On Columbus, at the corner of the playground, they'd catch the F-car downtown -- Stockton Street, all the way to Market.

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Also sharing the spotlight was an all-new Esprit, which will make use of the 5.0-liter V8 developed by Toyota for its Lexus IS-F muscle car.

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That's because it just so happens that the guy who designed the Jaguar F-Type concept car ("Gorgeous from every angle, " gushed the March issue of Automobile) is my oddball brother-in-law Keith Helfet.

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Behind banks of snow along East Tudor Road, Lisa Albecker recently ran her mud-spattered Ford F-150 pickup through an almost empty car wash.

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Easily the best car I have ever driven was an F-Cell Mercedes.

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For example, wouldn't Ford (nyse: F - news - people ) be better off fixing its Focus small car instead of spending billions of dollars buying luxury brands?

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In the distant past, some of GM's (nyse: GM - news - people ) and Ford's (nyse: F - news - people ) biggest problems erupted, as one might expect, when car sales plummeted during economic slowdowns.

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Automobile manufacturers, such as Ford (NYSE: F) and GM (NYSE: GM), charge a lot of money for their in-car touch panels, many lower end models are produced the old-fashioned way.

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General Motors and Ford sponsored some of our events, but my tour of the Ford Rouge factory, where workers assembled the Ford F-150 pickup, was paid for out of my own pocket and it was well worth it for a car design lover and transportation geek like myself.

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