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We are heading up to Monterey Thursday morning at 5:30AM. The plan is to beat rush hour traffic then have a fun drive up the coast, stop for lunch and laze into town. Can’t wait. I’m driving the 1966 Porsche … Continued

On August 13, 2009, Volvo Cars will celebrate the 50th anniversary of the standard-fit three point safety belts, which appeared for the first time on a Volvo PV544 delivered Thursday August 13, 1959 to a Volvo dealer in the Swedish … Continued

BMWs are my weakness. My first car was a 1974 2002 burgundy over tan, five-speed with a sunroof. At the time, it was twelve years shy of being a new model and cost all of $1000 bucks. Yet ask any … Continued

If the Porsche Turbo never looked any different from the 1976 model 33 years ago, I’d be fine with it. Of course, while you go through life things get old, need to be refreshed and eventually get redesigned. It’s a … Continued

Suzuki has been slapped around in the U.S. market for years. I mean how long did it take for them to settle the Samurai rollover suit with Consumer Reports? Eight years. Damn that moose test. Yet seppuku has never been … Continued

The Ferrari “world record” story got me thinking, what ever happened to the good ol’ days of driving fast for no good reason to make a Guinness world record? Or for that matter driving fast after having a few Guinness’s. … Continued

California is one of the fore runner states where experts have been working for years on a high-speed rail plan. A trip from LA to SF in two and half hours would be pretty sweet, even if it’s actually my … Continued

The House, in their shotgun approach to stimulating our country, has given us another marriage that may be doomed for divorce with their children left to piece together their lives. The children in this case are the dealers. Hold on, … Continued

When we ordered from the book club in sixth grade, it was the only book I cared about, The Guinness Book of World Records… well that and Mad Libs. I’d sit for days looking up the tallest man, the fastest … Continued

The Monterey Historic Automobile Races will include a debut lap or two of the prototype Fisker Karma plug-hybrid sedan. Fisker’s milestone dash from drawing-to-doorstep was the product of some non ego driven thinking. Don’t build a factory with huge overhead. … Continued