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COPAKE, NY – It’s roughly 1,350 miles from Little Rock, AR to Copake, NY but that’s how far Jim and Dena Peckham traveled to take delivery this week of the dark blue 2025 Morgan Plus Four sports car that they’d been waiting at least two years to receive. RIDE-CT spotted …

HARWINTON, CT – It was steamy on the show lots for the 10th annual Cars for Sight Car Show jointly staged today by the Harwinton Lions Club and Bristol Lions Club. Quite a few Harwinton residents and/or natives showed up to support the hometown event. RIDE-CT grabbed enough photos for …

NAUGATUCK, CT – The name of the show was a mouthful: The Naugatuck History Museum at the Tuttle House Classic Car Show. By any other name, it still would have been good. As it was, the Tuttle House lawn got filled early, with many entrants commenting today on the pleasant, …

HARWINTON, CT – Peter Egan is revered among car and motorcycle enthusiasts for his many contributions to “Road & Track” and “Cycle World” magazines over the decades; mainly the “Side Glances” and “Leanings” columns that were later collected into book form. His columns mixed romance with nuance, precise details with scope, …

EAST HADDAM, CT – The new-for-2025 Infiniti QX80 demonstrates that survival of the fittest isn’t always easy. Even though the full-size, luxury sport utility has the competitive chops, Infiniti sales continue to struggle.   Unlike Lexus which has proven to be a formidable Mercedes-Benz and BMW challenger, Infiniti never seemed …

MERIDEN, CT – In response to an opinion column posted Saturday night griping about the fact RIDE-CT was denied the normal courtesy of gratis entrance to an event to take photographs and write a story or do a video, one of the “hosts” of the Silver City Showdown, Derrick Pesko, …

FALLS VILLAGE, CT – It’s always among the largest car shows in the state and Sunday’s Falls Village Car & Motorcycle Show enjoyed a routine huge turnout to the picturesque hamlet in the Northwest Corner. Organizers Denny and Judy Jacobs pegged the number of entrants at around 500, but the …

WOLCOTT, CT – The Farmingbury Woman’s Club of Wolcott’s first-ever car show that was staged today at Wolcott High School was a pleasant, seemingly well-organized affair. Classic car and truck owners got to relax and socialize under a mostly cloudy sky. RIDE-CT kept busy, though, snapping photos for a gallery …

LITCHFIELD, CT – It was a trip of a lifetime and memories still bring smiles to the faces of the three participants more than 40 years later. Their journey lasted six weeks, covered 8,400 miles and took them to Niagara Falls, Chicago, St. Louis, San Francisco and Pebble Beach, and …

EAST HADDAM, CT – Yes, I enjoy driving silent and svelte electric vehicles such as the Hyundai Ioniq 5 N-Line. But sometimes living with them is not quite idyllic. The N-Line is Hyundai’s factory performance series. It’s in the same vein as an AMG Mercedes or M-Series BMW. Ioniq 5-wise …