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Amazing buildouts: ‘Man-cave’ condos for your car coming to Katy soon Amazing buildouts: ‘Man-cave’ condos for your car coming to Katy soon Amazing buildouts: ‘Man-cave’ condos for your car coming to Katy soon The ultimate ride requires the ultimate garage, and a new ‘man-cave’ community seeks to answer that need in the Katy area. Garages of…

Luxury Garage Suites You Own! Luxury Garage Suites You Own! Introducing Garages of America, a community of first-class, affordable, completely customizable garage suites. Here, you don’t rent space. You buy it. And that means exactly what you think. When you buy a garage suite, you receive a deed, title insurance, and all the perks of commercial…

Garages of America – Exclusive Automobile Home for your Classic, Collector or Exotic Vehicle Garages of America – Exclusive Automobile Home for your Classic, Collector or Exotic Vehicle Garages of America – Exclusive Automobile Home for your Classic, Collector or Exotic Vehicle Golfers have their place at the club, pilots have their place at the…

Most Collectibles Are Cool – Fiat’s 124 Spider is Quietly Cool Most Collectibles Are Cool – Fiat’s 124 Spider is Quietly Cool It was, I think, the summer of 1967, and Fiat’s all-new 124 Spider was the cover subject of Road & Track. If, like me, you had taken mental ownership of MGs, Triumphs and…

The DFW Auto Show: Cars The DFW Auto Show: Cars Coincidental with what automotive marketing teams dub the ‘Spring Selling Season’ is the DFW Auto Show, held at the Kay Bailey Hutchison (Dallas) Convention Center from Wednesday, March 27 through Sunday, March 31st. It’s not – as you already know – Geneva, Frankfurt or Los…

The DFW Auto Show: Trucks The DFW Auto Show: Trucks There’s never been a Car of Texas. We’ve long had – courtesy of the Texas Auto Writers Association – a Truck of Texas, and this group has given an occasional shout-out to a deserving car, but never has it been described as the ‘Car of…

The DFW Auto Show: SUVs The DFW Auto Show: SUVs If you’ve spent the last decade traversing sub-Saharan Africa – or been part of a research project in Antarctica – you may have missed it. Otherwise, you know that today’s family car is no longer a car. It is, instead, a car-based crossover, invariably built…

BMW’s Born-Again 3 Series: Seventh time is a charm BMW’s Born-Again 3 Series: Seventh time is a charm It’s hard to remember today, some 45 years later, just how mind-blowing BMW’s introduction of the 3 Series was to the BMW community in the mid-‘70s. Worshiping – as they were – in a temple comprised of…

The Retiring Terry Box…Is Not Retiring The Retiring Terry Box…Is Not Retiring If you were a regular reader of the Dallas Morning News over the last 25 years, you know that its auto beat was covered by the paper’s automotive editor, Terry Box. Managing those responsibilities, ranging from GM’s Arlington plant to area dealer associations…

Gravel Bikes: The Road Less Traveled Gravel Bikes: The Road Less Traveled In the beginning, virtually any bike built was a gravel bike; if you were to get anywhere beyond a 19th century city’s center you’d be on gravel. A century later, as gravel had fully surrendered to asphalt and skinny tires were mounted beneath skinny…

Fueling the Collector Car Hobby Fueling the Collector Car Hobby There are few events in the world that illicit the same passion for the collector car hobby like Collector Car Auction week in Scottsdale, Arizona. Every January collectors from around the world, along with top OEMs and high profile builders, descend like sunshine on the…

Porsche’s 917 @ 50: Sturm und Drang Porsche’s 917 @ 50: Sturm und Drang March 12th will be exactly fifty years since Porsche first displayed its 917 in public, where one lone example sat on the Porsche stand at Geneva. Five weeks later, Porsche would show Commission Sportive Internationale (CSI) inspectors 25 complete examples in…

