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 cyclists, the dual-purpose bicycle gave way t...

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 and – more recently – the reloca...

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 upright bodywork, expansive glass and almost no refinement, the all-new 3 Series looked ...

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 by Honda, Nissan or Toyota. And i...

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 Texas’. And if you go back a few, you’ll remember [...