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    The U.S. Military Used To Operate Railroad-Mounted Superguns

    There once was a time when the major armies of the world invested in superguns—gigantic cannons that were so large they could only be transported to the battlefield by railroad. Developed to bypass the gridlock of trench warfare, they were eventually retired in favor of bombers and missiles. Now, as the U.S. Army is pondering a return to superguns, it’s worth looking back at the big guns of yesterday with this video from The Armorer’s Bench.

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    The U.S. Claims Russia Is Testing Nukes Again

    The United States government today claimed Russia is “probably not” adhering to a global ban on nuclear weapons testing and is likely testing nuclear weapons in secret. The explosive accusation was made by the head of the Defense Intelligence Agency, Lt. Gen. Robert Ashley, but he offered no actual proof during his remarks to a DC-area think tank, and the exact manner in which Russia is reportedly violating the ban is unclear.

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    The Navy Hid The USS John S. McCain So Trump Wouldn't See It In Japan: Reports (Update: Trump Confirms)

    President Donald Trump was in Japan on a state visit this week. While there, he did the usual Japan stuff—hit up a sumo tournament, pal around with a dictator, see the troops at a U.S. Navy base, etc.. All of it normal, these days. But while visiting the troops, his staff was apparently worried he’d be triggered by seeing a Navy destroyer, the USS John S. McCain, so they ordered it covered up.

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    What We Know About The Navy's UFO Problem

    UFOS—our U.S. Navy pilots just keep seeing them! There was one instance in 2004, first written about in 2017, which made news briefly and then dropped off everyone’s collective radar, and now a New York Times report says that there was another interception in 2014-2015. Here’s what we know about the mystery aircraft.

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    Congress Isn't Keen On A Space Force, So What About A Space Coast Guard Instead?

    This week Congress dealt a blow to President Donald Trump’s idea for a Space Force, authorizing just $15 million to fund the operation. Critics in Congress believe that the administration hasn’t made a good enough case for a new form of military service. But as both the government and civilian space sectors ramp up to more ambitious, even interplanetary plans, a space version of the Coast Guard could prove more useful.

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    The U.S. Navy's Next Submarines Will Be Drone-Carrying Super Special Forces Boats

    The Navy’s next tranche of attack submarines will control unmanned undersea vehicles and deploy SEAL commandos, according to U.S. Naval Institute News. The shift reflects the Navy’s broad shift towards big power warfare - think a low-grade war with China or Russia – where unmanned submarines would stalk enemy ships and SEAL commandos may need stealthy rides to carry out missions against defended coastlines.

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    An F-16 Fighter Jet Fell Through The Roof Of A California Warehouse

    First responders shut down part of the I-215 highway in Riverside County, California, about 60 miles east of Los Angeles, Thursday afternoon after an F-16 fighter jet crashed through the roof of a warehouse across the road from the March Air Reserve Base. The pilot is said to have ejected.

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    The CIA Has A Flying Knife Missile That Is As Awful As It Sounds

    The U.S. government has a new, unusual tool in its toolbox of death: a missile designed to kill people not with high explosives but with large, sword-like blades that kill by literally slicing them to pieces. The weapon, nicknamed “The Flying Ginsu” after a brand of kitchen knives advertised in late night infomercials, was developed to minimize civilian casualties during U.S. airstrikes against terrorists and other targets.

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    Burger King Figured Out How To Monetize Traffic Jams

    Traffic is bad in many parts of the world, especially in one of the most congested cities in the world: Mexico City. On average, people there apparently gain an additional 59 minutes of travel time a day, which adds up to an extra 227 hours per year. So, Burger King naturally decided that this is the next demographic to target.

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    The Electra Meccanica Solo Is A Supercar For Efficiency Freaks

    Hustling the Electra Meccanica Solo up Mulholland Drive took a lot more arm muscle than I expected. Something else surprised me too—I didn’t feel like I was going to die. This early version of a small-batch stiletto-shaped microcar is unrefined in some ways, but it definitely made for a memorable driving experience.

    By Andrew P. Collins Read More
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    U.S. Seizes North Korean Ship It Claims Is A Sanction-Buster (Updated)

    The United States has seized a North Korean vessel it claims was engaged in sanctions-busting behavior, exporting the country’s coal while importing heavy machinery and other goods. The ship, called M/V Wise Honest, was detained at an unknown location, likely by the U.S. Coast Guard. The seizure was the first of a North Korean vessel by the U.S. government under international sanctions and is sure to escalate tensions between the two nations.

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    The Only Full Scale Test Of A Nuclear Missile Was 57 Years Ago

    More than half a century ago this week, the United States conducted its only farm-to-table nuclear missile test. The test, code-named “Frigate Bird,” involved the launch of a Polaris missile from a submarine carrying a live nuclear warhead. The missile traveled a thousand miles before streaking down on an uninhabited island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, exploding with the force of 37 Hiroshima bombs.

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    Here's Why There's A Whole Private Air Force In Texas

    If you had to guess which state contains a private air force, you would guess Texas. You just would. Airborne Tactical Advantage, located near Fort Worth, Texas, has an inventory of more than 90 fighter and attack jets, contracting them to the U.S. military to role play as aggressor aircraft—including the U.S. Navy’s world famous TOP GUN program.

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    The British Army Is Cutting A Third Of Its Tanks

    The United Kingdom is cutting its tank force for the second time in just 10 years. The British Army, bowing to costs, can only afford to upgrade a third of its current tank fleet. The result will leave the UK with less than 150 tanks, a far cry from the Royal Armored Corps that patrolled the Rhine River during the Cold War. But it may not be the huge blow to British pride that you think it is.

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    Why Do Car Listing Websites Let Dealers Post Deceptive Prices?

    As Jalopnik’s resident car buying expert and professional car shopper, I get emails. Lots of emails. I’ve decided to pick a few questions and try to help out. This week we’re talking about deceptive online pricing, finding a cheap car for a young driver, and also: What happens when you buy a car but it was sold to someone else?

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    The 2015 Land Rover Defender Is So Bad At So Many Things But I Still Love It

    The late-model Land Rover Defender is a wildly enticing forbidden fruit we got to sample briefly here in America. It’s a fruit we’re still craving, even though a shocking amount of effort is expended to keep them forbidden. So I leapt at the chance to drive one around Iceland for a few days, even though my driving route might have been the worst use case for a Defender imaginable.

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    Mazda Is Offering A $1,500 Rebate To Trade Your Old Mazda 3 For A New One

    In case you haven’t been paying attention, the all-new 2019 Mazda 3 is a very good car. There are faster cars and cheaper cars, but it’s one of the best overall packages for the money. If you’re the owner of an older Mazda 3 and interested in this new one, pay attention: there’s a good deal in your future.

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    The 2019 Audi E-Tron Makes A Strong Case For Choosing Charge Speed Over Range

    It’s 2019 and the electric luxury car scene is finally starting to grow and diversify. The 2019 Audi E-Tron—Audi’s first fully electric mass-production vehicle—is the latest competitor to step in, offering the German automaker’s take on a plush and practical EV. Audi’s first effort here is solid, especially when it comes to charging speed, but it’s not any kind of “Tesla-killer” when it comes to range.

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    Acura Really Wants To See You In An NSX, Offers $20,000 On The Hood

    It’s hardly a secret that we really like the new NSX around here. It’s also not really a secret that Acura is having a hard time moving units of the quick hybrid supercar. In 2018, across the whole year, Acura only managed to sell 170 examples, and despite a revamp for the 2019 model year sales remain slightly soft. Acura really wants to move NSXs that have been piling up, and according to Intellichoice it is offering $20,000 in buying incentives.

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    A Majority Of Mazda Miata Buyers Still Want A Manual Transmission

    It seems like every day you hear news that the manual is dying. Nobody is buying a manual transmission, especially not Hyundai buyers. The take rate on many manual-optional cars is dwindling. But there are a few bright spots in the manual transmission world. The one shining the brightest right now is found in Mazda’s lovely Miata.

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    How Much Money Should I Put Down On A Car Loan?

    As Jalopnik’s resident car buying expert and professional car shopper, I get emails. Lots of emails. I’ve decided to pick a few questions and try to help out. This week we’re discussing the ideal down payment for a loan, buying a car from a dealer who doesn’t sell that brand, and which car to buy or keep when upgrading to something new.

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    Kia Is Practically Giving Away Stingers

    We don’t need to remind you that the new Kia Stinger is a very good car. Though I will say that while the V6 model gets all the press, the cheaper turbo-four car is still a pretty awesome vehicle. And if you are in the market for a stylish and fun fastback, there are some incredible deals right now.

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    Dealership Employee Caught On Dashcam Teaching Other Employee How To Drive Stick On Customer Car

    Karol Zwolinski wasn’t thrilled when he got the recall notice that his Ford Focus RS needed to have its head gasket replaced, but at least Ford was taking care of the potential problem, even though Karol had experienced no trouble. Still, he only had until the end of May to take care of it, so on April 9 he took his Focus RS into Hawk Ford of Oak Lawn, Illinois. Based on a urge that he got after reading about a joyridden Mustang at another dealership, Karol put a dashcam in his car, just in cas

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    How Much Lower Will A Dealer Go On A Heavily Discounted Advertised Price?

    As Jalopnik’s resident car buying expert and professional car shopper, I get emails. Lots of emails. I’ve decided to pick a few questions and try to help out. This week we are talking about heavily discounted advertised prices, playing the waiting game for a good deal, and the confusing timing of model years.

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Culture (166)

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    Hot Damn It's A Hot Rod

    You’ve probably seen some of the project cars that Mike Burroughs has built. You might be familiar with his badass BMW, Rusty Slammington. Or maybe you know his gorgeous BMW E28 track car. Or his first hot rod build, with BMW power, that I inexplicably stumbled upon in Belgium of all places. He’s hammered together a lot of projects in the last decade, but this new hot rod is perhaps his most ambitious one yet.

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    We're The Staff Of Jalopnik, Let's Chat

    We made it past Memorial Day, and that means one thing: from now until Labor Day (maybe a bit after that, honestly) summer Fridays are in full effect. That means you aren’t really doing any work on afternoons like these. I know we sure as hell aren’t! Instead of pretending to work, let’s chat.

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    Should You Own A Car If You Live In A Big City?

    Car ownership in a city like New York City requires money, dedication, and the willingness to hate yourself time and time again. Is it all worth it? Well, that’s the question we’re asking during Car Time this week!

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    The Two Disappointing Cadillac V-Series Cars Are Just Part Of A Bigger Letdown

    When you consider everything that Cadillac has gone through in the last 14 months—an ousted CEO in part over the company’s failure to build SUVs quickly enough, leaving Manhattan for beautiful Warren, Michigan, cancelling its subscription service, trotting out a nameless rendering of an electric crossover when the competition are well on their way to production, tackling a pretty glaring problem with its semi-autonomous technology—the two woefully underpowered new V-Series models seem quite on

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    Who Is This For?

    I can’t tell you where I was when word first came out that Bentley managed to produce a book about itself that costs more than $250,000, perhaps because my eyes were so far rolled back into my head that I couldn’t see my surroundings. But I can tell you that I thought someone else on the Jalopnik staff was writing about it, and that I planned to never see it again. I was wrong on both accounts.

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    Where Are All The Beeps?

    What is the noise that emerges from the car? This is the beeping, the toot of the other wheel that doesn’t touch the ground through tires.

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    Why Are We Not All Buying Saab Sonetts Right Now?

    Here’s a long-overdue public service announcement: One of the most soulful automobiles ever made can be purchased for a song. It’s called the Saab Sonett, and I’m confused about why we’re not all champing at the bit to own one.

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    Dead For Now: Jaguar XJ

    Before you read this headline, when was the last time you honestly thought about the Jaguar XJ? I think for me it had been a solid year or two since the big sedan crossed my mind—and now we’ve just learned that it’s about to be discontinued. Sort of.

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    Will GM Build The New Chevrolet Trailblazer In America?

    GM has been taking a political beating lately, from the President, from unions, from baseball stadiums, and in the press over the recent closure of several plants, the layoffs of thousands of U.S. workers, and a continual shift to production outside the Detroit giant’s home country. Today the General announced a pair of new compact crossovers, the Chevrolet Trailblazer and its platform-mate the Buick Encore GX. Will they be built here? It doesn’t sound likely.

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    The Ferrari SF90 Stradale Hybrid Is A Very Busy Supercar

    Pictures of Ferrari’s much anticipated new hybrid supercar has already been leaked a bit, in a now-deleted blurry picture on Instagram, but now there’s a full set of what appear to be Ferrari press photos of what is called the SF90 Stradale. It’s clearly crammed full of Ferrari DNA, though it does have a somewhat busy, techno-fetishy sort of look.

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    What Counts As A Luxury Car Nowadays?

    Certain categories of vehicles are easy to define. We can describe what makes a performance car or an off-road vehicle from its roof line to its tires. But the term “luxury car,” while it does come with specific implications behind it, it’s becoming increasingly difficult to really pin down exactly what luxury means.

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    The Kia Elan Proved Lotus Can't Fix Everything

    Under the category of “extremely unlikely to pass off a car to Kia,” Lotus might top the list. Any sports car manufacturer, really. But this was a real thing that happened. And it resulted in the birth of an unlikely hero in 1996, the Kia Elan.

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    Brabham Wants Its Next Car To Be Street Legal And Cost Less

    The Brabham name came back to the fore a couple of years ago with the announcement of the BT62, an exceedingly fast track car with a huge $1.3 million price tag. The company says it is working on its follow up, a road legal supercar fighter that will cost considerably less than the BT62.

