Archive for February 2004

If you love high-speed action, you’ve just got to see TOP SPEED – a new IMAX® film now playing in the giant dome of the Reuben H. Fleet Science Center at San Diego’s Balboa Park. You don’t even need to be a fan of fast cars to enjoy it. I found out about the film…

It is nice to do a good deed. It’s even better when that good deed is fun to do. Recently some fellow car enthusiasts and I got to do just that. For me it started with an email from a fellow San Diego Miata Club member. He said that in two days the Marine Corps…

Certainly if you follow this column regularly you know that motorsports are alive and well in Southern California. Case in point: SpecMiata racer Dave Cynkin. Dave lives in Carmel Valley. Most days he seems like a perfectly average resident of our county. For starters he has a growing young family (two children and a wife),…

Sorry for the delayed coverage of this year’s show but there was a flurry of auto show activity in our neighborhood all at once. So that you and I don’t get auto showed out, I like to mix things up with my “Real World Road Tests,” road trips, interviews and surprises like the Mars Rover…

Did you watch the Super Bowl TV commercials? I’ve especially enjoyed the ones for the new Ford GT (see, there is a car tie-in)! I saw two commercials for the car: a teaser and then another showing a seductive red Ford GT put through its paces around a race track. If only they were not…