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Strolling back to the car, past the trailers and canopies and motorheads in the paddock, I overheard a couple of guys remarking about the “g...

A slippery rainy day is not the sort of day to trot out the exotic automotive plumage. But this was not an ordinary rainy day. It was a ra...

The television in the hotel's breakfast area was tuned to the news. No knowledge of Italian was needed to interpret the images: Libyan r...

With someplace to go: Lunch, and the special privilege to meet an icon of the automotive world, Sig. Valentino Balboni . Getting to lunch ...

What could be better than a three-day holiday weekend? A five-day holiday weekend, perhaps? This stroke of brilliance was late in coming, ...

A good user interface is one that you take for granted. Consider, for example, the automobile. When you step into an unfamiliar car, the gas...

Approaching the pumps, my gaze was magnetically drawn to one vehicle in particular. An unexpected rendezvous with the shiny black car?! Head...

Saturday morning found me in an unusual position, test driving a strangely familiar vehicle on a route I planned to bike in the afternoon. W...

I never imagined I would find a place to park this car where it would hardly be noticed. A place where ... well, it just blends in. The ha...

Someday, when I look back at all of this, I know I will remember the faces of so many little boys pressed against the windows of passing car...

I arrived on the east coast and Hertz did not seem to have the mid-sized car I had reserved. How about an SUV? [An upgrade, in some minds.] ...

Today it was my turn to pedal, having devoted my first weekend day (dawn till dusk) to the Mega-Monster Enduro . Once all the riders departe...

Will you drive it in the rain? So far, it has been my destiny to drive it in the rain. Even today, some raindrops sprinkled down. At last,...

The day will arrive when the car of your dreams becomes the car in your driveway. That was the tag line in a Chrysler commercial I saw durin...

When I was growing up, the Sunday drive was a major family treat. We would head out of the city, to the shore or into the countryside, and e...

No offense, but I have to admit that I don't "get" golf. I did spend today on a golf course, and it did involve driving: in t...

A mini-van pulls into the turnout along the Avenue of the Giants , and we hear an adolescent male voice: Whoa, take a picture of that ! Th...