Metro Detroit, from Industrial Row

The bay sits on Industrial Row, a few blocks off the Woodward and Nine Mile corner, in the same brick strip as the machine shops that still do real work in Ferndale.

Royal Oak cars live a double life: downtown parking structures during the week, I-696 and Woodward every day between, and a surprising number of weekend cars tucked in garages off Crooks and Main.

Pleasant Ridge is barely a square mile of historic homes wedged against Woodward, and the cars that come out of those detached garages tend to be the kind you keep.

Huntington Woods calls itself the city of homes, and it drives like it: quiet residential blocks, the Detroit Zoo on the doorstep, and driveways full of cars that get washed by hand on Sundays.

Berkley runs on Twelve Mile and Coolidge: school runs, grocery runs, and a garage full of family daily drivers that need to keep looking new without a lot of fuss.

Oak Park sits right on top of I-696, with Greenfield and Eight Mile running the industrial edge and quiet neighborhoods on the other side of the same block.

Madison Heights lives at the I-75 and I-696 interchange, with John R and Dequindre carrying the local traffic between the two busiest freeways in Oakland County.

Hazel Park still carries its racetrack history, and the enthusiast streak shows up in the driveways: project cars, clean daily drivers, and owners who know exactly what they want done.

Clawson is the small city tucked between Troy and Royal Oak, with a walkable Main Street off Fourteen Mile and driveways that mix commuters with the occasional garage-kept coupe.

Birmingham holds one of the densest new-delivery corridors in the state: the dealership row on Woodward between 14 Mile and Maple turns over inventory year round, and a lot of it ends up on Old Woodward an hour later.

Bloomfield Hills is estate country: long private drives off Woodward and Long Lake, garages built for more than one car, and finishes that are worth protecting to the last panel.

Bloomfield Township wraps around the lakes off Telegraph and Square Lake, with long driveways, two-car garages, and a mix of daily luxury and weekend toys.

Troy is commuter country: Big Beaver office corridors, the Somerset lots, and an I-75 on-ramp most households use twice a day. The mileage is real and most of it happens at freeway speed.

Southfield runs on Northwestern Highway and the Lodge, with corporate towers, structured parking decks, and some of the longest daily commutes in the metro.

Beverly Hills keeps its village character off Southfield Road and Thirteen Mile: wooded lots, careful drivers, and cars that get taken care of rather than run into the ground.

Detroit driving is a category of its own: downtown parking decks, Midtown street parking, and Woodward turning into a river of event traffic on any game or concert night.

Hamtramck is dense and walkable in a way most of the metro is not, with tight curbside parking off Joseph Campau and Caniff and cars that live inches from the next bumper.

Grosse Pointe runs along Lake Shore and Jefferson, established money with established garages and cars that get kept for a decade rather than traded in three years.

Grosse Pointe Farms is the quieter waterfront neighbor off Lake Shore and Kercheval, with big garages, weekend cars, and finishes that owners genuinely fuss over.

Warren runs on Van Dyke and Mound Road around the GM Tech Center, a working city of shift commutes, work trucks, and a strong current of enthusiast builds.

Sterling Heights spreads along M-59 and Van Dyke around the Lakeside corridor, a big-lot, big-mileage Macomb city where most families run two daily drivers.