The Bee's best bets: Rapid transit: Automakers let it fly

The Bee's best bets: Rapid transit: Automakers let it fly when it comes to building hot wheels (The Sacramento Bee)
Got speed?

Adult Entertainment: Mazda Speeds Up Its 6 (New York Times)
The all-wheel-drive powertrain on the Mazdaspeed 6 is not shared with anything else in North America, and custom touches go well beyond grafted spoilers and wings.

Detroit's 'Big Three' Automakers Launch New Incentive Programs
General Motors, Chrysler and Ford announce new programs in efforts to boost slackening year-end sales.
Perry Stern

Preview: 2006 Porsche Cayman S
Porsche's new mid-engine coupe builds on the Boxster S, but kicks it up a notch in the performance department.
Mike Meredith

THAT CHILD COULD VE DIED (Northern Star)
JESS McMAHON is so horrified at seeing young children left in hot cars every day at her shopping centre that she has started reporting car rego numbers to police.

Music 2006: P2P Ascends as Moguls Fall (Addict 3D)
In the Beginning, it cost a bundle to stamp and promote a record. One of 10,000 artists who chased a recording contract got lucky. Of those, a few became Big Names. Even got houses, cars, pool boys and chamber maids as hot as those enjoyed by recording execs.