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Ms. Saril has broad knowledge of vintage American cars, which reminds her friends of Mona Lisa Vito, Ms. Tomei’s caricature of a fast-talking, gum-chewing, surprisingly car-smart New Yorker in the 1992 film “My Cousin Vinny.”

“My grandfather babysat me,” Ms. Saril recalled one recent rainy afternoon at Chat American Grill, a stylish restaurant here, about a half-hour north of Manhattan. “I was 5 years old, and he lived down the street from me in Brooklyn.”

The two would sit in folding chairs in front of his house — “typical Brooklyn,” she says — and he would identify the cars that drove past. “That’s a Buick, that’s an Oldsmobile, that’s a Chevy,” she recalled her grandfather saying. “By the time I was 6, I was making lists of cars. That was my fun.”

Ms. Saril says she has always wanted to buy a classic car. When her grandfather died, she considered his 1967 Oldsmobile Ninety-Eight, even if it was not exactly a classic. But she was always too busy with her career or her family to entertain the idea seriously.

Then, as her 40th birthday approached, she made a lowball bid on eBay for a blue-and-white 1961 Pontiac Tempest Custom Coupe. She won it for $3,500.

“My husband said I could buy a car for myself,” she said. “Then he went away on business. Three days later, I bought this. He said, ‘Already?’”

Ms. Saril arrived at the restaurant dressed in various shades of blue, perhaps in tribute to her car: blue jeans, a cobalt shawl-collar sweater and royal-blue suede boots.

She was clutching a two-inch plastic accordion organizer filled with Tempest ephemera. “It’s not enough to have the car,” she said. “You’ve got to have the stuff.”

The stuff included a copy of a Pontiac news release that announced the debut of the Tempest two-door at the International Auto Show in New York in 1961.

She pulled out a copy of the original order form for her car, which had been bought at a dealership in San Francisco. She quickly decoded the vehicle identification number and ran down the options list on the order form.

“Didn’t go for the air-conditioner,” she said. “Interesting. No power steering, no power brakes.”

Next, she pulled out a back issue of Motor Trend (in a clear plastic sleeve) that named the Tempest the magazine’s Car of the Year for 1961. She had an original sales brochure and a Pontiac color chip chart to show how the Tempest looked from the factory (in Tradewind blue) and the color it had been repainted (a two-tone of Bristol blue and white).

Ms. Saril said some of her archive was found through the Pontiac-Oakland Club International. Other memorabilia, like a 1978 issue of Special Interest Autos that featured a tribute to the Tempest, were found in eBay searches.

To some, the Tempest moniker conjures images of the powerful GTO, which was based on later models of the Tempest. But the original 1961 model emerged from more practical needs.

“It was General Motors’ response to the Beetle,” Ms. Saril said, telling a sadly familiar tale of a foreign automaker selling compact cars in America while Detroit, accustomed to building large gas-guzzling vehicles, struggled to catch up.

“In 1960, Volkswagen was having an impact on sales with its Beetle,” Ms. Saril said. “Detroit had huge cars with huge tailfins. Volkswagen took advantage of that. The guys at General Motors looked at what was going on and realized they needed a car to compete with the Beetle.”

G.M. first came up with the Corvair, which shared the Beetle’s rear-engine layout. The Corvair was an immediate success, and the other G.M. divisions came up with their own versions of the small economy car, said Greg Walters, director of Little Indians, a chapter of the Pontiac-Oakland club for 1961-63 Tempest and LeMans models.

He was referring to G.M.’s Y-Body cars, which included the Buick Special and Oldsmobile F-85. Mr. Walters said in an e-mail message that Pontiac had a radical idea — to use the same production line that built its V-8 to also make a new economy 4-cylinder in the same machining operation by simply using half of the 389-cubic-inch V-8. And thus, the slant-4 engine was born.

Timothy Sheard, a 62-year-old mystery novelist, was leaning against his cherry red car, which was drawing attention from passers-by on an otherwise quiet Brooklyn street.

The car was a 1969 Avanti II. It looked both retro and futuristic, something that might have been driven by Serge Gainsbourg in 1960s Paris, or perhaps by Neo from “The Matrix.”

In 1963 Studebaker introduced the Avanti as a halo model, Mr. Sheard said. When the company faced financial troubles in the following years and shifted production to Canada, two car dealers in South Bend, Ind., bought the tooling, the remaining parts and the rights to the Avanti name — and resumed building the car, renamed the Avanti II, in 1965.

“They continued to manufacture it with the same guys that were building it for Studebaker,” Mr. Sheard said. “And they made it for about 20 years.”

Mr. Sheard was in jovial spirits. He wore a pink polo shirt, tan khakis and chestnut boat shoes.

Between responding to questions, greeting neighbors and flicking away random detritus that had fallen from tree branches overhead, Mr. Sheard described a rather ambitious book tour.