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    The Internet Is Losing Its Mind Over The Giant Wheels On This Lifted Mercedes SLK

    The first-generation R170 Mercedes SLK was an elegant piece of design, with its squared-off rear end flanked by triangular taillights, and its aggressive-but-not-too-aggressive sloping hood featuring two long bulges. It’s this classiness that makes seeing an SLK with a lift and huge tires so bizarre, and it appears that many folks just can’t handle it.

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    What Should I Buy To Kickstart My ChampCar Career?

    I’ve decided it’s about time I put my money where my mouth is. I can talk all kinds of trash about race car drivers, but I don’t exactly have a ton of experience myself. So I’ve decided I’m going to kickstart my ChampCar career—and I want y’all to tell me what car I should buy.

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    The World's Fastest Tuk Tuk Hit 74 MPH

    In many parts of the world, tuk tuks are a crucial method of transportation. They are compact, cost-friendly and can give passengers an open-air experience that a traditional car cannot. And sometimes they’re used to set a Guinness World Record.

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    Ohio Uses Snowplows To Clear Off Interstate After Night Of Devastating Tornadoes

    At one point last night, there were eight separate tornado warnings across the state of Ohio. Tornadoes devastated many communities, especially the city of Dayton, Ohio. After two tornadoes slammed into the city, one right after the other, over much the same path, I-75 was littered with debris. The state broke out the snow plows in response.

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    A Tesla Engineer's Jeep Ended Up Under 10 Feet Of Snow For Months And It's Still There

    A Tesla engineer bought a gorgeous 2000 Jeep Cherokee in November, but before he could spend much time enjoying it, he got stuck in snow near Lake Tahoe. Within an hour, a blizzard hit, preventing tow companies from helping, so the engineer left the XJ for four months to be crushed by 10 feet of snow. The Jeep sits in the same spot today; here’s a look at the damage.

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    Here Is The Mostly Front-Wheel Drive 2020 BMW 1 Series Someone (?) Asked For

    Whenever there’s talk of awesome forbidden fruit European cars, people are quick to discuss wild Audi RS wagons and VW Group hot hatches, but I’ve always favored the BMW 1 Series hatchback. Turbocharged inline-six engines, rear-wheel drive, a manual gearbox and a hatch body? Sign me up. Unfortunately now you can’t, because the all-new 2020 BMW 1 Series lacks most of that stuff.

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    Your Ridiculously Awesome Nissan R34 GT-R Wallpapers Are Here

    This big brute R34 GT-R is clearly a Kaiju recently crawled out of the large body of water behind it to terrorize a nearby city, smushing tall buildings and throwing cars. We’ll never truly know the meaning of this destruction, as it will slowly sulk back into the ocean at the end of the movie, having laid waste to some coastal metropolis. We all have bad days. Maybe it’s just having a bad day.

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    Fiat Chrysler Eyeing Alliance With Renault

    Remember when you could buy a Renault at a dealer down the street? It wasn’t all that long ago that the U.S. market was blessed by a Chrysler-Renault pairing following the former’s purchase of AMC. It was short lived, but these star crossed lovers might be jumping back in to bed again. According to a report by France’s Le Figaro the Renault board will meet to discuss the issue on Monday morning, with a potential announcement coming possibly the same day.

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    The Best Thing For A Half-Pipe Is A Side-By-Side With Tracks

    Fresh pow season is over, brah. We got, like, 30 feet of sick ass white this winter up at the lake, but it’s starting to warm up, and that’s harshing our vibe. The totally rad folks over at Boreal set up a freakin’ sweet ride park, but it’s time to burn it all down to the ground, and shred a dope sesh. Ken Block drove up to Tahoe with his Can-Am Maverick X3 XRS Turbo with a set of snow tracks for one last season-ender with pro-snowboarder Danny Davis.

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    It Was Inevitable That Someone Would Build A Hayabusa-Powered Bond Bug

    I’ve had a thought floating around in my head for a while that, like the infinite monkey theorem, there should be a similar and corresponding infinite gearhead theorem. In case you’re not familiar, the infinite monkey theorem provides that a monkey hitting keys at random on a typewriter given an infinite amount of time will almost surely type the complete works of William Shakespeare. It’s possible that with enough gearheads and enough time, every single permutation of engine swap will have been

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    Elon Musk Says 'Hyperloop' Tunnel Is Now Just A Normal Car Tunnel Because 'This Is Simple And Just Works'

    Back in 2017, Elon Musk had grand visions for the test track built by The Boring Company, his tunneling firm, in Los Angeles. The Boring Company’s tunneling work was closely linked to Musk’s Hyperloop idea, which would require hundreds of miles of tunneling to be viable, although the actual test track in California bore none of the traits of an air vacuum-based transportation system. It would have proprietary vehicles with varying capacities for private travel, public transport, or freight. Th

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    Germans Have A Whole Genre Of Jokes About One Particular Kind Of Opel

    Every country seems to have its particular cars that are the butt of jokes. Here in America, we have jokes about Mustang drivers plowing into crowds, for example. Or jokes about the creepiness of while Econoline vans. But I don’t think any particular car in America has generated such an enthusiastic and specific joke culture as the Opel Manta has in Germany.

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    Here's A Sad List Of All The Cars About To Go Extinct From The UK's Roads

    Every time I hear about something like the Audi TT being cancelled and replaced by an electric car, I try to take comfort that all of the good combustion cars currently on the roads won’t be going anywhere overnight. However, this new study about the cars most likely to go extinct in the UK has me worried.

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    Why China Is Full Of American Cars

    My plane had only touched down an hour or two earlier and I was quick to get out of my hotel—to find some breakfast, to see the city and to see all of the interesting Chinese cars that I’d only ever read about. And just as I rounded a corner, there they looked back at me, parked beside each other: a Cadillac and a Jeep.

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    This Chart Will Help You Pick Which Lloyd Alexander Is Right For You

    If you’re like most people, at some point in your life you’ve found yourself having to make a difficult decision: which Lloyd Alexander do you need in your life right now, the small, inexpensive German car with bodies made of wood and vinyl, or the beloved children’s fantasy book author, best known for The Chronicles of Prydain series? This isn’t an easy decision, so to help you out, we’ve put together this handy chart that should make selecting your Lloyd Alexander a snap.

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    We're Throwing Another Giant All-Day Party For The 24 Hours Of Le Mans, And You Should Come

    Three years ago, we packed some 200 people into Jalopnik’s New York headquarters during the 24 Hours of Le Mans. We fed them booze and french toast. We played video games. We did car trivia. We started a puzzle we didn’t finish. We gave away prizes. We watched Toyota’s last-minute heartbreak with our collective jaws on the floor. And ever since then we’ve fielded one question: “When are you gonna do that again?”

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    Orlando Car Dealership Adopts Giant Duck Family

    Car dealerships get a bad reputation, and often for good reason. But if there’s anything that can break the “stealerships” and don’t-forget-valet-mode vibes, it’s kindly allowing a family of 16 ducks to move into the showroom.

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    Slow-Selling Audi TT To End Production, Be Replaced By Electric Car

    The Audi TT has been around for 20 years, and its original and bold design probably doesn’t get enough credit for helping put Audi back on the map in America. But as we all know, sporty coupe sales aren’t what they used to be, and Audi’s parent company the Volkswagen Group’s main priority is the electric future. As a result, the TT is on the way out, the R8 supercar might be too, and the A8 flagship sedan may get an electric variant too.

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    Ford Is Working On Package-Delivering Robots That Fold Up Inside Self-Driving Cars

    These days, we keep hearing automakers talk about all the partnerships they’re forming for autonomous cars, car sharing, large-scale electrification, and just general “mobility solutions.” A lot of it is bullshit meant to make the companies appear on the cutting edge, and some is legit research. I won’t speculate which camp this new Ford package-delivery robot research falls into, but I will say that I don’t mind the concept.

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    This Oddly Cute Little Car Was The First Mass-Produced 4x4 Passenger Car Even Before The Jeep

    Four-wheel drive vehicles have been around longer than you may realize; there were experiments by Joseph Diplock in 1893, and the first real car Ferdinand Porsche engineered, the 1900 Lohner-Porsche Mixed Hybrid, was a 4WD hybrid electric car. When we think of mass-produced 4WD passenger cars, though, most people assume the iconic Willys Jeep was first. This actually doesn’t seem to be true, as Willys was beaten to the punch by a funny little Japanese car called the Kurogane Type 95.

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    Why Does The Car Have Boobs?

    I will readily admit that I am definitely not a collector of all things Transformers, but even I will notice if one of them has suddenly sprouted a set of boobs on their model version. Why are there boobs? What car has boobs?

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    U.S. Buyers Still Overwhelmingly Choose A Manual For The Subaru BRZ And WRX

    It shouldn’t be much of a surprise that Subaru still has decent manual sales in a market where carmakers can’t give a third pedal away, given that its buyers are often either outdoorsy dog people or street hoons. But manual take rates in the BRZ and WRX, at least in the U.S., even manage to outshine the Mazda Miata—as well as the BRZ’s Toyota twin, the 86.

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    BMW Is Somehow Doing Two More 500 Horsepower SUVs

    The 2020 BMW X3 M Competition and X4 M Competition were just a warning shot, the first wave of an onslaught of 500 horsepower super SUVs we may not be prepared for. And there’s two more now, with the 2020 BMW X5 M50i and BMW X7 M50i. More power, more SUVs, more large Bimmer people-movers on the way.

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    Top Gear Was Wrong About The Alpina BMW Z8

    The Alpina V8 Roadster has a bad reputation among diehard car nerds. The strut towers made the news for buckling under load, and Clarkson trashed the car on Top Gear back in the day, saying that how it drove didn’t match how it looked. These cars are so expensive, and so rare, that nobody ever really gets a chance for a rebuttal. So when I heard BMW had one at its Performance Driving Center at Spartanburg, South Carolina, I jumped.

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    Help Us Spot The Incredible Cars In This Kansas Junkyard

    While driving my $500 Postal Jeep through rural Kansas on my way back to Michigan from Utah, I wound up in heaven without even having to crash my Jeep into a giant rusty fireball. That’s because heaven was right off of U.S. 24 near the small, roughly 5,000 person city of Colby, Kansas.

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    Dyno Test Reveals The 2020 Toyota Supra Has A Lot More Power Than Expected

    It’s fairly well known that modern BMW engines tend to have more actual horsepower and torque than is advertised. And—I don’t know if you’ve heard this or not—the 2020 Toyota Supra uses a BMW engine and chassis tuned by Toyota engineers. So when I drove the new Supra a few weeks ago, I figured it could be underrated too, since it certainly felt more powerful than its official figures let on.

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    It Was Only A Matter Of Time

    Once, in the before times, you could go on Bring a Trailer, find your vintage car at a not-insane markup, buy it and get it home. But buyers have been pumping in more and more money and, well, things have changed. I guess to match the lofty new prices its listings now fetch, Bring a Trailer has rolled out premium listing services.

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    The All-Electric Honda E Comes In Five Delightful Colors

    Honda’s new city car, the Honda E, is a few things: fully electric, absolutely adorable, and, as far as we know, not currently destined for America. But buyers in areas of Europe can now reserve the E in one of five colors, and Honda’s bold choices didn’t fizzle out when it came to deciding what those would be.

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    The Next-Gen BMW i8 Could Go All-Electric

    The current BMW i8 models (the coupe and the roadster) are hybrids, using a three-cylinder engine and an electric motor to power all four wheels. The next generation i8, however, might just ditch the reliance on gasoline once and for all.

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    Here's The Soviet Equivalent Of The Car Chase From 'Bullitt'

    When you think about Soviet cinema, I’m guessing you tend to picture ponderous WWII epics or maybe Solaris. What you probably aren’t imagining are wild car chases, but you’d be wrong! There were some pretty good car chases in Soviet movies, but the one I want to show you is this one from a cop movie called Petrovka 38, because it has a chase scene that may be the Eastern Bloc’s closest rival to the famous scene in Bullitt.

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    It's Always A Good Time To Fire Some Folks

    You ever notice how it’s always a good time to fire some folks? In the middle of a recession? Fire some folks. Coming out of a recession? Fire some folks. Enjoying a prolonged uptick in economic performance? Fire some folks. Predicting another recession on the horizon? Oh, you better believe it’s time to fire some folks.

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    TRD Has The Carbon Aero And 19" Wheels You Want For Your Supra

    This weekend marked a gathering called “The Supra Is Back To Japan Fes” a gathering of Supra enthusiasts celebrating the return of the Toyota sports car. Doing their part, TRD used this event as an opportunity to display a new Supra with the carbon aero pieces and 19" wheels that were promised. The bits are for sale separately, but are currently only available through Japanese distributors, so you’ll need to find a way to import them if you simply must have them for your Supra. Where there is a

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    Yes, You Technically Can Drive A Hummer H1 In The U.K.

    Here’s a hypothetical situation; You are a wealthy professional body builder, actor, and former governor of the state of California, and you’ve been relocated to the U.K. because you’ve earned a residency teaching young actors how to do a crazy-ass accent in the basement of the Hammersmith Apollo. You currently daily drive a Hummer H1 diesel in Los Angeles, and nothing else will do. Can you ship it over to your new home? Car Throttle is here to do the kind of investigative journalism you deserve

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    Elon Musk Says Tesla Needs Financial Micromanagement Or It Will Go Broke

    If you look at the news coming out of Tesla over the last year or so, it’s obvious that the company is desperately trying to find ways to decrease operating costs. Whether it’s by closing down dealerships, publicly dismissing LIDAR because it’s too expensive, allegedly attempting to block worker’s comp cases, or laying off 9% of its workforce last June and a further 7% this January.

