Patrick Bedard

Aug 31, 2024 | caranddriver.com | Patrick Bedard

From the June 1987 issue of Car and Driver. Automotive historians will look back on the eighties as the decade in which the Ford Motor Company emerged as an independent thinker on a global scale. Simultaneously, Dearborn produced the remarkable Taurus/Sable, Ford's Asian affiliates got together on a range of efficient small cars, and Ford of Europe had the nerve to create an autobahn express that doesn't pay homage to Mercedes. In fact, the Scorpio takes no inspiration from anything on the road.

Aug 16, 2024 | caranddriver.com | Patrick Bedard

From the November 1981 issue of Car and Driver. It must be hell trying to design new Ferraris. Over the years the legend has thickened, becoming a Jell-O inhibiting every stroke of the pen, every flight of the imagination. How can a new model live up to expectations? Too many twelve-cylinders have shrieked down the autostrada pumping too much adrenaline along the way. Too many road testers have fired too many salvos of hyperbole.

Mar 12, 2024 | caranddriver.com | Patrick Bedard

From the February 1990 issue of Car and Driver. Uh-oh. Red alert in Detroit. While the industry's sentries were sleeping, Honda snuck up into the heart of the market. The new Accord sure looks like a mid-size contender to us. This is more than merely serious. This could be the last act of a debacle. Detroit has long viewed low-priced cars as unprofitable and high-priced cars as too limited in volume to be worth the trouble. Consequently, it has all but given those markets to the foreigners.

Feb 21, 2024 | nature.com | Komudi Singh |Mark Hallett |Kong Chen |Yoshimi Enose-Akahata |Jennifer J. Barb |Patrick Bedard | +22 more

AbstractPost-infectious myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (PI-ME/CFS) is a disabling disorder, yet the clinical phenotype is poorly defined, the pathophysiology is unknown, and no disease-modifying treatments are available. We used rigorous criteria to recruit PI-ME/CFS participants with matched controls to conduct deep phenotyping.

Nov 11, 2023 | caranddriver.com | Patrick Bedard

From the December 1993 issue of Car and Driver. Perhaps what they say is true—that it's impossible to be all things to all people—but this 325i Convertible misses on only one key point: at $40,175, it'll never be cheap. Apart from that, BMW seems to have put check marks in more boxes than you could expect for any single car. It can be a sunny convertible, it can be a weather­tight hardtop, it can be a versatile cargo hauler, and all the while it earns style points as it goes.