“I was a little bit foolish, a little bit romantic,” he said of the three-week, 3,000-mile journey to promote his third novel, “A Race Against Death” (Five Star Books, 2006). “I decided to go on the book tour driving the Avanti,” he explained. “Which was ridiculous, because you know it’s going to break down.”

He added, “Of course it broke down.”

Twice, in fact.

“I lost the front brakes in the mountains of northern Pennsylvania,” Mr. Sheard recalled. “There was no problem because I had the rear brakes, so I was O.K.”

“I called Studebaker International and said, ‘I need a brake part,’” he continued, referring to a company that specializes in Studebaker parts. “Well, they still had parts for it — most of the parts, not all of them.”

The part arrived the next day. “I found a little, tiny mechanic, no name, two young guys,” Mr. Sheard said. “The U.P.S. guy came right after lunch. He came barreling down this little road. They fixed the brakes, and I’m on the road again.”

Mr. Sheard traveled as far north as Milwaukee, then crossed Lake Michigan on a ferry and drove to Ann Arbor, Mich., where the radiator sprang a leak. (“No problem,” he said. “A little stop-leak and I was good to go.”)

In Ohio, he lost electrical power.

After getting a jump-start, he drove to another “tiny little garage,” where the mechanic made a diagnosis of alternator failure.

“So he goes in the back,” Mr. Sheard recalled, “and he just happens to have an alternator for the small-block Chevy engine from the ’60s. It had been rebuilt. It was like the ‘Twilight Zone.’”

Mr. Sheard said he enjoyed the challenge of taking a long trip in a 40-year-old car. “My wife doesn’t get this — it’s a guy thing,” he said, distilling the challenge to four simple words: “Can we make it? Can we make it? Can we make it?

“But I don’t think I’ll do it again. Next time, I’ll rent a car.”

Mr. Sheard is tall and has a gift for storytelling. Like his books, the stories come with a twist, including his own life story.

After graduating from college with a philosophy degree, Mr. Sheard attended nursing school and went to work as a hospital nurse in Philadelphia and then New York.

“When I hit 40,” he said, “I realized that I was in a habit of telling stories about my favorite patients and my favorite co-workers.”

He wrote down the stories — illustrating the spirit of his subjects — and sold them to publications for medical professionals.

Today I read a shameless article from: http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/china-wants-alms-from-toyota/.  I don’t know why the author says Chinese like that. Doesn’t he think that Toyota should recall his problem cars and compensate Chinese? There are still some people in other countries discriminate us. I want to tell them that if they don’t know the fact, then they should close their f*k mouth!!

From Jim Sikes (he only wants a new car), and Orange County ( no idea what they really want), to class action lawyers (they want billions), everybody wants to cash in on Toyota. Chinese Zhejiang Province’s doesn’t want to stand behind. Their commerce bureau and consumer protection committee called on Toyota to compensate drivers for costs stemming from its recall of faulty vehicles, reports The Nikkei [sub]. Compared to what others want, the folks in Zhejiang are frugal.

They want a quick response and a timetable for completion of the recall. In China, the recall covers about 75,000 RAV4 sport utility vehicles made in 2009-10, no word on how many are in Zhejiang . The bureau also demands that Toyota supplies loaner cars while the RAV4 is in the shop. Furthermore, Toyota should compensate drivers for gasoline and other expenses involved in bringing cars back to dealerships. After all, Toyota is generous with spiffs in the U.S.A., and please don’t discriminate against us poor Chinese.

Toyota’s rsponse? Toyota China says the fix takes just 30 minutes, the customer can wait, and there is no need for a loaner. Toyota also does not reimburse costs involved in returning the vehicle, even in the U.S., they say. Now if the Chinese ask for gas money, how long will that take to catch on over here?

Even in the midst of the massive Toyota recall, sales of Toyota cars, vans, trucks and SUVs stayed strong — due in large part to massive Toyota deals and incentives. Though the discounts on new Toyotas continue, the sales party may be at an end.

Reuters reports, “Toyota Motor Corp’s sales fell in early May from April as hefty buyer incentives started in March are losing their impact.” The sales data come from a report by Edmunds.

Left Lane News adds that “data collected from Edmunds suggests that the boost in sales for the struggling Japanese automaker may have been more short lived than originally anticipated. Edmunds says that it appears as if Toyota’s incentives are no longer moving cars as they first did, as Toyota’s sales have dropped 17 percent compared to April (2010).”

Still, Reuters writes, “Toyota’s luxury brand, Lexus, is performing better, Edmunds said. Its early May sales are up 22 percent from April.

The sales drop is a little shocking for most analysts, who assumed that good sale numbers would continue along with the incentives. A drop in Toyota sales wasn’t expected until June, when most of the incentives expire.

By comparison, “General Motors has increased retail sales by 9 percent [in May],” says Left Lane News. And that’s without any deep discounts or unusually good incentives. Edmunds Auto Observer also reports that “Nissan had 10-percent higher sales in the early going of May compared with April.”