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    I'm Baffled By An Old Automotive Engineering Mystery And I Need Some Help

    I hope you’re ready to dive into some really timely content, getting to the bottom of an automotive design decision that hasn’t really been seen since, oh, 1930. But it’s one I’ve always been drawn to, and yet one I’m not sure I understand. It’s a design conceit usually called the coal scuttle bonnet, and it’s likely best known on Renaults from around 1904 to 1930.

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    We Need To Change The Way We Open Our Car Doors

    I saw another report today of someone on a bicycle getting doored into traffic and dying. It’s common in the U.S. to simply fling your door open as you’re getting out of the car. It’s common enough that there’s a trope in television and movies of opening your door in a busy city and then it gets blown off by a passing bus. Well, if a cyclist hits that same door, they’re going down heavier than a sack of potatoes, and potentially into the path of a passing bus. Sure it wasn’t your intent, but tha

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    Volkswagen Set To Launch A New Compact SUV Called Tarek For North America: Report

    During an event in Argentina, Volkswagen announced to the gathered crowd that a new SUV, slotted below the Tiguan, would be built for worldwide consumption. According to Argentina Autoblog he car will be built in Russia and China under the Tharu name, as well as in Argentina and Mexico as the Tarek. The Mexican-built model is earmarked for Canada, Mexico, and U.S. distribution. As the Tiguan has gotten larger, this model will be a five-seat model to slot in at the entry level size.

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    A Very Cool Old MG And I Will Be On TV Tonight

    Just in case your Friday night plans involve planting your ass on some sort of cushion and receiving audiovisual information from some manner of device with a screen and speakers, I have a suggestion for you: instead of watching exciting epics of superheroes or space travel or magic or dragons, why not watch me drone on and on about autonomous cars while driving a 53-year-old MG in the rain? That sounds much better, right? Right?

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    The Dodge Journey Proves That Old Vehicle Platforms Work Just Fine

    “Did You Know Dodge Still Makes The Journey?” we asked in 2015, baffled that Fiat Chrysler still built a mediocre DaimlerChrysler-era SUV loosely based on the sad, dead bones of the Dodge Avenger and Chrysler Sebring. In 2018, we wondered why the car kept selling so well, and recently, over 11 years after the car’s 2007 debut, I drove one, and actually...it was really not that bad.

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    Subway Commute Disrupted By Clogged Toilet

    This morning, some New York City subway commuters experienced an all-too-common occurrence (although less so than it used to be): delays during rush hour. The reason given by the official New York City Transit Twitter account was that nature called upon the train crew.

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    There's Only One Reason To Buy The 2020 BMW M5 Edition 35 Years

    Brands throw themselves anniversary celebrations all the time. BMW just happens to do it a lot. For the 2015 model year, BMW celebrated 30 years of the M5 with the “30 Jahre M5” edition. Now, the M5 is another five years older and you know what that means. Say hello to the 2020 BMW M5 Edition 35 Years. Yeesh, that’s a name.

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    Guy Who Blew $4,000 Lowering His Car Is Demanding His Town Pay Because He Can't Drive Over Speed Bumps To Get To Work (Updated)

    Have you ever had one of those moments where some embarrassing memory launches into your mind, unbidden and unwanted, and you spend several painful moments reliving your own shame and misery? I’m guessing that such moments may become common in Christopher Fitzgibbon’s future, and I’m guessing the moments he’ll painfully reflect on will all revolve around the time he tried to get a village to pay him because he lowered his car so much he could no longer drive in his own town. Update: See Fitzgibb

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    The Missing Link Between Volkswagen And Porsche Is Up For Auction

    We all know that the first Porsche, the 356, was built in 1948, and largely derived from Volkswagen Type I (you know, the Beetle) designs and components. Ferdinand Porsche was, of course, the lead engineer in charge of developing the car that would become the Beetle, then known as the KdF (Strength-through-Joy) Wagen. Between these two iconic cars, the Beetle and the Porsche 356 exists a transitional car, a sort of missing link that bridges Volkswagen and Porsche. It’s known as the Type 64, and

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    These Throwback Liveries For The New Porsche 935 Are Stunning

    We thought we had already gaped too much at the new Porsche 935 limited edition car, a modern version of the flat-nosed 911-based race car from the 1970s, painted in its classic Martini livery back when it was revealed. But now there are six more liveries to gape at.

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    My Best Friend Rolls-Royce Made Me A Champagne Chest

    You might not know this about me, but I don’t have many friends. Staffers—yes. They number in the hundreds. But friends? No. None, except for Rolls-Royce, which has been my one true friend throughout the funny roller coaster we call life. I’d drink to that.

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    Tesla's Autopilot Was Engaged During Another Fatal Crash: Report

    Back in March, a Tesla Model 3 crashed into a semi-truck turning onto a Florida highway, killing the driver. After a preliminary investigation, the National Transportation Safety Board has concluded Autopilot, Tesla’s semi-autonomous driving technology, was engaged at the time of the fatal crash.

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    In Defense Of Riding Shotgun

    A handy piece of advice to remember during track days is that no one will remember you driving slowly, but they will remember if you crash.

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    The 2020 Audi A4 Redesign Removes Its One Unique Characteristic

    There’s an all-new BMW 3 Series out, which means it’s no real surprise that Audi went back and redrew some parts of the new 2020 Audi A4. The last time the car was redesigned it got notched headlights, which was a big departure for the car at the time. The 2020 car gets rid of those, and now it just looks like the 2013 car again.

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    America's 'Most Dangerous Car' Is Actually Pretty Damn Safe

    The automotive research firm iSeeCars.com released a study called “The Most Dangerous Cars in the U.S.” and as a result, a bunch of websites have been running articles with titles like Fatal Attraction: These Are The Deadliest Cars On The Road, which certainly has some nice life-or-death drama to it. Here’s the thing, though: when you really dig into the numbers and methodology used to get the results, it turns out that America’s “most dangerous” car really isn’t all that dangerous, when you put

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    How A County Pub In England Became A Car Culture Hub

    Caffeine and Machine is a little like Cheers... where everybody knows your car. Just outside of the tiny town of Ettington in Warwickshire, UK, this pub is like a permanent cars and coffee event, where people come together to celebrate all kinds of vehicles and, of course, tasty beverages year round.

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    De Tomaso Is Back And Promising A New Car Again

    De Tomaso has had it rough in the last 20 or so years. It’s gone through liquidation, a purchase and an attempt at a crossover (lol), another sale and a chairman’s arrest. But hopefully all that’s behind it, because the company’s Chinese owners now have promises of a new car.

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    Hyundai Twists Knife, Drops Manual On Elantra And Hikes Price $2,000

    No matter which month, year or state of ruin the world is in, a few things have always seemed constant: at least one cat begging for food in the early hours of the morning, seasonal allergies and Hyundai offering a manual Elantra in America. Not to shake your faith in reality, but that last one is no more, as Hyundai’s dropping the manual for 2020 and hiking the base price by nearly $2,000.

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    The 612-HP 2020 McLaren GT Is The Most Comfortable McLaren Yet

    A piece of criticism that I have not heard typically levied at modern McLarens is that they are uncomfortable. Indeed, the 720S and the 570S/570GT have all been praised as being quite comfortable. Either way, the 2020 McLaren GT is here now, and boasts even more comfort, practicality and usability than the others.

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    New 306-HP Mini Clubman And Countryman John Cooper Works Aim For Hot Hatch Greatness

    The Mini JCW Clubman and Countryman are set to receive a new 306 horsepower 2.0-liter four-cylinder turbocharged engine. This is massively up from the current car’s 228 horsepower, foisting the JCW from VW GTI also ran to more powerful than the Golf R. It also produces 331 lb-ft of torque, which is also impressively increased from the previous car’s 258 lb-ft.

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    How Movie Magic Made The Aston Martin Goldfinger DB5 Continuation's Bond Gadgets A Reality

    For some, the Aston Martin DB5 is the single coolest car to have ever put rubber to tarmac. Made famous by Sean Connery’s portrayal of James Bond, the DB5 has indelible link with Ian Fleming’s super smooth spy. And it’s one of the more famous examples of “cars with gadgets” thanks to Goldfinger, where it offered neat ways to dispatch henchmen on a mission to off him on the fly. Now some of those gadgets will be a reality, and here’s how.

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    This Has To Be The Most Uselessly Obsolete Car-Related Thing You Can Own

    Here’s a fun experiment: if you know what that car-shaped thing up there is, try to explain it to a nearby child. If you actually manage to convey the purpose of that thing and the surrounding context of technological development, society, and culture that made it a viable product, I’m guessing the child is regarding you with a heady mix of pity and contempt. You know what that thing is, right?

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    These Motorhome And RV Crash Tests Are Remarkably Terrible

    I’ll be honest: as an owner of an RV, I can’t say I’m really all that surprised by these results. An RV is basically a flimsy mobile house with wheels and a driving cab and an engine, somewhere, and it’s filled with furniture and appliances and explosive canisters and all manner of things that don’t deal well in wrecks. That’s why the Swedish Transport Administration’s alarming results from their crash-tests of motorhomes don’t exactly surprise me all that much. RVs are fun, but you probably sho

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    When You Die And Go To Porsche Heaven It Looks Like This

    The air-cooled Porsche cult following is not news to anyone who visits this site, and the Luftgekühlt festival has quickly turned into one of the biggest, most obsessive car shows on the planet. We were there this weekend hanging out taking photos. Here’s even more for your perusal.

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    This Is Not A Mercedes-Benz

    The car market in China is currently the largest in the world, but that is a pretty recent development. What we know in the West about cars over there can be pretty murky, and this means that occasionally something really strange will bob to the surface. Something like the Bamin BM 2022A, for example.

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    Here Come Electric Highways (Eventually)

    Hybrid trucks in Germany can now charge as they drive down a six-mile stretch of the autobahn near Frankfurt, thanks to the country’s first installation of Siemens’ “eHighway,” Bloomberg reports.

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    Every Car You Thought Time Forgot Lives On This Instagram

    Minitrucks. Lowrider imports. Kandy paint Accords with scissor doors. These were cars of the magazine era, and you may have thought that the internet forgot about them. But you were wrong. Welcome to UndergroundStyles.us, where the chrome Lexanis never stop shining.

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    Your Ridiculously Awesome Dodge Viper Wallpapers Are Here

    Shipping containers always make for a good backdrop because they are colorful and visually interesting, but mundane enough that they don’t take anything away from the subject of the photograph. In this case, the silver of the Viper stands out to the eye because it isn’t bright and colorful like the containers behind. This is an excellent juxtaposition.

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    Six Cylinder Porsche 718 Boxster And Cayman Touring Models Spied Testing

    Back in 2016 when Porsche launched the 718 Boxster and 718 Cayman, the consensus was that they were excellent two-seater sports cars, but the four-cylinder turbo exhaust note left a little to be desired. The prior iteration with a flat six wail was an enthusiasts dream. Despite being faster, quicker, and ostensibly better than its predecessor, the 718 didn’t have the aural engagement that Porsche nerds like me desired.

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    If You Wanted To Know What Heaven Looks Like, It's Luftgekühlt 6

    I will clarify at the start of this that I am, and always have been, a Porsche nerd. I love these cars, the community of enthusiasts they engender, and the history on display at the show colloquially known as “Luft”. Racing driver Patrick Long and master of artistic visuals Jeff Zwart, along with hundreds more car owners, fixers, and background workers, have built a truly massive shift in car show culture with Luftgekühlt.

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    The 2019 Mazda3 Is Very Safe: IIHS

    The 2019 Mazda3 is quite the heavy hitter. It looks great, drives wonderfully, offers the enthusiasts a manual option—and now you can even add “safe” to that list of what makes the car Good.

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    I Wrote A Book About Our Robot Car Future

    Friends! Pals! Fellow filthy car-obsessives! I have big news: I have written a book. Just as a refresher, a book is like a bunch of non-dynamic monochrome (in this case, and not the cover) web pages full of text, all bound together in a big sort of paper-sandwich that won’t electrocute you if you drop it in the tub. The book is called Robot, Take the Wheel: The Road to Autonomous Cars and the Lost Art of Driving, and it’s about autonomous cars and the value and joy of non-autonomous cars, and I

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    Corvette Owner Sues General Motors Over Allegedly Defective Wheels

    Another class-action lawsuit over the seventh-generation Chevrolet Corvette made it to federal court, but this one isn’t about its performance on track. It’s, instead, over something that can affect owners anywhere—certain C7 rims, the lawsuit claims, are prone to cracking and bending at “extremely low mileages.”

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    Here's Everything You Need To Know About Workhorse, The EV Truck Maker That May Buy The GM Lordstown Plant

    This Wednesday, things went sort of nuts when President Trump tweeted that GM’s Lordstown Plant would be bought by Workhorse, a maker of electric trucks, even though the deal is by no means settled. Most of us don’t know that much about Workhorse, and collectively we seem to have killed their website trying to find out more. So here’s a bit of a primer about the not-exactly financially stable hopeful EV truck maker.

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    Boring Cars Are Eyesores

    That story about a man’s fight with his homeowner’s association over his patina’d truck was hardly the first time we’ve reported on a draconian HOA hating a cool car. These stories always play out the same way: someone lives in a neighborhood, someone has a car that doesn’t look like every other car out there, someone else freaks out.

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    The Chevrolet Trailblazer Is Back As A Compact Crossover: Report

    With General Motors already flushing the Chevrolet Blazer name down the drain with a disappointing crossover, we should have seen the same sorry fate coming for the Chevy Trailblazer name, too, which will reportedly return as a compact crossover around the size of a Chevy Trax. When will it end?

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    Ferrari 'Leaning Toward' Keeping Electric Propulsion Tech In-House

    Ferrari Chairman and CEO Louis Camilleri addressed analysts this week in the company’s quarterly results conference call, confirming Ferrari’s plans to go forward with hybrid electric cars and stating that the company’s “leaning toward” making key EV components for such vehicles itself, rather than sourcing them.

