Good morning to you. If you read this as soon as it hits your inbox, I'll probably be making my way to the 18th fairway right now on a cold, drizzly, foggy Pebble Beach morning. However, thanks to the magic of internet scheduling technology, I'm able to write this up in advance and get it queued for delivery.

I am, of course, out in California for Monterey Car Week, a series of gatherings and parties all building up to Sunday's Pebble Beach Concours. That’s the event which started it all, and yet the Concours itself increasingly feels like the final, dry gasp of a manic week-long automotive melee.

This week is a great place to put a finger on the pulse of a segment of the motoring enthusiasts on a plane well above average. Suffice to say, the ultra-wealthy still seem to be doing just fine, so don’t you worry.

Despite my rather more limited financial resources, I'm also doing pretty well, thanks for asking. I've also been busy, so let’s dive in.

Most of what I've been up to out here won't be published for some time to come, but I do have a few things I can share from the ground, including this first look at Lamborghini's latest in a long line of Super Veloce machines. Lamborghini’s boffins in Bologna have been gutting, boosting, and visually augmenting their SV supercars since the day of the Miura, but this one's a little different: Lamborghini left the V12 alone. The extra power here comes exclusively from the hybrid system.

The current-generation Nautilus is only a few years old and is selling well, so no surprise that Lincoln's mid-cycle refresh is a lot more "re" than "fresh." A new nose looks a bit more stately, while a raft of new interior appointments add personality and luxe treatments. Nothing shocking here, but enough to keep this thing competitive.

I'm a bit tardy in sharing this one, but wanted to include my first entry for a new (to me) outlet. I've written countless pieces on software-defined vehicles in the past, tapping into my own software architecture background to help parse out what it means when today's cars are controlled more by code than components. For my first contribution to the Arthur D. Little Prism Journal, I got to delve into the organizational side. It’s a look into how that fundamental shift in vehicle design is forcing a corresponding shift in the corporate structures of the companies that build these cars. I love the presentation on this one, and I hope you'll give it a look.

That’s all from me for this week. Spare a thought because by now I’m surely under-slept and my feet are certainly killing me, but I’ll survive, and with any luck be back next week with another dose of whatever it is I do.