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Three couples give their experiences on different aspects of sailing, racing on hulls and having their own boats. It has made them aware that sailing is part of their life, want to fulfill their dream projects and plan for their next trip.

In the competitive world of the auto business, it doesn't pay to look back. But sometimes it helps to look sideways. For those in the engineering community dedicated enough to [...]

Ford's new pickup, with design cues from the toymaker, stores energy and then boosts power with a hydraulic accumulator. FORD'S BRIGHT YELLOW TONKA concept truck borrows heavily from the heavy-metal, [...]

BMW boldly goes where no 7 series has gone before. Our car editor learns to drive the thing. LET'S SET ASIDE, FOR NOW, THE FACT THAT when I needed to [...]

U.S. automakers are thinking big--and building small. MAYBE E.T. IS IN THE BACK SEAT I'M TRYING HARD TO KEEP SUCH THOUGHTS OUT OF MY mind, but the fact is there's [...]

Whether you're struggling to afford your first set of wheels or looking for a luxury-mobile, you'll find it here. Shakespeare once described the 'seven ages' of a person's life. Clearly, [...]

How safe are you in that five-star car? JUST BEFORE the sirens and flashing lights are set off as a final warning to clear the area, the room gets very [...]

PREVIEW DRIVE Altima Grows Up THE 2002 Altima is a much larger vehicle than its predecessor--almost 6 inches longer, 2 inches taller, and more than an inch wider. And its [...]

And now for something completely different: This year's crop of concept vehicles is anything but ordinary. WHEN IT COMES to new cars--especially this year's group of new concept vehicles--style is [...]

Some New Year's resolution: On December 31, a fleet of extreme sailboats begins a 25,000-mile race around the world. LOOKING MORE like an alien spacecraft than a sailboat, Team Philips, [...]

Want to breathe clean air? It doesn't come much cleaner than the exhaust from a new generation of high-mileage, ultraclean engines. WHEN THE CALIFORNIA AIR Resources Board ruled 10 years [...]

Car? Truck? Minivan A new posse of vehicles rides off in a different direction. A NEW SERIES OF radical hybrids is inspired by the kind of thinking that has you [...]

Space-age technology comes down to Earth to power the car of the future. If the automobile is to change radically in the new century, it must start now. Cars in [...]

New technology attempts to reinvent the Model T. AMERICAN TOURISTS in Mexico City feel a twinge of nostalgia at their first encounter with the green Vocha taxis. Vocha is the [...]

A car that makes highways obsolete may be more than pie-in-the-sky. WHEN THE BUBBLE canopy is lowered, enveloping you in the M400 Skycar's cockpit, you become lost in its possibilities. [...]

Freshly designed economy cars take a new stance on the highway and track. DESIGNING AN affordable car is a mission that has inspired elegant responses to the challenges of minimalism. [...]

Our annual automotive sneak peek--this year as a special pullout section--looks at the new cars, concepts, and technologies that will hit the streets by 2004. Few, if any, machines have [...]

NOT LONG AGO, taking a luxury car off-road was asking for a punctured oil pan. Not that it mattered, though--most luxury car owners would rather have walked barefoot across hot [...]

FLAMES LIGHT UP the subarctic night like a house afire, illuminating an oil rig as it sits just above the turbulent waters of the North Sea. The fires are fueled, [...]

YOU CAN'T HELP BUT GIVE your rearview mirror a second look when the new Ford Focus closes in from behind. Its blunt nose, distinctive creases, and jaunty upright posture give [...]

Luxury? Nearly. High-tech? Clearly. These new sedans combine creature comforts with a zest for performance. American luxury cars have traditionally offered far more in the way of comfort than of [...]

A search for racing's grass roots puts us in the cockpit at the Neon Challenge. The stakes: survival. When you think you are about to die, your whole life is [...]

These cars epitomize hip, but can they do more than grab your attention? The best new cars and trucks, history shows, confound the formula that Madison Avenue likes to call [...]

Aboard his high-tech power trimaran, Stephen Shidler races to circle the globe in record time. The bow of the Revolution slices skyward through a foaming ocean swell before pitching over [...]

New sport-utility vehicles claim car-like rides. But what happens when you have a white Christmas? The rapid evolution of today's sport-utility vehicle would have made Darwin himself proud. The trek [...]

Charles R. Billiu is grinning as he steps, or more accurately climbs, out of a vehicle that combines elements of a dune buggy, sport-utility, and surrey sans fringe. With front [...]

Whether you're hauling people or cargo, minivans get the job done. Judged solely on image, the minivan come up short against the upstart, more rugged sport-utility vehicle. But for a [...]

Toyota takes the lead in the race to develop a superefficient car. The dead silence of Toyota's new hybrid-drive car at a stop sign provokes a nearly overwhelming urge to [...]

Cadillac takes on the newest near-luxury imports with its Euro-style Catera. According to luxury-car myth, Cadillac still makes land yachts; the Germans craft solid machines at stratospheric prices; and the [...]

Putting China on cheap wheels will take nothing short of a revolution in car design. It was with an odd sense of deja vu that the major car companies of [...]

For one week in the summer, a sleepy airport in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, becomes the busiest in the world. Here's why. Climbing after takeoff from Grand Rapids, Michigan, the pilot of [...]

The newest minivans offer carlike ride, comfort, and handling. We test four indispensable household appliances. Like the egg, the minivan is a design deceptive in its simplicity. That may be [...]

If you are tempted to shop the new-car showrooms after cruising the used-car lots, you may be surprised to find that the least expensive cars on sale in the United [...]

Comfort, advanced electronics, and technological sophistication give the latest generation of compact sedans a whole new attitude. Driving the new generation of compact sedans is like meeting up with an [...]

American sports-luxury sedans challenge - and in some ways surpass - blue-blooded European benchmarks. When Oldsmobile announced that it was preparing a car that would surpass the upper echelons of [...]

The Rubicon Trail runs through a narrow split in the granite of the massive Sierra Nevada range. The trail is a long-abandoned pathway now so overgrown and rubble-strewn that at [...]

A small car with huggable styling, the Neon is the third new car in Chrysler's long-range program to rebuild its entire product line. Following the full-size LH and LHS sedans, [...]

It will get 80 miles to the gallon. It will cross the country with only two fill-ups. But is it economically feasible? Two decades after the first energy crisis gripped [...]

Darwin was right In a competitive world, the strong survive. Where is the Dodge Challenger, the Chevelle SS454, the Pontiac GTO? What happened to the Olds 4-4-2, the Buick GS455, [...]

The combined weight of a fully loaded pickup truck exceeds 8,500 pounds, so even the U.S. government assumes that such a truck is unlikely to be moonlighting as a car. [...]

It goes from zero to 60 mph in eight seconds. It handles like a sports car. Someday, you might plug it into your garage. As I pulled out to pass [...]

Behind the wheel of a sport utility, you'll be looking for hills to climb and rocks to scramble over. Combine the military heritage of four-wheel-drive utility vehicles with the commanding [...]

Detroit automakers are introducing more than half a dozen all-new car models this fall, most with fundamentally new engines. That's a big leap forward. Of all the components that make [...]

Anyone planning to replace the family wheels these days braces for sticker shock. But a growing number of today's small cars are expanding that phenomenon to include wheelbase shock, horsepower [...]

Pilots fly safely in pea-soup conditions using sensory-enhancing systems. Someday, drivers will navigate the roads using similar devices. A blind man driving a Ferrar--the role that won Al Pacino an [...]

The new multivalve, aluminum V8 engines introduced by Ford and General Motors in 1993 are pivotal designs, substituting new materials and technology for a proven engine design that once was [...]