AccessMyLibrary provides FREE access to over 30 million articles from top publications available through your library.
Create a link to this page
Copy and paste this link tag into your Web page or blog:
It's Still Fun.
Byline: KEVIN A. WILSON
Enough with the doom and gloom about cars, already. It's summer, and cars are still fun. Going places and doing things with cars got more expensive this year, but the cars and the things didn't suddenly become drudgery and boredom.
So, you'll pay a little more to go on vacation, or on a cruise up Woodward or the PCH, or to the races or the concours. So? We love cars. We'll budget more for what we love and carve back somewhere else. Maybe a cell phone doesn't have to sing and dance, and we can settle for one that makes phone calls. If we're going to be on the road, maybe we need only 200 TV channels instead of 500 or Internet access at three megabytes per second instead of 12. Two tickets to an overrated summer "blockbuster'' plus popcorn and drinks add up to half a tank of gasoline or more. Pick one; rent a move for home. Heck, you're still making payments on that big TV. Brats and brews still make a good barbecue with your car friends; feed the gas tank the extra you'd have spent on shrimp or porterhouse or single malt.
This isn't really adviceit's what I know ...
- Love cars? Join the club: Groups out in full force at Dream Cruise.
- News wire article from: Detroit Free Press (Detroit, MI) August 14, 2006 700+ words
...Talk about opposite ends of the car lovers' spectrum. Cancelmo and Cleary know it and poke fun at the other. "They won't be having quite as much fun at the happy hour as our group," Cancelmo said of Cleary's DeLorean lovers. "They'll...
- How to go topless: the newly released 2007 Volkswagen Eos convertible combines...
- Magazine article from: The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine) Weil, Daniel April 24, 2007 700+ words
Anyone who has owned a convertible know it's no fun to put the top up. The interior instantly transforms from big...treasure trove of amenities to become VW's newest everyman fun ride. With a price tag in the $30,000 range, you've got...
- Consumer Reports testers really love cars.
- Newspaper article from: The Orlando Sentinel (Orlando, Fla.) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service) April 22, 2005 700+ words
...like cars," said one of the 19 employees who work at the southern Connecticut facility. "Love cars. That's why we do this." "We do love cars," said David Champion, senior director of the automotive technical division. "Good cars...
- Why men love cars: four cars. Four Reasons. One utterly transcendent visit to...
- Magazine article from: Esquire Raab, Scott July 1, 2008 700+ words
...it was the coolest thing I'd ever done. It still may be. You can slice it like a lab-slide sample, how American men love cars and why. Freedom, frontier, Manifest Destiny, the Kerouacian Zen of eternal Go, the yearning for a scrotum as meaty...
- The muscle car with more horse than sense ..BY: By Shamsul Yunos ..LD:...
- News wire article from: Asia Africa Intelligence Wire April 11, 2004 700+ words
(From New Straits Times (Malaysia)) AMERICANS love cars more than anyone else. They are in love with the technology or the production of automobiles the way that the Germans and Japanese...
- A cheap Italian supercar ..BY: By Shamsul Yunos ..LD: ITALY is the most...
- News wire article from: Asia Africa Intelligence Wire April 4, 2004 700+ words
(From New Straits Times (Malaysia)) ITALY is the most wonderful country for car lovers because Italians truly love cars. There is a story about how a guy driving a classic Ferrari in Italy suffered from a bent rim after hitting a rock on the...
- Love cars? You're not alone. Each year half a million of car enthusiasts flock...
- Magazine article from: Swiss News March 1, 2006 700+ words
The 76th International Motor Show will be held at Geneva's Palexpo from March 2-12. Numerous automobile manufacturers will be on hand to show off the latest and greatest in automotive excellence. As always, visitors can expect to see expensive sports cars, streamlined, jaw dropping racing models
- A driving passion: for those who love cars especially classic automobiles all...
- Magazine article from: Town & Country Cantrell, John May 1, 2003 700+ words
Ah, the English Season! The peonies abloom at the Chelsea Flower Show. The ladies abloom in hats at Ascot. The players in their whites at Wimbledon. The earsplitting roar of engines, the acrid smell of motor oil at Goodwood, the grand home of one of England's oldest aristocratic families. Engines?
- A driving attraction: if you truly love cars, then these are the events you...
- Magazine article from: Black Enterprise Drakes, Sean November 1, 2004 700+ words
AT THE START OF THE NEW YEAR, upward of 32 auto shows will be staged in two dozen U.S. cities--and that's just a warm-up. For car enthusiasts nationwide, the coming months will be a time to check out the latest in hot rides. For the auto retail industry, which tallied nearly $700 billion in total
- Now it's the guys' turn: Garage Cruise is for those who love cars, and working...
- Newspaper article from: News-Sentinel (Fort Wayne, IN) August 24, 2007 700+ words
Byline: Cindy Larson Aug. 24--Gardeners have their garden walks. Homeowners have parades and showcases. Preservationists have historic home tours. But what about gearheads? It was only a matter of time. Now they have their own walk -- er, cruise. From 1 to 5 p.m. Sunday, five garages in the Auburn
Source: HighBeam Research, It's Still Fun.