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Mercedes Benz Day!

October 9, 2009 Shows No Comments

1433  660x500 cover Mercedes Benz Day! October is here and only few more Lawn Events at the Larz Anderson Auto Museum in Boston remain.  So far, you have seen British Car Day, German Car Day, Miata Day Italian Car Day, and now Mercedes Benz Day. I was raised under the belief the Mercedes Benz is the oldest car company in the world and they make the best cars, which in the 1970′s and 1980′s was probably true, so seeing all these cars in mint condition gave me that warm fuzzy feeling. … Continue Reading

Italian Car Day!

August 7, 2009 Shows 3 Comments
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Yet another summer Lawn Event at the Larz Anderson Auto Museum in Boston (Brookline, MA technically). So far, you have seen British Car Day, German Car Day, Miata Day, and now Italian Car Day. Probably no one else on earth makes vehicles that capture speed, beauty, great design and awful reliability quite like the Italians. Everyone wants them, even despite hearing the nightmare stories that come with owning this wonderful machinery. … Continue Reading

German Car Day

June 24, 2009 Shows 2 Comments

Another Lawn Event at the Larz Anderson Auto Museum in Boston. This time however the weather did not co-operate as well as it did during the British Car Day and the turnout was a lot smaller, and that was just the beginning of our “problems”. … Continue Reading

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Rally Racing, part 1: Building the Car

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This is the first of three articles on Rally Racing. I intend to cover car set-ups, driver training, different classes, and whatever else I may come upon. This part will show a built of an Open Class rally car, which is …

Driving Jaguar’s new XFR, on the Road and on the Track

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I have recently had the opportunity to drive the new Jaguar XFR on the road and on a race track. With the XFR competing directly against the BMW M5, which I have also had the opportunity to drive on the track …

Experiencing The New Diesel-Powered BMWs.

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While you may have already read a thing or two about BMW’s new compression ignition offerings, you may not have heard all the details, and you may have some questions. I sure did, and I did my best to answer them …

Cars of Paris

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French cars; some say they’re ugly, some say they’re beautiful, all agree that they’re unreliable. However, there is something about them that makes you want to look. These pictures were taken in March of 2007, my wife’s and mine last trip …

Cars (and other vehicles) of Cuba

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Do you think your ’02 Chevy Tahoe with 170k miles is at the end of its life? Try driving a ’55 Suburban that you inherited from you father. This is a gallery of car pictures from Cuba, where the only way …

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