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Move the Wheel
God, I hate driving on the wrong (left) side of the road, even if I’m situated on the wrong (right) side of the car. My left eye has spent its entire life lining up with the road’s centerline and the...
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My Fantasy
As I wrote earlier this year, I don’t need a bucket list. But I do have a fantasy that I would desperately like to come true. It’s going to take a little more than a plan and a timeline, as the old...
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First Time’s the AOY Charm: 1990 Mazda Miata
Among our twenty-five Automobiles of the Year, none has been more important to this magazine than our inaugural winner, the 1990 Mazda Miata. You’d be forgiven for thinking that I have a personal bias,...
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You Call Them GM Lifers Like It’s a Bad Thing
It is true that I expected to see a woman president of the United States before I ever expected to see an automaker name a woman as CEO. That the company making the earthshaking,...
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Watch Your Step
I tend to fall down and go boom with annoying regularity. It is often because my head is spinning off my neck stem, trying to catch the action around me. You can imagine what happens at an auto show,...
View ArticleOne Last Blast Of That Pesky Polar Vortex
By the time you read this, spring will have officially sprung. Well, at least it will be spring on the calendar. In Michigan, we have lost almost all hope of ever seeing Little Robin Redbreast as we...
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There was a thing my dad used to say before the spankings commenced: “You’re not being spanked for what you did [wrote my name all over the garage wall, wrote my name all over the inside of my...
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Masters Of Design
I’m back in the swing of things in Michigan after spending several weeks in California working on Motor City Masters, a new Chevrolet-sponsored reality show on the truTV network. MCM is a competition...
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