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  1. 2013 Mille Miglia: Thursday



    If you haven't already, you can get up to speed by reading Part One. Okay, ready? Thursday Afternoon This is the day when we just sit and wait. The start is tonight at 8:30. Right now, it's pouring rain, and I'm sitting next to Gina Lollobrigida. But I digress. Here's what ...    Read more

  2. Mille Miglia by 1955 Mercedes-Benz 300SL Gullwing



    I have had some mighty fine times in my privileged life as an automotive journalist-adventurer. The most exotic, the most memorable, have involved long distances in priceless vintage cars, often in faraway places: Driving the weeklong Pan Pacific Rally across New Zealand's North Island in a 1916 Benz open touring ...    Read more

  3. Frankfurt 2011: Our Favorite Finds — Jean Jennings



    Our editors have been plenty busy scouring the show floor of the 2011 Frankfurt Motor Show -- but in between running to and from press conferences and battling spotty Wi-Fi connections, they picked their three favorite concept and production cars at the show. ...    Read more

  4. Vile Gossip: The Elegance at Hershey The next great car show.



    I was totally guilted into starting a Facebook page a couple years ago by Luan Mendel, the most excellent novelist (Yard Sale) and wife of Honda’s U.S. boss John Mendel. As much as my skin crawls thinking of the little billionaire weasel who started Facebook (or stole it from those ...    Read more

  5. Vile Gossip: The month of March—In like a lion, out goes a lion



    The valets at the Jacksonville airport know me. I fly in and out of JAX a lot, mostly to visit the de Padua clan for whom our three-year-old Chesapeake Bay retriever, GCH Irish’s Robert Garcia de Padua, a.k.a. Bob, is named. (Dr. Robert Garcia de Padua has Bob’s framed AKC ...    Read more

  6. Vile Gossip: A day late and a power cord short of a great trip



    I am stranded in the nation’s capital, trying to get to the Geneva motor show, and my world is slowly dying around me, one power bar at a time: • BlackBerry—two power bars out of five • iPhone—38 percent power • iPad—13 percent power • PowerBook—95 percent power United has blown my connection, and the ...    Read more

  7. Vile Gossip: The Chrome Cobra Leaves This Mortal Coil



    Chuck Jordan was my very first friend in the car business. We came together unexpectedly in the private, musty quarters of the National Automotive History Collection on the second floor of the Detroit Public Library. It was the fall of 1980, and I had been an automotive journalist for exactly ...    Read more

  8. Vile Gossip: AOY – Let the post-election analysis and whining begin.



    Chevy Volt. I voted for the Hyundai Sonata. To tell the truth, neither car was on my short list going into the Automobile of the Year competition. With too many great new cars this year—fifty-three were eligible, most of which all of us hadn’t driven—the competition was wide open. We approached ...    Read more

  9. Vile Gossip: The City of Light. And Heat.



    The Paris motor show is not on the list of the world’s most important auto shows—for instance, it comes around only once every two years, alternating with Frankfurt. But Le Mondial de l’Automobile is certainly right up there with the most desirable shows to attend. Like the New York auto ...    Read more

  10. Vile Gossip: The automotive weekend of the year.



    As thrilling as the vintage races always are at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca in mid-August, I'm glad I wasn't there to watch Stirling Moss's crash. It wasn't as bad as it could have been, but after plunging three flights down his home's elevator shaft last March, Sir Stirling, 80, had ...    Read more

  11. Vile Gossip: The confessions of a bad driver.



    Bless me, Father, for I have sinned. It has been, oh, thirty-six years since my last confession. Shall I confess my endless litany of sins all at once, or shall we do this in installments? I sent two text messages while I was driving home ...    Read more

  12. Vile Gossip: You want Lindamood? I give you Lindamood.



    When I married Tom Lindamood in 1979, I took his last name on the basis that it was the least I could do, seeing as how I was otherwise like a tidal wave in his life -- an overwhelming, all-conquering, suck-the-air-out-of-the-room sort of presence. And I was loud. Plus, Lindamood ...    Read more

  13. Vile Gossip: How to get a job at a car magazine. At least at this magazine.



    Pride comes before the fall. So it's only fitting - -as we approach the fall of 2010 and begin plans for Automobile Magazine's twenty-fifth anniversary -- that we share our pride in this freshly redesigned magazine. And although I'm loath to advertise the company jewels, it pleases me ...    Read more

  14. Vile Gossip: It’s been twenty-five years since I visited China. Uh, Wow.



    China was even more primitive than I imagined it would be in the fall of 1985, when I joined world-renowned motorcycle enduro champion Malcolm Smith and a group of twelve riders on a 1000-mile motorcycle trip in Zhejiang province. Despite having the most advanced telecommunications and transportation system in China, ...    Read more

  15. Vile Gossip: Three Great Stories From Three Racing Greats



    The sold-out racing forums during the Amelia Island Concours d'Elegance have become the weekend's can't-miss events. It's a simple formula: a panel of racing greats and a probing interviewer. This year's Saturday forum brought together drag-racing legend "Big Daddy" Don Garlits, NASCAR's King Richard Petty, and Carroll Shelby. Imagine Garlits ...    Read more

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