9 July 2009 2:20 PM, PDT | Vanity Fair | See recent Vanity Fair news »
You know how you feel when you run into someone at a restaurant, someone you’ve flirted with in the past but with whom you didn’t seal the deal, and now he’s all paired up and tan and sharing food from his date’s salad bowl, looking like they just came back from vacation in Madrid? You know what I’m talking about: that brain-biting twinge of I should have done him when I had the chance? The French call it, regret. This is just how I felt when I’d bump into a Maserati Quattroporte. I had spent a morning in the company of this handsome specimen at this year’s Detroit Auto Show, when filming the seminal Stick Shift video What is the Sexuality of the Maserati Quattroporte? with my pal Eddie Alterman. I’d lusted after it from afar, frequently mentioning it as the best-looking sedan on the market, »