Among the 40 attendees will not be the Pope himself, who is known for shunning the pomp and luxury that has attended church leaders previously. Pope Francis lives in a simple apartment and is not a “car guy,” frequently riding in an ordinary small passenger car rather than a limousine.

A couple of years ago I was sitting at a traffic light, and for some reason I began identifying the cars crossing the intersection by country of origin… Japan, Japan, Japan, Germany, Japan, Japan, Sweden, Japan, US, Japan, Japan, Japan, Korea, Germany, Japan… and so on.

Dodge garnered a lot of headlines recently when it launched the 707-horsepower 2015 Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat, but that car helped Fiat Chrysler Automobiles come in last among eleven carmakers in the EPA’s annual “Fuel Economy Trends” report, released in early October.

On Saturday, October 11, the driver of a Dodge Caravan minivan ran off State Highway 31 in Lebanon Township, New Jersey, and demolished a 1950 Desoto that was parked in front of an auto body shop.

What’s DS? It’s a sub-brand of PSA/Peugeot-Citroen, launched in 2010 as a division of Citroen in Europe and in China, and becoming a stand-alone brand earlier this year. “We want to make DS a global premium brand, and you cannot be global without the U.S.”

General Motors’ new midsize pickups, the 2015 Chevrolet Colorado and GMC Canyon, have been shipping to dealers for only two weeks, but on October 2 GM halted their sale because of a pending safety recall to fix an airbag defect.

Up and down the street revs a first generation Camaro, leaving a pile of smoke where its tires once stood. Like a cruise in reverse we can drive these stretches of road, keeping our eyes out for parked marvels – classic Mercurys, heavy engined muscle cars, the British sports cars you posted to your bedroom wall. It is an enormous, overwhelming, brightly lit, timeless and endless car party affair, and the whole town is invited