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    Looks Like Ghost Recon: Breakpoint Will Be A Good Driving Game

    Some of the best video game driving experiences are in shooters. Well, if you equate “more visually extreme and abstract” with “best.” I do, and I really want to play the new Tom Clancy Ghost Recon: Breakpoint game after seeing that it’s full of buggies and gun-wielding off-road drones.

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    Peugeot Denies It's About To Buy Jaguar Land Rover

    Over the past couple of months, there have been rumors that the owner of Jaguar Land Rover was interested in selling some or all of the company, and there were separate rumors that Peugeot was looking for a good buy. Those rumors have now phased into a new chimera rumor that Peugeot is interested in merging with Jaguar Land Rover.

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    It's Time For America To Forgive Hummer

    It’s been nearly a decade since the death of General Motors’ off-road brand, Hummer, and while many of you are probably thinking “good riddance,” I’m here to tell you that Hummer was good, and America should forgive it.

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    Deal For Workhorse To Buy Ailing GM Lordstown Plant Is 'Roughly Preliminary' Despite Trump Tweet

    Earlier today, President Donald Trump tweeted that “subject to a UAW agreement etc., GM will be selling their beautiful Lordstown Plant to Workhorse, where they plan to build Electric Trucks.” It was a victory lap of sorts for the Commander-in-Chief, who has made the closure of General Motors’ ailing Ohio factory a political talking point heading into the 2020 elections. But it turns out that “etc.” in the tweet was, in fact, doing an incredible amount of heavily lifting.

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    Honda Efficiently Names Its New Electric Car With Just One Letter

    We’ve been covering Honda’s charming little battery-electric city car since they first showed it in 2017, and even if we’re saddened there are no plans to bring it to America, it’s exciting to know that the production version is actually happening, and it even now has an official name: e.

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    Trump Claims Money Hemorrhaging Truck Startup Will 'Buy' GM Lordstown Plant

    After months of urging General Motors not to close the Lordstown, Ohio plant that until recently made the slow-selling Chevrolet Cruze, President Donald Trump now says the automaker may have have found a buyer of sorts. It’s an electric truck company based in Ohio called Workhorse that has been bleeding money for years.

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    The Subaru Levorg Wagon That's Too Cool For America Just Got Even Cooler

    The Subaru Levorg is the Subaru wagon Americans want but can’t have, since we don’t buy many wagons here and it’s reserved for other parts of the world. But that doesn’t stop us from wishing that one day the laws of nature will be broken and the U.S. will get all of the fun cars we’ve always wanted—like the two stunning new trims of the Levorg.

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    What Do You Want To Know About The 2019 Ford Shelby GT350?

    It may look very similar (and in many ways it is) to the outgoing Ford Mustang Shelby GT350, but the 2019 GT350 will have improved performance bits and special tires to make those lap times even faster. I wasn’t aware anything needed improvement, but here we are.

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    Ferrari Sales Are Way Up And More Models Are Coming

    Ferrari released the company’s Q1 earnings reports Tuesday, and the results are astonishing. While most of the rest of the automotive industry is having difficulty finding buyers, Ferrari shipped nearly 23% more cars in the first quarter of 2019 than it did in the same period last year. That equates to a total of 2,610 cars in three months, and puts Ferrari on track for a record sales year.

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    The McLaren GT Will Officially Break Cover Next Week

    About a month ago during the Geneva Motor Show McLaren announced an upcoming Grand Tourer with more luggage space, and a comfortable-for-long-distances interior. With a video released Tuesday, McLaren gave us the best look at the car without camouflage yet, and dropped an unveil date of May 15th. And it will officially be called the McLaren GT. Simplicity at its finest.

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    If You Always Hoped There Was A Car That Looked Like A Bad Photoshop Mash-Up Of An Alfa And A Mustang, I Have Good News

    If you have tastes that appreciate more mainstream collector cars like classic Mustangs or vintage Alfa Romeos, but really want something much more uncommon, and, ideally, deeply confusing, then I really think there’s a car you should be aware of: The FNM Onça, a car with license-built Alfa Romeo mechanicals and a fiberglass body that is pretty much a direct copy of a first-gen Ford Mustang. Oh, and as a little automotively-confusing cherry on top, the name Onça means “jaguar.”

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    If You Want To Buy A Car Factory, Ukrainian Automaker ZAZ Is Selling One

     Ukranian automaker ZAZ, the builders of the Soviet Union’s first real “people’s car,” has been having a rough go for the past few years. After being fire-sale’d for just $9 million dollars just a couple of years ago, ZAZ is again in bankruptcy, and is once again putting all its property and facilities up for sale. It’s sad for us few fans of their old, pleasingly homely little cars, but great news for you bored rich people out there who’ve always wanted your own car company.

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    GM Cruise Is Now Worth $19 Billion Because Why Not

    Cruise, GM’s autonomous vehicle arm, raised another $1.15 billion at a total valuation of $19 billion, according to several media reports including TechCrunch. The new investment adds T. Rowe Price to the list of the company’s investors, as well as increasing Softbank Vision Fund’s and Honda’s financial stake in Cruise ahead of its planned expansion to Seattle.

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    German Police Stop Over 100 Cars Involved In Road Rally

    This past weekend in Michigan, hundreds of rusted-out shitboxes likely spewed fluids, rust, and unburnt fuel all over the roadway, and while that event had its own share of drama, it didn’t get hit hard by the fuzz like a fancy-car road rally in Europe did. Specifically, German police stopped “Eurorally” last week due to suspicion that there may have been some illegal racing going on on the unrestricted Autobahn.

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    A Huge Air-Cooled Volkswagen Museum In Puerto Rico Is Selling Everything Right Now

    I’ll admit, I’m a bit late to write about this since it’s been going on the past few days, but I was sick as a dog last week, and, well, you’re the real victims, here. But no more wallowing in self-pity! If you love old air-cooled Volkswagens, then you should absolutely be aware a fascinating and huge collection of them is being liquidated from a Puerto Rico museum as we speak, and there’s still a ton of fascinating cars for sale.

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    The 1,000-HP Mopar Hellephant Crate Engine Sold Out In Two Days

    Just over a week ago, Mopar announced preorders for the “Hellephant” crate engine—a 1,000-horsepower, nearly $30,000 powerhouse to be plugged into any eligible vehicle. But if it took you more than 48 hours to determine whether it was a joke because of the name, you missed out on the chance to order one.

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    Let's All Agree To Stop Abusing The Word 'Coupe' And Start Using 'Fastback'

    I’ve lamented before about how carmakers have been treating the word “coupe” like it was some meaningless but spicy term they could just slap on anything they wanted to feel “sportier,” but now I’m ready to take action. I’m officially issuing a formal demand that automakers stop misusing the word coupe in reference to, usually, four-door SUVs and crossovers with a slightly sportier design. Don’t worry, though—I have a much better replacement word in mind.

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    GM Tuner SVE Says It Might Build A Modern Typhoon

    You may recall back to a few weeks ago when Specialty Vehicle Engineering announced an upgrade package for the GMC Canyon pickup truck to make it a modern Syclone. It’s a neat idea that unfortunately costs a whole truck load of money to make happen. Well, a spokesperson for the company told Motor1 that it would consider building a Blazer-based Typhoon to match. Which would be righteous.

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    Mahindra Eyes Another Plant In Michigan To Bolster Bid For Postal Service Vehicle Contract

    Mahindra is looking to add an additional factory to its arsenal in Michigan, and is scouting locations in Detroit, Oakland County and Genesee County are under consideration. In addition to the current Roxor off road vehicle, which has been built in the U.S. for about a year now, Mahindra hopes to add a government contract worth $6 billion to build the replacement for the U.S. Postal Service’s mail delivery vehicles, according to Crain’s Detroit Business.

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    Time's Running Out To Buy Yourself A New Bugatti Chiron

    We know, we know, $3 million is an investment. It takes time to decide whether you want to put seven figures toward something, but time isn’t always a given. Time certainly isn’t a given with the 1,500-horsepower Bugatti Chiron, which has less than 100 build slots left.

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    Japan's 126th Emperor Too Cool For A Top, Orders First-Ever Toyota Century Convertible

    A new Japanese emperor ascended to the throne this week, and the newly minted Emperor Naruhito is already shaking things up. The standard, roof-having Toyota Century’s opulent luxury is fine, if you’re just a humble oligarch or zaibatsu boss, but the emperor? He needs something a little fancier for his public coronation in October. That’s why he’s ordering a custom Toyota Century convertible.

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    We're Driving The 2020 Toyota Supra. What Do You Want To Know?

    In terms of hype, the 2020 Toyota Supra is the car equivalent of Avengers: Endgame and the last season of Game of Thrones, put together. After more than 20 years one of the most beloved sports cars of a generation is finally back—but now it’s automatic-only and curiously sporting BMW guts. Can it deliver on all that hype? I’m about to find out.

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    FCA Offloads Parts Supplier Magneti Marelli For $6.5 Billion

    Fiat Chrysler Automobiles announced Thursday that it has sold Italian-based parts supplier subsidiary Magneti Marelli to the Japanese holding company CK Holdings, itself the parent company of competitive automotive parts supplier Calsonic Kansei. Magneti Marelli and Calsonic Kansei are actually nearly the same size in terms of annual worldwide sales, at $9.2 billion and $9.1 billion respectively, according to Automotive News.

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    They Fixed The Chevrolet Camaro's Face

    The Chevrolet Camaro has so many faces it could be a government spy, and, because the more the better, Chevy is giving it another guise for another model year. The 2020 SS and a new LT1 performance trim will get their own new faces, which are slightly different from the myriad of Camaro faces that already exist.

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    What Do You Want To Know About The 2019 Nissan Leaf Plus?

    Burning through fuel with a naturally aspirated, shouty V8 is fun and everything, but there’s an opposite end to that spectrum, too. There, you’ll find cars like the electric 2019 Nissan Leaf, which happens to also be a joy to drive in a wholly different way.

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    This Might Be New York's Most Forgotten Neighborhood

    In the late 1850s, the third-largest “German” city in the world was New York, as noted by the Lower East Side Preservation Initiative. Only a few decades on, a quarter million German-speakers lived here, as the city itself recalls, centered in Kleindeutschland, Little Germany. And it is all but forgotten.

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    Burning Propane Tank In Pickup Explodes In Drive Thru

    A leaking propane tank in a pickup truck going through the drive thru of a Burger King in Beebe, Arkansas exploded into a massive fireball, and if there’s one thing it teaches us, it’s that a propane tank on fire is surely going to have it its way.

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    The Smart Car: It's Actually Kind Of Amazing When You Just Shut Your Yap And Think About It

    Earlier this week, Smart announced that it was pulling out of the North American market, and if we’re brutally honest, that was just fine with the North American market. Smarts never really caught on in America, but that shouldn’t be too shocking; after all, this was a car born for ultra-dense European cities with tiny roads and insane traffic. Sure, in some American cities, like New York or San Francisco, the Smart carved itself a niche, it was never really a car for America. That’s sort of a s

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    Dead: Nissan 370Z Roadster

    The Nissan 370Z Roadster reportedly died as it lived: briefly reminding us that it was still on sale in the first place.

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    The Original E28 BMW M5 Really Is That Good

    The original BMW M5, the E28 generation, is a historic car, the fastest sedan in the world when it came out, the start of a dynasty. You’ve known that. I’ve known that. What I didn’t know (and what I set out to find) is if it’s actually as good to drive as the legend suggests.

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    Would You Own A Car Where You Couldn't See The Engine?

    When I was at the New York Auto Show last month, I was excited to see the latest Porsche 911, because I have a weird thing for rear-engined cars, and it was one of the very, very few rear-engined cars at the show. Eager to immerse myself in the whole rear-engineness of it all, I found one and pulled the little lever to open the rear decklid, ready to peer in there and just enjoy it until they ask me to leave.

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Car Design (21)

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    What Ferrari Learned From The Ferrari F50

    Today is a historic day, as all days when a new flagship Ferrari is announced are. In the line dating back to the Ferrari 288 GTO, we now have a new top-of-the-marque member, the Ferrari SF90 Stradale. A plug-in hybrid with all-wheel-drive, it probably won’t be the “race car for the road” you’re expecting. And the Ferrari F50 is probably the reason for that.

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    The BMW iNext Is Also Jumping On The Giant Screen Bandwagon

    Big-ass screens, it seems, are how automakes have collectively decided best convey the aesthetic of the future. Mercedes’ new MBUX system is one giant screen. Honda’s Retro EV concept has a huge screen. The new Ford Explorer and Subaru Legacy both have massive screens. And now you can add the upcoming BMW iNext to that list.

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    Oh God I Think I Actually Love BMW's Crystal Shifter

    I like to think that my style is pretty understated. I keep my jewelry to a minimum and, despite being from New Jersey, I don’t own anything that’s bedazzled. Overly sparkly crap doesn’t do it for me—that is until I got behind the wheel of the 2019 BMW X7.

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    Putting Up The Roof On The $274,500 Porsche 911 Speedster Is Surprisingly Involved

    The production 2019 Porsche 911 Speedster was finally revealed last month as a GT3-powered Porsche 911 with a custom topless body style referencing the classic 356 Speedster of the 1950s. That’s a pretty solid recipe for a good car. But one of the coolest parts of the new Speedster is just how involved the process of putting the roof up is.

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    Your Detailing Guy Is Gonna Be Pissed

    If you’re at all into the aftermarket scene, then you’ve probably come across forged wheel company HRE at one point or another. HRE wheels are known for being lightweight and very, very expensive. The company is showing off a new version of its titanium wheels that use 3D printing as part of the manufacturing process—but all I can think about is how long it would take the clean the damn things.

