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First Coast Gears: Breakfast, Coffee and Cars

4:19 PM, May 12, 2012

ORANGE PARK, Fla. -- The Azalea City Cruisers teamed up with Moosehaven City of Contentment and Adamec Harley-Davidson to put on a Saturday community breakfast and car show in Orange Park.


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First Coast Gears: Auto legend Carroll Shelby, Father of Cobra, has Died

6:14 PM, May 11, 2012

Carroll Hall Shelby, the Texan who created the famous Shelby Cobra and uncounted other high-performance machines that turned the auto world on its ear, and made it a whole lot more fun for 50 years, died in Dallas Thursday night at age 89. He had been hospitalized for pneumonia.

First Coast Gears: One Day, Two Classic Car Shows

4:10 PM, May 5, 2012

FLEMING ISLAND, Fla. -- If you love classic cars, you had plenty of eye candy you could check out Saturday.

First Coast Gears: A Car that Chrysler hasn't Given Us

7:18 AM, May 5, 2012

Now that Chrysler is controlled by Fiat it has the ability to add a lot more variety to its portfolio.

First Coast Gears: Bring on Spring Car Show

8:21 AM, Apr 29, 2012

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- Generations of Pontiacs were on display Saturday at River City Marketplace.

First Coast Gears: The New Golden Age of Car Interiors?

6:00 PM, Apr 27, 2012

One of the biggest knocks Chrysler has gotten in recent years from automotive journalists is for its interiors, which often felt a grade below the competition.

First Coast Gears: Chevrolet Adds Some 'Spark' To Its Portfolio

5:50 PM, Apr 20, 2012

Those of us of a certain age can remember when cheap, compact cars meant a lot of compromise.

First Coast Gears: Fruit Cove Baptist Church Car Show

4:49 PM, Apr 14, 2012

FRUIT COVE, Fla. -- More than 400 classic cars were on display Saturday at the 12th Annual Fruit Cove Baptist Church Car Show.

First Coast Gears: Infiniti Aims To Put The Electric Car In The Luxury Arena

6:13 PM, Apr 13, 2012

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- As I was filling up my VW Eos this week with a 60/40 mix of premium and regular, the total hit $54. But worse, the gentleman next to me rang up a gas bill of $105 for his Dodge Durango. Ouch.

First Coast Gears: Sunshine State Chevelles April Cruise-in

9:31 AM, Apr 8, 2012

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- With crystal blue skies and temperatures in the low 70s, it was perfect cruise-in weather Saturday as what looked to be a hundred or more classic cars rumbled into Krystal's at 8015 Merrill Road for the Sunshine State Chevelles April cruise-in.

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Car News from the Detroit Free Press

Here's a cold, hard fact of life: When you're feverishly trying to fasten a lug nut to a bolt, it always seems to fight back instead of spinning smoothly onto the twisted metal. I got schooled in that lesson Tuesday when I joined 15 newly hired General Motors workers for an assembly-line training session for the automaker's 2.5-million-square-foot Lansing Grand River plant.

The Federal Reserve said Wednesday that factory production rose 0.6 percent in April, erasing a 0.5 percent decline in March.

Nearly 100 Detroit high school students gathered Tuesday evening at Ford Motor Co.'s Dearborn headquarters to celebrate accolades and scholarships for student journalists in Freep High, a joint Ford-and-Free Press mentoring program for high-school journalists. Read below for a recap of the night.
Last updated at: 5/16/2012 9:57:50 AM ET
Car Reviews from the Detroit Free Press

A squad of cars and SUVs are fighting for slices of the police-vehicle business. Rushing into the vacuum left by the Crown Vic's exit are three new sedans: the Chevrolet Caprice police pursuit vehicle, Dodge Charger Pursuit and Ford Interceptor, which is essentially a police version of the Taurus.

Unmarked doesn't mean unnoticed, I learned after moments behind the wheel of a * * * * 2012 Chevrolet Caprice Detective, the plainclothes version of Chevrolet's roomy and powerful new police car.

Last updated at: 5/16/2012 9:57:51 AM ET

Chevy 100th Anniversary