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Ford Motor Co. harkened back to the 1960s for a new high-end speedster it hopes will lure drivers who typically opt for exotic Italian sports cars. Some analysts say the Ford GT, which will hit some showrooms by mid-2004 with a price tag approaching $150,000, is the most extreme performance car from a domestic automaker since possibly the introduction of the original Ford GT40 in the mid-1960s. The world's No. 2 automaker is gunning for folks who might now drive a Ferrari 360 Modena or Lamborghini Gallardo.

The First Commandment of becoming a car restorer is deciding what car to restore. You must first love the vehicle or the project will be an exercise in frustration. Most people have a favorite make and model, possibly the first car they ever owned or one they always wanted but couldn't afford at the time. Before you begin your vehicle search, do your homework. Check the availability of reproduction or original parts such as exterior trim, interior seat-cover kits and engine and suspension replacement parts. The Internet is an excellent source for this research. Buying a car you can't find parts for is a major cause of project burnout. Carefully consider the vehicle, whether car or truck, and make sure you really want to emotionally and financially tackle the restoration. If you don't choose wisely and simply buy on a whim, the consequences can be costly.

AC Propulsion's tzero roadster is a reason to not give up on the electric vehicle. The tzero does 0 to 60 mph in 3.6 seconds, according to the company, and it does it on only 200 horsepower because of its light weight and torque. The San Dimas, Calif.-based company says the tzero (pronounced "tee-zero," not "chair-o") has compared favorably in acceleration tests to Corvettes, Porsche 911s--and even a Ferrari F355, which it claims to have "out-accelerated...by eight car lengths" in one-eighth-mile drag races. If for nothing else, the tzero's $220,000 sticker price puts it in exotic-car territory.

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Toyota Motor showed off the production site of its gasoline-electric hybrid cars to journalists for the first time with a powerful message: The fuel-saving autos don't have to be expensive to make. Not long ago, many leading automakers, including the world's biggest, General Motors, questioned the benefit of developing hybrid cars, arguing that the gas-sipping autos are merely an interim solution before zero-emission fuel-cell vehicles take over.

While Ford was fighting off the early successes of the Chevrolet Corvair and Chevy II with their introduction of the Mustang in August of 1964, GM began work on a counter-punch experimental project named XP-836. The XP-836 project directly targeted the Ford Mustang mystique and the new youth market that emerged from almost nowhere in the eyes of GM marketers. The surprising popularly of Ford’s Mustang framed the XP-836 project from the very start and incorporated the “Mustang formula” in the early years of production. In the winter of 1965, the XP-836 project turned out a proto type car based on some cobbled up Chevy IIs. While crude, the new Chevrolet was shaping up to run well along side Ford’s Pony car. Now named the “Panther”, the project and the proto-types were written about in great length by the automotive press with all the excitement of a pending rivalry with the Mustang. Given a name that the public could latch onto, the “Panther” was quickly being promoted as GM’s Mustang-fighter. Sometimes called “Chevy’s Mustang” the “Panther” evolved conceptually using much of the Mustang marketing formula.

Until side air bags with head protection were installed in vehicles in the mid-1990s, drivers and front-seat passengers had little protection in serious side-impact crashes. Side air bags with head protection have been found to reduce the risk of death in a side impact overall by about 45 percent. These air bags provide the best protection if your car is hit by a car or minivan, and less if a pickup truck or sport-utility vehicle hits you. Those are some findings of a recent study by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS), a nonprofit insurance-industry group. More than 9,000 people die annually in passenger vehicle side-impact crashes, and head injuries are a leading cause. The study suggests that side air bags with head protection afford drivers of smaller vehicles much-needed protection when they're hit by bigger ones.