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Beyond Cars (5)

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Bicyclists Are 291 Percent More Likely To Die If Hit By A Truck Compared To A Sedan: Traffic Engineer
You don’t need a PhD in physics to understand that it’s worse for a driver to hit you with a truck than a sedan. They’re just heavier, meaning they hit you with more force. Still, while reading the Conversation’s recent article on how our current approach to road safety is outdated, one of the statistics in the post really jumped out — A bicyclist is 291 percent more likely to die if they’re hit by a truck instead of a sedan.
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Heat Waves Are Buckling The Roads Every Year And It Keeps Getting Worse
As a heat dome descends over the United States this week, temperatures are soaring across the Midwest and Northeast. Besides the potentially fatal heat exhaustion, highways across the country are literally buckling under the scorching heat. The phenomenon has happened for decades, but climate change is intensifying heat waves and increasing their frequency. At Jalopnik we’ve done at least one story on road buckling every summer for the past three years.
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Subaru Driver Rams Two Cyclists At Speed In Terrifying Video [Update]
Being a bicyclist in the U.S. is already terrifying, but it must take a special kind of courage to saddle up in large vehicle-loving Texas. A Subaru SUV struck two bikers on a highway in Fort Worth this week, and the terrifying crash was caught on video.
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These Speed Bumps Only Turn Solid If You Are Driving Too Fast
I understand that speed bumps are an important piece of road design and help cut road fatalities by forcing careless drivers to slow down, but I really do hate them. No matter the car you’re driving or the speed you’re going, they always provide an uncomfortable jolt as you pass over. Surely there’s a better way to slow people down, right? Right! And that solution comes from a Spanish company that’s filling its speed bumps with custard.
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Buy Your Dad Lego's Sick New Lamborghini Countach LP5000 For Father's Day
Lego has always been a favorite of the automotive community. It allows those of us that are creative to literally build the stuff of dreams, from working engines to full cars made out of the bricks. Since 2008, the company has continuously released special edition kits of iconic vehicles under its Lego Icons brand. That tradition continues with Lego Icons’ latest release: the Lamborghini Countach LP5000 Quattrovalvole.
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BMW (2)

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The F 900 GS Is BMW's Most Enduro-Focused Adventure Bike Yet
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The Seventh Generation BMW M5 Is Here, And It's A Monster Of A Hybrid
The BMW M5 taught the world that a big, heavy sedan can be a true performance monster while still safely toting around the kids and most of your mistress’s luggage, as long as your bank account has enough zeros in it to cut the check. This new M5 is bigger, heavier, more powerful, and likely faster and better than ever before. Staying true to the modern M5 recipe, this super sedan is packed to the gills with the latest and greatest technology to make this 5,390-pound, twin-turbo V8 plug-in hybri
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Boatlopnik (7)

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$130,000 Boat Seized In Bizarre Fishing Tournament Cheating Scandal Is Being Auctioned Off
For many, fishing is just something you do at your grandfather’s pond or while camping, but fishing at a professional level is something completely different. Your friends may give you a hard time for exaggerating the size of the fish you caught, but back in 2022, two Ohio men found out the hard way that they take that kind of thing pretty seriously in an actual fishing tournament. As WKYC reports, not only did getting caught cheating land them in jail, but their boat was also seized. And now it
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New Stuck Cargo Ship Just Dropped
Apparently, you sickos love a good stuck cargo ship story. And as the saying goes, if y’all keep on clickin’, the ships’ll keep on stickin’. OK, that’s not actually a saying, but we do have another stuck cargo ship post for you, and this time, it’s in England. Cambridgeshire, to be exact. The BBC reports that yesterday, the Baltic Arrow got stuck in the River Nene near Wisbech.
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Here's Why Sailboats Can Travel Faster Than The Wind
Here at Jalopnik we usually like to focus on anything with an engine. Whether it’s a gorgeous new Bugatti with a V16 motor at the rear or a ridiculous driveable bathtub that’s powered by a motorbike, we love anything that goes vroom. Sometimes, however, we need to take a ride in the slow lane and look at things that move under their own steam, things like sailboats.
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Dang, Listen To This VR6-Powered Boat
It’s probably pretty miserable outside where you are. If you’re smart, you’re online, looking to purchase a cheap boat to have trouble free fun with this summer. Powerboats are fun, but we all know the addition of an engine makes everything a little more complicated and potentially stressful. Luckily, we all know engine problems are easy to fix with a quick engine swap. Our friend Reed here knows, which is why he found a way to mount a mighty and mighty wonderful sounding VR6 in his old ass boat
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Killer Whales Attacked Almost 700 Boats Because They're Bored Teenagers
The biggest fear for sailors crossing the seven seas right now isn’t climate change, rising ocean levels or attacks from peg-legged pirates, it’s getting sunk by a pod of killer whales patrolling the waters around Portugal. Now, researchers have figured out why the group of 37 orca have been attacking everything from yachts to fishing boats, and it might just be because they’re bored.
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Spontaneous Tsunamis Could Take Out Cruise Ships
Landslide-generated tsunamis don’t come with any warning signs and they’re impossible to predict. Tsunami scientists are meeting with vessel operators in Alaska this month to put together some practical guidelines for captains to use in the case they encounter one of these snap tsunamis. These recommendations will be useful for the hundreds of tour ships that navigate the large landslide-prone coastlines of Alaska, Greenland, Chile, Norway, and New Zealand. Hopefully this summit will help prepar
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Largest Passenger Hovercraft Ever Built Drank Fuel At 1,000 Gallons An Hour
We’re all familiar with cars, planes, trains and boats as being the most popular forms of transport the world over. But while boats and ferries have long proven their worth at crossing large bodies of water, there’s another way of navigating the world’s seas, lakes and rivers: the hovercraft. And for almost 30 years, the largest passenger hovercraft in the world operated between the UK and France.
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Buying (16)

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I'm Getting Rid Of My Honda Pilot And Want To Go Electric | WCSYB?
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What Car You Should Drive Based On Your Zodiac Sign, According To Us
Astrology is the study of movements and relative positions of celestial bodies interpreted as having an influence on human affairs and the natural world, but not everyone believes in its efficacy. The zodiac breaks the year up into 12 different sections, each around four weeks long, and each named after a constellation of stars. According to Time Magazine, it’s believed that the Ancient Greeks considered the first day of spring to occur when the sun appeared in the constellation Aries, and then
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Maserati GranCabrio Folgore And Trofeo: What Do You Want To Know?
I’m about to put Maserati’s two newest droptop offerings — the GranCabrio Trofeo and GranCabrio Folgore electric convertible — to the test here in Northern Italy. Both of these cars approach high-speed droptop grand touring in extremely different ways despite their similar looks, but we’ll get into that in a moment. Regardless, before I start driving these two excellently well-proportioned Italian machines, I want to know what you want to know about them.
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The Most Reliable 3-Year-Old Trucks And SUVs You Can Buy According To Consumer Reports
One of the hardest things about shopping for used cars is that you have so many options. And with many of those cars no longer covered under warranty, buying used really can be a gamble. It may run for years without any problems, but you never know.
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The Most Reliable 3-Year-Old Cars You Can Buy According To Consumer Reports
Compared to 40 or 50 years ago, new cars are so much more reliable, it’s not even a contest. Still, some cars are naturally going to be more reliable than others, and with the latest technologies often being pretty expensive to repair, you’re going to want something long lasting if you plan to keep your car for more than a couple of years.
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These Are The Cheapest Convertibles On Sale Today
I’m a convertible person. I just love putting the top down and enjoying the benefits of uninhibited headroom, even if chopping the roof off increases weight and detracts from the driving dynamics. Convertible tops also add mechanical complication, and as such droptops are often priced higher than their hardtop siblings due to the additional engineering time that’s required to produce a quality convertible, so it’s not entirely surprising that manufacturers are producing fewer and fewer convertib
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I Need A Sleek And Fast Car To Replace My Aging Aston Martin | WCSYB?
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Dodge Dealer Marks Up 2023 Challenger SRT Hellcat Redeye To Astonishing $371,346
The Dodge Charger and Challenger as we know them are gone. Done. There’s no more being made. There’s a new Charger coming for ’25, but the LX/LY platformed Hemi monsters that we all know and love are gone. There are still thousands left for sale on lots across the country however, and more than few Hellcat’s Scat Packs and other special performance models left over as well. Many of these are 2023 model year vehicles. While you’d think that would mean you could score a deal, I’ve discovered many
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Dealers Are Refusing Toyota Tundra Trade-Ins Over Engine Recall
We found out why Toyota’s twin-turbo V6s have been grenadeing themselves in 2022-2023 Tundras and Lexus LXs earlier this month, but there’s still no real fix for the issue. Now it seems car dealers are staying away from the once bullet-proof trucks.
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Roughly 5 Percent Of All Cybertrucks Are For Sale Online Right Now
It sure looks like a lot of people are taking delivery of their brand-new Tesla Cybertruck, realizing it is sort of ass and promptly listing it for sale. That, or they’re losers who bought them just to flip. Regardless of the reason, there are currently 232 nearly-new Cybertrucks listed for sale. Doing some rough math (adding together a new Electrek report that Tesla delivered about 3,000 Cybertrucks in May and an April report that Tesla had sold 3,878 of the trucks up until that point) we can r
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Ford Dealership That Sold Crashed Super Duty Truck As New Fined $160,000
Car dealers have done some pretty despicable things in recent years, including piling on sky-high charges on every car sold and even selling a car that its owner had simply brought in for a few repairs. Now, a Kentucky Ford dealer has been given its comeuppance after it sold a smashed up truck as a brand new car.
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BMW And Dealers Are Discounting The Slow-Selling XM Up To $20,000, Sometimes More
After showing a near production ready concept in 2021, BMW debuted the XM to gasps in 2022. It looked like nothing else on the road. Just over two years on the market and something about the XM seems to keep buyers away, so much so that BMW is throwing some big discounts on the hood to try and move some of these performance plug-in hybrids.
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The Best Corvette Is A Cheap Corvette
Chevrolet built three incredible generations of its iconic Corvette between 1984 and 2013, called the C4, C5 and C6. If you’re a prospective Corvette buyer, depreciation is your friend. When these cars launched, they were top-of-the-line American sports cars with expensive price tags, but with age they’ve dropped into the approachable for the everyperson price range. Even a base model of the C6 generation can be found for under $20,000 these days, when it was more than double that at launch.
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You Can Get A Used Ford Focus RS For The Price Of A New Honda Civic
If you’re like me, you may be still mourning the end of production of the Ford Focus RS. It was legitimately one of the best hot hatches ever made. Its short 2016–2018 run meant not many people got a chance to get their hands on one, and high dealer markups didn’t help. Now, over five years after it ended production, Focus RS’ are showing up for cheap on the used market — so cheap that any enthusiast on a budget should be looking at them right now.
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I Need A New Start And A New Car | WCSYB?
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I Need To Replace My Stolen BMW X5 | WCSYB?
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Advice (7)

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My Brutal Commute Is Killing My Cars! What Should I Buy?
John lives in Annapolis and has to survive a brutal daily commute around the Baltimore/DC Beltway. His plans on trading his two cars into one that can handle the drive in comfort and hopefully keep his fuel costs down. What car should he buy?
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Here Is How The CDK Cyberattack May Make Buying Your Next Car Harder
Around 15,000 car dealers across the country have been impacted by the cyberattack on CDK Global, a company that dealers use to handle the financial aspects of the transaction. While most consumers probably don’t have a lot of sympathy for dealers, this cyberattack may make it a lot harder for you to find a deal.
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I Need A Rear-Drive, Track-Capable Weekend Car! What Should I Buy?
Rob had a BMW 135 as a weekend fun car, but it was recently totaled. He is looking for another rear-drive replacement that he can take to some track days, but it does need to be somewhat practical. With a budget of up to $30,000, what car should he buy?
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I Am Swapping My Volt For A Highway Cruiser! What Car Should I Buy?
Nick’s wife is starting a new job that requires a lot of long-distance highway travel. She is looking for something a bit more comfortable than her 2012 Chevy Volt with some updated features. With a budget of up to $45,000 what car should she buy?
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California Volkswagen Dealer Offers A Nice ID 4 Lease Deal Of $69 Per Month
For folks in the market for an electric vehicle, leasing is often the better strategy over purchasing as buyers get more discounts, without having to gamble on resale value. Volkswagen has some attractive lease deals nationwide, including one VW ID 4 offer from a California dealer that a middle schooler might have written.
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Dealership Sells Car Out From Under Woman Who Brought It In For Repairs
A woman in Knoxville, Tennessee had to turn to a local news station’s “Help Me” consumer affairs guy after a used car dealership sold her Ford Taurus out from under her after she brought it in for repairs. If that wasn’t bad enough, months later, the car was still registered in her name. For just one day, I’d really like car dealers to not be like this.
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This Might Be The Most Unhelpful Tip For Buyers Shopping For Cheap Cars
As the used car market returns to normal, buyers on a budget looking for affordable cars are still facing challenges. While there are some helpful strategies to get a quality ride at a reasonable price, putting an artificial cap of 100,000 miles is not one of them.
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Culture (52)

