Driving

A trial in North Vancouver this past April saw a motorist acquitted of charges around the 2019 death of a cyclist who was killed by the sudden opening of a car door.

It was my first fatal crash scene. A Toyota Celica heading east on Fairfield Road had drifted sideways over the boulevard near Moss Street. The passenger door had slammed into a tree, bending the car into a near perfect horseshoe.

The 1959 Cadillac, the self proclaimed “Standard of the World,” was a garish end to a garish decade. It was a period in which Detroit produced some of the most flamboyant cars in its history.

After successfully building and racing cars based on such mundane machinery as the tiny Austin Seven, English engineer Colin Chapman launched his modest Lotus Engineering Co. in 1952 to build small kit cars.

The Jaguar company grew from humble roots planted in 1922. It began when two young motorcycle enthusiasts named William Walmsley and William Lyons formed the Swallow Sidecar Co.

The original Lincoln Continental, now referred to as the Continental Mark I, is a classic automobile design. It was recognized for its outstanding styling qualities by no less than the New York Museum of Modern Art which placed one on display.

RICHMOND — A new study has found that B.C. drivers are using their phone more while on the road during the pandemic, according to ICBC.

Weekday morning. Rush hour. A driver coming off the Vic West end of the Bay Street bridge is stopped at Tyee, waiting to turn left. A sign reads No Left Turn, but the woman ignores it, causing vehicles to pile up behind her.

Diesel cars had some popularity in Canada over the years until Volkswagen’s “Dieselgate” emissions scandal broke in 2015 and killed the diesel market. In the United States there was less diesel enthusiasm due to lower gasoline prices.

Lido (Lee) Iacocca achieved what few men have: he saved an automobile company from bankruptcy. In rescuing the Chrysler Corporation during the 1979 to 1982 period he displayed the same drive and spirit that Chrysler’s founder Walter P.