Still, Edmunds Auto Observer notes that May isn’t over yet: “The final days of the May fall on the three-day holiday weekend of Memorial Day, generally brisk for vehicle sales.”

What does this mean for car buyers? If you’re considering a Toyota, the slow sales month could put you in a strong bargaining position — and that’s on top of the Toyota deals and incentives that are still available for May. Get a Toyota price quote from local dealers. Not sure if a Toyota is right for you? Check out the U.S. News rankings of this year’s best cars as well as this month’s best car deals.

Maybe the dust is settling. After a year of bankruptcies, massive recalls, brand shutdowns and Cash for Clunkers, the storms that have tossed the automotive industry may be blowing out. The recovery may be fragile and patchy, but it’s there. 

Amid all the industry turmoil, it’s easy to forget about the spark that drives the car industry: consumers. After being battered with enough industry news to drown even the most perceptive analyst, car shoppers are still left with one question: which car should I buy? 

The Awards

Especially now, it’s all about value. U.S. News created the Best Car for the Money awards to identify the cars that should make anyone’s short list. The awards highlight cars, trucks and SUVs that will not only please their owners the day they drive off the dealer lot, but will keep them – and their wallets – happy for years to come.

The awards are based on U.S. News’ automotive rankings and estimated five-year cost of ownership from IntelliChoice. Combining the rankings with real-world costs helps to identify cars that are loved by of the majority of car reviewers and that provide good long-term value.

The Winners

Across 23 award categories, roughly a quarter of the award winners come from Toyota or Lexus, Toyota’s luxury division. As you might expect, Toyota wins the Hybrid Car category, with the Prius, and Lexus wins the Hybrid SUV category with the RX Hybrid. However, not all Toyota award winners are so green: the Toyota Sequoia, Land Cruiser and FJ Cruiser also each take awards.

There are other surprises. In the compact and subcompact car classes, where you might expect Honda to dominate, the winners are the Nissan Versa and the Hyundai Elantra. Hyundai is also a spoiler with the Genesis, which beat out entries from BMW, Lexus and Infiniti to win Best Upscale Midsize Car for the Money.

As has been the case all year, the performance of domestic car companies varies. Chrysler didn’t manage to win any awards, and while General Motors won two last year, this year they only took home the Best Luxury Sports Car for the Money Award, for the Chevrolet Corvette. Ford, who didn’t have any U.S. News Awards in 2009, wins the family sedan class with the new Ford Taurus. The Ford F-150, a perennial best-seller, wins the Best Full-Size Truck for the Money.

What You Need to Know

The award winners range from tiny subcompacts to hulking trucks, fuel-sipping hybrids to gas guzzling SUVs. As different as they all are, they also have something in common: each offers a combination of day-to-day livability and value when compared to other cars in its class. While some of the winners may not set car enthusiasts’ hearts racing, they showcase a blend of features that appeals to the majority of shoppers. Sure, there may be cars that offer more style, more cachet, or better 0-to-60 times, but the Best Car for the Money awards honor cars that aren’t just good at one thing – they are good at many.

Undoubtedly, a car is one of the main needs for almost people and family. You will be able to move from one place to another simple by using a car rather than waiting and crowding the bus. You can never worry about being late to work because of missing the bus or a taxi. And you would never be apologizing for your family for not giving them a romantic picnic along the seashore. So, if you can afford it, a car is a must for your shopping budget this month.

If you do, you should start to browse the newest car model and type that will be your best consideration and choice. In the beginning of 2010, there are some car manufacturer that are released some hot series of their car. They come with various features and specification that will be met with your requirements. In the following article, you can start to read some new product that will be a good guidance in finding the best car for your needs.

Chevrolet Cruze comes as your first consideration of the best deal of good and comfortable car that you can afford in reasonable price. Chevrolet is one of the leading manufacturers that have been well-known in the world. This car is built under the license of general motors that have been developing some ultimate product in the world car market. This car is equipped with good engine cylinder that is hoped as the better than any other that is produced by Chevrolet.

The other types of car that you can choose as your best deal in 2010 might be Buick Regal. The new series of Regal is as a stylish body than the previous series. You will be able to travel and drive fast. This series is equipped with four-cylinder engine features Turbo-charge that has 220 horsepower that can travel 48 kilometers by one gallon of fuel will be present in the summer of 2010. This car will be your best deal of family car with comfort and best satisfaction for your family members.

Ford also releases some new series of cars that may become taken into your best consideration. The first series is Ford Fiesta. Similar to the previous series of Ford cars, this car will be best small car which can give you the best performance than any other cars. The car comes with a captivating design is able to travel 64 miles per gallon. The other series of Ford that will give you the best comfort is Ford S-Max, which is defined as a multi-purposes vehicle that is equipped with diesel machine.

These types of cars are all newly released this year, and they all focus on saving fuel and with the strong engine at the same time. For people who prefer such kind of cars is able to take actions since the price now is just affordable and the functions are as good as the expensive cars. They are worthwhile, aren’t they?