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Cars Need Fewer Screens And More Buttons | Jalopinions
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'Be Genuine, Make Art' An Interview With We Deserve This Author Victoria Scott
Right now is a weird time to be a trans person in the United States. We’re being attacked on all sides: Legislators are banning our IDs, corporations are discriminating against us, even our own enthusiast communities often shun us. They’d prefer it if we’d just disappear from public life, stop telling our stories and showing our faces in the light of day. Victoria Scott knows we deserve better.
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Caterham's Drift Experience Will Make You A Drift King
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Here's How Caterham Took Me From From Stalls To Slides In A Single Day Of Drift School
Up until now, the majority of my driving has been on roads or highways and has pretty much always involved pointing forwards. I’ve not done a ton of track driving and have definitely never attempted to drift — until today. Caterham believes that with a little bit of hard work and a whole heap of advice from its experts, it can teach me to kick out the back end in style. Wish me luck.
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Tesla Cybertruck With A Carolina Squat Is The Stuff Of Nightmares
One Tesla Cybertruck owner decided his $100,000+ stainless steel pickup truck wasn’t ostentatious and showy enough, so he decided to do the unthinkable and throw it in a sort of “Carolina Squat” mode. That’s right, folks – we’ve got a match made in tool heaven: a Carolina Squatted Cybertruck. It’s the stuff of nightmares, and it’s very real.
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This Kid's Incredible Wooden EV Puts Your Cozy Coupe To Shame
Have you ever looked into your kid’s eyes and wanted nothing but the best for them? If you have, then you might understand this dad’s plight to create the most bonkers toy car ever conceived.
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The Blackbird Roadster Proves Electrifying Vintage Porsches Is Anything But Sacrilegious
Blame the pandemic. Phil Wagenheim, the highly energized New York investment bro who is CEO and one of two partners at Connecticut’s Sacrilege Motors, does. You see Wagenheim, who made bank during the early days of SPACs (Special-Purpose Acquisition Companies), had been hanging out with his kids at home a lot during the Covid lockdown. As in, a lot a lot.
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Is Fernando Alonso Cooler Than James Bond Now?
For those of us of a certain age — people whose formative years happened between 1960 and 2021 — there’s a very specific way that Aston Martin cars look. Sleek, silver, that sort of oval-ish grille — the image that shows up in Bond film after Bond film, which seemingly inspired every single road-going Aston ever sold. The people want to look like Pierce Brosnan.
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So We're Doing This Again, Huh
Tesla CEO Elon Musk is back at it, flapping his gums about a new Tesla Roadster he first mentioned (and began collecting deposits for) seven years ago. Well it’s back, and apparently coming out next year. Yeah, sure, OK.
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Bringing A Toy Lamborghini Back To Life Is As Satisfying As Restoring The Real Deal
Everyone’s so creative these days, there are people turning bathtubs into motorbikes and others documenting the satisfying process of cleaning an old car. Now, one YouTuber has found a neat little niche to fill by filming the meticulous steps they take to restore ruined toy cars.
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Cadillac Would Not Have Survived The Great Depression Without Black People
Cadillac is well-known today as one of America’s longest lasting luxury brands, but the 122-year-old automaker would have gone belly up during the Great Depression if it weren’t for opening the brand up to Black people. It would take a German immigrant to open the company’s eyes to the fact that it doesn’t matter what the color of your skin is, as long as the cash in your wallet is green.
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Watch A Woman Smash A Jerk's Windshield With A Hammer In Coffee Drive-Thru
A friendly heads-up for the Asshole Americans; everything is too expensive and pay is too low for service workers to keep taking your crap. Case in point, this woman who smashed a “customer’s” windshield after he threw drinks at her and threatened her.
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It's Been 30 Years Since OJ Simpson Led The LAPD On A Car Chase Down The 405
Everyone remembers where they were when OJ Simpson – in the back of a white Ford Bronco being driven by AC Cowlings – made his way down The 405 in a low-speed pursuit with the Los Angeles Police Department. I just happened to be about two years away from being born, but that’s neither here nor there.
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Here's How Fisker Died From Self-Inflicted Wounds
After months of turmoil, struggling electric vehicle maker Fisker filed for bankruptcy this morning, bringing to an end a torrid period that began almost as soon as it started shipping its Ocean electric SUV. Now, the company’s assets will be stripped and sold off in order to recoup some of the costs it lost through the launch of its cursed electric car.
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Bring Back Belt Racers, You Cowards
On the whole, kids toys now are pretty mush the same as they were when I was growing up. There are classics like Lego here to teach them the importance of creativity and dolls like Barbie can show you that you can become anything you want to be. But do you know what kids these days don’t have anymore? A belt for their pants that doubles as an awesome race track.
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What It Takes To Build An 800 Horsepower, 10,000 RPM Miata
So you want a track car? Cool, good choice. Oh, you want a Mazda Miata? Classic pick, they’ve got a great aftermarket and— oh, you want it fast, huh? Well, that’s a little harder to pull off with that chassis, but you can still make it work. Here, I’ll give you a helpful tutorial in making 800 horsepower at over 10,000 RPM.
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Tesla Cybertruck Deliveries Delayed Because Of Big Ass Wiper
Tesla has halted production and deliveries of its troubled Cybertruck because of a problem with the electric motor that powers its stupid, big single windshield wiper. Cybertruck Owners Club forum users have posted on the site that deliveries have been pushed back by about a week due to a safety issue with the mechanism, andby safety issue, I mean that the motors will fail, leading to the safety hazard of, you know, not being able to see in the rain. It’s less than ideal.
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John Fetterman Has A Long History Of Being A Terrible Driver
John Fetterman’s recent car crash has brought to light a dogshit record of distracted driving and other infractions for the Democratic senator from Pennsylvania, according to former aides and police records.
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Jaguar's Final F-Type Is Destined For A Museum, Celebrating 50 Years Of Sports Cars
Jaguar is getting out of the business of making sports cars, at least gasoline-powered ones. As the brand plans to transition to high-end EVs, Jag is celebrating its long history of sports cars by introducing the final edition of its most recent and last gas-powered sports car, the F-Type.
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Cybertruck Owner Pretending His Truck Was Broken Accidentally Broke His Truck
Tesla Cybertrucks are known for their penchant for breaking down in strange and unique ways, but this one is an all-timer, and for once it wasn’t technically the truck’s fault. Nope, this all has to do with the owner (if you ignore a design shortcoming).
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These Are The Best Cars Our Dads Had When We Were Growing Up
For Father’s Day this year we’ve decided to take a trip down memory lane as a staff and share our favorite cars our dads drove when we were growing up. Some of us were very clearly luckier than others.
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Make Your Own Pizza-Cooking Lexus Monogram GX For Under $5,000
Yesterday, Lexus released a new concept: A GX with a pizza oven in the back, so you and your fancy friends can have the world’s bougiest tailgate. The Monogram GX, as it’s called, is a one-off build that shows off Monogram-branded appliances — expensive equipment in an expensive car with expensive fit and finish. Clearly, we broke bitches can do better.
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Donald Trump Tells Elon Musk He's A 'Huge Fan' Of The Cybertruck, Because Of Course He Is
Elon Musk and Donald Trump’s once frosty relationship seems to have almost completely thawed at this point as the former (and possibly future) president apparently told the Tesla CEO about how much he loves the Cybertruck. It’s a match made in shithead heaven.
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If You're Gonna Drop $1 Million On A Supercar, You Better Get It This Dirty
While walking around Beverly Hills with friends yesterday I came across a very special car. This ultra low-mileage 2019 Porsche 911 GT2 RS is one of the most bespoke specs of the model that Porsche created, with over $344,000 in options making its $639,345 MSRP 217 percent higher than the car’s base price. If that wasn’t enough, it was recently auctioned off by RM Sotheby’s as part of the White Collection for a massive $1,006,000.
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The Gayest Cars In The Los Angeles Pride Parade Ranked
Queer folks love cars. I’m a part of a friend group with a lot of self-proclaimed car gays, and when you work in the automotive world you quickly learn that it’s a very queer space. That was a pleasant surprise for me when I first joined Mercedes-Benz Research and Development as a test driver years ago, and the longer I spend in the industry the more queer it seems to get. Shoutout to all the queer and trans car folks out there — you’re seen, you’re heard, you’re loved, and you’re welcome here.
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Alpine's A290 Electric Hot Hatch Will Teach You To Drive Better
If you’re in the market for a hot electric vehicle, your options are pretty limited these days and don’t extent much past the Hyundai Ioniq 5N. However, French automaker Alpine has set to right this wrong with its new A290 EV, which packs 220 hp, retro good looks and a built-in coach that will make you drive better.
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Acura Dealership Allegedly Damages An Integra Type S And Then Treats The Owner Like Crap When Called Out
Dealers are almost universally shitty. From car buying to service, only a dealership could suck on multiple fronts. Often dealers won’t take any responsibility for their horrible service and behavior, either. Take what one Acura Integra Type S owner is going through with his local dealership, for example.
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2024 BMW X5 50e PHEV Shows Why Plug-In Hybrids Are The Way To Go
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You Can Build Your Own Wall Of Death And Ride A Drift Trike On It
Who doesn’t love a wall of death? Motorcycles whipping around in circles on perfectly vertical planes, kept from falling only by the friction of their tires and the centrifugal force of their speed. In fact, wouldn’t it be nice to have a wall of death of your very own?
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Even How Your Car's Window Switches Work Is Federally Mandated
Did you know that in 2010, power window switch designs were federally governed to minimize strangulations and other injuries caused by unintentional activation of the window switch? Neither did I, but the regulation makes a lot of sense. A small shift in window switch design has drastically reduced the number of strangulations and injuries since the new window switches were mandated according to kidsandcars.org.
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Bob Lutz Made A Terrible Plug-In Hybrid Truck A Decade Ago
Bob Lutz is undoubtedly a pioneer in the automotive world, but sometimes even the greats get it wrong. Sometimes they get it so wrong the product they come up with is downright irrelevant and is forgotten by the annals of time. Take the Via Motors VTrux. Do you remember the VTrux? Me neither, but Big Bob was behind it over a decade ago, and thanks to YouTuber and friend of the show Aging Wheels, we are able to get an up-close look at what this foreign truck was all about.
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Watch This Incredibly Satisfying Video Of Cleaning Of A Porsche That Was Left In The Woods For 20 Years
I don’t really find joy in cleaning my own cars. It’s an annoying mess that always takes way longer than I think it is going to, and the results are never as good as I hope. While I’m perfectly fine taking my cars through a drive-through car wash, I do find Larry Kosilla’s car detailing videos on YouTube to be calming and informative. I’m never going to actually use any of this washing advice, as I’ll just spend the $10 to have a car wash do the job for me, but it’s fun to know anyway.
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There's More To 15-Minute City Conspiracies Than You Think
The idea behind the 15-minute city is a simple one: You should be able to go to work, get groceries, find an ATM or visit a doctor, all within 15 minutes of where you live — and without ever getting in a car. It’s urban design that prioritizes people over parking, but it’s also a phrase that’s launched a thousand absurd conspiracy theories. Why are people getting so riled up over urban planning?
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All Of Charli XCX's Car References In Her New Album Brat
Charli XCX is the queen of putting out bangers with excellent car references in her lyrics and even songs that are mainly about cars. I mean, just look at her songs “Vroom Vroom,” “White Mercedes,” “Porsche,” “Backseat” and the track “Speed Drive” that was featured in the Barbie movie. It’s especially fitting that Charli has so many automotive lyrics, as her music is absolutely perfect for blasting in your car.
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Americans Are Lonelier Than Ever And Cars Are Part Of The Problem
In spite of the country having decided that the Coronavirus pandemic is a thing of the past, the knock-on effects of isolating ourselves have continued unabated. American loneliness is an epidemic in itself, and was already a rising issue before 2020, though was exacerbated by shelter-in-place and the mistrust and polarization that came with it. Our car-centric infrastructure has been developing for decades, but increased focus on suburban sprawl has pushed Americans farther apart than ever. Is
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Volkswagen ID Buzz Already Getting The Upscale Electric Camper Treatment
There’s no two ways about it, the ID Buzz is an excellent little retro runabout that combines cutesy styling with cargo van practicalities in a bundle of electric joy. But since its launch, the ID Buzz from Volkswagen has been crying out for one major upgrade: a campervan conversion. And now, finally, there is one.
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It's Not Tree Sap That's Ruining Your Car, It's Bug Poop
Los Angeles and most of Southern California is currently covered in light purple flowers from the Jacaranda tree, and car lovers know to keep their cars away from these flowers like the plague, but I just learned that it’s not the tree’s fault. Jacaranda trees are not native to Southern California, they are actually native to Argentina and Brazil, but thrive in California’s Mediterranean climate.
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If You Have Seen A Cybertruck In Real Life You Have Already Lost At Cyberstruck
What’s better than a collective game? One that doesn’t require sticks or balls or zambonis to play, but is fully distributed — happening everywhere, always, for everyone, like that time Pokemon Go ushered in exactly two weeks of what felt like world peace before the game broke. Now there’s a new collective game in town, and this one’s got an automotive bent: All you have to do is not spot a Tesla Cybertruck.
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Tesla Threatens Customer With $50,000 Fine If He Tries To Sell His Cybertruck That Doesn't Fit In His New Parking Spot
The Tesla Cybertruck is unlike most trucks that have come before it, and thus it has attracted a new set of buyers who wouldn’t normally drive a big pickup. Owning and driving a truck that’s over 18 feet long, nearly 8 feet wide, and built like a Frigidaire isn’t for the faint of heart, as one Salt Lake City man recently found out when he tried to negotiate a way to get rid of his Cybertruck.
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Speeding Cybertruck Owner Lies About Cops Shutting Down Public Road For Speed Tests Now In Trouble With His Job: The U.S. Air Force
The U.S. Air Force has confirmed that it is investigating a video posted to social media that shows a captain speeding through a residential street in Las Vegas in his brand-new Tesla Cybertruck. Yes, this is a real sentence. Captain Matthew Wallace’s command at Creech Air Force Base in southern Nevada is now aware of the video.
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Suburban American Garages Are Getting Smaller Just As Cars Are Getting Bigger
Everything in the world operates on boom and bust cycles, including the size of garages. From the 1960s to the 2000s the average standardized two car garage ballooned from 20 feet by 20 feet to 24 by 24, but in the last decade that growth has been completely reversed and new construction homes are back to a 20 by 20, and many builders are even opting for a single car garage. Developing new land is increasingly more expensive, and contractors need to fit as many homes per acre as they can to turn
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Cults And The Corolla Cross: Toyota May Have Gotten Involved With Infamous 7M Cult For Car Commercial
Netflix’s “Dancing For the Devil: The 7M TikTok Cult” documentary recently went live on the streaming service, and from the looks of it, Toyota is somehow caught up in the madness. The documentary details how Robert Shinn, head of 7M Management and the Shekinah Church, coerced up-and-coming TikTok dancers to join his cult/management team. He would then control their careers and take the majority of the money they made from brand deals and other projects.
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These Cars Were Only Sold For A Single Model Year
Welcome to a showcase of automotive rarities; cars that left their mark in automotive history by gracing the roads for just a single model year. Some of these one-hit wonders achieved cult status, while others rightfully faded into obscurity, and there are even a couple that I think deserve more love than they get. Whether the reason for the short production run was a flawed initial design or a culmination of a financial crisis and grossly mismanaged funding, these delicious automotive duds are
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This Off-Road Viper Is About As America As It Gets
The pay may be terrible, but as far as jobs go, it really is hard to beat being an automotive journalist. You literally get paid to drive cool cars, travel the world, attend races, talk to cool people and eat free food. And yet, there are plenty of people out there who have figured out how to make a living doing things that make being an auto journalist look lame in comparison. Like Matt Brown, aka Superfast Matt, a former automotive engineer turned YouTuber who is nearly done building an off-ro
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This Luxurious, Wilderness-Crossing Bus Was Once The Largest In The World
One of our favorite guys on YouTube, Calum, tackled the incredible story of the Nairn brothers this week and their overnight bus through the Syrian desert, which combines adventure, exploration, and incredible engineering.
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Watch The 2025 Mustang GTD Show Those Nurburgring Europeans What Freedom Sounds Like
Seeing a blue blooded American pony car prototype hitting the nearly 13 miles of Germany’s most famous race track is a bit incongruous, but the new Mustang GTD is built different. The GTD’s supercharged V8 is targeting uncharted territory for the humble Mustang; over 800 stock horsepower. Aside from the herculean power numbers that Ford’s aiming for with this very special Mustang, it is also hoping to make it handle like a race car. While some special edition Mustangs have handled well in the pa
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Tesla Model S Proves No Match For Tungsten Cube
Have you ever wondered what would happen if you dropped a 45-pound tungsten cube from a great height onto a Tesla Model S? Me neither, but we now have our answer thanks to a TikToker called Ludwig. I’ll cut to the chase: the tungsten cube wins easily.
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Tesla Cybertruck Dominated By F-150 Lightning In Sand Drag Race
Since first hitting production at the end of last year, the Tesla Cybertruck has had a rough go of it – especially when compared to the Ford F-150 Lightning, one of its main competitors. Last month we reported that the Cybertruck lost badly when it comes to sales, and now it’s losing badly in races.
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Nearly 80 Percent Of All New Cars Are Painted In Grayscale And That Sucks
No, your eyes aren’t deceiving you. Cars are getting less and less colorful, and we’ve now got the data to back that up. Cars that are in grayscale–black, white, silver and gray–have been increasing their color domination year over year, and it’s a damn shame because I am tired of these boring ass colors.
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What Kind Of Porsche Is Cyclops Driving In X-Men '97?
The season finale of the hit Disney+ animated reprisal “X-Men ‘97" was an all-time banger. While the season ended two weeks ago, I was a little bit late to the party and just finished watching it over the weekend. What can I say? I was embroiled in a “The Walking Dead” rewatch, and I had to catch up on “The Bad Batch” before I could settle into another season of one of my favorite animated action series from my formative years. So imagine my surprise when, in the 8th episode of the season, “Tole
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Watch Martin Brundle Nearly Spin A McLaren F1 In This Classic Road Test
What’s the scariest moment you’ve had behind the wheel of your car? Did it come while traversing a particularly long bridge, or maybe while driving along a pretty dangerous road? I imagine it wasn’t captured on film in the same way as Martin Brundle’s nightmare moment behind the wheel of a priceless McLaren F1, was it?
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This U.S. Town Has Upside Down Traffic Lights Because The Irish Hate The English
We all know what traffic lights look like, right? The red light is on the top, meaning stop, yellow is in the middle and green is at the bottom to tell you when it’s time to go. However, in a neighborhood in one New York town, that’s been flipped on its head by the Irish residents’ hatred of the English.
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Car Design (8)

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Here Are Some Of The Cool Wagons I Saw At WagonFest SoCal 2024
WagonFest SoCal 2024 was beautiful. To walk out onto the top floor of the Petersen Museum’s parking garage and into a sea of unique wagons parked side by side was wonderful. Attending on behalf of Volvo — one of the last remaining wagon makers in the U.S. — I spent four hours walking around, talking to owners and checking out each wagon. And I enjoyed every minute of it.
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These Are Some Of The Coolest Automotive Glass Roof Designs
Before wide-opening, panoramic glass roofs took over the automotive world, designers and engineers took a lot of fun risks to give car interiors more light and sun. Want a skylight that runs down the middle of the roof? Nissan would give you one on the sixth-gen Maxima. Want a skylight for every passenger? Ford did it on the Flex. Want the engineering brilliance of a glass roof built into a metal convertible top? Volkswagen did it on the Eos.
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I Must Twist The Bugatti Tourbillon's Fixed Hub Steering Wheel
The world saw the unveiling of the Bugatti Tourbillon, a new hypercar with a V16 hybrid powertrain and horological design inspiration on Thursday. There’s a lot to talk about with the Tourbillon, from its high-revving naturally aspirated engine to its crystal-covered interior, but what most people will focus in on is the gauge cluster. Inspired by the tourbillon mechanism, innovated by a Swiss-French watchmaker hundreds of years ago, the Bugatti Tourbillon’s dials are stunning, even for a watch-
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This Bugatti Veyron's Milled Aluminum Body Panels Were More Expensive Than The $2.5 Million Car Itself
It’s common for modern Bugattis to have hundreds of thousands of dollars in options, with some bespoke commissions through the Sur Mesure division costing seven figures on top of the already mega-expensive car. There is one Veyron that stands above the rest in this regard, and it was never before seen until a few days ago when German supercar specialists Mechatronik listed it for sale. This Bugatti Veyron Grand Sport Vitesse has body panels milled from individual blocks of aluminum, which costed
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Bugatti Is Untouchable: The Firm's Lead Bespoke Designer On Creating True Automotive Art
Bugatti unveiled the one-off Golden Era last year, a unique Chiron Super Sport built to celebrate the marque’s two golden eras: 1909 to 1956, and 1987 to 2023. Bugatti has an extensive history of bespoke creations, both with pre-war coachbuilt cars and with the Veyron and subsequent modern models, but the Golden Era is something truly special. This Chiron is covered in dozens of hand-drawn sketches of historic Bugatti cars, created with pencil directly on the bodywork.
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Chrome Is Dying Because It'll Kill You
Say goodbye to the shiny stuff. Chrome has been synonymous with automotive style and luxury since the early days, and some of the greatest cars of the last 100 years have been adorned with the mirror reflection surface afforded by hexavalent chromium. Stellantis, an automaker that practically has shiny top layer chrome flowing in its veins, has vowed to finally remove chrome from its cars going forward, as it’s a toxic and aggressively carcinogenic chemical. Stellantis is getting aggressive in i
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2025 GMC Acadia's Most Useless Design Feature Is Actually My Favorite
I just drove the redesigned third-generation GMC Acadia. Overall, it’s a really solid three-row family crossover with a techy interior, a lot of space and a more aggressive look than its predecessor, especially in AT4 guise. This mid-level trim (starting at $51,395 including destination) gets you all sorts of off-road goodies on the outside and underneath that makes it a bit tougher when the road gets bumpy. Most of them are actually useful, like a skid plate and standard twin-clutch all-wheel d
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The BMW Z8's Leather Wind Deflector Is Wonderful Overkill
Over the weekend I attended ArtCenter College of Design’s yearly Design Invitational show, this time held at the school’s new Mullin Transportation Design Center in Pasadena. In addition to showcasing the campus and student work with an art fair, the event includes a car show full of cars owned by teachers and alumni alongside cars designed by teachers and alumni. While looking at a gorgeous BMW Z8 at the show, I noticed an option I had never paid attention to before: it had an elaborate leather
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The 2024 Chevrolet Colorado ZR2 Bison Is Off-Roading On Easy Mode
Off-roading can seem like a very daunting task for someone who doesn’t really know what they’re doing. All sorts of things can go wrong. You can get lost, get stuck or even damage your car with no easy way to get it back to civilization. The Chevy Colorado ZR2 Bison is here to quell the fears of those who dislike taking the less-traveled road by making it an effortless experience.
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Concept Cars (1)

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The Audi Quattro Spyder Concept Was An R8 For The 1990s
The Audi R8 will likely go down as one of the most iconic sports cars of all time, but before Iron Man’s original car of choice debuted in 2006 there was another; a cheaper, smaller version of the R8 called the Quattro Spyder Concept.
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Crashes and Safety (4)

