2006 YEAR IN REVERSE: Part 1 of 2.(News)(Ford Motor Co.'s debt finance)(Formula One champion Juan Pablo Montoya qualifies for the Ford 400 NASCAR Nextel Cup race )(Hummer develops smallest Hummer )

Listen, there are several different ways we can do this, but we have to do it: It's pretty much mandatory to take an end-of-the-year look back. We can do it like some automotive websites. That would mean lots of pictures of wrecked Porsches and smoldering Ferraris, Mel Gibson mug shots and cars turned into homemade El Caminos. Or we could do it like a newspaper, where it would be one grim, profound account of recalls and sales downturns and William Clay Ford quotes after another. Or we could do it like Road & Track. It would be full of stuff like: "A mischievous scamp in Surrey-on-Numbnuts, England, parked his motor vehicle in front of a local business, walked inside, and ...