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    This Aston Martin Has Most Excellent Wheels

    It has been far too long since an OEM took a risk on the design of its wheels. There are only a handful of differently stylized wheels on the market today, most unfortunately featuring some variety of twist design—please pardon me while I attempt to keep my lunch down. Aston Martin’s new DBS Superleggera, inspired by 007 himself, features a striking shade of gold-tinted olive green paint and wheels meant to ape the wire spokes Bond rode on 50 years ago in On Her Majesty’s Secret Service.

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    How Would You Configure Your Grand-Touring, $210,000 McLaren GT?

    McLaren’s online configurator is one of the most fun to play with—one, because it looks fancy, and two, because of the abundance of paint options that includes more than the usual silver, darker silver, other silver, gray, white, pearlescent white and black. Now, we get to try them all out on the new McLaren GT.

    By Alanis King Read More
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    The Humble VW Golf Is Getting An Audi-Style Digital Dash

    Buried deep in the midst of Volkswagen’s annual shareholder meeting document are our first teasers at what the 2020 Golf 8's interior will look like ahead of its official release this October—and it’s a hell of a lot different than what we’re used to seeing from the Golf.

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    Stripes: Good? (Yes)

    Some cars have stripes. Some do not. It’s absolutely a matter of personal preference, since we have grudgingly accepted that more stripes do not mean more power. So, which is it—stripes or no stripes?

    By Kristen Lee Read More
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    Here's The Story Of How The 2020 Toyota Supra Was Born In Secret

    By this point everyone knows that the 2020 Toyota Supra is effectively a differently tuned, differently bodied BMW Z4. But how that partnership came to be began way back in 2012, and it began with the lead engineer for the Supra being pulled off the Toyota 86 launch for a secret meeting in Germany. And now we know Toyota and BMW initially disagreed on what to do, but it took a management change at the latter company to make it happen.

    By Michael Ballaban Read More
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    The IIHS Crash Test Ramming Car Has Pretty Sweet Rims

    I was just thinking about how nice a set of basketweave-style wheels would look on my 1984 Nissan 300ZX when I found myself watching the 2019 Mazda3 crash test, and realized: “Hey, the deathcart-thing that the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety uses as a battering ram has them!”

    By Andrew P. Collins Read More
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    Ford Wants Its Designers To Work In VR

    Imagine how much time a company could save if its employees could collaborate remotely with people around the world in real time. That’s the idea behind Ford’s collaboration with 3D VR tool Gravity Sketch, a first in the automotive industry.

    By Elizabeth Blackstock Read More
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    Cadillac Targeting Coveted Dead Person Market With XT5

    Given that I’m just barely experiencing my first quarter-life crisis, I haven’t given much thought to what I’d like to happen when I finally kick the bucket—but I can’t say I have big aspirations for my last ride ever to be in a crossover. Cadillac, though, thinks differently. Namely that its XT5 would make one hell of a sick hearse.

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    Why The 2020 Toyota Supra Has A BMW Inline-Six (And Why The 86 Had A Boxer Engine)

    After nearly a decade of buildup, the 2020 Toyota Supra is finally here. And the question that usually comes when you talk about it is this: Why? Why the BMW 3.0-liter turbo inline-six engine and platform? Why not an all-Toyota setup to headline this famous car’s comeback story? I talked to Tetsuya Tada, the car’s chief engineer and Toyota’s performance boss, and got some illuminating answers about car packaging, noise regulations and even why the other Toyota sports car has a Subaru motor.

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    The E46 BMW M3 CSL Might Be A Better Collector's Item Than A Driver's Car

    The BMW E46 design is widely considered one of the company’s best. Maybe I only think that because it was “the new M3” when my friends and I got driver’s licenses, but I know I’m not the only one who imagined the Euro-spec E46 M3 CSL was the ultimate street-legal M3 of our time. After hearing about what it’s actually like to drive, I’m not so sure though.

    By Andrew P. Collins Read More
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    What Exactly Is The Point Of The BMW 8 Series Gran Coupe Anyway?

    Maybe it’s because it’s a Friday afternoon after a long week or maybe it’s because I’m fed up over this stuff and feeling feisty. Either way, I’ve taken a look at this teaser image for the apparently upcoming BMW 8 Series Gran Coupe and cannot fathom why it needs to exist at all.

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Concept Cars (6)

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    BMW Recreated A Lost Gandini Concept From 1970 For Villa d'Este

    In 1970 Marcello Gandini designed the BMW Garmisch concept for Bertone. Following its debut at the Geneva Motor Show that year, the car simply disappeared and has not been seen since. This year for the Villa d’Este Concours, BMW recreated the coachbuilt Garmisch inch for inch, from an old neue klasse 2002, just as it had been done in 1970. A missing piece of BMW history has been recreated for, uh, funsies.

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    Volkswagen Should Absolutely Make Rabbit Confetti A Factory Paint Option

    During this weekend’s Southern Worthersee, Volkswagen debuted a slew of mildly modified new cars to the gathered Euro Tuner crowd. VW wants to lean in to the whole scene, and show off the concepts to folks who might be willing to perform these modifications to their own new Volkswagens. It’s like dressing your house when you go to sell it, right? You have to show what it can be.

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    Citroën's Weepy-Emoji Concept Is An Interesting Study Of What You Get After Building Cars For A Century

    This year marks the centenary of Citroën, a company named after a guy named after a lemon that has proven to be one of the most consistently innovative and bold automakers for an entire century. The company was one of the pioneers of unibodies and front-wheel drive, developed novel suspension systems, had striking styling, and it continues that to this day. This new concept, called the 19_19 (named for 1919, the year Citroën was founded), is an interesting example of where they’re imagining the

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    The Gruppe5 2002 Looks Like A Time Travelling DTM Car

    If you’ve been looking for a 1960s car that took a time machine to the future and re-crafted itself with modern components like an automotive Six Million Dollar Man, you’ve found it. The Gruppe5 2002 is quite obviously BMW 2002 inspired, but it has crazy huge flares and modern aero, a carbon fiber body, and a giant BMW V10 engine tuned to make up to 803 horsepower. This ain’t the 2002 you remember. It’s can be built. Gruppe5 has the technology.

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    Dodge Built A 797 HP Durango Concept For The One Lap Of America

    Dodge is pretty much king of the hill when it comes to muscle car power on the street and in dealer showrooms right now. Basically everything in a Dodge dealer can be optioned with a giant Hemi V8 with a supercharger stacked on top. That is, except for the Durango SUV, the beast which arguably needs the power injection most. The current highest power Durango is the SRT model with a naturally aspirated 475 horses.

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Crashes and Safety (6)

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    Sneaky Train Attacks Unsuspecting Police Car

    A Midland County, Texas Sheriff’s deputy vehicle was hit by a speeding train Tuesday. The large several thousand ton vehicle that follows a unique set of bespoke tracks came out of nowhere and assaulted the SUV. The deputy was alone in the vehicle at the time of the crash, and was transported to the hospital with minor injuries, according to local news reports.

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    Big Rig Appears To Come Out Of Nowhere, Crashes Into Semi

    Divided highways are great, because vehicles traveling at high speeds in the opposite direction are far away and out of danger. Well, at least in theory. This video here of two big rigs crashing nearly head-on shows that sometimes that big patch of grass isn’t enough.

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Crime (7)

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    This Homemade New York State Inspection Sticker Really Nails It

    Like many states, New York inspects cars to make sure they’re (roughly) safe enough to be on the road, and to prove that’s the case, they require an inspection sticker to be displayed on the windshield. Now, not everyone has the time, money, or a car that meets all the inspection standards, which can lead some people to make fake stickers. If you’re going to try this, though, I suggest you use more than the half of an ass.

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    Criminal Mastermind Steals Ferrari 288 GTO On Test Drive

    Police in Duesseldorf, Germany are on the lookout for the mastermind behind an intricately designed Danny Ocean-style heist of epic proportions orchestrated on Monday, according to the Associated Press. This person may be the smartest and most organized thief in history, as the many pieces of this puzzle needed to fall delicately into place in order for him to make off with the car.

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    Philadelphia Driver Goes Several Miles On Interstate Without Tires

    Vehicles, like any other functioning entities, are made up of different parts that work to operate the whole. Some of those parts are necessary, some aren’t, and some aren’t required but are highly recommended. Tires are around the top of the list in that last category, but it looks like someone didn’t get the memo.

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    Merely Watching A Sideshow Is Now A Crime In San Jose

    Street racing, stunting, sideshows—we’re not fans around here. Too many people get hurt, too many people get killed. But generally, we keep our criticisms to the participants. Now, however, even merely seeing an infamous West Coast-style sideshow in San Jose can kill you, Bird Box-style. Or put you in jail for up to six months and a $1,000 fine, one or the other.

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Entertainment (7)

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    Chernobyl's Cars Paint A Fascinating And Grim Picture Of Soviet Life

    At this very moment, the highest-rated television show on IMDb, beating out The Wire, Breaking Bad, the first few actually good seasons of Game of Thrones and other worshipped favorites is a bleakly terrifying mini-series about a nuclear disaster that happened 33 years ago in a country that no longer actually exists. The series is HBO’s Chernobyl, and in addition to being an incredibly engaging and disturbing account of what happened there, it is also a fantastic place to see lots of Soviet cars

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    Ford V. Ferrari, Showcasing The 1966 Battle At Le Mans, Comes Out Nov. 15

    Buried in today’s news that we are getting more Star Wars movies, which I’m not sure anybody really asked for, as well as more Avatar movies, which I absolutely know nobody asked for, is something far more interesting for car enthusiasts. It’s the release date for Ford V. Ferrari, a dramatization of the famed battle between those two marques at Le Mans in 1966. You’ll be able to see it in theaters Nov. 15.

    By Patrick George Read More
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    It's Time To Recognize Rey's Speeder As The Most Awesome "Car" In Star Wars

    It’s an eye-roll worthy pun, but today is unofficially Star Wars day, because “May the fourth be with you.” I don’t really need a reason to nerd out about one of my favorite film series in cinematic history, so any excuse is as good as any other, I suppose. Which is why I’m going to argue that Rey’s salvaging speeder on Jakku, as seen in the 2015 film The Force Awakens, is the most badass mode of transport in the whole of the Star Wars universe.

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    All Your Favorite Movie Star Cars Are Waiting For You At The Petersen Museum

    Are you visiting Los Angeles or do you live in Los Angeles and find yourself with nothing to do? If you like cars, movies and video games, then you should definitely think about getting yourself down to the Petersen Automotive Museum to check out its new “Hollywood Dream Machines: Vehicles of Science Fiction and Fantasy” exhibit.

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Found For Sale (11)

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    One Of The Tokyo Drift Ford Mustangs Is For Sale, But It Has A V8

    Fast and Furious: Tokyo Drift is a fine movie, made better by the fact that a Nissan Skyline GT-R straight-six engine gets stuffed into a 1967 Ford Mustang near the end. One of the Mustangs from the movie is for sale, fully restored and clean as can be, but it’s lacking that very thing—the RB26. Instead, it’s got a V8.

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    This Dually Ford Ranger Camper Is The Only Home I Could Ever Need

    Old Ford Rangers are some of the coolest pickup trucks money can buy. They’re cheap, dead simple, handsome, and compact. But while that last trait might make you think the Ranger isn’t suited for life as a camper, at least one company tried it anyway in the 1980s, and the result is just awesome.

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    Fix Overcrowded Roads By Driving The Tiniest Fiat

    Say it’s the mid-1970s and you drive the heavy traffic streets of Roma, Italia every day. The streets are filled with gigantic Fiat X1/9s, Alfasuds, and old Autobianchi Bianchinas. These four-wheeled pleasure barges are clogging your good city streets with excessive size and engine displacement. You need something smaller and more nimble to negotiate through the mean streets. Carrozzeria G.A.M.C. Baldi has just what you need.

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    There's A $6,000 Bugatti Veyron For Sale In India, I'm Pretty Sure

    If you’re looking for what is very likely the bargain of the century, you need to head over to India, where someone appears to be selling a stunning Bugatti Veyron for an astoundingly cheap ? 4,00,000, which comes to about $5,700 in damp American dollars. That’s a discount of about, oh, $1.2 million or so, which is pretty damn good. It’s possible that this Veyron may have been modified, or even that, somehow, this car is not a real Bugatti Veyron? Can’t be, though, right? This is probably just a

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    Drive Your Cars You Cowards

    Here at Jalopnik, we try not to be redundant in the subject matter of our blogs. Redundancy would be boring for us, boring for you, and would eventually rid us of our prized spot on your bookmark bar. But if there’s anything that needs to be said again, and again, and again, it’s this: Cars are meant to be driven.

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    This Is Exactly What You Should Do With A Surplus Red Bull Mini

    The “safari” look is so hot right now and I couldn’t be happier. Every car looks cool with knobby tires, a roof basket and some extraneous lights. Including (especially?) an old Mini that outgrew its job with Red Bull and is enjoying a second life as a tiny overlander.

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    How Best To Air Down Your Tires When You're Off-Road

    We generally think of underinflated tires as a bad thing, as it can wear out your tires more quickly on pavement and cost you fuel mileage. Off-road, it’s a whole different story, and in many, if not all, situations you’ll want some measure of underinflation. Just how much depends on what you’re doing, as Team O’Neil explains.

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    You Only Need Two Tools To Unlock This Common Car Boot

    Car booting is not only annoying for those who get booted, it’s an easy gateway for scammers to cheat people out of money, it often targets lower-income people, and it also compounds the basic problem of a car being in the way by making it unable to move. It turns out, a very common type of car boot is also super easy to remove without paying any fines.

