The Engineering That Made The Honda S2000's Manual Gearbox A Cult Object
Widely considered one of the car industry's most satisfying 6-speeds, shifting the Honda S2000's manual transmission feels like operating a bolt-action rifle.
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Porsche Is Taycan Away The Cross Turismo And Sport Turismo Wagon Options
When it comes to actual, paying customers and not passionate-but-broke car dudes on the internet, wagons just aren't popular in the U.S.
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What Does A Green Cap On A Car Tire Valve Mean?
If you've ever taken your car to a tire shop and it came back with green tire valve stem caps, it's not because the shop lost your original caps.
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Gen-Z Car Enthusiasts Are Gravitating Toward This Hot American Compact
A surprising American performance car has emerged as a favorite among Gen Z enthusiasts, standing out in a field dominated by Japanese models.
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Our Troubles Are Over: The Average Price Of A New Car Was Closer To $49,000 Than $50,000 In May
If we can get the average transaction price down to a paltry $48,999 for June, maybe we can all get to a place in which owning a home isn't a pipe dream.
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Fernando Alonso Says This Weekend Will 'Probably' Be His Last F1 Race In Barcelona
If this is really his last season, it would finally mark the end of what is the longest career F1 has ever seen.
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BYD Wants To Bring 5-Minute EV 'Flash' Charging To Canada
Northern EV owners may soon be able to get almost an entire battery's worth of charge in less time than a typical Tim Horton's stop.
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Do Hybrid Vehicles Lose Efficiency In Temperature Extremes The Same Way As EVs?
While both EVs and hybrids see a drop in efficiency in extreme heat and cold, they don't suffer in the same way. Learn how weather impacts hybrid MPG.
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Lithium Ion Batteries Keep Exploding In New York City Garbage Trucks, Which Is A Problem
New York City alone saw a total of 800 lithium-ion battery fires that resulted in 30 deaths and 400 injuries between 2022 and 2025
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Finally, A Racing Game That Lets You Pick Which Cup Goes In The Cupholder
Swappable paint, spoilers, and wheels are kind of a given, but "Clutch" lets you put stuff like trash and clothes all around the interior of your race car.
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Subaru Recalls 70,000 Foresters Because The Moonroofs Could Fly Off
According to Subaru, it isn't aware of any related crashes or injuries but it did receive three technical reports in the U.S.
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2027 Audi Nuvolari Is A New Limited-Run Supercar With The Temerario's 10,000-RPM V8
Wide, low, and oppressively German, the Nuvolari looks enough like an evolution of the R8 without being too derivative or retro about it.
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Florida Man Sentenced After Hitting 150 MPH On His Motorcycle During A High Speed Chase
The rider, who already had eight license suspensions, caught the attention of officers with a tucked license plate and some illegal lane splitting.
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We Really Might Get 'BeamNG' On PS5 Before 'GTA 6'
It's basically the dream game for anyone who derives dopamine from watching IIHS crash test videos on YouTube late at night.
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A New V8 Dodge Charger Hellcat Is Coming Because Nothing That Popular Ever Truly Dies
Considering how popular the Charger and Challenger Hellcats were in their heyday, the car's return was almost always a foregone conclusion.
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What The Hell Could Subaru's ACX STI Trademark Be About?
The ACX name isn't actually new-new within Subaru's back catalog.
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That Kursed Kars4Kids Commercial Is Banned In California Not Because It Sucks But Because It Lies
The Kars4Kids commercial is now banned from California airwaves, not because it sucks eggs, but because it's been ruled extremely misleading by a CA court.
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The Rivian R2 Configurator Is Live But You'll Have To Wait For Purple
You can customize an R2 to your heart's content, visualizing different exterior colors, wheel choices, interior colors and more.
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End Of An Era: Last Tesla Model S And X Roll Off The Production Line
Now they've gone away for good, and there's been no indication of Tesla working on successors to either vehicle.
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Chrysler Showed Dealers A Sub-$30,000 Compact Resurrecting The Pronto Name From Great '90s Plymouth Concepts
Plymouth brought out a Pronto hatchback concept in 1997 and a revival car in the sub-$30k range might be exactly what Stellantis needs right now.
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Aside From The Delivery Driver Allegedly Trying To Run You Over For Not Tipping, How Was The Pizza?
This may just go down as one of the most expensive Domino's orders in history, at least on the physical and emotional anguish side of things.
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Drivers Call Cops After Being Fooled By A Sticker On The Back Of A Semi-Truck Trailer
Police got multiple calls from concerned citizens about a man "standing in the back of a semi trailer for a long period of time."
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Porsche Is Laying Off More Than 500 People And Cutting Its E-Bike Business
With all three subsidiaries dropped being electric car-adjacent, it doesn't take a genius to gather that weak EV demand is part of Porsche's financial pain.
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Volkswagen Golf GTI Edition 50 Just Snatched The FWD Nürburgring Record Back From The Civic Type R
Made to commemorate 50 years of the GTI, the Edition 50 goes beyond just a power bump.
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Tesla Recalls RWD Cybertruck For Wheels That Could Fall Off, Inadvertently Revealing It Only Sold 173 Of Them
The rear-wheel-drive Cybertruck was only sold from last April to September.
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Almost 90% Of GM's Next-Gen Super Cruise Code Is AI-Generated
Barra says next-gen Super Cruise will be deployed "on both ICE vehicles and EVs and scale across multiple brands and price points."
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Stellantis Is Profitable Again Because There Really Is No Replacement For Displacement
The new V8 Rams even come with a "Symbol of Protest" badge, just in case you were still unsure of where we're at as a country.
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