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Watch From Inside A GR Corolla As It Bursts Into Flames
After Koenigsegg ordered every Jesko owner off the road this week as a result of a fire in one of its cars, Toyota might be quaking in its boots as a GR Corolla has been filmed going up in smoke on the highway. Nobody was injured in the blaze, but a dashcam running through the disaster caught the exact moment the driver’s heart broke.
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Koenigsegg Orders All 28 Jesko Owners Stop Driving The $3 Million Hypercar
After millionaires were annoyed to find out that they were no longer able to get behind the wheel of their Porsche Carrera GTs earlier this year, it’s now the billionaires turn to stay put for a while as Koenigsegg has placed a stop-drive order on its Jesko hypercar following a fire in Greece.
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Police Officer Kills Woman With Beach Patrol Truck
A woman was killed after she was hit and run over by a Horry County police in a truck on a beach in South Carolina this week. She was apparently hit by a 2020 Ford Ranger pickup around Thursday, 1 p.m. on Myrtle Beach.
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Rolling SUVs Down A Cliff Reveals How Safe Modern Cars Are
Morbid curiosity drives many folks to YouTube car crash videos, be they professionally and scientifically staged or dashcam footage from far away countries, but this video of two brand-new crossovers getting rolled down a rocky mountain really caught my attention. This video is hardly scientific, but I was still shocked by how well both the 2024 Peugeot 3008 and 2024 Volkswagen Tiguan held up after getting cow-tipped down a mountainside.
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These Are Some Of The Fastest Speeding Tickets Ever Issued In The U.S.
The United States may be the land of the free, but drivers aren’t free to go as fast as they would like. From sea to shining sea, people have been fined or even jailed for going twice or close to three times the posted speed limit. While not a conclusive list, I’m going to give a snapshot of the chaos that has occurred on our streets, roads and highways.
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Entertainment (3)

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'Speed' Remains An Action Masterpiece 30 Years Later
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Top Gear's Tunnel Run Is The Coolest New Thing On YouTube
The Catesby Vehicle Test Facility is a 1.7 mile long tunnel in Northamptonshire that has been used for running cars at speed in a controlled environment for decades. The Top Gear folks brought some of the loudest and best sounding vehicles to the tunnel and plopped their tame racing driver, The Stig, into the seat and let ‘em rip. Some cars transcend the need for corporeal form, and exist as pure soundwaves, including a fifteen-year-old Dodge NASCAR racer, an Audi Group B rally car, a vintage V1
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'Bad Boys: Ride Or Die' Isn't Much Of A Car Flick, But It Is A Great Movie
When a car blogger gets invited to a movie screening, said blogger is led to believe that cars play a big role in said movie, something like “The Italian Job” or “Bullitt” where cars play a central role in the plot. But in the new “Bad Boys: Ride Or Die” movie, which I recently attended thanks to Porsche, cars aren’t really the focus. Despite the lack of hardcore car action, I thought it was a great action movie that melded gripping suspense with moments of humor and romance, plus plenty of pyro
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EVs and Hybrids (1)

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Edmunds' Long-Term EV Fleet Has Clear Winners And Some Objective Stinkers
New technologies are scary, and when you’re spending over $50,000 on a new car, you want to know that all that money is going to be invested in a quality product. The fabulous team at Edmunds Cars buys new cars off dealer lots with their own money and keeps them for a few years to be able to provide real ownership experiences. This video explains how they feel about their current fleet of nine different electric vehicles.
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First Drive (2)

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2024 GMC Acadia Is GM's Beefy Answer To The Crowded Midsize Crossover Market
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2024 GMC Acadia Is A Family Crossover On Rhino Pills
It’s a fact that crossovers are getting larger, more expensive and more truck-like in their appearance, and no model exemplifies that more than the third-generation GMC Acadia. Inside, outside and underneath, GMC has completely redone the Acadia for 2024. It’s a whole lot bigger than the outgoing car, costs more, and it borrows a ton of styling cues from other GMC mainstays like the Yukon and Sierra.
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The 2024 Ford Mustang Is The Last Great V8-Powered Muscle Car
At this point, the Ford Mustang is the last V8-powered muscle car left on the market — fitting given it was the original muscle car. The Chevrolet Camaro exited production a few months ago, and the new Dodge Charger has either straight-six or EV power. So unless you spend big money on something British or German, the Mustang is the only way to go for two-door, V8 power.
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Found For Sale (15)

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Get Behind The Wheel Of This Abarth And Drive Something Truly Unique
Here’s an opportunity to own the one-and-only Michelotti-designed Abarth 208 A Spyder. This car was done up in the uniquely 1950s “Stile Transatlantico” inspired by the American rocket-age sporting machines, and looks absolutely magnificent in two-tone teal over white. If you have always wanted an early Corvette, but wished it was much smaller and powered by a 1.1-liter 66-horsepower four-cylinder, this is the car for you, my friend! Get the Boano-bodied Abarth, you’ll be the only one who can sa
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Lambretta LD 125, Toyota Land Cruiser FJ40, Pontiac Solstice GXP: The Dopest Cars I Found For Sale Online
Howdy, friends. “Howdy” is generally my preferred greeting, as is traditional with people from Connecticut, but today it serves a dual purpose: Getting you in a “Texas” mood.
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This C5 Corvette Is As Boomer As It Gets
The C5 Corvette was the first all new Vette in over a decade. With its small block V8s, sleek design and serious performance, it showed that the Corvette was ready to take on the world’s best. Now, 20 years after production ended, C5s have started to show up with some interesting…you know what? I’m not even going to sugar coat it. C5s are showing up as abominations. Take this example I found for sale on Facebook Marketplace.
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This Jeep-Powered American Sports Car You've Never Heard Of Beats Up On Porsches And MGs
For reasons unknown, a man named Salvatore Salerno chose to use a Willys “Hurricane” 2.6-liter inline-six cylinder engine to power his homemade sports car. The body, a fiberglass Devin shell, was draped over a Triumph TR-3 chassis and the full heart of the Willys was pulled out and transplanted into the lightweight sports machine. That Hurricane engine pushed power to the rear wheels through a 3-speed Borg Warner transmission, making a hellacious 90 horsepower. Maybe that’s just what he had lyin
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Renault Clio V6 Trophy, Isuzu Vehicross, Geo Tracker: The Dopest Cars I Found For Sale Online
How’s the heat? Here in New York the Feels Like index is sitting in the high triple to low quadruple digits, well past the temperatures where skin and bone begin to melt into some sort of living ooze. Unfortunately, “reduced to lump of unstructured flesh” does not warrant calling out from work according to most HR departments.
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You Can Buy A Polished Tesla Cybertruck If You Need Everyone To Hate You
The Tesla Cybertruck is possibly the most look-at-me vehicle on sale today with its bizarre shape and stainless steel bodywork, but what if you wanted something that stuck out from the crowd even more (in a bad way)? Well, folks now is your chance to do just that, because I’ve just stumbled upon the most attention-seeking Cybertruck to date. Listed for sale in Lincoln, Nebraska is a completely polished Cybertruck. Who knew the center of Hell was Nebraska?
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It's Never Been Cheaper To Get A Like-New VinFast, But Do Not Do That
You probably haven’t seen a Vinfast on the street yet. They’re around though, at least they are here in California. Some buyers, it seems, have decided to give the Vietnamese automaker a chance and actually buy one, despite the cars not being ready for prime time. Those buyers may have put themselves into a shaky financial situation: VF8’s are selling for over half of their original MSRPs, practically brand new.
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Buy This Drag Racing Honda Insight And Ditch Fuel Economy For A 600-HP V6 And Nitrous
When Honda built this tiny hybrid commuter car in 2002, the company never would have suspected that it would ever run a quarter mile in the 9s. Builder and racer Marc Roger threw a venerable J32A2 V6 engine from an Acura TL Type-S into the engine compartment, put a giant bottle of nitrous on it, and shot for the moon. After a few years of development, and a stickier set of front tires, the car has run as quick as 9.5 seconds in the quarter mile, which is a feat for a car that carried 72 horsepow
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An 86-Mile Oldsmobile Alero Sold For More Than A New Toyota Corolla
I try to keep a close eye on Bring A Trailer. It may seem like the era of cars going for wild prices is at an end, but that’s not true — things just calmed down a bit. Wild auctions are still happening on the site, be it a flip or someone who thinks a near-100,000-mile Honda Element is worth more than $10,000. For example, take this latest listing for a 20-year-old Oldsmobile.
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Buy The Big Mercedes Bus Because A Three-Row SUV Isn't Nearly Big Enough
There’s one thing American drivers definitely want, and it’s bigger vehicles. If you’re looking for a family commuter machine and a new Suburban is just a bit too small, try this Mercedes O-klasse bus on Bring A Trailer. This particular bus has been outfitted with some deckchairs for seats, but you could easily install some new comfortable benches or even turn the back of the bus into your mobile office or something. This is a blank slate that is ready to take on whatever your family’s needs are
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Mahindra Roxor, Monster Fire Truck, Slammed Postal Jeep: The Dopest Cars I Found For Sale Online
What’s this? An early installment of Dopest? Clearly there must be some mistake, some happy accident behind the scenes that’s blessed you with this bounty of listings earlier in the week than you’d usually get them.
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BMW Z3 M, Volkswagen Golf R, Saturn Sky Redline: The Dopest Cars I Found For Sale Online
Folks, summer is here. And by “summer,” I of course mean “it is 1,000 degrees, a million percent humidity, and I can’t get home from the office without my clothing devolving into some sort of wet rag that clings to my body in the worst way imaginable.” This is a bad season.
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I'm Gonna Need You All To Be More Accurate To Canon In Your Initial D Replicas
This is a 1986 Toyota Corolla. But the world can’t be normal about rear-driven mid-’80s Corollas, thanks to a little show called Initial D, so this one is done up as a replica of Takumi Fujiwara’s Ghost of Akina 86. Only, it’s not a replica — not really.
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You'll Be The Cleanest Retiree At Bingo Night In This 1995 Buick Riviera
Do you enjoy early bird specials, crossword puzzles, and the occasional Bengay rub? Or do you just like out of production American cars from the 1990s? If you’re either of those types of people we may have found the perfect car for you.
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This Seller Thinks $38,000 For A 2000 Honda Civic Si Is Totally Reasonable
While the car market has toned down a bit recently, there are still sellers out there who are tacking on “I know what I have”-ass prices to cars. Take a listing I stumbled across on Facebook Marketplace.
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2025 Honda Civic Hybrid Is Dialed In, Tuned Up And Turned On
In the not-too-distant past, cramming two forms of powertrain into a single car meant heavy, cumbersome, running shoe–shaped vehicles with inelegant driving dynamics. Hybrids have improved by leaps and bounds since the days of the first Toyota Prius — now we have hybrid luxury vehicles, pickups, supercars in addition to eco-conscious daily drivers. Honda has been without a hybrid compact sedan since the Insight hung up its spurs two years ago, but just in time for hybrids to recycle back into ho
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Help, I Can't Stop Thinking About The Hyundai Ioniq 5 N
When I showed up to review the Hyundai Ioniq 5 N, I knew it would be quick. Having more than 600 horsepower on tap tends to do that. I’d also seen promises that it would be much more track-capable than the Kia EV6 GT, so I went in expecting it to be pretty good. Once I was behind the wheel, I quickly realized it wasn’t just good. It was outstanding. The power made me want to do stupid, illegal things, and the brakes and handling encouraged it, too. Ever since then, I just can’t stop thinking abo
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Why Do California's Gas Pumps Look So Funny?
The illustrious state of California is known the world around for a litany of reasons, but among car enthusiasts California is derided for its strict emissions regulations, and the most triggering acronym of all, CARB. The California Air Resources Board is charged with protecting the public from the harmful effects of air pollution and developing programs and actions to fight climate change, which often infringes upon the activities of petrol heads, unsurprisingly. CARB is also for the reason fo
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You May Be Doing Stoplights Wrong
We’ve all spewed expletives at stop lights that take too long, but it could have been your fault — maybe you didn’t pull forward far enough, or you pulled too far forward to let the light know there is a car waiting. Traffic lights are timed using a few different methods, with many using inductive loop systems embedded in the road in order to function properly. Induction loops are basically magnetic sensors that detect the presence of metallic objects above the surface of the road, and you can u
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Motorcycles (6)

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Entire Bakersfield Hells Angels Chapter Arrested
Biker gangs may be a mainstay in popular media where cool, tough dudes ride sweet, but in real life, they’re not actually all that cool. In reality, gangs such as the Hells Angels are known criminal organizations and have been involved in so much illegal activity, there’s a Wikipedia page dedicated purely to all the crimes the Hells Angels have been accused of in California. That list may need to be updated, though, because the Guardian reports the entire Bakersfield Hells Angels chapter was jus
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This Retro BMW Airhead Bobber Is A Minimalist City Hopping Dream
BMW’s R80 is already a seriously cool motorcycle to ride around in the city in stock form. It’s the picture of simplicity with a boxer cylinder layout and shaft drive for easy maintenance and smooth riding. BMW proved these motorcycles were some of the most reliable and trustworthy with the off-road conquering G/S variants, and the RT versions, like this one, were made for long-distance highway cruising. The folks at Brooklyn Speed have built something altogether different, possibly the perfect
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Get Matchy-Matchy With Honda's Two Folding Commuter Scooters
The kind of person who buys a Honda Motocompacto or a vintage Motocompo is looking for convenience. These little folding scooters offer you the convenience of city mobility and fit in your trunk for last-mile mobility ease. And if convenience is important to you, look no further than this Bring A Trailer auction featuring a brand new zero-mile Motocompacto electric folding suitcase scooter and a nice recently-imported 1981 Motocompo.
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Long Way Round Is As Good Now As It Was Twenty Years Ago
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Honda Is Giving The Most Fun Bike In The World Its Third Facelift
The Honda Grom is maybe the most fun anyone can have on two wheels. Team Red has managed to make Americans care about small-bore motorcycles again, and after three successful generations, the Grom is getting another reskin for 2025. The pint-sized powersports icon is back for another go-around of ripping up your city at sub-limit speeds. It has proven extremely popular because of its customization and approachable riding, and doesn’t really need much updating after the third-generation revamp wa
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You And Your Friends And Their Friends Need This Incredibly Long Moped
So you’re trying to take all your pals to the beach with you, but your approximately six or seven friends won’t fit neatly into your Toyota Tercel. Well, friend, have I got the solution for you: A 25-foot-long moped. Trust me, this is the best solution for all of your problems.
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News (112)