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Motorcycles (6)

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    Harley-Davidson Is Working On A New Low-Cost Bike For Asian Markets: Report

    Harley-Davidson is in a period of massive upheaval right now, executing a plan to expand the brand beyond the company’s traditional image. The plan is to take the H-D brand into new markets, and expanding existing markets with a proposed influx of new products. The Milwaukee company announced last year that it wanted to work on developing small-displacement bikes for the motorcycle-crazy Indian market, and it’s following through on that plan.

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    Brave Rider Tackles The Nürburgring On A Honda Africa Twin

    We don’t often hear about motorcycles at the Nürburgring. For one thing, the track doesn’t allow motorcycles to set official lap times around the full track like cars can, so riders are limited to the Bridge to Gantry lap time. For another, riding a bike at that track is an incredible feat that I, for one, wouldn’t feel comfortable doing. This guy takes things to the next level, however, setting a fast BtoG time on a Honda adventure bike on a greasy day.

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    How Motorcycle School Made Me A Better Driver

    I took and passed the Motorcycle Safety Foundation’s basic riding course this past weekend, the one you need in New York state to get your motorcycle endorsement without taking a road test. It was not easy, but I did leave with a pretty high level of confidence in my ability to safely operate a bike. I was surprised to learn what it taught me about regular-car driving, too.

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    Triumph Proves That Bigger Is Better With Limited Production 2.5-Liter Rocket 3 TFC

    The British are usually quiet and reserved, but when they decide to go wild things like this happen. There are zero situations where anyone would need a 2,500cc three-cylinder engine with 168 horsepower and 163 lb-ft of torque, but Triumph’s Factory Custom division decided to make that available in the new Rocket 3 TFC. Thankfully only 750 of these big bruisers will be built for the world’s most manic riders, and only 225 of those will make it to the U.S. market.

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    Dani Pedrosa Is The Retired Rider We Should All Want To Be

    It’s hard to have regrets when you’re a retired legendary MotoGP rider, but the fact that Dani Pedrosa left the sport without a championship has to continue to weigh on him. After winning the 125cc championship and two 250cc championships all in a row Honda moved him up into MotoGP on a rocketship path to the top. After 13 seasons of almosts and what could have beens, Pedrosa retired at the end of 2018. His story is an interesting one.

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    Harley-Davidson Offers Students An Opportunity To Ride For College Credit

    If you’re a student at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, you have the option of taking an elective course with the objective of learning to ride a motorcycle, specifically a Harley-Davidson Street 500. This class would have had way more practical real life application than the electives I took in college, namely Snowboarding and History of Rock & Roll. I might remember the lessons better than I remember my four years of Mandarin Chinese, as well.

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News (16)

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    Tesla Is Still Using The Phrase 'Full Self-Driving' To Describe Its Cars Even Though It's Wrong

    Even though I get accused every now and then of being some miserable Tesla-hater who just wants to impede human progress and see Elon Musk weep, I have to deny that. I don’t hate Tesla. I think it’s a fascinating company that has made some really impressive and well-designed cars as it leads the rest of the industry into an electric revolution. I also think it occasionally makes some really terrible decisions. One of those is how Tesla describes its Autopilot system, a choice of words that is at

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    This Is How Much Better Tires And A Few Decades Make A Difference

    It’s easy to forget that cars—even or especially performance cars—do get markedly better over time. Take this comparison of a 1987 Ruf CTR and a 2018 Porsche 911 GT3 on the same stretch of the Nürburgring. The Ruf driver is engaged in battle, while the 911 driver might as well have been sipping tea.

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    The ATS-V And CTS-V Replacements Are Almost Here

    The Cadillac ATS-V and CTS-V are some of the best and funnest cars on the market today, facts that, alas, weren’t enough to convince buyers, with Cadillac killing off the ATS altogether. But we also knew the CT5 and CT4 were coming as replacements. And we’ll get V Series versions of those, too, Cadillac’s confirmed.

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    GM Thought About Selling Its Detroit Headquarters: Report

    General Motors is headquartered at Detroit’s Renaissance Center, which was actually built by Henry Ford II in the 1970s the first time there was hope of a Detroit renaissance. GM has been there since 1996, though they recently considered selling it, apparently as part of a cost-cutting measure.

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    Fernando Alonso And McLaren Did Not Qualify For The Indy 500

    After struggling to make time in top-30 qualifying yesterday, Fernando Alonso and his McLaren team borrowed setup notes from Penske and negotiated shock absorbers from Andretti in an effort to run a little quicker. Alonso did run about a tenth of a mile per hour quicker in a rain delayed qualifying Sunday afternoon, but it was not quite enough to make it happen.

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    Your Ridiculously Awesome Volkswagen Beetle Wallpaper Is Here

    I wouldn’t usually pick a parking lot as a wallpaper-worthy backdrop, but there is something about this slot-mag equipped Beetle really caught my eye. For one thing, it’s a gorgeous shade of blue, and for another, the lighting is spectacular. This is a case of the car and the time of day outshining the location. Great photo.

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    Your Ridiculously Awesome Ford Mustang GT350 Wallpaper Is Here

    Light painting and long exposure night shots are impressive and difficult to accomplish. While there is certainly some post processing going on here, it makes for an exquisite image. Without the light painting, one would fear the Mustang shown here would simply get lost in the murky black of night. This is a well composed shot with excellent effort expended.

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    I Dare Porsche To Actually Build This Stunning 917 Concept

    Porsche unveiled a photo of this 917 concept in March to mark the 50th anniversary of the unveiling of the original 917, back in 1969. It released new photos of the model today and it’s really too bad they don’t have the guts to actually build the thing.

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    This Savage McLaren F1 Hillclimb Racer Is A Ridiculously Fast Impostor

    I have to begin this by saying that I don’t think about the McLaren F1 much anymore. There was a time when it overwhelmed my daydreams, but as prices have gone stratospheric and all of its performance statistics have been eclipsed by modern technology, it’s just not relevant to my workaday life anymore. That is, until I saw video of this McLaren F1 with a Mitsubishi engine racing in an Austrian hillclimb today. My curiosity was piqued.

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    Lexus Is Making A Replacement For The CT 200h For Some Reason

    They still sell the Lexus CT 200h in places that aren’t the U.S. (having killed it off here in 2017), though the model currently on offer hasn’t been updated much since it was first introduced in 2011. But according to Autocar, Lexus is working on what could be a replacement, likely for 2021. It’ll be smaller than the UX at least. This is for the better, since the CT 200h was never, exactly, beloved.

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    Now GM Is Having Trouble With Trucks And China

    If anyone tells you making cars is easy, turn around and leave. Prep yourself for getting into the world of earnings and EVs, as things get weird. All that and more on The Morning Shift for Wednesday, May 1, 2019.

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Nostalgia You Can Taste (6)

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    A Brief Reminder That The Acura NSX Almost Had A Glorious V10

    2008 wasn’t that long ago, but it sure feels like it. In 2008, you could get away with wearing flare jeans, everyone was Heath Ledger’s Joker for Halloween and automakers were still happy to stick V10s in their cars. Remember how the Acura NSX almost had a V10? Best Motoring sure does.

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    Toyota Will Soon Offer New Parts For The MKIII And MKIV Supra

    If you have a third- or fourth-generation Toyota Supra, you shouldn’t feel left out by all this “new Supra” talk. You certainly aren’t forgotten, least of all by Toyota. Jealous that the new Supra will have years and years of OEM parts to choose from? Not a worry, your time will come soon.

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    The Best 300SL Gullwing Replica Is One That Does Mad Burnouts

    I saw this car in the real at the SEMA show last fall, and I had to do a double take. My first impression was that some damn fool had modified an original Mercedes-Benz 300SL Gullwing coupe, and I was going to have to throw hands. But as I walked around the car it unveiled its secrets to me. Looking inside, it was obvious that the car couldn’t be original as the interior wasn’t proper Gullwing, and the automatic shifter sticking out of the dash outed the car as a more modern AMG-built SLK wearin

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    Behold: Akio Toyoda's Personal 8,400-Mile 1993 Toyota Supra Turbo

    Running your own car company comes with certain perks: hanging out at race tracks whenever you feel like it or gaining a cult following just for tweeting insane shit all day. Toyota CEO and president Akio Toyoda has always seemed like a fun guy, one heavily involved with racing and bringing fun cars back into the Toyota fold. Now we learn he’s got a pretty sweet old Toyota Supra he keeps stashed in Texas, too.

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    The E92 BMW M3 GTS Demands Respect

    Time passes in a very strange way if you don’t pay attention to it. If you’d asked me this morning what year the E92 BMW M3 GTS was released, I’d probably have given an answer much shorter than reality. That reality, a cruel one at that, is that the GTS was first announced nearly a full decade ago in late 2009. I still think that rear wing is dumb and bad, but the rest of the car is honest to goodness track monster stuff.

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    The 924S Is More Than A Less Expensive Porsche

    In the late 1980s Porsche was running out of options as the pricing of the 944 ballooned out of reach of many American drivers. As they had done in the past with the 912E, Porsche introduced a stop-gap price leader to attempt to keep the competition at bay and continue to garner foot traffic in dealer showrooms, the 924S.

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    This Plane Safely Landed Without Front Wheels

    Passengers on a Myanmar National Airlines plane experienced the ride of their lives over the weekend, as the landing gear of their Embraer jet failed and pilot Captain Myat Moe Aung had to improvise. Actually, he didn’t improvise so much as follow emergency procedures, and proceeded to save everybody on board.

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    Delta Thinks Its Employees Are Morons

    Delta, an airline company that absorbs over $5 billion in annual profit and has a share price that’s soared to over eight times its value since 2011, does not want its flight attendants to unionize and demand fair compensation as a unit. Instead of making more money, the airline asks, how about... video games?

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    Aeroflot Superjet-100 Fire Turns Fatal At Sheremetyevo Airport [Updated]

    Horrifying visuals trickled out of Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport as an Aeroflot Superjet-100 burst into a huge ball of flames 27 minutes into a flight to Murmansk. The pilot managed to call in the emergency, land, and get the plane stopped. Once stopped, the plane was evacuated, but in the process many passengers were injured and one fatally.

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    How The Extreme Porsche 911 GT3 RS Compares To The Even Faster Porsche 911 GT2 RS

    I’m going to throw a hypothetical your way. Let’s say that, unlike certain people, you decided not to spend $350,000 (or more) to make sure your spawn—a budding Instagram celebro-shill with less-than-stellar SAT scores—gets into the University of Southern California. Let’s say you decide to spend that money on yourself instead, on an extreme Porsche to enjoy while your kids fend for themselves. Which one do you buy?

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    Show Us The F1 Engine, Porsche

    Porsche stands as one of the winningest producers of Formula 1 engines in the history of the sport from its TAG-branded McLaren days, but also one of the most secretive. In the 1990s, a failed V10 program was stashed away, re-engineered for a Le Mans challenge that was also never realized, before becoming the Carrera GT engine. What once was hidden is best revealed, Porsche. Show us the new one.

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    A NASCAR Driver On Why You Have To Cheat To Win

    If you’ve followed NASCAR for any amount of time, you’ll know that the sport has a bit of a problem with cheating. It’s as much a part of NASCAR as milk is to the Indy 500. But driver Clint Bowyers is now claiming that the new rules basically require you to cheat to even have a modicum of success.

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    The Electric Marathon Is The All-EV Rally You've Never Heard Of

    On Monday, six cars set out from Monte Carlo, Monaco en route to St. Petersburg, Russia. The 2,920-mile rally will pass through 10 countries and 29 cities in a mere 11 days. And did I mention that all the cars are fully electric? It’s called the Electric Marathon rally, and it’s the coolest all-EV racing series you’ve maybe never heard of.

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    How To Survive A Rainy Race Weekend Without Hating Yourself

    It’s the worst feeling in the world: You’ve planned a beautiful vacation to see neat cars going real fast in circles, only to check the weather the day before you leave and discover that it looks more like you should be preparing for a long trip on Noah’s Ark. But never fear, friends! You can still have a very fun and cool time, despite the weather!

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    The Fascinating Reason Why NASCAR Engines Run So Hot

    The average car on the road today keeps its engine running at around 200 degrees Fahrenheit, but a NASCAR racing engine runs around 280. Here’s the reasoning behind this, why teams run ice-water through their engines, and more fascinating facts about NASCAR engine cooling systems.

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    The Ford GT Is Going To Race Its Last Le Mans In The Good Liveries

    The Le Mans 24 hour race next month will be Ford’s last for the current Ford GT program. The car has served its purpose, it won the big race again, gave Ford the headlines it needed, and it’s dumping this whole expensive international sports car program like a bad habit. The crew have one last opportunity to take on the big show in France, and the cars—well, three of them at least—will do it in style with some awesome throwback liveries.

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    Give Us Your Indy 500 Predictions

    33 drivers have qualified for their spot on the grid of the Indianapolis 500. The green flag is about to fall for the 103rd running of one of the greatest races of the year. With one-lap averages in qualifying hitting 228 miles per hour, these racers are going real damn fast. There are about three hours for everything to go wrong, to get caught up in someone else’s drama, and to have mistakes happen. And we want to know what you think will happen.

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    Monaco Grand Prix Provides Intrigue Formula One Has Been Sorely Lacking

    A surprisingly competitive and interesting Monaco Grand Prix has ended with Lewis Hamilton taking yet another 2019 victory on positively creamed front tires ahead of a hard charging Max Verstappen. Even with a last minute chuck down the inside going into the Nouvelle Chicane, Max couldn’t make anything stick on Hamilton.

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    Lewis Hamilton's Record-Setting Monaco Pole Lap Could Have Been Even Faster

    In qualifying for the Monaco Grand Prix Saturday, Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton took the pole position with an incredible record-setting lap time of 1 minute 10.166 seconds. This time was less than a tenth of a second quicker than teammate Valtteri Bottas, who will start the Grand Prix from second. The crazy thing about all this speed, however, is that Hamilton’s lap was far from clean.

