AutoMatters & More

Hot Wheels is synonymous around the world with scale model, die-cast cars, trucks and all sorts of vehicles.

Long before the internet became popular and only a few years after color television first was introduced in Canada, automobile manufacturers poured substantial resources into the creation of compelling, visually attractive new car sales brochures and magazine advertising.

Pete Evanow’s definitive 50-year history of Nissan’s Z-cars awakens vivid memories of our own fond experiences with Z-cars.

San Diego Comic-Con was held online this year, due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Several years into the future, when solid state batteries for cars can be produced economically and in very large scale, driving ranges that are literally 10 times that of the best current electric vehicles will likely relegate gas-powered vehicles to history, making them extinct like the dinosaurs that their fuel comes from.

There will not be a 2020 Marine Corps Air Station Miramar Air Show, due to the coronavirus pandemic.

In 1920 Mazda, known then as Toyo Cork Kogyo, began life as a manufacturer of cork.

Since there are so many NASCAR Cup Series races in a season, individual races rarely generate lasting memories.

Much about our daily lives as we once lived them has changed during the coronavirus pandemic.

No doubt like many of you, I have been following advice to stay safely at home as much as possible during the coronavirus pandemic.