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Driven: 2019 Volkswagen Jetta SEL Premium, a Small Car for the Grownups in the Room

by Harvey Briggs January 13, 2020

Compact sedans aren’t the hottest category in the auto industry right now, but for individual brands, these diminutive four-door sedans play an outsized role. They’re generally the first new car…

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Road Trip: The California Coast in a 2019 VW Beetle Final Edition, A Dying Car for the Almost Dead

by Stu Levitan September 11, 2019

For driving iconic roads in iconic cities to hear iconic music in iconic venues, it’s best to have an iconic vehicle.  If the cities are in California, best to have…

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Driven: 2019 Volkswagen Tiguan, bigger and better.

by Harvey Briggs August 2, 2019

If you have ever doubted American car buyers collectively have a very short memory, look no further than Volkswagen. It was just three short years ago the company was in…

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CarTunes Thursday: Arlo, Alice, a VW Microbus, and the Vietnam War

by Harvey Briggs November 28, 2019

The Artist Heavy is the head that wears the crown. And in folk music, no crown is heavier than that of Woody Guthrie. Given that Arlo Guthrie is the oldest…

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Driven: 2018 VW GTI. My Favorite Toy.

by Harvey Briggs April 8, 2018

We have to be careful when we trundle down memory lane. Our brains have a tendency to romanticize our history and make everyone of and everything in the old days…

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Road Trip: In search of the inland leviathan. No, we’re not talking about the Atlas.

by Harvey Briggs March 2, 2018

People in Wisconsin are a hardy bunch, either that or crazy, I’m not sure which. Every year in February, thousands of them tow a variety of makeshift shacks onto the…

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Monday Musings: Electrifying the Frankfurt Motor Show

by Harvey Briggs September 18, 2017

As the home show of the German Auto Industry, the Frankfurt Motor Show is one of the biggest of the year and certainly the most important show in Europe. As…

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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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Highlights from the 2017 New York International Auto Show

by Harvey Briggs and Carolyn Briggs April 15, 2017

It’s not easy being the New York Auto Show. It’s the last major international auto show of the season and falls just a few weeks after Geneva. By the time…

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Volkswagen bets on science

by Carolyn Briggs January 27, 2017

It seems our country is currently locked in a pretty intense debate about the value and validation of scientific fact. Climate change and the (non-existent) dangers of vaccinations are just…

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