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    Weekend Motorsports Roundup; May 25-26th, 2019

    Welcome to the Jalopnik Weekend Motorsports Roundup, where we let you know what’s going on in the world of racing, where you can see it, and where you can talk about it all in one convenient place. Where else would you want to spend your weekend?

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    It's Kimi Raikkonen's Party And He'll Cancel It If He Wants To

    Milestones are often joyous occasions, for those able to suppress the existential dread about getting older and closer to death with each milestone they pass. But Formula One driver Kimi Raikkonen doesn’t want your arbitrary milestones, nor does he want any of the silly celebrations you’ve planned for him.

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    McLaren Won't Let Its Massive Indy 500 Failure Derail Its IndyCar Future

    McLaren tried and failed, miserably, to run the Indianapolis 500 this year, from the wrong paint color causing the team to miss nearly two days of track time to mistakes in converting inches into the metric system. But that and its failure to qualify for the big race won’t derail its IndyCar plans—whatever those may be.

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    BMW And Its Gigantic M8 Will Pull Out Of WEC After Le Mans

    After becoming a meme at the 24 Hours of Le Mans last year, one might think BMW would prefer a more quiet day-long race this time around. Instead, BMW’s making news before the race begins—by announcing that after just one season, Le Mans will mark the end of its time in the World Endurance Championship.

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    How Niki Lauda Won

    He didn’t take pole position. He wasn’t even on the front row. He qualified fifth, behind faster cars and wilder drivers. And yet it was Niki Lauda who won.

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    The Mysterious Energy Drink Sponsoring America's F1 Team Tastes Like Ass

    A while back, Jalopnik’s own Alanis King and Elizabeth Blackstock looked in to Formula One’s strangest sponsor, Rich Energy. If you’re baffled as to how a come-out-of-nowhere energy drink that’s difficult to find (at best) can sponsor an F1 team, you’re not alone. Amid the facts and figures in that story, what stuck out to me is that Rich Energy is apparently available in the UK, yet the six people sent out to find it came up empty.

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    McLaren Will Host A $50,000 Monument To Its Failure At The Indy 500

    Cheesy sayings might get annoying over time, but that doesn’t make them any less true. Don’t count your chickens before they’re hatched, after all, would’ve been great advice for those in charge of booking McLaren’s Indy 500 hospitality—now an extravagant monument to its own amazing failure to make the race.

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    You Have No Idea How Much McLaren Blew It This Time

    Among all the times McLaren has blown it, this might be the most blown that it has ever been. You already know that two-time Formula One world champion Fernando Alonso failed to qualify for the Indianapolis 500 on Sunday. But what you may not know is just how unprepared his McLaren team was for the qualifying effort. There are metric tons of anecdotal evidence that McLaren has bigger problems in Jenna Fryer’s new report for the Associated Press.

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    McLaren Won't Buy Its Way Into The Indy 500

    Motorsport’s big star in an always-faltering car, Fernando Alonso, was one of three drivers who failed to make the field for this year’s Indianapolis 500—leaving Alonso and his McLaren team with the choice of either trying to buy their way in or going home. They’ve chosen to go home.

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    Billy Monger Takes Pau Grand Prix Victory Two Years After Losing Both Legs In Formula 4 Crash

    Billy Monger’s road to victory has been an impressive and inspirational one. In April of 2017, Monger lost both of his legs colliding with a stationary car during the 6th round of the British Formula 4 championship. With a never-say-can’t attitude, he was back to racing within 10 months, using a specially modified car fitted with hand controls. This year, Monger switched to international open wheel racing, joining the Euroformula Open grid, and this weekend brought home the hardware with a rainy

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    Spend Some Quality Time With The Tyrrell Six-Wheeler

    If you’re going to pick an unorthodox Formula One car from history to be the one you idolize and hold on high above all others, the Tyrrell P34 isn’t a bad choice. Aside from maybe the Brabham “sucker car” the six-wheeler is one of the best known F1 cars to change things up in an attempt at a faster lap speed. In concept this car was designed to be more aerodynamically slick, as the twin front wheels were short enough to sit down below the line of the front wing.

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    Fernando Alonso And McLaren Provisionally Bumped From Indy 500 Grid

    Fernando Alonso and his McLaren #66 Dallara Chevrolet have been on the bubble in top-30 qualifying Saturday. After switching to a McLaren solo effort supported by Carlin Motorsports this year, following a successful run in 2017 with an Andretti-supported effort, the team doesn’t seem to be doing as well without the help of a front runner.

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    Weekend Motorsports Roundup; May 18-19th, 2019

    Welcome to the Jalopnik Weekend Motorsports Roundup, where we let you know what’s going on in the world of racing, where you can see it, and where you can talk about it all in one convenient place. Where else would you want to spend your weekend?

    By Bradley Brownell Read More
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    Mercedes F1 Boss Says It's Not Realistic To Think His Team Will Win Every Race This Year

    Given that the two Mercedes Formula One teammates have finished first and second in all five races so far this year, the thought might have crossed your mind to sleep in—or take a daytime nap during, depending on where you live—a race or two. But cool it, because even Mercedes F1 boss Toto Wolff doesn’t think it’s realistic to assume his team will win every race this year.

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    Beware The Angry Fiat, It's Coming For You

    There are a few different schools of thought among drag racers. Many Americans subscribe to the large, heavy hitting V8 bruisers with giant slicks on the back. This little Italian racer is the polar opposite of that, as it takes a tiny Fiat Uno, decreases the weight, and increases the revs and adds a fistful of turbo boost to make a quarter mile disappear in double time.

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    We're Getting A Dutch Grand Prix But F1 Drivers Think It Could Be Terrible

    The Formula One Dutch Grand Prix is back next year for the first time in more than three decades, at the same track it last ran at in 1985—Circuit Zandvoort, along the Netherlands’ North Sea coast. But nice scenery and triumphant return to a historic track aside, some drivers think it’ll be rather uneventful to watch.

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    The F1 Dutch Grand Prix Is Coming Back For The First Time Since 1985

    For the first time in more than three decades, Formula One will host a Dutch Grand Prix next year. The race track that will get the honors is the one that last hosted the race all of those years ago, the Zandvoort in the Netherlands—after some upgrades to meet modern FIA track standards, that is.

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    This Hillclimb Car Is A Freaking Legend

    Like meeting a stranger in a strange place, this circle track legends car has been converted to compete in short narrow hillclimb events in the UK. Instead of howling around a short dirt oval ever turning in one direction, this freed beast shouts its way up a sub-1-minute course. In the video below you can see just how frantic the experience of driving one of these can actually be.

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    Teens Set Fire To Old Race Track, Get Caught Posting It On Snapchat

    There are a few basic guidelines for social media, with some main ones being to never tweet, for obvious reasons, and, if you’re going to commit a crime, not to post about it online—again, for obvious reasons. But that’s exactly what some teens did at a Pennsylvania speedway recently, leading to their arrest for an act of arson that caused thousands in damage.

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    How To Camp At The Track When You Hate Camping

    There comes a time in every race fan’s life when they have to make a crucial decision. Do I spend an obscene amount of money on a hotel and commute to the track somehow, or do I strip away all the conveniences of modern life and camp? Sometimes, though, roughing it in the campsite is the only way to go. If you must, here is what to do.

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    Oldest F1 Team Claims Their Car Is Bad Because They're So Young

    There’s so much pre-season hype in Formula One that one of the best talking points of the year itself is how every single team but Mercedes chalks up their lack of competition. This time around, it happens to be that Ferrari—F1's oldest still-running team—is claiming itself to be so “young” that they don’t quite know what they’re doing yet.

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    The Panoz LMP1 Roadster-S Bucked Tradition And Looked Good Doing It

    I’m sorry, this is America. We don’t do mid-engine race cars. Shove a big V8 up front and point that long nose where you want it to go, then jam on the loud pedal and you’re bound to win. Straight out of the heart of Georgia, up jump the Panoz LMP1 Roadster-S. She may not be the winningest motor car this side of the Mississip’, but she’ll make you tear up with happiness at the sound of her.

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    Weekend Motorsports Roundup; May 11-12, 2019

    Welcome to the Jalopnik Weekend Motorsports Roundup, where we let you know what’s going on in the world of racing, where you can see it, and where you can talk about it all in one convenient place. Where else would you want to spend your weekend?

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    F1 Could Drop Two Of Its Current Race Tracks For New Ones Next Season

    Formula One’s plans for its calendar change more often than the lead on track, with some venues in danger of being dropped, others ready to fill the openings, and some threatening their own slot due to financial drama. The latest change, reports say, is that F1 will drop two current tracks for new ones next year.

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    Hell Yes, Formula E Wants A Sustainable Night Race

    Racing at night is a little bit like racing in the rain: it’s a whole new discipline for drivers to master, and it’s exciting as hell. Now that they’ve gotten their first wet race out of the way, Formula E is now looking into a night race, but only if they can do it in an environmentally friendly way.

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    Red Bull Racing's New F1 Motorhome Is Nicer Than Every House I've Ever Been In

    If you’ve ever wanted to witness an obscene display of wealth, look no further than Formula One. While, yes, we all know that the cars are expensive, we often forget about all the other shit that’s transported to the track—like, for example, Red Bull Racing’s absurd “motorhome” that looks more like an Alpine cabin than, uh, an actual motorhome.

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    The 'Millennial-Inspired' NASCAR Race Car Is Actually Not That Bad?

    Back in November, a PR company for Busch Beer used the phrases “#Basic,” “V lit,” “lit AF” and “#Swag” all within the same email. It’s unclear whether eyes and/or brain of the person who wrote it spontaneously combusted afterward, but one thing was clear: that whatever this was would be a cringe-fest.

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    Here Is Some Of That Good Driving

    You’re in your car. Surrounding you: honks, beeps, meeps, toots, bizz buzzes. What does not surround you? Good driving, as seen here, with the inimitable Jordan Cox passing roughly 900 cars at the start of this race at Bathurst in Australia, then moving to overtake yet more cars on the grass.

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    Rally Driver Shows Drifter How To Have A Good Time In The Dirt

    When you put Ken Block in an Escort Cosworth, it’s a party. When you invite Mad Mike Whiddett along for the ride, you just know things are going to get crazy. Ken’s Cossie World Tour is currently running its second leg this weekend in New Zealand at the Rally Whangarei. The testing stages were open last week for Ken to log some miles in the still new car, testing new suspension setups and differential settings. That test stage just happened to be about 20 minutes from Mad Mike’s shop, so he swun

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    The W Series Broadcast Had A Bumpy Start But The Racing Shows A Lot Of Promise

    Saturday marked the first of six races in the FIA’s women-only W Series of open wheel racers from the Hockenheimring sharing the weekend with DTM. The damp racing surface and a muddy hairpin resulted in some exciting crashes, dicey moves, and more passing than you’d see in a California HOV lane. The cars are a little on the slow side, but the racers are opportunistic and serious. Sadly, the series absolutely flubbed the launch.

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    Weekend Motorsport Roundup; May 4-5, 2019

    Welcome to the Jalopnik Weekend Motorsports Roundup, where we let you know what’s going on in the world of racing, where you can see it, and where you can talk about it all in one convenient place. Where else would you want to spend your weekend?

    By Bradley Brownell Read More
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    This Toyota Can Offer The World Nothing But More Glorious Speed

    The world’s relationship with race cars is give give give, and race cars do nothing but take take take. Toyota’s TS050 LMP1 race car consumes hundreds of tires, thousands of gallons of fuel, and millions of dollars in an FIA WEC season, and all we have to show for it as a society is sweet sweet speed. It’s fast and ridiculous and glorious. And in the end, isn’t that what we need more of?

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    Ayrton Senna's Legacy Will Live On As Long As Formula One Keeps Striving For Safety

    Ayrton Senna is the epitome of what we think of when we imagine a racing driver. Charismatic with a near-religious fervor for the sport that etched his name into the history books, Senna gave viewers a taste of sheer excitement packed into the space of a lap. He was incredibly quick and precise behind the wheel. He was involved in one of the most compelling rivalries in F1's history. One of the all-time greats, he stands firmly among the likes of Jackie Stewart, Jack Brabham, and Niki Lauda as a

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    Here's How The Women-Only W Series Races Will Work

    The W Series, the women only single-seater championship that we have some thoughts about, begins its inaugural season this weekend. Just a few days before the beginning of that inaugural season, the series announced just how its rules, events and six-race championship will work.

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    Jeff Bezos' Lunar Lander Is A Modular Multipurpose Landing System

    There are two well-known crazy rich guys building rockets right now, and while Elon Musk and SpaceX tend to get most of the attention—mostly because they are actually doing real things in space—Jeff Bezos and his company, Blue Origin, have been developing some interesting launch vehicles and other space hardware, including a new lunar landing system unveiled yesterday. The lander is called Blue Moon, and it’s interesting in that it’s not a single-purpose lander like the Apollo LEM, but appears t

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    Company Sold NASA Faulty Rocket Parts For Almost 20 Years

    As comforting as it can be to know you’re not the only person in the world who has desperately screwed up today, it can be, uh, pretty disconcerting to learn that NASA messed up way worse. As in, buying faulting rocket parts for two whole entire decades worse.

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Technology (21)

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    Online-Based Ridesharing Mobility-As-A-Service Platform For Sale

    A new mobility platform with an iconic brand and innovative approach to scalable modality is for sale, CNN reports. The service, which boasts nearly 17 million yearly active users, uses a web-and-app-based purchasing platform to coordinate new mobility solutions using large transportation modules in a highly scalable, environmentally-friendly platform that reduces urban congestion.

