kevin mccauley @capturingthemachine.com · 22/09/2026It’s good/funny that the McLaren ‘check’ evolved from the Marlboro chevron 010
kevin mccauley @capturingthemachine.com · 16/09/2026The Lucid aperture cutout always reminds me of this (complimentary) 1212
kevin mccauley @capturingthemachine.com · 25/08/2026I was in Europe when this debuted. There's a trash-tier VW Crossover with a similar six-sided LED DRL that you see *everywhere* there, so it's all I could see looking at the Lambo. Is it the same shape? Not quite, but it is, regrettably, the first thing you see on both cars 230
kevin mccauley @capturingthemachine.com · 21/08/2026when the Mazda CX-5 launched in 2012, it had a body-colored plastic engine cover. I can't imagine any company spending the money to do this today, at nearly any price point 0170
kevin mccauley @capturingthemachine.com · 07/08/2026they went a little wild post processing the interior and engine photos. With those valve covers, this is now a Testabruna 010
kevin mccauley @capturingthemachine.com · 07/08/2026I remember when launch photos came out. I thought it was a joke, I couldn't believe how busy the rear was — cutouts within cutouts, scallops, and Enzo taillamps tacked on. I've softened on it over the years, there are good elements (I love the vent ahead of front wheel), but it's a rough facelift 140
kevin mccauley @capturingthemachine.com · 07/08/2026the 360 is objectively better-looking than the F430! 430 and 599 were from Ferrari's era of intricate, grey plastic-laden headlights that were supposed to look like ...cheap camera equipment? F430 was extra bad because the light shape wasn't suited to the fender shape (which came from 360) 181
kevin mccauley @capturingthemachine.com · 05/08/2026you could get more sidewall with a smaller factory wheel, which I get, but it still has “sporty” aspirations This one, the Sport Design wheel, is so elegant and says luxury and touring to me, so I wouldn’t change a thing. (wish it had a tan soft-top tho) 120
kevin mccauley @capturingthemachine.com · 03/08/2026I went to the St. Louis auto show as a kid and saw the Viper concept car just before its went into production. It was shocking, it looked like nothing else 1181
kevin mccauley @capturingthemachine.com · 03/08/2026still around, and getting a glitzy media rollout today. Not every car that someone decides to sell for $2M for is newsworthy! 570
kevin mccauley @capturingthemachine.com · 29/07/2026They’re bad on the 550 Maranello also! It just looks like a tuner wheel that’s been ordered in the wrong fitment 230
kevin mccauley @capturingthemachine.com · 28/07/2026I have shot two of them! I'll take the blue seats over the half-red gamer dashboard & steering wheel anyway 🥴 230
kevin mccauley @capturingthemachine.com · 25/07/2026Aston Martin gaining two seconds from new car upgrades: 0100
kevin mccauley @capturingthemachine.com · 21/07/2026I'll try not to bombard with teasers all day, but I think for the right person, these titles will say a lot about the visual language I was going for 140
kevin mccauley @capturingthemachine.com · 21/07/2026too kind, thank you! I had no idea what I was doing then, and I was unprepared to film an interview. Daniel was lit [badly] by a garage door opener light. This time around, I aimed to do everything much better. And the M3baru is still present in this story, as Daniel works out why he has both cars 130
kevin mccauley @capturingthemachine.com · 23/06/2026in 2009 I did some work for Laguna Seca including the logo for the Grand Am sports car race. I did versions that included the Grand Sham Daytona Prototype car, but the car was too ugly to use (I think their printers would have refused to print it??) so they went with a logo that didn't show the car 031
kevin mccauley @capturingthemachine.com · 23/06/2026in the movie Executive Decision (1996), a fictional F-117 variant is able to carry a team of 4+ people inside the payload area somehow. I'm working on a theory that the Grand Am Daytona Prototype had a similar functional capacity, which explains why it was shaped *like that* 6271
kevin mccauley @capturingthemachine.com · 17/06/2026these two always seem jarring to me, like totally removed from the sedans (and also rare for me to see since neither were sold in US) 010
kevin mccauley @capturingthemachine.com · 16/06/2026this is what everyone's YouTube search history looks like right 190
kevin mccauley @capturingthemachine.com · 26/05/2026the taillights perfectly fit with the interior design: a lovingly-made digital simulacrum of The Real Thing 040
kevin mccauley @capturingthemachine.com · 26/05/2026we’re two-for-two on billionaires designing cars and assuming they know a better position for a resting windshield wiper to sit 8386
kevin mccauley @capturingthemachine.com · 30/04/2026Today is the LAST DAY to order the book I created with @analogdialog.bsky.social! 👉 hcrbook.com Hill Country Rallye: Twenty-Five Years, a hardcover that's quarter-century in the making. If you like nice 185-pg coffee table books, this is one! – and ALL proceeds benefit a Kerrville flood charity. 0154
kevin mccauley @capturingthemachine.com · 29/04/2026the most memorable was this aircooled three-cylinder diesel 😜 0141
kevin mccauley @capturingthemachine.com · 23/04/2026remembering the Mini Cooper JCW GP, one of the only 2000s extreme hot hatches actually sold in the US 🌶️ 2223
kevin mccauley @capturingthemachine.com · 08/04/2026it’s easy to forget but the final iteration Exige got the V6 for a few years 010
kevin mccauley @capturingthemachine.com · 02/04/2026Seller says that the front bumperettes weigh 18lbs EACH 191
kevin mccauley @capturingthemachine.com · 20/03/2026they made lots of mid-engine C3-era concepts, you don’t have to imagine! www.corvsport.com/every-mid-en... 183
kevin mccauley @capturingthemachine.com · 18/03/2026The mercedes interior looks like the inside of a toaster oven (derogatory) 110
kevin mccauley @capturingthemachine.com · 01/03/2026Rode in electric-converted Fiero by the North Carolina Alternative Energy Corporation in ~1993 Drove a Leaf in 2011 2163
kevin mccauley @capturingthemachine.com · 27/02/2026The GT-one was secretly Marlboro sponsored, but the West McLarens are some of my all-time favs (Ron would NOT have stood for bullshit-ass Google Chrome wheel covers and 75 crypto sponsors sharing a sidepod) 150
