This House Is A Ferrari Workspace/Garage/Gallery

Welcome to Must Read, where we single out the best stories from around the automotive universe and beyond. Today we've got reports from Fast Company, Petrolicious, The Atlantic, and Joel Johnson.

The theme today is change. Specifically, the change that comes from facing problems through direct action. Protest. Architecture. Travel. Whatever.


This House Is A Ferrari Workspace/Garage/Gallery


Once again, I find inspiration in a garage profile on Petrolicious.

Holger Schubert is a man with superb taste, as evidenced not only by his amazing 512BBi, but also by the gorgeous workspace/garage/art gallery he's built to accommodate it. There are no corny framed photos of waterfalls with trite inspirational messages on Schubert's immaculate glass walls, and he doesn't need them—the Boxer provides limitless motivation. Schubert shares with us his thoughts on the space and the car.

Bahrain Is Becoming Even More Repressive Because of the F1 RaceThe Atlantic

This House Is A Ferrari Workspace/Garage/Gallery

Why are F1 protestors in Bahrain setting tires on fire? Here's a deeper read into how the Bahraini Royal Family is, again, using the race to crack down on protestors.

Whether or not the sponsors of the F1 are happy with Bahrain as a venue, they should be concerned at human rights violations being committed because their event is coming to town. British media reports suggest that Vodaphone's recently announced decision to withdraw its sponsorship of the F1 was tied to what happened at last year's Bahrain Grand Prix, although the company denies that.

Riding motorcycles into storms, and other inefficient therapiesJoel Johnson

This House Is A Ferrari Workspace/Garage/Gallery

Superfriend Joel Johnson is on a motorcycle. He's also writing. I'm not sure how talented he doing the former, but this attests to the latter.


I'm not joking about its effectiveness.


But when does it stop?


This House Is A Ferrari Workspace/Garage/Gallery

No, this isn't cars. This is the "beyond" section where I can link to whatever I want to. In this case, a kind of puffy piece on J. Crew that nevertheless captures a bit of what we're trying with Jalopnik.

Their partnership would mark the end of the days when J.Crew's product design was dictated by corporate strategy. Together, they would make and sell only what they loved. The love would not be unconditional; they would adjust their product line always, trying new ideas, assessing, and quickly getting rid of anything that didn't work. Under Drexler and Lyons, J.Crew would become a company of constant and freewheeling experimentation, iteration, adaptation.