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Updated with video | Backseat Driver: I get paid to drive a race car

1:00 PM Fri, Jun 20, 2008 | | Write a comment
By Peter C. T. Elsworth    Email

Okay, I confess, this is a dream job. So many of you tell me that and yesterday's visit to Lime Rock Park in Lakeville, Conn.,......

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Backseat Apologia: Mea cupla on Greenwich Concours d'Elegance

10:32 AM Mon, Jun 16, 2008 | | Write a comment
By Peter C. T. Elsworth    Email

Many apologies to anyone who read a short squib about the Greenwich Concours d'Elegance in Saturday's projoCars section. I wrote that it was taking place......

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Backseat Driver: Slow down and take YOUR time

1:56 PM Thu, Jun 12, 2008 | | Write a comment
By Peter C. T. Elsworth    Email

There is no question about it: if you want to save gas (and money), slow down. That’s the overriding advice on all the Web sites......

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Backseat Driver: It's a Brave New World

10:22 AM Wed, Jun 04, 2008 | | Write a comment
By Peter C. T. Elsworth    Email

The era of the SUV is officially over. As if General Motors' announcement yesterday that it was closing four light truck and SUV assembly plants......

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Backseat Driver: G.M. closing four plants, mulling sale of Hummer

9:42 AM Tue, Jun 03, 2008 | | Write a comment
By Peter C. T. Elsworth    Email

General Motors has finally seen the light. After years of printing money on the back of trucks posing as cars, the staggering run up in......

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Backseat Driver: I write love stories

11:58 AM Fri, May 30, 2008 | | Write a comment
By Peter C. T. Elsworth    Email

If you want to be happy, collect something. I was reminded of this during a visit the other day to Ray Chevalier who lives in......

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Backseat Driver: Have gas prices peaked?

11:06 AM Fri, May 30, 2008 | | Write a comment
By Peter C. T. Elsworth    Email

I have no idea. Gas prices traditionally spike upward ahead of the summer driving season as refineries shift their production runs from heating oil to......

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