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Hell Yeah, Rats Driving Cars
Canada really has it all: Universal healthcare, a lower cost of living than the United States, and now its rats can drive cars. We’ve previously covered self-driving rats in the past, but that was done by scientists in a laboratory. Kuzko and Kronk, Canada’s viral self-driving rats, were able to learn how to do it from the comfort of their own home.
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Every 2025 Toyota GR Supra Will Have 6 Cylinders
Toyota’s fifth-generation Supra has hardly been the sales success the company hoped its halo sports machine would be. In the first quarter of this year the car’s sales tanked hard, dropping 44 percent compared to the same period of 2023 to just 484 units sold. With the Supra getting outsold by Nissan’s less expensive and more powerful Z, the Gazoo Racing model needs a rethink. Now that the 3.0-liter inline-6-powered version is available with a manual transmission, the lighter but underwhelming f
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There's Gonna Be A Super Cute Suzuki Jimny Pickup, And A Hybrid Too
Here in the U.S., the only things you can buy from Suzuki are motorcycles, ATVs and boats. The automaker pulled out of the U.S. car market years ago, but the rest of the world still gets to enjoy a lot of the Suzuki’s great products like the tiny, adorable Jimny off-roader. According to a recent report, the Jimny is proving so popular that Suzuki is looking to expand the Jimny’s lineup with more variants, including a pickup truck and a hybrid.
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Here's Why So Many People Are Quitting Big YouTube Car Channels
If you watch much automotive YouTube, you’ve probably noticed a slew of “why we’re leaving” videos being posted by people working for some of the biggest automotive YouTube channels on the internet. Donut. Hoonigan. CarThrottle. It feels like everybody is quitting, but it also feels different than the group of big YouTubers who announced they’re retiring or taking a step back from their channels. So what’s the deal here? These are dream jobs that so many people would kill to have, and now they’r
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You Probably Don't Understand The Scale Of Elon's $56B Payday
Elon Musk is once again the world’s richest man, as the value of his Tesla shares continues to bounce back from a massive drop earlier this year. According to Forbes, the Tesla CEO’s net worth is about 224.2 billion U.S. dollars. Much of his wealth was slashed earlier this year when a judge blocked his 2018 package of stock options, though shareholders have once again voted to ratify the options, worth $56 billion. Car company CEOs are well-paid, but their pay packages are usually in the million
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Don't Miss Your Chance To Buy This 2008 Mercedes-Benz CLK63 AMG Black Series
Park a Mercedes-Benz CLK63 AMG Black Series in front of your local Costco, and there’s a good chance absolutely no one would give it a second look. At least until they heard the exhaust. To those who know, though, it’s one of the most desirable and special AMGs from the 2000s. They’re also incredibly rare, with fewer than 700 estimated to have ever been built. And now, you have the chance to buy one over on Cars & Bids.
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People Apparently Want More Screens Inside Their Cars? For In-Car Entertainment?
Vehicle screens keep getting bigger. You’ll be hard pressed to find a car with a screen size less than eight inches, even on base models. A recent survey shows buyers want more in-car entertainment and they’re willing to have more screens to get it, as Variety reports.
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Watch An Out Of Control Boat Run Ashore On A North Carolina Beach
A wild video out of North Carolina shows an out of control boat heading towards shore where it ran aground, injuring two people. Greenville, North Carolina’s WNCT reported on the incident.
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Here's What It's Like To Race Hundred-Year-Old Cars On Modern Streets
Every year the Audrain Auto Museum in Newport, Rhode Island hosts the Veteran Car Tour, a 50-mile street drive for brass era automobiles. A 50 mile run might not sound like much, but when you’re driving a car with no roof, wooden wheels, and leather banded brakes, it’s an exhilarating event. The Audrain invited Matt Farah out to drive a 1902 Yale 16HP Rear-Entrance Tonneau from the museum’s permanent collection back in April, and it sure looks like it was a total blast.
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People Are Still Hesitant About Buying New Cars Even Though The Market Is Better Than It's Been In Years
The auto industry has been slowly recovering ever since the pandemic hit, and these days, things are better than they have been in years. Inventory is up, and so are the incentives. You may still struggle to get a good deal on some of the most in-demand models, but overall, the seller’s market that sent prices through the roof during COVID is a thing of the past. Still, Autoweek reports that consumers remain nervous about pulling the trigger on a new car.
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Volkswagen's $5 Billion Investment In Rivian Has Some Experts Concerned About Scout's Planned Revival
Rivian builds some outstanding electric vehicles. It also recently announced several new models, including the incredibly desirable R3X. To make those vehicles happen, though, Rivian needed money, and this week it announced that Volkswagen would invest up to $5 billion in the startup. That’s great news for Rivian and future customers holding out hope that the company would survive long enough to actually build the R3X, but as Automotive News points out, that does raise the question of what’s goi
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BMW XM Will Reportedly Die In 2028 [Update]
The BMW XM is wonderful to drive, handling far better than you would expect from such a large SUV, and it has an outstanding interior, too. It’s also horrifically ugly, seemingly intentionally designed in defiance of modern design principles. Oh, and it’s a plug-in hybrid, too, with a starting price north of $150,000. If you think that sounds like a hard sell, it seems BMW agrees. According to Automotive News, there will be no replacement for the XM, and it will quietly die off in a couple of ye
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Ferrari Thinks $7,500 Battery Subscription Will Help Resale Value
Ferrari plans to offer a $7,500 annual battery subscription for its hybrid and future all-electric vehicles. The extended warranty service is intended to ease concerns about range degradation as the battery-equipped Ferrari models age, Bloomberg reports. The Italian automaker also intends for the service to maintain the resale value of these vehicles. Ferrari is currently developing a noisy prototype electric car.
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Man Accused Of Driving His Tesla Over A Cliff With His Family Inside Won't Face Charges
After a January 2023 crash off of California’s Pacific Coast Highway in which a Tesla plunged off a cliff with a family inside, a court has determined the driver won’t face any charges, NBC News reports.
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The Wrong Kid Died: Pontiac's Pillarless G8 Could Have Been Great
Pontiac was in a real good place in 2008. The arrowhead brand was living large with a slew of critically acclaimed models on the road, including the G8, an enthusiast-favorite sporty sedan yoinked from Holden. The G8 was the first rear-wheel drive sedan from Pontiac since 1986, and the design heads at GM were determined to see the car get a second generation, aiming for the sales success that Dodge had seen with its Charger. Pontiac was a performance-aimed brand, and it was doing a pretty good j
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Buying A New Car Will Be Even More Miserable Than Usual For The Foreseeable Future
CDK Global, a software platform designed to streamline car sales that’s in use at nearly 15,000 dealerships across North America, has been hamstrung for several days due to cyberattacks, and dealers may feel the effects for years. Car dealerships have been riding the gravy train with biscuit wheels since the onset of the pandemic rattled the supply chain and allowed dealers to get away with charging eye-watering mark-ups, but that gravy train has come to a screeching halt.
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Rimac's Verne Is A Two-Seat Robotaxi With Sliding Doors, No Steering Wheel And An Amazing Round Sunroof
Not even a full week after Bugatti unveiled its new V16 hybrid–powered Tourbillon, CEO Mate Rimac is unveiling another new car from another newly formed company of his, this one on the total opposite end of the spectrum. This is the Verne, a fully autonomous robotaxi run by former Rimac employees that is set to start service in 2026. Named after Jules Verne, the famed author who Rimac says “imagined humanity’s potential through amazing journeys,” the Verne has an endearing design and the enginee
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The Aston Martin Valiant Is A Valour That Does More With Less
Were you one of the 110 people who got your hands on an Aston Martin Valour? Did you find that its 715-horsepower twin-turbo V12 and manual transmission were just too staid and practical for you, and not nearly exciting enough for all those track laps you surely turned? Well, never fear. Aston has a new solution: The Aston Martin Valiant, available for the first 38 callers only.
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Ford Recalls Over 550,000 F-150s Because They Can Shift Into First Gear At Speed
Ford is recalling over 550,000 2014 model-year F-150 pickup trucks for a major fault. The pickup’s transmission can unexpectedly downshift into first gear at any speed. Drivers are unsurprisingly losing control of their F-150s when the sudden downshift strikes. The recall resulted from an investigation launched by the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration in March. The agency is also looking into whether other model years should be included in the recall.
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Tesla Recalls Cybertruck Again, This Time Because Its Giant Floppy Windshield Wiper Keeps Failing
Despite all the stories of the brakes not working, injuries from exceptionally sharp bodywork, the frunk’s taste for fingers and its vulnerability to a basic car wash, it’s actually been a while since the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration announced a formal recall for the Tesla Cybertruck. Two whole months, even. Recently, though, the NHTSA announced two recalls on the same day — one because the windshield wiper might fail and a second because trim pieces on the bed might fly off.
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This Tiny British EV Is So Much Faster On Track Than An AMG One Hypercar
The tiny British automaker with a funny name and a fast-as-hell car, McMurtry, is back. After wowing the world at Goodwood a couple of years ago, the tiny EV speed demon is back for another run at some record laps. This time the team brought a production-ready validation prototype out to Germany’s famed Hockenheimring to set some fast laps, and fast laps are what they did. With the car set to just 3/4 of its maximum power and sucker-fan downforce, the Spéirling became the fastest thing with fend
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Your Car's Thermometer Is Probably Wrong
No matter where you are in the country right now, it’s hot. (Wrong. —Ed.) From New York City to San Diego, it’s like God has set up a massive hair dryer over the continent. If you happen to be in your car though and you want to know just how hot it is, don’t count on your car’s thermometer being accurate, as The Weather Channel explained.
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The New Jetta GLI Still Has A Manual, So You'd Better Buy It While You Still Can
Volkswagen’s Jetta GLI is among the few sporty sedans remaining on the market with a manual transmission, and with an update for the 2025 model year Volkswagen is giving the GLI buyer even more. Jetta continues to prove its worth in the VW lineup, outselling the Taos and Atlas Cross Sport. Perhaps this is a sign that the world is realizing how great sedans are again. And if the GLI is any indication, the manual transmission sedan is worth fighting for. This new MK8 model looks like a banger.
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F**k Elon' Sprayed On 34 Cybertrucks Stored In Florida
If I see a message scrawled on a car, it’s usually something dumb like “clean me” or “my other car is a Porsche.” However, one budding artist in Florida has taken their vehicular vandalism up a notch by writing “Fuck Elon” on more than 30 Tesla Cybertrucks in storage.
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771-HP Bentley Continental GT Speed PHEV Is A New Kind Of British Muscle
After more than 20 years of producing its innovative W12, Bentley has retired the engine as the world moves towards hybrids and full EVs. Of course, the British brand still needs high-performance flagship trims in its lineup, so enter the new Continental GT Speed. Described as an “Ultra Performance Hybrid” by Bentley, the updated Speed has a plug-in-hybrid V8 setup that makes it the most powerful series-production Bentley of all time. Bentley is calling this the “fourth-generation” Continental G
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BMW Copies Hyundai's Homework, Plans Future EVs With Fake Shifts
BMW and especially its M division have a long history of building some of the finest performance cars on the market. From the E30 to the E39 and even the G80, BMW has proven it knows what makes a car fun to drive. So at first glance, it may sound odd to hear that BMW’s future performance EVs will borrow a page from Hyundai’s book, but that’s exactly what’s happening. In the next couple of years, expect BMW to add fake shifts to its EVs just like you get in the Hyundai Ioniq 5 N.
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Toyota Used GR Corolla Parts To Make An All-Wheel Drive GR86, The Way It Should Have Always Been
Normies would probably say that Toyota’s best sports car was the MK4 Supra, but they’re wrong. The coolest and best thing to ever roll into a Toyota showroom is, without a doubt, the Celica All-Trac and GT4. Those rally-bred icons delivered manic turbocharged and all-wheel drive performance, and Toyota had an opportunity to do the same thing with the GR86, especially working with another rally legend brand, Subaru, to build it. This year at SEMA the Toyota will display one with the drivetrain fr
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Tesla's Dog Mode Is Reportedly Totally Busted
Electric vehicles love pets. Tesla has Dog Mode, Rivian has Camp Mode, even Ford designed a similar system. Climate-controlling the interior of a vehicle uses an absolutely trivial amount of power compared to actually moving one — keeping your dogs cool while you shop on a hot day is almost free functionality in terms of power usage. At least, until Tesla pushed an update that entirely broke Dog Mode without warning.
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Tesla Cybertruck Unexpectedly Accelerates Into Home With Rear Wheels Locked
A new Tesla Cybertruck owner experienced a seemingly new issue: an unresponsive throttle. He took to Twitter to voice his concerns about the defect and the automaker’s lack of action earlier this month. Now, I should be clear, this fault is unrelated to the slippery pedal pad that would wedge itself in the footwell and pin down the throttle — in this situation, the truck’s brake didn’t disengage the accelerator, and the truck crashed into a house.
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Elderly Mobster Decapitated By NYC DOT Truck
A New York City Department Of Transportation truck struck and decapitated an 86-year-old man in Brooklyn on June 12. The victim was identified last week as Antonio Conigliaro, a former member of the Genovese crime family. The NYPD claims the driver hit Conigliaro as he was jaywalking across a marked crosswalk. The city worker behind the wheel was not arrested, but the investigation is ongoing.
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Rich People Call Zealous Cop Who Arrested Justin Timberlake On DWI The 'Sag Harbor Nazi'
Justin Timberlake’s recent arrest for a DWI was pretty shocking to say the least. What was more shocking to some is that the officer that stopped him claims to not know who he was. It would seem the rookie arresting officer is not unfamiliar with controversy. The New York Post reports that he seems to be a major annoyance for the wealthy residents of New York’s Sag Harbor simply because he’s doing his job.
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Google AI Uses Enough Electricity In 1 Second To Charge 7 Electric Cars
Nobody asked for this AI search bullshit, Google. Not only are the AI generated responses demonstrably worse than normal, they’re infringing on intellectual property rights, killing traditional media, and—thanks to a new Jacobin report we now know—soaking up gobs of electricity in the process. Artificial intelligence-powered search engines are an all-around bad idea, and a stop should be put to the whole thing as quickly as humanly possible. Google’s AI Overviews feature has only been operationa
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'Thanks For The Free Maybach Dawg': Florida Man Steals Both A Maybach And Rolls-Royce Then Taunts Delivery Company
Because of what we’ve seen in movies and TV shows, most people would probably assume that stealing multiple six-figure cars would require an elite team and an elaborate heist. According to 7 News Miami, one Florida man managed to steal a Mercedes-Maybach GLS 600 and a Rolls-Royce Cullinan by simply changing the delivery address. And, allegedly, all it took was a little hacking.
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A New Ford RS200 Is Here To Punch Your Nostalgia In The Face
In celebration of the iconic RS200's 40 years on this planet English firm Boreham has contracted with Ford to revive the Group B rally competitor as an officially licensed new nostalgia monster. Boreham Motorworks will “produce and remaster” the RS200 in limited numbers, and further Ford icons are slated to receive the same treatment in the near future. If you’ve always wanted an RS200, but were waiting for one with modern LED headlights, this is your chance.
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Tesla Traps Toddler Inside Car After 12-Volt Battery Dies In 100-Degree Heat
A Tesla trapped a toddler inside due to a dead 12-volt battery this week, requiring Arizona firefighters to come save the child’s life.
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$332,000 For A Single-Car Garage Is Urban Sprawl In Action
A single-car garage in Sydney, Australia, recently sold for 500,000 Australian dollars, or $332,000. Yes, it’s just a garage. The sky-high prices reflect the high demand for parking in desirable inner-city areas and a lack of standalone garages. A local realtor told Yahoo Finance that up to 12 percent of a property’s value is tied to parking. The leases to many Sydney apartments come with separate garage accommodations nearby.
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Vladamir Putin And Kim Jong Un Are A Roadtrip Duo Made In Hell
Kim Jong Un and Vladimir Putin are buddies, which certainly doesn’t bode for international relations. They’re apparently so close that Putin gave his North Korean counterpart a luxury Russian-made limo on Thursday—the second such gift this year. The two celebrated the diplomatic gift-giving by taking the Aurus Senat for a drive.
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Elon Musk's $10 Million Pronatalism Donation Is Problematic
Elon Musk made a multimillion dollar donation toward a company based in junk science and pushing problematic ideology.
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Jeep Wrangler 392 Final Edition Lives On For Another Year Because Everybody Wants One
We did it, Joe! The Jeep Wrangler 392 Final Edition will live on through the 2025 model year because of people like you. That’s right, because of popular demand, Jeep’s $100,000, 6.4-liter Hemi V8-powered Wrangler 392 Final Edition is giving an encore performance for 2025.
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The 5 Coolest Features On The $4-Million, 1800-HP Bugatti Tourbillon
Bugatti just unveiled its latest seven-figure ultra-car, the Tourbillon. Though it defies the marque’s recent tradition of naming its vehicles after notable drivers from its history, the moniker makes sense. Not just because a tourbillon is an exquisite mechanical object crafted to precise tolerances, or because it is, like the brand, a French invention, but because one can’t spell it without the word Billion, and that net worth is the price of entry for Bugatti owners. (Bullion also works.)
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The C8 Chevrolet Corvette ZR1 Is Coming Next Month
With the Chevy Corvette, what is is never enough. When the C8 released, enthusiasts clamored for the Z06. Then we got the Z06, and all eyes turned toward the hybrid E-Ray. Now that the E-Ray is out, the next model to draw eyes is the venerated ZR1.
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Bugatti Tourbillon V16 Hybrid Hypercar Is Designed To Still Be Timeless Next Century
Twenty years after the game-changing Bugatti Veyron entered production and eight years after the Chiron was unveiled, it’s time for a new Bugatti, and the French brand’s latest hypercar is unlike anything that’s come before it. Enter the Bugatti Tourbillon. Powered by a new V16 plug-in-hybrid powertrain, built on a new structure and featuring a spectacular design inside and out, Bugatti’s goal for the Tourbillon is for it to remain timeless “for all eternity.”
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EVs Are Selling Well For Everyone Except Tesla
Recently, it seems there’s been a lot of doom and gloom around EV sales. Despite ever-dropping prices the market just hasn’t grown the way automakers would like, leading many to shift their priorities to hybrids instead. New data, however, shows that the EV market as a whole isn’t actually suffering. All the problems really come from Tesla.
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Electric Dodge Charger Daytona Is Delayed By Three Months Because Of Electrical Issues
Dodge has a lot riding on the success of the next-gen Charger, specifically the Charger Daytona EV. Aside from pissing off “The Brotherhood” by abandoning the Hemi V8, Dodge needs to nail the Charger to get its EV transition underway. Unfortunately for Dodge, a few problems have crept up during last minute testing, forcing the company to delay the EV’s launch by 90 days, Mopar Insiders reports.
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Elon Musk Realizes He Went Too Far In Telling Advertisers To 'Go Fuck' Themselves
It’s not too often Elon Musk walks back something he has said. Usually, he just hopes we all forget about the asinine claims and promises he makes, and we all go on with our lives. Well folks, not this time, because this mistake clearly is having an impact on Musk’s companies and their bottom lines. Last year, the CEO lashed out at advertisers that were fleeing his social media site, X, telling them to “go fuck” themselves. Oh, how the times have changed.
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Self-Driving Cars Still Only Safer Than Humans When Driving In Straight Lines Under Perfect Conditions
Self-driving cars are pretty good at driving in a straight line in bright sunny conditions — better than a human, in fact — according to researchers at the University of Florida. However, that appears to be where the benefits of an autonomous vehicle ends, according to a new report.
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These Are The Biggest Car Recalls Of 2024 (Quartz)
Less than six months into the year, almost 500 recalls have been filed with U.S. regulators, affecting everything from pickup trucks to tires to airbags.
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Indiana State Police Pulls Dodge Durangos From Patrol Duty Over Oil Cooler Issues
Despite having J.D. Power quality rankings that look impressive, it seems Dodge’s quality is affecting more than just its normal customers. Fox 59 Indianapolis reports that Indiana State Police have been dealing with oil cooler issues in some of its Durango patrol vehicles, leading many of the SUVs being pulled from duty.
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Do You Think Honda's $15,000 Electric Kei Van Would Actually Work In America?
Every time a small and affordable EV gets revealed in another country, especially Japanese kei cars and vans, there are tons of people online that will shout from the rafters about how it should be brought to America. The latest is Honda’s N-Van e: (yes that’s really the name), an electric commercial van with a range of 152 miles and a price tag starting at the equivalent of around $15,000 in Japan. The N-Van e: is super cute and looks perfectly suited to Japan. But do y’all actually think this
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The 2024 Chevrolet Colorado ZR2 Bison Is Off-Roading On Easy Mode
Chevy’s compact ZR2 Bison makes even the trickiest off-road paths a cinch by combining old- and new-school tech.
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The New Fourth-Generation BMW X3 Is The Weirdest-Looking One Yet
It’s been more than 20 years since the original BMW X3 debuted, and the compact crossover is now entering its fourth generation. The 2025 BMW X3 goes even stranger with the styling, in a way that I love but I’m sure many of you will hate, and it’s now exclusively powered by hybrid engines. On the inside there’s even more funky styling and a new infotainment system, all for a price only slightly higher than before.
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912-HP E-Tron GT Refresh Is The Most Powerful Audi Ever
The Porsche Taycan may get most of the attention, but you really shouldn’t sleep on its platform-mate, the Audi E-Tron GT, either. In our first drive, we found it surprisingly sporty while still plenty comfortable for four people. Considering how similar it is to the Taycan, that was probably to be expected. And now, just like the Taycan, Audi has reworked the E-Tron GT for 2025, and the good news is, the changes are a lot more significant than some simple updates to the exterior.
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Paul Walker Loved This Unfinished Camaro Almost As Much As 'Dating' Teenagers, And Now You Can Buy It
It’s been more than 10 years since “Fast And Furious” star Paul Walker died in a fiery crash as a passenger in a Porsche Carrera GT. His death immortalized him in the automotive community, with his life later chronicled in the 2018 documentary “I Am Paul Walker.” Recently, Mecum listed an unfinished 1969 Chevrolet Camaro RS Z28 that was previously owned by Walker, meaning you could own your own piece of Walker memorabilia. You know, as long as you’re fine with all the alleged statutory rape, tha
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Tesla Model Y Is Once Again The Most American-Made Car
It’s been a long time since American cars were built in the U.S. by American automakers, and foreign cars were all true imports. These days, your BMW SUV is probably built in South Carolina, and your Ram 1500 could have been built in Mexico. If you want the most American-made car that you can possibly buy, at least according to Cars.com’s 2024 American-made index, the one to buy is, yet again, the Tesla Model Y. For the third year in a row, actually.
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Justin Timberlake Arrested For DUI On Long Island
Musician, actor, and Audi A1 introducer Justin Timberlake was arrested on charges of driving while intoxicated last night in Sag Harbor, one of the towns that make up the Hamptons on Long Island, New York.
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Ford Dealers Don't Have To Spend Millions To Sell EVs Anymore
Ford’s EV plans haven’t exactly gone according to, well, plan. Late last year, Ford started to rethink the billions it poured into EVs as sales started to slow and scaled back its European EV plans. Then the company revealed that it loses over six figures on each EV it sales. Then the automaker announced it was doing something it should have done all along: Developing cheaper EVs. The next phase to stanch the bleeding, Reuters reports, is Ford ditching dealer sales requirements for EVs.
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Tesla Crashes Into Police Cruiser Already Responding To Fatal Car Crash While In Full Self Driving Mode
A Tesla in full self-driving mode slammed into a California Highway Patrol cruiser that was already responding to a fatal crash last week. The electric car was running Tesla’s advanced driver assist feature Full Self-Driving when it smashed into the cop car, forcing officers on the scene to jump out of the way of the car as it careered off course.
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Nissan Wants $59,000 For A Heritage Edition Z With A Bad Split Grille
When Nissan debuted the latest Z as a prototype back in 2020, some folks hated its wide-open grille. Nissan has never forgotten this, and the company is constantly playing with the front end of the Z in hopes of quelling discontent. Unfortunately, those experiments always lead here: The new Nissan Z Heritage Edition.
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Jeep Confirms The Renegade Will Return As A Sub $25,000 EV
