Big demand continues for small cars (Northwest Herald) WASHINGTON

Big demand continues for small cars (Northwest Herald)
WASHINGTON John Mathews, of Universal Toyota in San Antonio, has witnessed the day that auto industry executives in Detroit said never would come.

50 years ago James Dean was killed; to some he still defines cool (Seattle Times)
At 5:45 p.m. on Sept. 30, 1955, a Porsche 550 Spyder collided with a Ford Tudor sedan in Cholame, killing a 24-year-old actor from Los Angeles...

Escondido's Cruisin' Grand rounds out 27-week run (North County Times)
ESCONDIDO ---- Thousands of people took a trip back to the 1950s on Friday night as muscle cars and hot rods and other classic vehicles roared past them on Grand Avenue for the Cruisin' Grand Finale.

The Beaumont Enterprise - News - 09/30/2005 - Protect cars while coming home (Beaumont Enterprise)
Patrick Burris was driving through Houston last weekend, shortly after Hurricane Rita had passed. Along the edge of Highways 59 and 288, he said, were at least 60 abandoned cars, victims of the mass exodus that had taken place a few days before.

Preview: 2006 Ford Fusion
Ford's most important midsize sedan launch since the Taurus.
Perry Stern