BY GUNNAR HEINRICH
IN an homage to New York Magazine’s “Approval Matrix” that shows what’s cool and what isn’t in the high and low ends of pop culturdom, your humble TMR correspondent decided to try his amateur hand at graphical artistry and came up with my own chart for recent news to hit the car world [...]

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[IMG by Paul D. Goodman | pdgoodman.com]
BY GUNNAR HEINRICH
IF a picture tells a thousand words, then us automotive writers owe an enormous debt to the world’s sharp shooters.
Photographs set the tone for a piece and a good shooter almost always has “an eye” for the details - and needs little direction.
In my line of work [...]

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BY GUNNAR HEINRICH

BOSTON and New York have an ongoing quarrel.

And if you live in the Northeastern United States, you’re caught in the crossfire.

Take poor little Connecticut as an example.

The Nutmeg State is caught exactly between Gotham and Beantown and seems to be the Verdun fields of trench warfare between sports teams. From the Bronx [...]

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By Gunnar Heinrich

CANADIAN Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau once said that living near the United States was, “like sleeping next to an elephant, you’re affected by every twitch and grunt.”

Operating in the same automotive market as BMW must feel much the same way for the world’s automakers.

Germany’s “Texans” - as ADL Director of Photography Jan [...]

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BY GUNNAR HEINRICH
UNLESS you’re new to this whole blogosphere thing or are just waking up from a long coma—in which case I’ll say welcome back (sorry to tell you that Richard Nixon has died and they’ve identified “Deep Throat” as former FBI Deputy Director W. Mark Felt)—you’ve no doubt read about London’s new mayor Boris [...]

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BY GUNNAR HEINRICH
Anyone who’s spent more than three weeks in Hong Kong knows that on day four you’ve just about run out of official sights to see.
Victoria Peak? Check.
Repulse Bay? Check.
Mosque Street? Check.
The world’s largest sitting Buddha on Lantau Island? Very cool - double check.
Being the insatiable inquisitor, yours started looking for the decidedly obscure.
The [...]

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