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It's the time of year when carmakers roll out their biggest guns. In back-to-back Los Angeles and Detroit auto shows, manufacturers unveil everything from gonzo concept cars that will never [...]

When the Wright Flyer rose over the sands of Kitty Hawk, it was propelled by a 4-cylinder engine nearly as astonishing as the flying machine that lifted Orville Wright into [...]

Almost a century ago, Messrs H.N. Jackson and N.K. Crocker drove a Winton Touring Car from ocean to ocean. Since then, millions of people have duplicated the cross-country feat, and [...]

Despite some climatic vagaries, all of our long-term testers fared well over the past several months. QUARTERLY UPDATE Porsche Boxster Dick Dale and the Del-Tones. Chinese food and Sunday night. [...]

Old 16 ia now fittingly enshrined at the Henry Ford Museum. Few machines are more exciting, conjure more romanticism or tickle more notions of nostalgia than race cars. And the [...]

1999 Mercedes-Benz CLK320 Cabriolet Take a highly successful sports coupe, outfit it with a power convertible roof and you're a certain as you can be that you have a winner [...]

Living in luxury is quite nice. For a year, we've been suffering through life behind the wheels of two of the world's most prestigious luxury cars. But now those cars [...]

Subaru Impreza Outback Sport * Subaru found so much success with its Legacy Outback--a station wagon bulked on SUV steroids to emulate larger, clumsier and more trucklike sport/utility vehicles--that the [...]

* Saying that Chevy's Corsica was in the same class as the Honda Accord, Toyota Camry and Dodge Stratus would be like saying Greg Kinnear is in the same league [...]

* America's best-selling car, the Ford Taurus, has just been renewed for the third time in its life. The 1996 version is thoroughly modern in its engineering, futuristic in its [...]

NEW CARS 1999 Volvo S80 Facing the future alone can be a daunting prospect. But Volvo, perhaps the last major independent automaker, is looking into the next century with solitary [...]

* 'We don't compete with the Chrysler vans.' That statement made by a General Motors engineer is easy; to believe after you've driven a Chrysler minivan for a year. After [...]

Volvo 70 Series * Volvo is using the introduction of its head-turning sexy coupe to totally revamp its front-drive lineup with new looks and new names. As the 850-based coupe [...]

* 'It's got a cop motor, cop shocks and cop tires,' said the fictional Jake Blues of his old Dodge sedan. did that make his car a better ride than [...]

Byline: Jim Dunne The March 19 death of John Z. DeLorean prompted a lot of memories and inevitable storytelling by those who knew him. This story reflects both the era [...]

Here's a Ranger model you'll have to wait an other two years to see on the road. What the photo shows is a prototype of the once-planned 2003-model Ranger four-door [...]

2004 Chevrolet Tracker Big changes are in store for Chevrolet's smallest SUV. With the '04 model, the Tracker will abandon its long-standing relationship with Suzuki's small truck platform and change [...]

Big advances are in store for Chevrolet's smallest SUV with a new chassis and styling appearance in the 2004 model-year lineup. Tracker will abandon its long-standing relationship with Suzuki and [...]

While styling details of the domesticated Hummer 2 SUV are revealed in these photos, caught on an executive ride-and-drive outside of GM's proving grounds in southeastern Michigan, much remains hidden. [...]

Remember the King Door, Ford's answer to the absence of a side sliding door on the Windstar? That design appeared in the late 1990s, then was replaced by a sliding [...]

Lincoln will soon have its Black-wood, and later Cadillac will have its EXT. The future vehicles are similar in a number of forms, including big frame chassis, four-door convenience and [...]

CADILLAC ESCALADE Although based on the full-size truck platform shared with the Chevrolet Tahoe and GMC Yukon/Denali, the new Escalade luxury sport-ute separates itself with a more powerful V-8 engine, [...]

2002 Jeep Cherokee Caravans of camouflaged prototypes are often found cruising the byways of Detroit's suburbs. And our camera caught just such a group of Jeep Cherokees. Despite the disguises, [...]