Annual Columbus Day parade to be Oct. 8 City's bimonthly

Annual Columbus Day parade to be Oct. 8 City's bimonthly Bike Night coincides (The News-Press)
Next month's Columbus Day parade in downtown Cape Coral should be filled with bands, floats, classic cars and the roar of motorcycles.

A cool million reasons to race (Kansas City Star)
LOUDON, N.H. Yes, Nextel Cup racing has become a multibillion-with-a-b dollar industry. Hey, if you stacked all the dollar bills involved in the sport on top of each other, they d reach, well, a long way.

Opera Company Takes To The Sky At Aero Club Luncheon (The Town Crier)
Hot cars were on the ground and cool planes were in the air last Sunday at the South Florida Opera Company s first-ever Air Show Luncheon held at the Wellington Aero Club s Pilot House.

Hybrids or Diesels? Probably Both (BusinessWeek Online via Yahoo! News)
Auto shows come and go in a funny rhythm: Some years, they're all about glitzy new designs and cool concepts. Other years, the travails of one or two car companies, or upheaval in the auto industry, seem to overshadow everything. This year's Frankfurt Auto Show definitely falls in the second category.

EDITORIAL: Uncertain Normalcy at Port (RedNova)
Sep. 16--Joe Tannehill was bullish on Bay County before optimism was cool. Still, over the last two weeks the Port Authority chairman saw things in real life probably even he never dreamed. Port Panama City traffic is up between 60 and 70 percent this year.

Local News - Public Opinion - www.publicopiniononline.com (Public Opinion)
The Waynesboro area has a new spectator sport watching the construction of the Wal-Mart and Lowes stores in Rouzerville. Cars idle at the rear corner of the Food Lion parking lot where you can see scores of workers building walls and roads and bulldozers scurrying over mounds of earth.

Men let their legs breathe with Utilikilts (The Olympian)
SEATTLE -- It's the freedom, they say. The freedom to move, to feel the breeze, to stay cool on a hot summer day. And all of this freedom comes simply from banishing pants to the back of the closet, say the men who wear the Utilikilt, a rugged, modern take on the Celtic kilt.

16 Wheels: The Mercedes Benz CLS 500 (WNDU 16)
Some people buy cars for performance, others for style or prestige. In this week's test drive, auto specialist Tom Voelk looks at a vehicle that has them all - the Mercedes Benz CLS 500.

On the town: Auto fair, disaster relief (News 14 Charlotte)
CHARLOTTE, N.C. From cool cars to a couple of benefits for hurricane Katrina relief, there is a lot happening this weekend on the town. The Food Lion Auto Fair is back at Lowe s Motor Speedway.

Corvair cruises past its bad reputation (St. Petersburg Times)
Chevrolet's first "compact car" took a hit after a 1965 Ralph Nader book. But to this proud owner of a restored 1964 Corvair convertible, the car is too cool not to be called a classic.