Hello, dear reader. Sorry for going quiet there for a few weeks, but thanks to an abundance of travel and some ill-timed embargoes, I frankly didn’t have a lot of time to check in or reason to do so.

The travel continues this week (writing this from seat 21C, 35,000 feet above Ola, Arkansas, to be specific), and the embargoes have been loosed, and there’s plenty to talk about that. So let’s not waste any time getting to business!

We never did get a look-see at Apple’s doomed Project Titan. That was the codename for the once fabled “Apple Car” that never drove anyone anywhere but surely did help a fair few Apple blogs reach new traffic milestones over the years. I still hope that someone breaks ranks someday and tells all, but for now, we have to look to another hemisphere entirely to get a clue for what might have been.

Italy, specifically, and Ferrari, where the first vehicle interior from Jony Ive’s LoveFrom design studio will be found. It’s the interior for the Ferrari Luce, formerly known as the Elettrica, a name that I’m glad to see nixed, if only because I always had a nagging doubt I’d spelled it wrong.

Luce (”light” in Italian) is not only nicer to say but easier to spell. It had better be easy on the eye, too, because you can be sure that Ferrari’s first-ever EV will face an inordinate amount of scrutiny when it’s unveiled later this summer. We still don’t know what it looks like, but we do know the interior.

I give the full rundown in my write-up for Engadget, but suffice to say it’s a really striking interface. It has a touchscreen, yes, but that’s decidedly secondary to the overall experience of controlling and piloting the machine.

The attention to detail is off the charts, from the tiny lens in the windshield wiper speed toggle to the immaculately sculpted and anodized seat rails. But, that said, it is all so extremely clinical that it feels like a departure from anything Ferrari has ever done before. That’s not necessarily a bad thing, but it certainly doesn’t scream “interior of a car that must be driven fast” in the same way that the interior of, say, the 12Cilindri does.

My other reservation is that it is so, so very Apple-like. I know, Ive had his hands in virtually every product Apple made for the past few decades, and so you’d expect to see some of that same vibe here. However, I’d hoped this would be an opportunity for LoveFrom to differentiate itself from what’s been done before and not continue down the same path paved in silver, space gray, and rose gold.

Maybe I just need to give it more time, and eventually this style will be known less as “Apple-like” and more as “LoveFrom-like.” Regardless, it’s immaculate and it’s tactile and it’s a fun stab in the eye of every other EV that thinks a big dumb touchscreen is enough.

Welcome to the new Macan Electric GTS, the latest in Porsche’s increasing number of alphanumeric designations for its electric cars. We still have a long way to go until the company’s battery-powered machines reach the same level of alphanumeric excess as seen on the 911, but I feel like we’ll probably get there.

What’s the GTS? It looks to follow the same path as the pre-hybrid 911 GTSs, adding some fun go-fast bits and blacked-out trim to spice up the look and feel of the machine. It isn’t quite as quick as the Turbo, nor as expensive, but the $125,920 as-configured sticker on the Carmine Red machine you see here is certainly no small ask. Worth it? Head on over to Alloy to find out.

Audi’s in the middle of what could be seen as a full lineup reshuffling, a process that hasn’t always been the cleanest, but is finally starting to make sense. A big part of that defragmentation process is the new A6, which, for 2026, gains power and handling. It had better, because there’s no S6 just yet. Is this good enough to tide you over?

That’s it for now. There’s plenty more in the hopper, waiting for various embargoes to clear. I’ll circle back as those pop up online, but until then, if all goes well, you can catch me sliding sideways on Peck’s Late smack dab in the middle of New York State. Yes, despite my club basically throwing in the towel last year after season after season of bad ice, we’re back to racing this season, the first time in years, and it feels good.