JACK BRANDAIS Narrow Rice Canyon Road twists through rugged mountains and once served as a farm road.

A sunny day and a new Mazda Miata cry out for a trip over some twisting mountain roads. The selection on a recent Saturday afternoon was a route over a couple of classics between Pauma Valley and Temecula: Rice Canyon Road and the Pala-Temecula Road. These roads run through the rugged mountains between the valleys carved out by the Santa Margarita and San Luis Rey rivers.

DURANGO, Colo. – The message for buyers eyeing the 2008 Hummer H2 is twofold: more refinement, more power. Hummer's biggest model undergoes its biggest changes – most on the inside – since it debuted for the 2002 model year.