If you’re in the market for an affordable electric SUV from Jeep, but you feel left out because the brand plans to bring yet another pricey EV to market, just wait. Car & Driver reports that Jeep has confirmed that a familiar nameplate is returning as an EV in 2027.
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British Police Deliberately Ram Cow Off The Road With Pickup Truck
A 10-month-old cow escaped from a farm in Surrey in the UK this weekend. But instead of leaving the young animal to explore a bit before making its way back home, police in the area decided the best thing to do was crash a police pickup truck into the animal.
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Solar Power Is Bigger Than Oil For The First Time In History
Solar photovoltaic energy is riding the wave of the future. Gas and oil have powered the previous hundred years of economic and industrial development, but demand for solar energy is growing even faster than China’s investment in green energy. Seven massive solar energy companies in China are building enough solar power that it has begun to overtake the energy reserves of the seven largest oil companies. The largest of them, Tongwei Co., builds enough solar panels in a year to power all of Italy
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Drunk Driver Hits Cop During DUI Stop In Virginia
A drunk driver slammed into the back of a police cruiser stopped on Interstate 495 in Virginia early Tuesday morning. A Virginia State Trooper had stopped another driver suspected of driving under the influence of drugs. The collision sent the patrol car right into the trooper who was standing by the driver-side window of the car ahead. The officer was taken to the hospital for minor injuries, and both drivers took a trip to jail.
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Fiat's New Grande Panda Is So Cute I Wish It Had Cheeks I Could Squeeze
Today is an exciting day, as Fiat has revealed its new Grande Panda, a baby crossover-ish hatchback that is completely adorable. If you can believe it, this is only the fourth generation of Panda to emerge since 1980 when the original model was revealed, and that one was in production until 2003! While it probably won’t be offered with all-wheel drive unlike previous Pandas — there will be a still-small Panda SUV for that — the Grande Panda channels the original Panda 4x4 in overall spirit.
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The R35 Nissan GT-R Is Ending Production After 17 Years
The R35-generation GT-R has served as Nissan’s halo car since it hit the market in 2007, but it’s finally on its way out. Somehow the iconic all-wheel-drive Godzilla managed to remain a powerhouse of technology and speed after all those years. The car launched to great fanfare, cutting the legs out from under much more expensive cars from Porsche and Ferrari, and it’s continued to be a fan favorite for all these years despite looking much the same as it did 17 years ago. It was so far ahead of t
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Tesla Investors Voted For Elon Musk's $45 Billion Pay Package, But He Won't Get It Yet
It seems like 1,000 years since Tesla began the drive to return Elon Musk’s $56 billion — sorry, $45 billion now that shares have dropped — payday, after it was struck down as “unfathomable” by a Delaware court. As of yesterday, the tally is finally in: Tesla investors want the CEO to get every single share promised in the original deal. The vote passed, but Tesla’s fight isn’t over yet.
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Gas Price, Weather Apps Are Reporting Your Driving Habits To Insurers So They Can Raise Your Rates
Do you ever feel like you’re being watched? Like no matter where you go, what you do, there’s a corporation tracking it to sell the data to someone else? Well, according to a New York Times report, you’re right: Even the apps on your phone are tracking the way you drive, just to sell it to your insurer.
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Pennsylvania Senator Fetterman Was Driving 'Well Over The Posted Speed Limit' Just Before Crash
Democratic senator and Carhartt hoodie enthusiast John Fetterman crashed his Chevrolet Traverse into the back of an Impala in Maryland on Sunday morning, landing himself, certified baddie Giselle Fetterman, and the driver of the Impala in the hospital. Nobody was seriously injured, Fetterman was treated for a bruised shoulder and released. Neither driver was tested for drugs or alcohol, and no citations were issued at the time. Fault for the crash was assigned to the senator, with speed and the
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Copper Thieves Are Making A Pretty Penny Looting Charging Cables Thanks To EV Growth
The recent surge in cable theft from electric vehicle charging stations could be tied to the increasing price of copper, an increase largely due to the increase in EV production. This negative feedback loop has caught the attention of charging companies and police, the AP reports. Authorities are recommending increased surveillance to stop cable cutters because this isn’t going away on its own any time soon.
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Elon Musk Conveniently Drops Lawsuit Against OpenAI After His Hypocritical Emails Leak
Tesla CEO Elon Musk recently dropped a lawsuit he had filed against OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT, and though Musky didn’t offer an explanation for dropping the lawsuit, it coincides with some juicy leaked emails between him and OpenAI. Didn’t Elon help co-found OpenAI? Yes he did, but now OpenAI is making lots of money for itself and Musk must feel salty about that profit going to someone other than himself.
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One Person Is Behind Thousands Of Silicon Valley Bike Thefts And He's Selling Them In Mexico
There’s an ongoing surge in bicycle theft that struck even before the pandemic arrived in 2020. The resulting uptick in cycling and retail bike sales that year served as an accelerant to thrust bike-related crimes to all-time highs. Wired sought the expertise of a bike hunter to learn what was happening to all these bicycles after they were taken off the street or out of warehouses.
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Hijacker Leads Atlanta Police On 27-Mile Chase In Bus With 17 People On Board
A bus in Atlanta was hijacked on Tuesday afternoon, leading to a wild 30-mile police chase that left one person dead and 17 riders scared for their lives.
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Now You Can Get Your Mustang GTD With Magnesium Wheels And Active Aero If Ford Approves Your Application
Only about 1,000 examples of Ford’s mega carbon-bodied mid-engine 800-plus horsepower Mustang will be built, and like the GT that came before it, Ford will only let you buy one if you have enough social media clout. If that isn’t exclusive enough for you, Ford will let you option a new Performance Package to give the car even more track-day weaponry. If you’re actually going to take your Mustang GTD to the track instead of just showing it off at the local cruise-in, this is the option you absolu
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Elon Musk Has Been A Creep Toward Women For Years
Has anyone else ever noticed Elon Musk is a little weird about women – especially ones he has hired? A few of the best examples of this are a former SpaceX intern turned employee the multi-company CEO had a years-long on-again-off-again relationship with dating back to 2017 and his penchant for having babies with coworkers. In a new story from the Wall Street Journal, we get an inside look at just what sort of weird shit Musk has been up to with the women who work for him. It is not a pleasant r
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Ford CEO Says He Mortgaged His House To Buy A Vintage Sports Car
Ford CEO Jim Farley is a genuine car fanatic, which is something of a rarity among car company c-suite execs. It’s about more than just the numbers with this guy, because he understands where enthusiasts are coming from. He gets that the financial decisions we make as car enthusiasts aren’t always advisable, because he’s made those same decisions in his own life. Like mortgaging his house to buy a barn-find Shelby Cobra for $100,000. This was, of course, in his pre-CEO days, before he was bringi
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The 2025 Mini Cooper 5 Door Looks Like A Tidy, Techy Hoot
The fourth-generation internal combustion Mini Cooper was unveiled earlier this year in three-door form, being built on an updated version of the outgoing Mini’s platform instead of the new platform of the fully electric model. As the only outstanding piece of the Mini Cooper puzzle, the nominally more practical Cooper five door has debuted, and it looks basically the same as the three door, just with two additional doors.
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Titan Sub Prototype Got Lost Off Seattle Bay, Used iPhone To Reorient Itself
It’s been nearly a year since OceanGate’s Titan submersible imploded as it descended to the Atlantic Ocean’s floor to view the wreck of the Titanic. Stockton Rush, the company’s CEO, and four other people were killed instantaneously when the vessel was crushed. Wired revisited the sub’s troubled development and the warning signs that were ignored.
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Donald Trump Says Electric Boats Will Sink Because They're Heavy, And Then You'll Have To Decide If You Want To Get Electrocuted Or Face A Shark
Former president and convicted felon Donald J. Trump held a rally in Las Vegas, Nevada this week in over-100-degree weather. During this event the MAGA man told a crowd of 2,000 gathered supporters about a recent conversation he claims to have had with the owner of a boat manufacturing operation. Specifically, Trump shared his thoughts on electric-powered boats and sharks. If an electric boat were sinking and you had to choose between being electrocuted and getting eaten by a shark, Trump (whose
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Infamous Charger Hellcat Owner Still Terrorizing The Streets Of Seattle Despite $80,000 In Fines
It seems as if nothing will stop “Belltown Hellcat” owner Miles Hudson from doing burnouts and causing havoc in and around Seattle. Seattle’s Fox 13 reports that tire marks and social media posts over the weekend confirm that Hudson’s Charger Hellcat is still being a nuisance.
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Watch An SUV Fly 'Free Willy' Style Over A Freeway On-Ramp
One of the beauties of modern tech is that it allows us to be able to record whenever and wherever, granting us access to some truly wild shit. Take this SUV crash that looks straight out of an action movie.
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Willow Springs' Sellers Hope To Turn The Track Into A Sonoma Raceway For Southern California
Every so often a cool racetrack goes up for sale, but they’re usually a custom track that some rich guy made, or something more grassroots. Very rarely does an actual historic race track come up for sale. One of those times is now upon us as Willow Springs International Raceway has been listed for sale.
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New York City Just Bulldozed A Bunch Of Scooters And Mopeds
Illegal scooters, ATVs and mopeds are a nuisance in New York City. Riders modify them to be noisy or do dumb stuff like ride them on sidewalks where they pose a danger to pedestrians. Every so often the city sends a message that these illegal vehicles and the stupid activity that comes with them won’t be tolerated by crushing them. That time has come again, as news reports have shown that city officials recently destroyed hundreds of mopeds and scooters.
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Your Governor Is Powerless Against Gruesome Gavin's California Emissions Regime, Virginia
Virginia governor Glenn Youngkin has a problem. He’s an ardent defender of diversity, you see, but he runs a state that’s bound to totalitarian California emissions standards — including the upcoming internal combustion vehicle ban. Youngkin is trapped enforcing a mandate that reduces the diversity of cars on the road, removing the entire class of ICE vehicles, unless he can wriggle out of it.
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School Bus Maker Blue Bird Is Maybe The Most Successful EV Company In The World Right Now
Most electric vehicle manufacturers have seen their stock prices decline across the first half of 2024, but one comparatively tiny company that builds comparatively massive EVs, Blue Bird, the school bus company, is outperforming expectations. Thanks to a $5 billion government incentive program, the company has a 500-unit backlog, and shifted 210 electric kid transport tubes in the first quarter of the year. According to the long-serving bus company, electric school buses now account for nine pe
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Seaplane Plows Into Boat During Takeoff Before Immediately Splashing Down
A seaplane lifted off directly into the side of a boat while setting off on a Saturday sightseeing flight from a harbor in Vancouver, Canada. The pilot and five passengers onboard De Haviland DHC-2 Beaver escaped the crash uninjured, CBC News reports. Those on the boat weren’t as lucky, with two people being sent to the hospital with injuries.
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Kia Recalls 462,869 Tellurides For Seat Motors That Can Overheat And Catch Fire
The rough and ready Kia Telluride immediately sailed to the top of the midsize three-row crossover segment, winning comparison tests and the money of nearly half a million buyers since it launched in 2020. Now though, Kia is recalling all 462,869 Tellurides sold between 2020 and 2024 due to a fire risk from overheated power seat motors, per an announcement by the NHTSA on June 7.
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Newer Honda Fits Are Basically Depreciation-Proof
We miss the Honda Fit. We really do. It was an inexpensive subcompact, sure, but it was also so much better than it had any right to be, and it more or less made the competition irrelevant. There were less-expensive alternatives, but they just didn’t have the level of charm, practicality and refinement of the Fit. And it’s not like it was that much more expensive than, say, the Toyota Yaris. As late as 2020, a new Honda Fit started at around $17,000 and topped out in the low-$20k range. Fast for
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New Fiat 500e Color Is Inspired By Los Angeles' Iconic Gray Skies
If you hadn’t realized, the 2024 Fiat 500e is already arriving at dealers here in the United States, with the first ones all being painted bright red. Keeping in the brands plans to release special editions like shoe drops, the brand has “dropped” a new special edition. The latest 500e is called the Fiat 500e Inspired By Los Angeles, and it’s... gray?
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Shocking End To Monster Truck Rally After Lobster-Themed Truck Pulls Down Power Lines
A monster truck took down a power line during a jump at a show in Maine last Saturday. The lobster-themed truck called Crushstation pulled down multiple utility poles and sent a transformer crashing to the ground near a grandstand, the AP reports. Two people were sent to the hospital, but the incident could have been far worse with live electrical wires on the ground, even covering occupied porta potties.
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So Many Unsold Teslas Are Piling Up That You Can See Them From Space
Gone are the times when Tesla sold every car it could build fresh out of the factory. We’re now at the point where the company has actually made too many vehicles. The automaker is obviously aware of this, slashing prices on popular models like the Model Y as inventory piles up. Buyers aren’t biting though and now the automaker has so much unsold inventory that, as Sherwood News reports, they’re being stored in lots that can be seen from space.
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Are Cars From A Couple Years Ago Really More Desirable Than The Latest New Cars?
If you’ve needed to buy a car sometime in the last four years, you understand how rough it’s been out there. Dealers were only stocking the highest trim levels and still adding markup, used car prices were through the roof and availability was limited. Things have been getting better recently, though, with used prices dropping, dealer markups largely disappearing and some models even being available for less than MSRP. Still, some buyers have decided that they’re out of the new car game for good
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Watch A YouTuber Build A Car Out Of Electric Scooters
There are all sorts of things you could read or watch today that are incredibly important. Apparently, a new strain of bird flu just killed a man in Mexico. Also, while Modi still won India’s latest election, his party performed much worse than expected. Oh, and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is still going on. Instead of learning more about those things, though, I would like to suggest you spend 17 minutes watching a kid spend way too much money and time building a car out of electric scooters.
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Shooting A Lamborghini With Fireworks From A Helicopter Ends In Federal Charges For YouTuber Alex Choi
The deck may be stacked against you, but if you find success as an internet content creator, it can unlock a whole new world of opportunities, money and fame. Still, if you want to continue to grow your channel, there’s a lot of pressure to make every video more over the top and more expensive than the last. That’s how we ended up with influencer Alex Choi deciding to celebrate the 4th of July by shooting fireworks at a modified Lamborghini from a helicopter. Unfortunately for everyone involved,
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Attention Boot Lickers: Tesla Is Now Selling $450 Bottles Of Mezcal
Tesla, the Elon Musk–run tech company whose mission statement is “accelerating the world’s transition to sustainable energy,” has just released a $450 lightning bolt–shaped bottle of Mezcal. How this bottle of liquor serves to accelerate the world’s transition to sustainable energy eludes me, but Tesla has previously sold limited quantities of Tesla-branded alcohol in the past.
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Large SUVs Might Not Be As Safe As You Think
The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) just released new crash test results for three full-size, three-row SUVs — the Ford Expedition, Chevrolet Tahoe, and Jeep Wagoneer — and these family haulers had varied crash test performances. Full-size SUVs are popular choices due to their size and the perceived safety that comes with that size, but size alone doesn’t necessarily equate to safety in reality. The IIHS said the Expedition performed worse than 90 percent of all new vehicles in th
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Judge Replaced After Shoving A Cop During Shirtless Parking Spot Spat
Mark Grisanti, a judge in the New York Court of Claims, won’t be reappointed to a second term this week after a heated confrontation with Buffalo police officers in 2020. Grisanti and his wife were fighting with their neighbor over street parking when the police were called. Bodycam footage shows the shirtless judge shoving an officer. He was arrested but never faced any charges over the incident.
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Jeep Plans To Simplify Its Lineup Because It Thinks It Will Help Quality
Jeep has been on a roller coaster ride the last few years. Sales have suffered, dealers are sitting on inventory they’re heavily discounting to move, quality has suffered and worse yet, their vehicles have become too expensive for many would-be buyers — something the company acknowledges even though it just released a $70,000 EV. Jeep is also unusual in the myriad number of options, trims and colors it offers customers. That may soon come to an end if one of Jeep’s executives gets their way.
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2025 Rivian R1S And R1T Facelift Revealed: Specs, Details And Everything Else You Need To Know
Less than three years after first deliveries commenced (but almost eight years after they were originally revealed), Rivian is already facelifting its R1T pickup and R1S SUV. Rivian doesn’t want to simply call this a facelift or mid-cycle refresh, though — instead the brand is calling the updated R1 lineup the “second generation” of the vehicles, despite both models looking basically the same on the outside. I rolled my eyes at the “Gen 2” moniker at first, but after doing a deep dive into the m
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Lamborghini Finally Admits Quick 0-60 Times Aren't Signs Of A Fun Car
For decades the world of fun-to-drive sports cars and supercars has been held hostage by the almighty 0-60 time. This has resulted in several generations of increasingly higher-powered and computer-controlled mega machines that treat the driving experience like a video game with a singular goal of delivering a faster quarter mile or Nürburgring lap time. For those of us looking to experience something bordering on emotion behind the wheel, our choices have been winnowed away. The manual transmis
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UK Sovereign Citizen Tries To Use American Script And Gets Himself Arrested
Sovereign citizens may be delusional and beyond annoying, but they’re not going away anytime soon. In fact, the movement appears to be expanding, as the video below demonstrates. As it turns out, there are sovereign citizens in the UK, too, and even with a charming British accent, it still doesn’t go well. That’s at least, in part, because the man in question seems to have only read U.S. sovereign citizen literature and keeps trying to run through a completely irrelevant script.
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Leader Of Attempted Coup In The Congo Was Once A Used Car Salesman In Utah
Car dealers are known for their shady sales tactics, embezzling skills and occasional kidnappings, but heading up a coup in an African nation? Apparently that was the career path of one Christian Malanga, a former used car salesman out of Utah who was recently killed trying to lead a coup against the Congolese government.
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Toyota Admits To Cheating On Tests, Pauses Production Of 3 Models
Toyota’s been in a bad spot with regulators recently. Its subsidiary Daihatsu rounded out 2023 by admitting to forging 30 years of crash test results, and even the venerable Land Cruiser couldn’t escape an emissions scandal. Yet, it seems the company isn’t quite done dredging up issues: A new internal investigation revealed Toyota cheated on crash tests for seven Japanese models.
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New BMW M135 Is A 296-HP Hot Hatch
The BMW 1 Series may no longer be rear-wheel drive, but at a time when hot hatches are growing rarer, we’re just happy to see one live on for a new generation. Visually, the new 1 Series isn’t a wild departure from its predecessor, and while it’s not the most attractive hot hatch we’ve ever seen, it’s still a marked improvement. Then again, considering how the old one looked, improving that front-end design couldn’t have been particularly difficult.
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Not Getting Enough Attention In Your Cybertruck? Just Pay $60,000 To Gold Plate It
Many of the people who bought Tesla Cybertrucks did so because they thought driving a rolling statement piece would make them seem cooler. Unfortunately, every dork with a podcast in every mid-sized town in America thought the same thing, and they’re proving deeply uncool and as poorly constructed as the drivers’ sense of self. If you went out and spent six figures to get a Cybertruck, but there are ten others in your town already, you are going to have to do something to set yourself apart from
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Police Promise They Aren't Using Drones To Spy On Poor People
Police drones patrolling the skies over a city might sound like the premise of an upcoming dystopic sci-fi streaming series, but it’s already a reality. Wired investigated how the Chula Vista Police Department deploys its fleet of 32 drones in its Drone as First Responder (DFR) program. The flight data and eyewitness accounts illustrate how the city halfway between San Diego, California and Tijuana, Mexico is unevenly policed with increasingly invasive technology.
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Infamous Charger Hellcat Owner Hit With Over $80,000 In Fines
The infamous Seattle Dodge Charger Hellcat owner who thought he was hot shit for terrorizing the city with his loud exhaust and reckless driving has had his actions catch up with him. After a judge ruled that he couldn’t drive his “Belltown Hellcat” due to him disturbing the peace with its V8 roar, it seems Hellcat owner Miles Hudson ignored the judgment. He might come to regret it as Seattle’s KOMO News reports that the city has fined him $83,000.
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Elon Musk's New Ventures May Come At The Expense Of Tesla
Elon Musk may be taking his eye off the ball at Tesla to focus on other ventures, and financial analysts think it should have investors worried.
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These Are The Most Fuel-Efficient Cars, Trucks And SUVs According To Consumer Reports [UPDATE]
Our friends over at Consumer Reports independently test new cars to see what kind of fuel economy they actually get in the real world.
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Delivery Rider Is The Most Deadly Job In New York
If you had to guess which city center job came with the highest risk of death, what would you go for? Something in construction or refuse management, perhaps? Well you’d be wrong, as it turns out that the deadliest job you can have in New York is a delivery rider.
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Massive Meat Spill Clogged One Of Oakland's Arterial Roads
A truck spilled its load of raw chicken and beef all across Interstate 880 in Oakland, California, causing several meat-induced spin-outs last Friday afternoon around 5 p.m.. The meat spill happened close to the Oakland Coliseum where country singer Zach Bryan was performing that night, hamstringing travel for commuters and concert goers from miles around. The meat spill caused dangerous road conditions, forcing lane closures before Caltrans was called to handle all of the meat. The nightmarish
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Subaru WRX And BRZ Sales Have Absolutely Cratered This Year
It’s the first workday of the month of June, which means it’s time for the automakers who so graciously still report monthly sales on a monthly basis to show us their spreadsheets. For Subaru, it wasn’t all bad, but it sure wasn’t great, either, especially for the folks who work on the performance side of things. So far in 2024, sales of the WRX have dropped 39 percent compared to the first five months of 2023, and BRZ sales dropped even further. Year-over-year, the BRZ is down a full 45 percent
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'This Is Not Silverstone:' Traffic Cop Popped For Doing 154 MPH
Sometimes, someone gets caught driving so fast that you don’t need context to understand just how reckless they were. Like one British traffic cop who was recently caught driving 154 mph. And while that kind of thing would probably get brushed under the rug in the U.S., apparently, in the UK, cops actually face consequences. Who knew?
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Fisker Was Never Going To Succeed
Fisker, after the disastrous launch of the Ocean crossover, is not doing so hot. For CEO Henrik Fisker, founder of both Fisker Automotive and VLF Automotive, it’s a tale as old as time — spin up a car company, make a few copies of one car, and then crash and burn in spectacular fashion. A new report from TechCrunch, though, starts to connect the dots on why this keeps happening to Fisker’s companies: The man himself.
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Kia Dealer Allegedly Discovers You Can Only Pretend To Sell Cars For So Long Before You Get Caught
Selling cars is often a soul-crushing grind. So it’s understandable that dealership employees might feel pressure to cut corners. As one New England dealership recently found out, though, if you get caught straight-up scamming, there can be some pretty nasty consequences.
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Jesus Took The Wheel And Crashed This RV Heading To A Trump Rally
A runaway RV crash in Staten Island on Saturday has left two homeless as their mobile domicile rolled away and smashed into a BP gas station. Donna Eiden and Rocky Granata were en route to a Trump rally on Saturday, just a day after the former president was convicted of 34 felonies. The couple were somewhat notable supporters of Donald J. Trump, traveling to many of his events to sell T-shirts emblazoned with Presidential slogans like “Let’s Go Brandon,” “Girls Just Wanna Have Guns,” and “Trump
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Toyota Finally Figured Out Why Its Twin-Turbo V6s Have Been Failing
The latest generation of the Toyota Tundra and the Lexus LX improved over the previous models in a big way: Toyota’s ancient, gas-guzzling 5.7-liter V8 was dropped in favor of a brand new twin-turbo 3.5-liter V6. With up to 409 horsepower (389 horsepower in the Tundra) it makes more power and gets better gas mileage than the V8 it replaced. Unfortunately, within a year or so of the new engine debuting in the Toyota Tundra and Lexus LX, some owners began reporting problems. They all had one thing
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Nice Price or No Dice (20)

