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August 2017

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The Great Eight: Museums and Attractions Your Friends Have Never Been To

by Carolyn Briggs August 31, 2017

The trips with unique and interesting stories are the ones that stay with you the longest. You’ll talk about them for years after you get back, reliving the vacation over…

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Thursday Car Tunes: Autobahn and the Bentley Continental GT

by Harvey Briggs August 31, 2017

The Song In the late 1960s and earyl 1970s electronic music had found its way into the mainstream thanks to the invention of the Moog Synthesizer and experimentation by popular…

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Monday Musings: Will FCA Become The Auto Industry’s Parts Car?

by Harvey Briggs August 28, 2017

After essentially being gifted Chrysler Group by the U.S. Government and riding an industry upsurge to renewed profitability, Sergio Marchionne was being hailed as a genius by the press just…

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Destination Road America: Vintage Racing and the Lexus RC350

by Harvey Briggs August 24, 2017

There was a time when racing mattered. When an appearance in the winner’s circle on Sunday meant cars would fly out of the showroom on Monday. In the late 1960s…

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Monday Musings: Pebble Beach from Afar

by Harvey Briggs August 21, 2017

It’s been a couple of years since I’ve stood on the lawn at Pebble Beach watching the glow of daylight slowly spread across the 18th fairway of the famed golf…

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The Great Eight: Perfect Places to view the 2017 solar eclipse

by Carolyn Briggs August 17, 2017

Summer is winding down, and it’s time to think about getting as many last minute weekend trips in as possible. And this weekend is possibly the best weekend of the…

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Monday Musings: 5 Reasons You Should Give Up Your Place On The Tesla Model 3 Waiting List

by Harvey Briggs August 14, 2017

You may have read that Tesla delivered its first 30 Model 3 compact electric cars to customers a couple of weeks ago at a gala event in Fremont, California –…

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The Weather and then IMSA Make A Mess Of Things In Elkhart Lake

by Harvey Briggs August 10, 2017

It was supposed to be one of those idyllic August weekends in Wisconsin. Three days of beautiful scenery, bratwurst, and great racing because the IMSA Continental Tire Road Race Showcase…

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Destination: Toyota 86 and a Quick Game of Wiffle Ball

by Harvey Briggs August 8, 2017

When I was a kid, my four brothers and our friends would while away the long, hot summer days with games of Wiffle Ball in our front yard which was…

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Destination: The American Sign Museum in a 2017 Kia Niro EX

by Micah Wright August 16, 2017

Automakers have reached a fork in the hatchback-riddled road. Do they follow the hybrid path, and hope that the microscopic 2.2% market share that hybrids held in 2016 improves drastically,…

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