Toyota’s All-New Supra: A 20th Century Icon Receives an Of-This-Century Refresh Toyota’s All-New Supra: A 20th Century Icon Receives an Of-This-Century Refresh It’s been almost a generation since Toyota produced its last-generation Supra and 21 years since that Supra last appeared on U.S. showrooms. At this January’s North American Auto Show in Detroit, an all-new…

A Trike-fecta: America Welcomes The 3-Wheeler A Trike-fecta: America Welcomes The 3-Wheeler The 3-wheeled automotive footprint is anything but new. When designing his Benz Patent Motorwagen in the mid-1880s, Karl drew it with three wheels. And when H.F.S. Morgan put a version of his personal vehicle into production around 1911, it too featured three wheels….

Shelby’s All-New GT500 – A Pinnacle for the Ponycar Shelby’s All-New GT500 – A Pinnacle for the Ponycar Wall Street may be doing its best impression of a seismograph, while California vacillates between fire and flooding. Despite those swings, and the gravitational pull of an industry looking toward the future while still rooted in its…

Book it: Matt Stone’s Hot Rod Empire Book it: Matt Stone’s Hot Rod Empire Even in the depleted magazine sections of most grocery stores (don’t even try the typical drug store), you can still count on Motor Trend Group’s Hot Rod, launched in 1948, and Motor Trend – introduced in 1949 – to be on that depleted shelf….

Live! From Milwaukee: Harley-Davidson’s LiveWire eBike Live! From Milwaukee: Harley-Davidson’s LiveWire eBike In the year of Harley-Davidson’s founding – 1903 – electric automobiles looked to be the go-to solution for intown motorists with necessarily short commutes. But then, at the dawn of the 20th century most commutes were short; the reliability of gas-powered machinery was suspect…

Chicago Auto Show: That New Car Smell, Blowin’ In The Wind Chicago Auto Show: That New Car Smell, Blowin’ In The Wind The Chicago Auto Show, which has historically been ‘up’ on the show calendar within a few weeks of Detroit’s, has built its own distinct brand based on available show space (the McCormick Convention…

IndyCar at Circuit of the Americas IndyCar at Circuit of the Americas It’s been almost a decade since the Circuit of the Americas, on acreage southeast of Austin, took the first steps toward its construction. This spring, as it adds its first IndyCar race to the COTA calendar, it takes another significant step in becoming…

News of Diesel’s Death is Decidedly Premature News of Diesel’s Death is Decidedly Premature In the wake of what quickly became known as Dieselgate, when Volkswagen became embroiled in a global emissions scandal involving its diesel drivetrains and their certification, you could reasonably assume that new diesel drivetrains, as well as the continued sale of…

Rooted in Dallas: Journalist Steven Cole Smith Rooted in Dallas: Journalist Steven Cole Smith It was in 1988 that this writer, then managing a Lotus showroom in Plano (TX), reached out to Steve Smith. At that time, Steve was writing for the Dallas Times-Herald, covering both television and the auto industry. Steve generously took my…

Geneva’s Auto Show – True Neutrality Geneva’s Auto Show – True Neutrality Any number of auto shows around the world bear the tagline ‘International’. But most of those international forums are typically more nationalistic; Frankfurt beats its German chest, while Paris remains decidedly French. And you know, of course, what Detroit does: It invariably dances…

Collector Car Trends – As Reported by Barrett-Jackson Collector Car Trends – As Reported by Barrett-Jackson While the collectible car hobby doesn’t predate the car industry, given its front-and-center status among car enthusiasts you might think it had. Of course, what had been a small niche in the ‘50s and ‘60s has grown exponentially since…

North Texas Company Selling Car Condos Breaking New Ground to Meet Demand North Texas Company Selling Car Condos Breaking New Ground to Meet Demand On the outside, Garages of America looks like any other storage facility. But inside are classic and luxury cars with price-tags reaching millions. Think of it as the ultimate man cave…