the collaborative exhibit attempts to demonstrate th...
Jul 28, 2010 7:24 PM
 
We should have known that Molsheim’s finest and the R&D department of the VW Group would take some degree of umbrage to upstart performances by Koenigsegg and SSC. Their opportunity to right the ship finally arrived on Saturday July 3, when Bugatti test driver Pierre Henri Raphanel took the w...
Jul 14, 2010 7:30 PM
 
Because many visiting car collectors also attend Pebble Beach week with the intention of buying as much as exhibiting, a majority of the major auction houses have a multi-day sale scheduled. While Russo & Steele has cultivated a reputation for American muscle cars and street machines, and RM Au...
Jul 7, 2010 7:20 PM
 
One hundred years ago last Thursday, a group of entrepreneurs and businessmen stripped away the faltering Italian assets of the French car company Darracq, and renamed their new concern Anonima Lombarda Fabbrica Automobili, or ALFA. One century, two world wars and many thousands of cars later, the ...
Jun 30, 2010 7:16 PM
 
Living up to its billing by top travel publisher Frommer's as one of the “300 Unmissable Events & Festivals Around the World," the annual Rodeo Drive Concours d’Elegance offered a wide range of beautiful and unusual automobiles during its well attended staging last Sunday. Held every Father...
Jun 23, 2010 7:29 PM
 
When Aston Martin announced a few years back that they were aiming to stretch their signature sports car design into a full blown four-door sedan, reactions ranged from intrigued curiosity to pure horror. Having not produced such a car since the singularly boxy and oft reviled Lagonda of the 80s, A...
Jun 16, 2010 7:23 PM
 
The celebration of Jaguar’s 75th anniversary will gain momentum this weekend as the marque returns to competition in the 24 Hours of Le Mans. Competing in a class that includes an Aston Martin Vantage, a Spyker C8 Laviolette, and numerous Ferrari F430, Porsche 911 and BMW M3 entrants, the Jaguar ...
Jun 9, 2010 7:15 PM
 
 
 
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