For the BMW 5 Series, the big news for 2008 is a thrill-a-minute engine so marvelous that I?d urge anyone to skip the others that are available.

  For decades, Brian Baker has pursued two passions: running and mid-60s Honda sports cars.

  What do young people want in a car? They?ll be glad to show you.

  A garage service for the collector who has everything, and wants more.

  Apart from babies, pets and maybe newlyweds, probably nothing is more photographed, and photographed badly, than the family car.

  The dos and don?ts of roads and highways reserved for non-commercial traffic are varied, complex and sometimes odd.

  Residents can order a license plate with the smiling face of Mr. Potato Head.

  When the Five Hundred didn?t catch on, Ford decided to try an increasingly popular tactic: resurrecting the name of a well-known vehicle, the Taurus.

  BMW was the first of the German automakers to establish a performance brand-within-a-brand.

  Safety experts say parents have to get intimately involved in driver education.

  With the Griso and the Norge, Moto Guzzi offers touring motorcycle enthusiasts a choice between immodest display and tasteful reserve.

  In the old Rambler wagon, the family had to provide their own entertainment.

  Forty years later ?Back Seat Dodge ?38,?Edward Kienholz?s most recognizable work, has now been installed in a setting that matches what the artist?s former wife says he intended all along.

  The paradoxically beautiful, seamless 30-year survey of his work at the Guggenheim Museum catches many of our inharmonious country?s discontents and refracts them back to us.