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At $2,950, Does This 2001 BMW X5 Mark The Spot?
BMW touts its products as “Ultimate Driving Machines,” and today’s Nice Price or No Dice X5 has certainly done a lot of driving. Let’s see if its price drives a hard bargain.
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At $11,999, Would You Get Your Ricky Bobby On In This 1977 Chevy Malibu?
Bobby Allison holds the NASCAR record for most consecutive races in which he led at least one lap. Today’s Nice Price or No Dice Chevy is a tribute to that ‘Coke Machine’ car in which Allison set the record. Let’s see if this Malibu’s price tag will set the record for good deals.
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At $14,999, Is This 2006 Dodge Magnum SRT-8 A Hot Hemi Deal?
Today’s Nice Price or No Dice Magnum takes its chassis from Mercedes, its brakes from Brembo, and its Hemi engine from Mount Olympus. Let’s see if the price tag makes it more than just the sum of its parts.
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At $4,500, Will This 1987 Honda Civic Elicit A 'Si' Of Relief?
It’s often been said to be more fun to drive a slow car fast than a fast car slow, and today’s Nice Price or No Dice Civic Si is the sort of car that thinking was based upon. Let’s see if this now-classic is priced to be quickly snapped up.
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At $6,000, Is This 2004 Volvo S60R A Swede Deal?
Today’s Nice Price or No Dice S60R is a rare six-speed manual edition with the wonderfully funky “space ball” shifter. Let’s see if it’s priced well enough for anyone to consider making space for it in the driveway.
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At $8,500, Is This 1979 Chevy Corvette A Stick-Shift Steal?
A lack of garage space is given as the reason for the sale of today’s Nice Price or No Dice C3 Corvette. Let’s see if the price tag has any of you thinking about making room for it.
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At $60,000, Is This 1959 Jaguar XK150 FHC The Cat's Pajamas?
It was announced this week that Jaguar has produced its last F-Type, thus ending the company’s run of sports cars. Today’s Nice Price of No Dice XK150 goes back almost to the beginning of that run. Let’s see if it’s priced to keep on running.
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At $16,500, Does This 2003 BMW 540i M Sport Have A Sporting Chance?
Today’s Nice Price or No Dice 540i M-Sport is touted by its seller as the perfect “poor man’s M5.” We’ll have to see about that, as well as just how poor you could be and still afford the car.
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At $3,995, Could This 2000 Pontiac Firebird Fit You To A Tee Top?
Today’s Nice Price or No Dice Firebird may not be not a rip-snorting V8-powered Trans Am, but it does have some of that model’s looks and a T-top roof. Could this more economical model prove the better bargain?
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At $16,995, Is This 2018 Lincoln Continental A Premium Deal?
Unless you live near an airport, you will unlikely see many Lincolns like today’s Nice Price or No Dice Continental Premiere. That might make this a rather ironic choice for anyone not in the livery business. Let’s see if the price means its eventual buyer will be taken for a ride.
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At $7,200, Is This 1997 BMW M3 Prepped For A Fast Sale
Today’s Nice Price or No Dice E36 M3 may very well be the cheapest in the country that’s not an obvious fright pig in its ad. Let’s see if it’s cheap enough.
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At $7,950, Would You Horse Around With This 1998 Ford Mustang GT?
With its automatic transmission and convertible top, today’s Nice Price or No Dice Mustang is built for weekend road trips rather than acts of aggression on the gymkhana. That’s definitely not a bad thing, but is its price?
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At $9,000, Is This 1975 Suzuki RE5 A Wankel Worth Breaking Out The Wallet?
Today’s Nice Price or No Dice Suzuki is one of only a handful of rotary-powered motorcycles ever produced. It’s also one of the best looking. Let’s see if the price of this unique bike makes it worth a second glance.
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At $13,900, Is This 1990 Dodge Dakota A Drop-Top Doozy?
Tesla’s Cybertruck may be the most out-there, off-the-wall design ever produced, but it’s far from the first funky pickup. Today’s Nice Price or No Dice Dakota isn’t as polarizing, but with a convertible top, it’s almost as unique. Let’s see what you’d pay for it.
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At $16,500, Should This 1987 Mitsubishi Starion ESI-R Get A Gold Star?
Today’s Nice Price or No Dice Starion comes from the golden age of Japanese performance coupes. Let’s decide if this clean machine still has what it takes.
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At $115,000, Is This 2012 McLaren MP4-12C A Mack Daddy Deal?
Today’s Nice Price or No Dice McLaren might have a convoluted name, but its history and performance bona fides are reassuringly straightforward. Let’s see if its price tag is equally so.
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At $4,500, Will This 1985 Nissan Maxima Require An Artistic License To Drive?
According to the ad, today’s Nice Price or No Dice Maxima wagon sat for 22 years, during which time its owner decided to unleash their inner Picasso on it. Surprising all, it actually does run and is now available as an “art sale.”
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At $25,000, Is This 2015 BMW 328d A Super Deal?
The first thing people will notice about today’s Nice Price or No Dice 328d is the big nostril F80 M3 nose it adopted after the old one went one too many rounds. Let’s see if that rhinoplasty and a slew of less obvious updates and improvements can match the car’s asking.
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At $10,000, Could This 1984 Mazda RX-7 Get You To Join The Rotary Club?
Today’s Nice Price or No Dice RX-7 is a time warp both in condition and in the fact that it has a Wankel rotary engine nestled behind its pointy prow. Let’s see if its price is equally old-school.
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At $9,500, Is This 1983 Chrysler Imperial Worth A Look?
The seller of today’s Nice Price or No Dice Imperial claims it to be the “last of the big MOPAR luxury cars” and says it’s a “a real cool guys car.” Let’s see if it comes with a particularly hot price.
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Nostalgia You Can Taste (5)