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    Uber Lost Another Billion Dollars, NBD

    Uber’s first quarterly earnings report as a publicly-traded company tells us much of the same as every other report the company has ever released about its finances: they can’t stop, won’t stop losing so much freaking money.

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    Uber Launches New Program To Get Drivers Who Can't Afford Cars To Drive Cars For Them

    Uber was once a modest company with modest goals: unleash the power of the free market in a heavily-regulated industry to provide on-demand, convenient rides while allowing folks with cars to make extra cash driving people around. It didn’t take long for that modest goal to morph into much more, including advertisements boasting of $90,000 annual incomes driving for Uber, a false advertising claim that cost Uber $20 million in fines.

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    Volkswagen Delivers What We've All Been Wanting In A Concept Car: Holograms In The Trunk

    Have you ever been driving a car nice and hard, really giving it the beans and pushing it hard through the corners, when the realization suddenly hits you that, hey, this thing would be much better if there was a big hologram emitter in the floor of the trunk? Sure you have—we all have. Volkswagen has finally done something about this, and the result is a one-off GTI with a powerful sound system with a revolutionary holographic interface in the hatch.

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    Different Strokes For Different Folks: A Super Cruise Discussion

    GM’s Super Cruise system is, by some accounts, the best semi-autonomous system on the market today. If safety is part of the consideration, and it should be, then it is certainly the best. But it isn’t without its flaws, such as that little problem about direct sunlight throwing the system into total confusion and kicking control back to the driver.

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    Chevron And EVgo Partner To Build Fast Chargers At Gas Stations

    EVgo wants to bring electric car charging infrastructure to the mainstream by fitting them in convenient places. Far too often are electric charging stations placed in the middle of nowhere without even so much as shelter from the rain or a place to relieve yourself. It makes sense to place these battery top up spots at locations with a (sometimes) clean WC, and a little store with a few snacks and beverages for the road. That’s why Chevron is jumping on the EV bandwagon.

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    GM's New Electrics Could Be Why The Mid-Engine Corvette Isn't Here Yet

    If you hated General Motors’ current infotainment system, then rest assured with the knowledge that a replacement is on its way. And it’s not just a replacement for the infotainment, either—it seems like there’s an update from the ground up. Unfortunately, this update may or may not have delayed GM’s other big projects; namely, the mid-engine Chevrolet Corvette.

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    The Legal Argument That Could Destroy Uber

    Days after Uber began selling stock, the National Labor Relations Board’s top lawyer gave the company a huge gift. In an advice memo, the general counsel’s office determined that Uber’s drivers are independent contractors, not employees. If drivers are legally determined to be employees, it would throw Uber’s entire business model into question by giving drivers, among other rights, the ability to collectively bargain for pay and working conditions.

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    Self-Driving Shuttle Gets Pulled Over By Police Just Hours After Rhode Island Launch

    Police in Providence, Rhode Island Wednesday pulled over a May Mobility self-driving shuttle just hours after it was pressed into service for the first time. Making its debut in Rhode Island, the officer pulled in behind the shuttle as it was dropping off passengers and lit up the car’s blues and reds because they were unfamiliar with the oddly shaped people transporter.

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    What It's Like To Drive A Solar-Powered Car

    There was a sharp, stabbing pain in my back. My left shoulder was wedged in the midst of some sort of metal cage. I was too old, too fat, and too uncomfortable to do anything. I was driving a car powered by nothing but the sun.

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    Uber Is 'Worth' Twice As Much As Ford Because That's The Insane World We Live In Now

    Every high school economics teacher tells their students—or should, at least—that the entire field depends on the assumption that people act rationally. This is not because people aren’t stupid—good Lord, are people stupid—but because it’s more convenient. It’s really hard to model stupidity, since stupid people do lots of different stupid things, but smart people only do the smart thing.

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    BMW M Cars Will Get On-The-Fly Adjustable Braking

    The BMW M8 and M8 Competition will get a new generation of BMW’s adjustable drive modes. Plenty of cars now come with “comfort” and “sporty” settings for steering, suspension, and throttle response. But BMW will be one of the first to also offer braking feel adjustments from the dashboard.

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    Software Developer Uses AI To Imagine A World Without Cars

    It’s next to impossible to get away from cars. With an estimated 1.2 billion of them on the roads, it’s hard to picture a world where cars aren’t lining the streets, congested on highways, or tucked away in garages. Software developer Chris Harris (no, not that Chris Harris) wondered something that is practically impossible to imagine in the 21st century: what would the world look like without cars?

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    Uber's Twisted Logic Means This Isn't A Strike. It's A Boycott

    Today, many Uber and Lyft drivers in major cities across the country are striking to protest their pay and working conditions, in large part because they’re classified as independent contractors instead of employees. But Uber doesn’t think of its drivers as independent contractors or employees. It believes drivers are, in fact, Uber’s customers.

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    U.S. Ride Share Drivers Will Strike On May 8th Ahead Of Uber IPO

    Uber and Lyft drivers in major U.S. cities have united to strike during peak hours on Wednesday May 8th for two hours from 7AM to 9AM local time, according to a report from Autoblog. Cities which may see rush hour even more rush-y include New York, San Francisco, Chicago, and Los Angeles, among others. The strike is a protest of business and payment practices ahead of Uber’s planned IPO on May 9th with trading on the stock exchange to begin the following day.

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    This Is What A State-Of-The-Art Self-Driving Car 'Sees' Versus What You See

    This is something that I’ve been lucky enough to see on some prototypes, but it’s more than a little valuable for the public to get a sense of what a self-driving car “sees” when driving down the road. In this case, we have one of Waymo’s test cars predicting the path of a cyclist before a crash might even happen.

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    The 2019 Toyota Crown Is The RWD Japanese Luxury Cruiser The Avalon Should've Been

    Since 1955, the Toyota Crown has been a staple of Toyota’s lineup. It’s not only one of the automaker’s oldest models, but also one of the oldest car nameplates still around today. Only a handful of models outdate it, such as the Volkswagen Beetle, Chevrolet Corvette, Mercedes-Benz SL, and of course Toyota’s own Land Cruiser. The Crown name has been around longer than the Ford Mustang, Mini, and Porsche 911.

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    How The 2020 Toyota Supra Compares To The Toyota 86 In Real-World Driving

    Two sports cars. Both are rear-wheel drive. Both have two doors. Both have the same badge—Toyota. Curiously, neither of them has a Toyota engine. One costs literally twice as much as the other. They’re as different as they are similar. So when you drive the new 2020 Toyota Supra and the aging but still delightful Toyota 86 back to back, what do you learn?

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    The 2020 Toyota Supra Is Not What We Expected But It Is Very Good

    There was a time in my life, starting in the late 1990s and lasting several years after that, where I’d pore over every car magazine I could get my hands on looking for one specific thing. Sure, I devoured the latest news and reviews. But more than anything, I wanted to know what was going on with the new Toyota Supra.

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    The 2021 Chevy Trailblazer Looks Decent But It's Not The Off-Road Beast You Hoped For

    Chevy impressed no one with the 2020 Chevrolet Blazer, sticking a legendary nameplate onto a crossover with the “presence of a bowl of cream of mushroom soup” as my colleague Jason accurately put it. “But perhaps the Trailblazer will be the real off-roader,” I hoped. Nope, the U.S. market Trailblazer looks just like the one shown in China earlier this year, which is to say: a Camaro face on a crossover body.

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    Kohl's Is Selling A T-Shirt With A Truck On It That Could Inspire Fights And Riots

    I don’t think we’ve ever had such a dire story involving Kohl’s department stores before, or even mentioning Kohl’s at all. But there’s a T-shirt for sale at Kohl’s as we speak that appears to have been deliberately designed to ignite a powder keg of truck-based tension and hostility. Is this a mistake, or a cunning act of sabotage? We may never know, but we can at least take this moment to plead for a peaceful resolution. What’s on the shirt? A truck. A truck that has the potential to ignite th

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    Quick Question: What Makes A Truck A Truck?

    Earlier today I was doing some research on an interesting 4x4 vehicle that predated the world-famous Jeep, when an interesting question came up: is a Jeep a truck? It seems like a passenger vehicle, but it was technically categorized as a truck. And that got me thinking: what exactly makes a truck a truck?

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    You Can Now Get The 6.2-Liter V8 In More, Cheaper Chevy Silverado Trims

    The entire concept of offering multiple trim levels for a vehicle is so consumers have choice over what they can buy for the money they have, which is why it’s a smart move that GM is making its 6.2-liter V8 engine available on three more Chevy Silverado trims. That also makes it a little cheaper to get the big V8.

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    Here's A Solid Primer On Essential Off-Road Recovery Gear

    You could spend the MSRP of your truck all over again buying off-road accessories and recovery gear. Some of the stuff is superfluous, some just sucks, and some is really useful on the trail. 4Wheeling Australia’s Ronny Dahl has a pretty good introductory video here breaking down some basics.

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    Rivian Put An Overlanding Kitchen In Its R1T And It Rules

    If you are a company catering to truck and SUV buyers and you want to make a splash, one way to do that is to show off your product at Overland Expo. This event has grown from a fledgling gathering of off road independents to the SEMA-esque display of rugged products from all over the world. Even some OEMs have gotten in on the fun. Based in Flagstaff, Arizona, this year’s Overland Expo features a really interesting concept from Rivian, a full camping kitchen that hides away when you’re not usin

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    The Nissan Frontier Has A Little Life Left In It After All

    The Nissan Frontier is a fine pickup truck, but its biggest problem is that there’s not really a compelling reason to get a 2019 model over a 2009. I don’t know why Nissan can’t be bothered to revise the vehicle, but I do like its newest take on it: the Nissan Destination Frontier. It’s not a new official trim level, rather a smart lean on the aftermarket to try and bump the truck’s appeal without spending any real money.

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    Jeep People Honor School Shooting Victim And Fellow Jeep Fan Kendrick Castillo With 600 Jeep Procession

    Last week there was another school shooting in the U.S., this time at a charter school just south of Denver, Colorado called STEM School Highlands Ranch. Kendrick Castillo, whom many are hailing as a hero for his efforts in subduing the gunman, was murdered saving the lives of his fellow students. The Jeep community learned that Castillo was a Jeep fan, so on Wednesday, CBS Denver reports, that community has planned a special procession in Castillo’s honor.

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    I'm Taking The 2019 Ford Ranger On A Road Trip; What Do You Want To Know?

    The 2019 Ford Ranger may not be getting as much attention anymore as trucks like the 2020 Jeep Gladiator, but it’s an important contender from arguably the truckiest automaker out there. That’s why I’m excited to take this Lightning Blue pickup on a road trip from Michigan to Virginia. What do Jalopnik readers want to learn about this machine?

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    The Mack Electric LR Is The Future Of Trash

    Americans consume at a massive rate and produce a lot of garbage as a result. Much of that trash is transported to a landfill to be piled up somewhere, and once it’s out of sight it’s out of mind. We don’t spend much time thinking about trash collection, but maybe it’s time we did. Big trash trucks typically get about 3 miles per gallon of expensive and polluting diesel fuel.

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    Tips For Driving Fast With A High Center Of Gravity

    Being aware of your center of gravity is a big part of aggressively driving a truck, UTV or anything else that’s high off the ground without hurting yourself. Rally driver Wyatt Knox from Team O’Neil Rally School talks a little bit about that in this video.

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    Missouri HOA Threatens To Foreclose On Truck Owner's House Because They Don't Understand Patina

    Hey! Who here likes Homeowner’s Associations? Ah, gotcha, trick question, absolutely nobody likes HOAs because they’re consistently miserable and disheartening examples of how tiny amounts of power can transform human beings into talking, blistered dicks. In case you don’t quite believe me, please consider the case of Andy Lipka and his charmingly patina’d 1965 Ford F-250.

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    Gunshot Creek Is One Of The World's Wildest Looking Off-Road Obstacles

    Cape York, the tropical peninsula of northeastern Australia, has been a destination for overlanders long before “overland” was a hashtag. There’s endless extreme jungle terrain up there but one spot in particular, Gunshot Creek, has been making the rounds on social media lately. Take a closer look and you’ll see why.

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    Here's Your Chance To Watch A Truck Actually Use One Of Those Runaway Truck Ramps

    If you’re like most human beings who have ever driven on America’s public highways, you harbor a shameful and powerful desire to watch an out-of-control 18-wheeler truck go barreling up a runaway truck ramp. You don’t want anyone to be actually hurt, but you can’t help it. Something deep and strange inside of you longs to see those 40,000 pounds of grade-A truck roast plow up a massive hill of sand. I’d like to inform you that you now have this opportunity.

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    GM Confirms It's Making An Electric Pickup Truck

    Pickup trucks are the blood that runs through Detroit automakers veins, and it’s nearly impossible to see a future without them. With Ford and Rivian recently making all this noise about preparing to introduce electric trucks in the near future, General Motors doesn’t want to feel left out.

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    The 2019 Volkswagen Arteon Is A Different Kind Of Status Symbol

    The 2019 Volkswagen Arteon looks futuristic, but it feels a callback to the old school idea of a flagship sedan that exists just because. Built with aesthetic-first mentality, it’s not for everybody. But if you want a low-key glamorous, semi-upscale VW-badged cruiser to modestly stand out in, this is the four-door for you.

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    The Volkswagen Jetta GLX VR6 Was Ahead Of Its Time

    Sedans might not be the go-to car design for most buyers anymore, but we’re still blessed with some cheap and fun new four-doors. There’s the Honda Civic Si, the Hyundai Elantra Sport and the Volkswagen Jetta GLI, to name a few. And the Jetta kind of gave birth to the whole compact sport sedan segment, now didn’t it?

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