From the November 1999 issue of Car and Driver. As we powered away from the Car and Driver parking lot to begin this test, the Dow stood at 11,187.68, down just a stutter step from its record 11,209.84 close on the previous Friday. We're all market watchers now, checking indexes and cheering on the "dot coms" and refiguring the date when we can afford to saunter into the boss's office and tell him...