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Susan Heyward's First Car Helped Her Get To Early Acting Gigs
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Cedric The Entertainer Drove 15 Hours For A $1500 Gig
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I Never Told My Parents The Truth About How I Wrecked My First Car
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Driving A Gemballa Avalanche Is All About The Vibes
If you had to boil down the 1980s south Florida ethos into an automobile, it almost certainly would look something like this 1987 Gemballa Avalanche. Based on Porsche’s iconic “930” 911 Turbo, it’s already a lesson in excess, but once you’ve tacked on the giant fender flares, mesh BBS wheels, and a slant nose body kit, then slathered the whole thing in pearlescent cocaine white, it’s pure vice and vibes. It’s rad to the max, baby.
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Tom Pelphrey Will Never Forget His Saturn SC2
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Watch This Pilot Keep Their Cool After Canopy Explodes Mid-Flight
It’s pretty scary when something goes wrong in your car while you’re driving, but I can only imagine that the fear is multiplied tenfold when something goes wrong for a pilot at altitude. Despite having to deal with the fear of plummeting to their death, footage of one pilot keeping their cool when their canopy exploded has now emerged on social media.
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'I Thought It Was Gonna Hit My House' Plane Falls To Just 525 Feet Over 9 Miles From The Runway
A Southwest Airlines flight dropped to just 525 feet when it was still about nine miles from the runway where it was supposed to land on June 19. The Boeing 737-800 was nearly done with its journey from Las Vegas to Oklahoma City’s Will Rogers World Airport when an automated warning was triggered just after midnight as the place passed over OKC’s suburbs.
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Environmental Protesters Targeting Taylor Swift's Jet Paint The Wrong Plane
Taylor Swift is currently in the UK for the latest leg of her record-breaking Eras Tour where she’s no doubt improving the economy, increasing public transport ridership and putting on a stunning show. That’s not why she’s in the news this Friday, though, instead it’s because climate protesters snuck onto an airfield to try and spray paint her private jet. However, they got the wrong plane.
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Boeing 737 Max Crash Victims' Families Demand $25 Billion Fine For 'Deadliest Corporate Crime In US History'
The families of those killed in the two Boeing 737 Max crashes demanded on Wednesday that the aircraft manufacturer face a $24.78 billion fine. The crashes that killed 346 people in 2018 and 2019 were tied to a faulty flight stabilization system. The Department of Justice shielded Boeing from criminal charges as part of a $2.5 billion settlement in 2021. All Boeing had to do was abide by the agreement’s terms for three years, which included setting up a compliance and ethics program.
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Ex-FAA Official: Piloting Airplanes Is 'Pretty Much A Male Game'
Must be a slow news day for Fox. The outlet is currently flipping its shit over some inclusionary language recommendations made by the world’s largest commercial pilot union... three years ago.
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Boeing CEO Knew About Retaliation Against Whistleblowers But Never Bothered To Speak To One
When Boeing CEO Dave Calhoun faced a congressional hearing and the families of victims of Boeing crashes Tuesday he revealed two shocking pieces of information: He knew all about the company’s culture of intimidating whistleblowers, and that he’d ever spoken to one.
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Boeing Lost Track Of Hundreds Of Bad Parts And Put Some On 737 Maxs, Whistleblower Says
A quality inspector at Boeing has alleged that the airplane-making giant mishandled and lost track of hundreds of faulty parts, and some of them even ended up installed on new 737 Max airplanes. It’s just the latest in a long line of alleged misconduct from the company.
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Pilot Comes Within 400 Feet Of Slamming A Southwest Flight Into The Pacific Ocean
Passengers on a Southwest Airlines flight between islands in Hawaii experienced a heart-stopping thrill ride in April as the plane plunged and came within 400 feet of crashing into the Pacific Ocean. The FAA is now investigating precisely why Southwest Flight 2786 nearly splashed down, USA Today reports. However, the airline stated to the newspaper that “the event was addressed appropriately.” OK then.
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Donald Trump Doesn't Believe In UFOs, But Fighter Pilots Told Him They're Real
Campaign season is starting to ramp up and Donald Trump appeared on Logan Paul’s Impaulsive show last week. The former president’s podcast interview with influencer and part-time pro wrestler Logan Paul was meant to rally young voters, but it likely won’t be looked back in the same vein as Bill Clinton playing the saxophone of the Arsenio Hall Show. Trump closed the show by talking about UFOs and whether the government is concealing the existence of aliens.
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Airline Pulls Out Its Biggest Jet Just To Get Stranded Taylor Swift Fans To Their Show
Taylor Swift and her all encompassing Eras Tour took America by storm last year, breaking concert attendance records, sparking a political debate about how we buy tickets and proving that public transit is essential to many Americans. Now, the singer has taken the show international and at her stop off in Australia managed to force one airline to fly a massive Airbus A380 jet domestically.
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American Airlines Flight Attendants Can't Afford Food, Shelter
Modern air travel is often terrible. Cramped seats, tiny luggage compartments — the list goes on. Yet, most of us in those cramped seats actually have it far better than the folks strolling the aisles, who — at least on American Airlines flights — earn barely over $27,000 per year while forced to live in major metro areas, often sleeping in their cars to make up the cost difference.
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Massive Hailstorm Smashes The Nose And Windscreen On Airbus Jet
It’s a scary time to be flying these days; if it’s not deadly turbulence made worse by climate change and parts falling off Boeing planes left, right and center, then it’s massive hailstorms ripping planes to pieces. That’s exactly what happened in Europe this weekend, when the nose of an Airbus jet was ripped apart by an icy storm.
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Two Planes Nearly Collide On Runway As One Lands While The Other Is Still Taking Off
Two planes nearly collided with each other on a runway at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport in Mumbai after one flight landed while the other one was still rolling down the runway on June 8. In a real shocker, the Air Traffic Control officer responsible has been derostered by officials.
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Brexit Forces British Paratroopers To Go Through French Customs In D-Day Anniversary Jump
Marking 80 years since Allied troops converged on Normandy, France from land, sea, and air in a pivotal battle, a massive anniversary celebration kicked off this week. British RAF paratroopers (joined by Belgians and Americans) jumped into a rural French field just like they did on June 6, 1944. This time, however, they were met with French government officials and red tape instead of Nazi assholes and gunfire. Upon landing, the American and British drops were ushered to a makeshift passport con
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The U.S. Spends $15 Million Every Year To Airdrop Worms On Central America
There is a decades-old international operation to eradicate the New World Screwworm from existence, and you’ve probably never heard about it. The dreaded NWS is a fly larva that burrows into its host, tearing flesh as it goes, often killing the animal en route to pupation. The USDA began efforts to remove the NWS from America and end the millions of livestock deaths it caused in the process. The project began in 1957, and largely succeeded in pushing them out of the U.S. within a handful of year
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Spirit Airlines Passenger Tracks Down Missing Suitcase, Finds It Was Stolen By Airport Employee
Airlines deal with millions of bags a year, so it’s understandable that mistakes happen. Unfortunately for Paola Garcia, though, not all missing bags are the result of a mistake. Local 10 New reports that when her suitcase went missing, she was eventually able to track it down, only it wasn’t at the wrong airport. It was in the home of the airport employee who stole it.
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Boeing Stole Tech From Electric Plane Startup, Federal Jury Finds
A federal jury found that Boeing misappropriated trade secrets from Zunum, a failed electric plane startup. The aircraft manufacturer was a sizable investor in Zunum through its venture capital division, Horizon X. The electric startup claims that Boeing launched a targeted campaign to steal proprietary information to develop its own hybrid-electric aircraft, Reuters reports. Boeing claims it only developed a mock-up to determine the feasibility of Zunum’s planned plane.
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So Many Cruise Ship Passengers Barfed On A United Flight The Plane Had To Be Taken Out Of Service
More than two dozen passengers on a United Airlines from Vancouver to Houston who were previously on a cruise puked so much on the plane that it had to be taken out of service for deep cleaning. No, this isn’t the plot of “Airplane!”
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2025 Porsche 911 Carrera GTS T-Hybrid: What Do You Want To Know?
I’m currently on a plane to Spain to drive one of the most anticipated cars of the year (and maybe even the decade): The 2025 Porsche 911 Carrera GTS, the first roadgoing 911 with a hybrid powertrain. It combines a brand-new single-turbo 3.6-liter flat-6 engine with an electric motor and a lightweight battery pack, and I’m going to drive it both on the roads around Málaga and at Circuito Ascari. What I want to know is what you want to know about the new 911 T-Hybrid.
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What Made You End Up With Your Current Daily Driver?
Car people are some of the kindest and most humble people in our society. Oh wait, car people are rotted, self-inflated know-it-alls who refuse to change their preconceived notions regardless of how wrong they are. That being said, every car person who doesn’t have a fully fledged car collection needs a daily driver, and they’re often more mundane than we’d like to admit. There seems to be a shame associated with a car person taking the logical route and running something affordable and reliable
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These Are The Best Automotive Events Our Readers Have Ever Attended
Part of what we love about automotive enthusiasm is that it takes so many different forms. From the folks who meticulously restore classic cars to those who heavily modify Volkswagen GTIs, drive imported kei trucks, build rock crawlers, and race across the desert, there’s so much more to the greater community than just expensive supercars. And if people are enthusiastic about any type of vehicle, there’s probably a car show, owner’s event or race celebrating it.
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These Cars Are Better Than Their Twins
Good things come in twos. Peanut butter and jelly, Calvin and Hobbes, pizza and more pizza — you can never have just one. Sometimes, though, one of those good things is just a little bit better than the other. Earlier this week, we asked you for the automotive twins that were better than their siblings, and today we’re combing through your answers.
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What's The Best Automotive Event You've Ever Attended?
One of the best things about the automotive community is that there’s something for everyone no matter what you’re interested in. From SEMA to Formula 1 races, to nearby Cars and Coffee and even local events, there are all sorts of experiences to choose from and it’s totally fine if something isn’t for you. I’ve met plenty of people who felt like SEMA was the greatest thing ever, while I would be perfectly happy to have never gone in the first place. Turns out, being stuck in a massive crowd of
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These Are The Cheapest Cars You Could Actually Live With
Asking someone for their top tips for picking up a bargain car is a bit like asking someone for the best flavor of ice cream. We’ve all got different tastes in the same way that we’ve all got different ideas of what constitutes “cheap.”
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What Automotive Twin Deserves The Spotlight Over Its Sibling?
Fun fact: Cars are, more often than not, manufactured by car companies. These companies like to save money, so they’ll often share as many parts as possible between vehicles — interior components, lights, even entire body panels. But when two cars share too much, they start looking suspiciously twinlike.
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These Are The Cars You Think Will Disappear From The Road In The Next 10 Years
Every day, cars are disappearing from the road. Sometimes, they’re just not meant to last or technology has passed them by. Regardless of the reason, there are always cars that one day just seemingly vanished into thin air. That thought is what inspired our question from last week.
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What's The Cheapest Car You Could Actually Live With?
The cheapest new car you can buy in America right now is the Mitsubishi Mirage, which comes in at a cool $18,000. Some would call that a bargain, as it gets you a brand new motor, some fun colors and space for all your hopes and dreams. While it might be the cheapest new car in America, is the Mirage the cheapest new car you could actually live with?
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These Are The Car Things You Had To Learn The Hard Way
Learning; so few of us actually do it. I know I am a repeating-patterned tapestry of mistakes. But when it comes to cars, I’ve learned my lessons well through pain and True Grit.
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What Car Will Have Disappeared From The Road In 10 Years?
Just about every day a different car is going extinct. Think about the last time you saw a Saturn SL2, a Dodge Neon or a Mitsubishi Galant. Sometimes cars are just not built to last, and that’s what brings me to today’s question.
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These New Cars Will Be Timeless In A Few Decades, According To Our Readers
It’s evident to anyone with a pulse that the vehicles we drive from A to B have changed from decade to decade. Noting this ever-shifting landscape, we asked earlier this week which current cars will become timeless in the next few decades. There are always models that stand the test of time and garner record bids at auction once enough time passes. Without further ado, here are your picks for the next fleet of timeless machines:
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What Would You Do To Fix The Car Industry?
Car enthusiasts always have gripes when it comes to the production of new automobiles. Obviously we know better than the executives and planners that spend their entire day working out the trajectory of a company and the development of future product. We have plenty to lament about, like the disappearance of the convertible, the wagon, the sports car, the manual transmission, and the very concept of an affordable car. Then there’s the whole environmental destruction angle, and the rising pedestr
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What Car Thing Did You Have To Learn The Hard Way?
It’s theorized that there are four main ways to learn; visual, auditory, kinesthetic, and reading/writing. I propose that a fifth, and much more common form of learn that should be included is pain. Pain is a wonderful instructor. Really, the best.
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These Are The Ugliest Engine Bays
Last week, we asked readers what cars they thought had the ugliest engine bays. These were their answers.
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These Are The Most Oddly Satisfying Things About Your Cars
Oddly satisfying videos have taken the world by storm, but this is a transportation website. You’re not going to see any sand cutting videos or slime tutorials or whatever else oddly satisfies you freaks out there on other parts of the internet. This is for car weirdos, so here are the most oddly satisfying things about the Jalopnik audience’s cars.
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What New Cars Will Be Timeless In A Few Decades?
The cars currently rolling out onto our roads for the first time will likely be around for a long time. On average, a modern vehicle lasts roughly a dozen years. Looking back, certain vehicles from the 2010s can be easily marked as from that era and not for the better. I hate calling out an automaker in particular, but Dodge’s signature crosshair grill got dropped for a reason.
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These Are The Most Dad-Coded Cars
As we pointed out the other day, being a dad really is a state of mind. There’s more to it than simply having a kid.
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What Cars Have The Ugliest Engine Bays?
If you’re like me, when you pop the hood of a car, you want to actually see the engine. There are those among us who actually still appreciate admiring the beauty that is the internal combustion engine, but lately it seems that some automakers are phoning it in when it comes to engine bays.
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What's The Most Oddly Satisfying Thing About Your Car?
No car is actually perfect, and even if it is perfect for one person, it might be a different person’s worst nightmare on four wheels. I would argue, though, that every car has at least one or two redeeming qualities, it’s just some are harder to deduce than others. I want to know what is the one thing in your car that is just inexplicably perfect, or as some would say, oddly satisfying?
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These Automotive Ripoffs Are Better Than The Originals
Sometimes a song cover is better than the original. You all my disagree with me on which covers win out — it’s okay, you’re allowed to be wrong about Grace Mitchell and Daddy Issues — but the idea remains true. Earlier this week, I asked you all what automotive covers are better than the originals, and boy did you have some answers. Let’s look through them.
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What's The Most Dad-Coded Car?
It should be understood that anyone can be a Dad. It’s a state of mind thing, sometimes you’re a Dad just for a few minutes while you’re using a pocket knife, saying “I’m going to count to three and...” or digging through the trash looking for your keys. Cars are like this, too. Some cars are just for Dads, for Dad activities.
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These Are Your Scariest Moments Behind The Wheel
Your behind-the-wheel life could probably divide it up into 50 percent being fun driving, 25 percent is probably monotonous driving, 24 percent will be sitting in traffic and one percent might be a few terrifying moments. Today, we’re all about the stories that fill that one percent of your nightmare moments behind the wheel.
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What's Your Scariest Moment Behind The Wheel?
On the whole, driving is awesome. You get the freedom of the open road, have the fun of piloting a performance car around tight turns and often have the rumble of an awesome engine filling your ears. That’s not always the case, however, and sometimes driving can get pretty scary.
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These Are The Wildest Examples Of Automotive Parts Sharing
It’s an expensive proposition to build cars, especially when you’ve got to make sure every part of it complies with every letter of the law. That’s why, sometimes, automakers will decide to use an off-the-shelf part on their new car. It’s just cheaper and easier, but it also provides a fun game for car nerds like us. This is what led me to our question from last week.
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What Automotive Ripoff Is Better Than The Original?
Sometimes a song cover is better than the original. Tracks like Jimi Hendrix’s “All Along The Watchtower,” Grace Mitchell’s “Maneater,” or Daddy Issues’ “Boys of Summer” (no, not the Ataris version) all improve on their source material in some way. Today, we ask: What’s the automotive equivalent?
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These Are Your Favorite Cars From Obscure Brands
Every once in a while a car company will crop up seemingly out of nowhere and deliver a truly unique vehicle that nobody else could have dreamed up. We love it when that happens, even if it’s fairly rare. Earlier this week we asked all of you for your nominations for best car from a brand that never ascended to mainstream acceptance, and you did not disappoint. There are so many phenomenal cars on this list, some that many of you have probably never heard of. It’s a great exercise in stepping ou
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These Are The Cars That Truly Unite Americans
There are a lot of things dividing us as Americans right now, but cars don’t have to be one of them. Let politics, “lifestyles” and whether to call fizzy sugar water pop verses soda divide us. Cars can (and should) always bring us back together.
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What's The Best Example Of Parts Sharing On A Car?
Building cars is an expensive business, and so is designing the parts that go onto them. That’s why – every once in a while – you’ll see two very different cars sharing the same singular part. I love spotting this sort of stuff, and it’s what has led me to today’s question.
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These Are The Most Woke Cars
Right now, our world is more divided than ever. It seems like, no matter which side of the aisle you fall on, there’s one big question everyone’s debating: What does “woke” even mean? And how can we apply it to cars? This was the question we asked you all earlier this week, and today we get to comb through your picks for the most woke car.
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What's The Best Car From An Obscure Brand?
There are hundreds of automakers around the world throughout history that have made some truly great cars, though haven’t ascended to the station of household name. At the point it made the all-conquering F1 supercar speed machine, McLaren was arguably an obscure brand, though it has since become a much more known entity. Knock that one off the table, and what are you left with? What’s the best car to ever be made by a brand that would only be known by the cognoscenti? I’ve got a few answers rol
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Here Are The Worst Pickup Trucks Ever Made According To You
Pickup trucks; the car buying public loves them with some 12.3 million sold in 2023 alone. Some would assume that with all these sales, there can’t be a single pickup model on the market that’s bad. According to our readers though, you’d be wrong though.
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What's The One Car Every American Can Agree On?
We asked this question back in 2019, and oh, how jaded and divided we felt back then. Little did we know just how much our national unity would be run through the ringer in the proceeding five years and especially over the last week.
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What Car Is The Most Woke?
If there’s one thing I know from reading the comments here— or worse, the Facebook comments on our page — it’s that cars are too woke now. These loony lefties have taken control of NASCAR, added electrification to Indy, and even postulated that something bad might happen to a vaccine-free ship unironically called the Titanic II. First they got a whole month, now they’re letting transgenders write about cars, for Christ’s sake!
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These Are The Most Evil Looking Cars
The concept of a giant metal rectangle speeding down the road with several humans inside is innately scary, and I’ll never forget an episode of “The Fairly Odd Parents” where Cosmo kept calling cars screaming metal death traps. Cars are scary, but some seem more evil than others thanks to roles they’ve played in movies or roles they assume in public. Car designers have the task of conveying a car’s demeanor through its styling, and some cars are meant to be menacing, so they get menacing designs
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I Have Developed The Best Racing Series Rulebook
Racing, writ large, has a problem: It sucks and is boring. Grassroots track days, time attack, even Formula 1 — no matter how many races I watch, they never end up grabbing me the way I want. Only Formula Drift ever seems to keep my attention, and it’s not because of all the tire smoke. It’s because the cars themselves are so wildly varied, so personalized, that no two are perfectly identical.
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Talentless Billionaire Nepo Baby Failson Remains Safely Employed By The Company His Daddy Bought For Him
Aston Martin Racing announced this week that it has elected to retain the Violet Beauregarde of Formula One, Lance Stroll, “for 2025 and beyond.” Canadian billionaire Lawrence Stroll purchased the failing Force India team in 2018, installing his son as a driver in the team from 2019 onward (and renaming it Aston Martin for 2020 after purchasing a large stake in the automaker). In that time he has hardly proven his worth on the F1 grid, continually scoring fewer points than his teammates and smas
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75-Year-Old John Force Survives Fiery 302-MPH Drag Racing Crash
Drag racing legend John Force is thankfully still alive after a fiery crash during the PlayNHRA Virginia Nationals. Force crossed the finish line at 302.62 miles per hour when his funny car’s engine exploded. Despite the 75-year-old beating Terry Hadcock for the first-round win, he was sent on a trip to a local hospital.
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Ford Lightning Supertruck Breaks Down At Pikes Peak, Still Wins
Pikes Peak champion and outright record holder Romain Dumas made it just two corners into his attempt on the hill this weekend before his Ford Lightning Supertruck ground to a halt on course. After getting a good start and rocketing up the hill, the truck simply shut off. After cycling the start procedure a couple of times, the truck was ready to roll again, and zoomed off. The fault cost Dumas at least 26 seconds in the first sector of the mountain, but that didn’t stop him from setting the fas
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Formula 1 Race-Fixer Flavio Briatore Is Back And With The Same Team
