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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.

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.

Legendary investor Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway disclosed Tuesday that it had acquired 10 million shares of General Motors common stock -- a show of confidence in the automaker that went through bankruptcy just three years ago and is still 32% owned by the federal government.
Last updated at: 5/16/2012 8:56:00 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 8:56:00 AM ET

Chevy 100th Anniversary