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After posting the Top 10 Cars I Want for Christmas, I went down to the garage on December 25 to discover this little beauty. I jumped for joy, I praised several dieties, I may have kissed it a couple times. Sure, it was the No...

Greetings from Mississauga, Ontario. The hometown of one James D. Riswick...

Where's the pride in driving? It seems that there's only a few of us left who regard driving as a persuit worthy of perfecting. It's not about clipping apexes or maintaining a dramatic slip angle; it's about care and dedication and, to a certain extent, ego...

For insurance reasons, the Edmunds family takes a day out of every year to complete drivers' training. This year as last, we went to Willow Springs Raceway to complete our training requirement with Danny McKeever's Fast Lane driving school. Naturally, our enormous editorial team differs in its driver skill level, with some benefiting from more basic car control training, while others being capable of teaching the darn class...

We later wrapped the day with three driving competitions. I was placed into the Champagne Driving course (pictured) where a tethered tennis ball is placed in a Champagne-glass-like saucer atop the hood of a car. The goal is for a two-person team to smoothly go through the course quicker than everyone else without the ball coming out and each driver taking a turn at the course...

As I described over on the Long-Term Blog, I took our 2009 Nissan GT-R to Las Vegas this weekend. Yes, I was there only three weeks ago, but when a GT-R presents itself, you gotta go somewhere. Speaking of which, last time when I was in the Dodge Journey, I ended up in about 40 minutes of stop-and-go traffic in the absolute mid-point of desert nowhere. Was it an accident?..

I've been driving a Jack-o-lantern since last Wednesday. I picked it up at this pumpkin patch in Moorpark, where it was the prized choice of the bunch, bigger than anything I've ever seen before. I hollowed out the center using a Caterpillar back hoe, then adorned it with stylish red eyes and a licence plate for a mouth...

Don't stop believin' that Chrysler can turn things around. Well, you can believe all you want but I have grave doubts after my second weekend in Dodge's new midsize family crossover, the 2009 Journey. This time I took the Journey on a journey to Las Vegas, precisely 549.2 miles there and back...

Hello from Canada, home of myself and the Ford Flex. I'm up here in Toronto on vacation and picked up a 2009 Ford Flex SEL AWD fresh from the Ford factory in nearby Oakville, Ontario. I grew up about 10 minutes from there and frequently drove past the sea of mostly Windstars...

It seems that I keep doing goofy crap every time I set foot in our long-term Dodgey Grand Caravan. Let's see, I discovered it was a hotlap disappointment at Willow Springs, I sat backwards in the backseat for no particular reason and this past weekend, I added some patriotic flair to the craptacular cabin. So, two weeks ago when I hit Chrysler's Proving Grounds with every Chrysler vehicle at my disposal, I knew I had to do something fun with the Caravan...