Continuing with our look back at cars that were quite popular in the 1970s, including in Lebanon, we bring you the Z-cars, classics from the Land of the Rising Sun.
There are far too many things we take for granted today.
Whenever the topic of SUVs is brought up, someone invariably mentions how they would love to own a “Range Rover” Defender.
I often remind myself that to truly appreciate something old, I must judge it not by today’s standards, but according to those prevailing at the time of its conception.
Fred Croatti often drives his silver Dodge Charger Hellcat to the grocery store, turning heads as he rumbles through the parking lot with a supercharged...
Pick pretty much any mass-produced car rolling off the factory floor today. It looks spiffy and smart doesn’t it, all gleaming with its new coat of paint,...
Sometimes you need to tackle a topic head on, call a spade a spade if you will, and here it is: No one ever dropped several hundred thousand dollars on a...
It turns out I make a good assistant.
People are more interested in learning about the work of attractive scientists, but they see these good-looking researchers as less able than their...
Some people have all the luck.Consider the person who dropped about 10 pounds ($15) around 30 years ago on what was thought to be a piece of costume jewelry...
New Zealand has never had a space program but could soon be launching commercial rockets more often than the United States.
A Dubai firm’s dream of towing icebergs from the Antarctic to the Arabian Peninsula could face some titanic obstacles.
The Lebanese are not the only people who live in Lebanon.
Lebanon’s southern port city of Sidon witnessed another major step forward for the environment Friday after it opened its second public park in as many years.
A Japanese university is planning what it says will be the world’s first research center devoted to ninja – the black clad assassins known for secrecy and...
Family and supporters Sunday honored an 85-year-old Nepali man who died trying to regain his title as the oldest person to climb Mount Everest, while...
Weight-loss balloons swallowed rather than surgically inserted in the stomach were shown to be safe and effective in preliminary trials, according to findings...
Pope Francis on Thursday threw his weight behind a global push for a cure for deadly Huntington's disease but said scientists should not use human embryos in...
If someone asks me about my favorite decade for music, it would be the ’80s hands down.
Revolutions in the auto industry are few and far between these days, especially as we’ve grown to expect that cars will feature performance, styling and...
Car enthusiast Mohammed Mohiedin Anis gazes sadly at a 1955 Buick Super, one of his collection of vintage cars "wounded" in battles that ravaged the northern...
I’ve often heard it said that in the event of a nuclear explosion, the only things that would survive are taxes and cockroaches.
Gathered on the shores of Lake Geneva for Europe’s biggest annual car show, leading automakers expressed cautious optimism Tuesday about the industry’s...
The Peugeot 3008, the French automaker's offering for the hot mid-size SUV segment, has been named "Car of the Year" by dozens of European motoring journalists.
For well over two years now we at The Daily Star have been offering our readers our two cents on the latest cars offered by the auto industry.
There are baffling mysteries out there that constantly gnaw at me.
Ford Motor will spend $1 billion to take over a robotics startup to acquire more of the expertise needed to reach its ambitious goal of having a fully...
Up until a few weeks ago, I’d grown increasingly convinced that the auto industry simply wasn’t interested in pampering customers with modest budgets.
One of the ironies of the auto industry is that every gain in any aspect of a car comes at the expense of something else.
It seems that every few weeks I find myself, yet again, declaring that crossovers are taking over the world.
Look folks, we can try all we want to pretend it isn’t true, but no one who owns or drives a car picked one randomly just to get from point A to point B.
Most guys, and I suppose some girls, who first hit their teens in the ’80s had posters of the Ferrari Testarossa or the Lamborghini Countach adorning the...
You would assume that selecting the perfect car to cap off the year would be a monumental task.
Years ago I used to have a beautiful Siberian husky named Aki, one of the most fiercely loyal dogs I’d ever had the pleasure to own.
If 10 people write a story based primarily on the same facts and circumstances, the odds are that most if not all of those stories will end up being mostly...
I had a dream. No, it wasn’t the MLK kind of dream but something more along the lines of Route 66.
Following a rather eye-opening visit to the Los Angeles Car Show a few days ago, I quickly realized that most reviews focused on the fact that manufacturers...
Come to sunny California, they said.
How many enthusiasts does it take to restore a fleet of rust-riddled Volkswagen camper vans?