Smithology: Thoughts, Travels, and Semi-Plausible Car Writings, 2003 – 2023

“”What if you love driving so much you can’t get enough?”” Sam Smith is an award-winning journalist and a former executive editor of Road & Track magazine. He’s been a TV host for NBC Sports, a professional mechanic, and an amateur racing driver, and he once put the word “”Blarggh!”” into a magazine bought by half a million people. Above all, Smith is in love with what the automobile does for us, and he can’t sit still. This funny, thoughtful, and deeply joyous anthology of Smith’s writing includes both new material and stories originally written for Road & Track , Hagerty, and Roundel , the magazine of the BMW Car Club of America. For 20 years, Smith has driven everything he could get his hands on and traveled the globe to unpack our complex relationship with cars and speed. And all the while, he has never lost sight of the human—of the plain and simple truth that all the glorious metal in the world is nothing without us. What you get in this book: Twenty years of essays, feature stories, and columns from an internationally beloved car writer A voice published in Esquire , The New York Times , and Wired A behind-the-scenes look at a globetrotting dream job A mind-blowing drive in Fernando Alonso’s 2007 McLaren Formula 1 car by someone (the author) wholly unqualified to race it Adventures, ramblings, ride-alongs, geek-outs, motorsport daydreams, and more—all from a person utterly besotted with machines, driving, Japanese Dodge-van societies, and every other aspect of our life on wheels. PLUS! New writing never seen anywhere else! A truly staggering amount of self-deprecation! At least one harebrained dog who runs from squirrels! And, last but not least, a picture of a BMW mechanic in a full-body unicorn suit and holding a raw chicken! Which is, we promise, relevant! (Though that’s mostly because of the chicken.) — ISBN13: 9798989496709