BWT Alpine F1 Team announced on Friday that Flavio Briatore will serve as an executive advisor for the struggling outfit. Briatore led this same team to multiple championships as team principal before resigning in 2009 for his involvement in the worst race-fixing scandal in the sport’s history. You know what they say about desperate times.
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Monaco Doesn't Deserve To Be Part Of The Triple Crown Anymore
The Triple Crown of motorsport is an unofficial moniker denoting the Indianapolis 500, the 24 Hours of Le Mans, and the Monaco Grand Prix. Only one driver in history has won all three, as Graham Hill won Indy in 1966, Le Mans in 1972, and five times won the Monaco GP across the 1960s. When Hill accomplished the feat all three races were incredible crown jewels in the world of racing, but in 2024 only two of the three still carry a level of competition worthy of inclusion in the trio.
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Even The Klan Couldn't Stop Black Racing In Indiana
In the 1920s, racial segregation in sports was a political issue of national importance. Racing was no different. Black drivers were banned from competing in the Indianapolis 500. The American Automobile Association, the event’s then-sanctioning body, ardently refused to grant racing licenses to Black drivers. As a result, Indianapolis’ Black community decided to organize a race of its own: The Gold and Glory Sweepstakes.
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Get Hyped For Pikes Peak With These Vintage Videos
There are really only two racing events left in the world truly allowing for innovation and exciting vehicle development. The old-school run-what-ya-brung open rulebook style of racing is alive and well at Bonneville and Pikes Peak. The Pikes Peak International Hill Climb is coming up this weekend, and it is perhaps one of the most exciting weekends in racing all year. The best in the world travel to a remote mountain in Colorado every year to wage all out war against a clock. You get one shot t
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The Commentary Got Weird Late Into The Night At Le Mans
Racing through the middle of the night in an endurance event always brings out the weird stuff. Last weekend at the 24 Hours of Le Mans, the racing was put on pause for several hours because of a lengthy period of rainy weather. While the cars trundled around behind the safety cars (which had to stop to re-fuel after a couple of hours), the commentary booth teams still had to talk about the race, which wasn’t, you know, racing. That makes things significantly weirder.
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Brad Pitt's Formula 1 Movie To Hit Theatres July 2025, Still Doesn't Have A Name
After months of production, rumored delays and filming that’s seen crews field Formula 1 cars at grands prix in the UK and Hungary, we finally know when Brad Pitt’s Formula 1 movie is due to be released: July 2025. But while it’s got a theatrical release date set in stone, there’s still no name for the project.
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Watch Cadillac's LeMans Hypercar Dust A Ferrari 296, McLaren 750S And A Porsche 911 Turbo S
It’s the best weekend of the year! No, it’s not the weekend I’ve got tickets to see Taylor Swift, it’s Le Mans! This means that the brightest and best from motorsport are in France to fight it out for 24 hours of ridiculously high-octane racing. Are you excited? In the buildup to this year’s race, the rich folks over at Hagarty have put together a little race to show off just how fast a real Le Mans racer is.
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That Time A Couple Of Drunk British Guys Won The 24 Hours Of Le Mans
The 1953 running of the Le Mans 24 is historically significant for many reasons. For one, the winning Jaguars employed Dunlop-engineered disc brake systems for the first time, and that braking advantage allowed the almighty C-Type to run hard from the drop of the flag and set an average lap time over 100 miles per hour for the first time in the history of the race. But as with all races, there are stories much greater than the stats and the engineering and the numbers. The race winners, British
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It Has Been Ten Years Since Audi Last Won Le Mans
As a sports car fan in 2014 I genuinely believed that Audi could take down Porsche’s then-record of 16 Le Mans wins. That June, a decade ago, the diesel hybrid R18 E-tron Quattro took a thirteenth overall victory for Audi in 16 years. It was a four-rings party that was seemingly never going to end. Until it did. Today we’re celebrating the time the #2 Audi of Marcel Fässler, André Lotterer, and Benoît Tréluyer took on the best from Toyota and Porsche and came out victorious, the last time an Aud
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Let Me Drive The Motorcycle-Powered Bathtub
I don’t like taking baths, I’m more of a shower guy. Pouring dozens of gallons of clean water and turning it into a filthy human stew is not my idea of fun, but if you were to take that tub and put it on wheels with a 120-horsepower Yamaha superbike engine in it, I might be convinced. My bathtub can’t go from 0-60 in 3.4 seconds, but this one can. Yeah, I’d spend a lot more time in the bath if it were this wild hillclimbing burnout and drift monster.
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Mad Mike's Next Drift Car Is A Rotary Swapped $3.2M McLaren P1 GTR
Everyone’s favorite Antipodean rotary head, Mad Mike Whiddett, is constantly trying to find new and exciting cars to rotary swap and burn tires with. The guy has made dozens of Mazda Doriftos, and after a long time sticking with chassis from the same manufacturer, he’s started branching out to more exotic hardware. Last fall he unveiled the wild five-rotor 787D prototype, and this year for the Goodwood Festival of Speed, he’s developed a partnership with Lanzante to build a rotary-powered drift
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Get Hyped For The 24 Hours Of Le Mans With These Vintage Onboard Videos
Le Mans has a long history of attracting great cars, drivers, and manufacturers. This year, as last, many OEMs will compete for overall race victory, including Cadillac, Porsche, Ferrari, Toyota, Peugeot, BMW, Alpine, Lamborghini, and Isotta Fraschini. Porsche looks the favorite to win its 20th race in the event’s 92 starts.
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NASCAR's Charter Talks Could Break The Cup Series
The negotiations between NASCAR and its Cup Series teams to renew their charter agreement is nearing a stalemate. The Associated Press broke down the current state of proceedings on Monday. From making charters permanent to allowing private equity firms to buy charters and NASCAR to own teams, there are divisive demands being made by both sides and no one is budging. The idea of a boycott or breakaway series is a possibility if progress isn’t made, but it’s a route that none of the teams want to
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Formula E Is Headed To NASCAR's Oval Outside Of Miami
Formula E released its schedule for next season on Tuesday. One of the calendar’s biggest changes is that the American round of the all-electric world championship will now take place at Homestead-Miami Speedway on April 12, 2025. Unlike Formula E’s first stint in Miami at Biscayne Bay and Formula 1’s current residency around Hard Rock Stadium, the new event is taking place at a permanent purpose-built racing facility.
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Too Many Top-Level Racing Drivers Are Getting Injured Riding Bicycles
Factory Toyota Hypercar racer Mike Conway will miss out on his 11th start at the 24 Hours of Le Mans after a cycling incident this week has left him with broken ribs and a fractured collarbone. Another high-profile cycling incident saw IndyCar driver David Malukas nerfed from his freshly inked contract with Arrow McLaren and miss the first six rounds of the IndyCar season, including last month’s Indy 500. If I had a nickel for every time a racing driver missed a triple crown event because of a c
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Formula 1's 2026 Rules Are An Apology For Messing It All Up In 2022
The Fédération Internationale de l’Automobile, racing’s global governing body, has unveiled a new set of Formula 1 regulations that will be implemented in 2026. While the rulebook’s top-line selling point of smaller, lighter and nimbler cars is appealing on its own, F1 is heading in a direction that admits the current racing product is lackluster.
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Parnelli Jones Raced On Cutting Edge Of The Indy 500's Most Inventive Era
Parnelli Jones died of natural causes on Monday at 90 years old at Torrance Memorial Medical Center in Torrence, California, his hometown. The 1963 Indianapolis 500 winner was one of the defining drivers in American racing during the 1960s. Jones was arguably the fastest driver in an era of unprecedented change when the 1950s roadsters were swept away by rear-engined machines and turbine-powered monsters.
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Half Of The Drivers In Formula 1 Have Proven They Don't Deserve To Be There
There is a serious lack of skill on the current Formula 1 grid, and it’s getting to be downright appalling that there’s nowhere for the talented young kids working their way up the so-called open wheel ladder to go. So many of the graduates of the junior series are being shuffled off to IndyCar, endurance racing sports cars, Formula E, or shipped to Japan to run in Super Formula. Don’t get me wrong, all of those series benefit from having world class racers on track, but they deserved a shot at
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Argentinian IndyCar Fans Sent Death Threats To A Rookie Driver After Minor Clash In Detroit
“I’m sad I received so much hate and death threats in the last 24 hours for such a small incident in the Detroit GP,” rookie driver Theo Pourchaire wrote in a tweet on Monday. “I hope people can understand that we are all humans and we can make mistakes.” During a restart on lap 60 of the race in Detroit, the young Frenchman made a low-percentage move to pass three cars into the course’s hairpin corner that saw him slide side-to-side into Argentinian firebrand Agustin Canapino. It was far from a
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This Racing Kei Truck May Be Ugly And Uncomfortable, But At Least It's Slow
Attacking The Clock Racing built this ridiculous little Mitsubishi Minicab kei truck into a track car on a lark. If you build race cars and you have an extra car laying around, it’s inevitably going to turn into a race car. Even if it only has a wheel horsepower number you could count to in the time it takes to read this paragraph. It’s a brick-shaped flat-fronted three-cylinder runabout pickup, it was never going to be a fast machine. But it’s fun, and that’s what racing is supposed to be all a
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IndyCar's Detroit Grand Prix Devolves Into Crash Fest
IndyCar’s Detroit Grand Prix was scripted like a ’90s disaster movie; there were wrecks everywhere. The NASCAR Cup Series had a finish at Gateway that was so unexpectedly dramatic, it couldn’t have been scripted. The defending champion and fan favorite Ryan Blaney was on the verge of being gifted a race win after the second-place runner’s engine blew, but he had his own heartbreaking setback. It’s Tuesday, May 28, 2024, and this is Racing Recap, your summary of last weekend’s motorsports highli
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Maserati GranCabrio Folgore And Trofeo Signal The Trident's Triumphant Return
Maserati is working hard to get out of the slump that was the Levante, Ghibli and Quattroporte era, and with its latest editions to its range — the GranCabrio Folgore and Trofeo — the iconic Italian automaker finally seems to be leaving that era behind. The GranTurismo coupe, and by extension its GranCabrio droptop sibling, serve as a sort of North Star for Maserati. Sure, it has the MC20 supercar, but the two-door four-seater is equally as, if not more important to the company. Maserati had to
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The Beautiful Simplicity Of Driving A Volvo Performance Wagon From The 90s
We can all agree that a station wagon is basically the ultimate enthusiast’s vehicle. There’s just something about those long-roof machines that do everything. When you throw on things like turbocharged engines and all-wheel drive, it’s just icing on the cake. Unfortunately, not many wagons exist in the U.S. anymore. Volvo is one of the last holdouts. And recently they gave me the chance to get behind the wheel of one of their classic wagon models.
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The 2024 Mercedes-Benz CLE300 Succeeds At Impressing Your Neighbors But Lacks Fun
Even dating back to the brand’s early days, Mercedes-Benz has been known for its luxurious, sleek coupes, and the new CLE-Class is the latest car to join the storied line of desirable two-doors with three-pointed stars on the nose. Whereas in years past Mercedes-Benz positively spoiled the public with the choice between numerous four-seat coupes across the C, E, and S-Class lineups, the CLE takes the place of both the previous C-Class and E-Class coupes, yet is actually slightly larger than both
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2025 McLaren Artura Spider Is A Heart-Thumping First Supercar Experience
How do you review your first supercar? As my trip to test drive the 2025 McLaren Artura Spider approached, I kept asking myself that same question. How could a poor kid from Michigan truly understand the nuance of a quarter-million-dollar machine? How could I do it justice, having never driven anything similar before? How do I convey the feeling of this car to an audience that will likely never drive anything similar? How the hell do I review a supercar?
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2025 Rivian R1T And R1S Are Faster, Smarter And Even More Fun
The Rivian R1T and R1S you see above might look pretty much the same as before, but don’t be fooled. Say hello to the “second generation” of Rivian’s electric truck and SUV, a mid-cycle update on the styling front but a comprehensive overhaul of pretty much everything under the skin. After driving the whole “Gen 2” lineup on the roads around Seattle, off-road at DirtFish rally school, and on the drag strip at Pacific Raceways, it’s clear Rivian’s designers and engineers were focused on making th
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The 2025 Toyota Crown Signia Has No Idea What It Wants To Be
If you’ve ever looked at a Toyota SUV and wished it could imbue a little more luxury in your life, but you’ve simultaneously felt like Lexus was simply too luxurious for you, then I’ve got absolutely fantastic news: the luxury-adjacent 2025 Toyota Crown Signia might just fill that hyperspecific niche!
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Elon Musk Will Crash The International Space Station Into The Sea
The International Space Station is dying. Once an icon of space exploration, something I would stare up at the sky in hopes of seeing as a kid, the station is now spending its last few years in orbit before being taken down by NASA. Or, more specifically, being crashed into the Pacific Ocean by Elon Musk.
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Toxic Debris From Chinese Rocket Drops On Village
Debris from a rocket launched by the Chinese space program came crashing down on a village in southwestern China on Saturday. The footage of the orange plume that emerged on social media was so shocking that the country’s government banned local residents from continuing to record the recovery process, CNN reports. And before you even had to ask, the orange smoke was a toxic combination of nitrogen tetroxide and unsymmetrical dimethylhydrazine.
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Florida Family Sues NASA For $80,000 After Space Junk Smashes Through Home
A family in Florida faced a scary ordeal earlier this year. No, they weren’t caught up in a Ron DeSantis rally, instead they had their house smashed up by a chunk of junk from the International Space Station that smashed through their ceiling. Now, the family is suing NASA for $80,000 to cover the costs of the repairs.
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Boeing Starliner Strands 2 Astronauts On International Space Station
NASA announced on Tuesday that astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore will be returning from the International Space Station no earlier than June 26. The pair launched on June 6 in the Boeing Starliner’s first crewed flight and were slated to return after a week, according to CNN. However, NASA has now delayed the return twice to buy time to understand better the issues the spacecraft experienced during its trip to the station.
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Dying Starlink Satellites Could Deplete Ozone Layer: Study
A new study from the University of Southern California published last week found that SpaceX’s Starlink satellites could be depleting the Earth’s ozone layer. Researchers estimated the potential damage caused by the internet service’s satellites burning up in the atmosphere and releasing aluminum oxides. With its growing artificial constellation, SpaceX could spew over 1,000 tons of aluminum oxide every year, a 646-percent increase relative to natural levels.
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Women Are Better Than Men At One More Thing: Space Exploration
Women are better than men at most things, that’s just a given, so here’s one more thing that we can add to the list: Physically recovering from space travel.
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Space Travel Makes You Dumber
Traveling to space should be an eye-opening experience, one that gives you a new perspective of humanity and its place in the cosmos. But while you might think an experience like this would make a person infinitely wiser, a new report found that space travel could actually make you a little bit dumber.
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NASA Freaks Everyone Out By Broadcasting Audio Of Astronaut With Simulated Decompression Sickness
NASA confirmed that audio from a simulation channel dedicated to dealing with disaster scenarios was inadvertently broadcast Wednesday on its YouTube channel. The audio indicated that an astronaut was in distress onboard the International Space Station with a tenuous chance of survival, a terrifying scenario for enthusiasts following the feed.
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Making The Jump To Warp Speed Might Actually Be Possible One Day
There have been some awesome inventions in the world of science fiction over the years. Whether it’s the Tardis from “Dr Who” and its miraculous traveling abilities or the teleporting talents of the protagonists in “Jumper,” sci-fi has a knack for dreaming up marvelous modes of transport. Now, however, scientists believe one sci-fi invention could, in fact, become a reality: the warp drive.
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McDonald's Ends Experiment With Hilariously Bad AI Drive-Thrus
McDonald’s will ditch AI drive thrus completely next month after the artificial intelligence experience left a lot to be desired for both customers and company.
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Japan's Aspark Owl Breaks EV Top Speed Record At 272.6 MPH
It seems like just yesterday that Aspark was pushing the boundaries of physics by getting its Owl electric hypercar to sprint from 0-60 in under two seconds. In reality that was six years ago, and now every EV automaker can make a sub-two 0-60 run, so Aspark had to set its sights a little higher. Working with Italian partner Manifattura Automobili Torino and Bridgestone to develop a bespoke tire, Japan’s unique Owl hypercar is now the fastest EV on the face of the planet. By running 272.6 miles
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Here's How Honda's Hidden Resonators Keep Tire Noise To A Minimum
As electric cars have taught us, car tires are a major source of undesirable noise in a car’s cabin. Honda has an ingenious solution to the issue, hidden resonators that work to cancel out the noise tires make, kind of like noise-cancelling headphones. Tires are like balls in that they are made of rubber and filled with air. When a basketball smacks against the ground, it makes sound at a certain frequency and tires do the same. Honda’s engineers were able to calculate the frequency of that tire
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Watch The Tesla Cybertruck's Laggy Steer By Wire System Work
Injuring people, bricking after going through a carwash. Multiple off-road embarrassments—the Cybertruck has had a rough first year. And here we are again showing you another example of why the Cybertruck is potentially dangerous to drive.
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These Retractable On-Street EV Chargers Need To Be Everywhere
Electric vehicles are still gaining momentum here in the U.S. market, tipped to crest ten percent of new car sales in 2024, but there is still a bit of hesitation from many Americans when it comes to charging and infrastructure. In order to bridge that gap, we need more on-street level two overnight chargers, like this simple and easy retractable unit mounted on a power pole. Right now EVs really only make sense if you live or work somewhere that you can reliably charge every day, meaning many p
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Ram Is Highest In Initial Quality, Dodge Is Lowest: JD Power
Happy Friday! It’s June 28, 2024, and this is The Morning Shift, your daily roundup of the top automotive headlines from around the world, in one place. Here are the important stories you need to know.
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Uber Could Pay You To Stop Driving
Happy Thursday! It’s June 27, 2024, and this is The Morning Shift, your daily roundup of the top automotive headlines from around the world, in one place. Here are the important stories you need to know.
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Volkswagen And Rivian Will Work Together On EVs
Happy Tuesday! It’s June 26, 2024, and this is The Morning Shift, your daily roundup of the top automotive headlines from around the world, in one place. Here are the important stories you need to know.
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Rivian Slashes Production Costs To Cut Its $39,000 Loss On Every EV Sold
Good morning! It’s Tuesday, June 25, 2024, and this is The Morning Shift, your daily roundup of the top automotive headlines from around the world, in one place. Here are the important stories you need to know.
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Fisker's Debtors Fight For The Scraps
Good morning! It’s Monday, June 24, 2024, and this is The Morning Shift, your daily roundup of the top automotive headlines from around the world, in one place. Here are the important stories you need to know.
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Cyberattack Takes Down U.S. Car Dealerships Ability To Do Business
Good morning! It’s Friday, June 21, 2024, and this is The Morning Shift, your daily roundup of the top automotive headlines from around the world, in one place. Here are the important stories you need to know.
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Comedy Of Errors Led To Fisker's Bankruptcy
Good morning! It’s Thursday, June 20, 2024, and this is The Morning Shift, your daily roundup of the top automotive headlines from around the world, in one place. Here are the important stories you need to know.
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Tesla Will Face Claims That It Monopolizes Repairs In Court
Good morning! It’s Wednesday, June 19, 2024, and this is The Morning Shift, your daily roundup of the top automotive headlines from around the world, in one place. Here are the important stories you need to know.
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Dead: Fisker Automotive
Good morning! It’s Tuesday, June 18, 2024, and this is The Morning Shift, your daily roundup of the top automotive headlines from around the world, in one place. Here are the important stories you need to know.
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Trump Says He'll Scrap 'Crazy' EV Mandates If Re-Elected
Good morning! It’s Monday, June 17, 2024, and this is The Morning Shift, your daily roundup of the top automotive headlines from around the world, in one place. Here are the important stories you need to know.
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Tesla Shareholders Rush To Sue Elon Musk Before The Company Moves To Texas
Good morning! It’s Friday, June 14, 2024, and this is The Morning Shift, your daily roundup of the top automotive headlines from around the world, in one place. Here are the important stories you need to know.
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Elon Musk Says He Has The Votes For His $56 Billion Tesla Pay Package
Good morning! It’s Thursday, June 13, 2024, and this is The Morning Shift, your daily roundup of the top automotive headlines from around the world, in one place. Here are the important stories you need to know.
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Another Tesla Shareholder Just Sued Elon Musk Over 'Unlawful Profits'
Good morning! It’s Wednesday, June 12, 2024, and this is The Morning Shift, your daily roundup of the top automotive headlines from around the world, in one place. Here are the important stories you need to know.
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Ancient Tesla Model Y Won't Be Refreshed Anytime Soon: Elon Musk
Good morning! It’s Tuesday, June 11, 2024, and this is The Morning Shift, your daily roundup of the top automotive headlines from around the world, in one place. Here are the important stories you need to know.
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Even Norway Doesn't Want Elon Musk To Get His $56 Billion Tesla Pay
Happy Monday! It’s June 10, 2024, and this is The Morning Shift, your daily roundup of the top automotive headlines from around the world, in one place. Here are the important stories you need to know.
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Japanese Banks Are Abandoning Toyota
Happy Friday! It’s June 7, 2024, and this is The Morning Shift, your daily roundup of the top automotive headlines from around the world, in one place. Here are the important stories you need to know.
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New, Less Strict Biden EV Rules Incentivize Gas-Burning Trucks And SUVs
Happy Thursday! It’s June 6, 2024, and this is The Morning Shift, your daily roundup of the top automotive headlines from around the world, in one place. Here are the important stories you need to know.
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Even Tesla's Earliest Stock Supporters Are Giving Up Hope
Good morning! It’s Wednesday, June 5, 2024, and this is The Morning Shift, your daily roundup of the top automotive headlines from around the world, in one place. Here are the important stories you need to know.
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Tesla Says Elon Musk Of 'Tremendous Value' And Worth $56 Billion Pay
Good morning! It’s Monday, June 4, 2024, and this is The Morning Shift, your daily roundup of the top automotive headlines from around the world, in one place. Here are the important stories you need to know.
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Tesla Investor Sues Elon Musk Over Alleged $7.5 Billion Insider Trading
Good morning! It’s Monday, June 3, 2024, and this is The Morning Shift, your daily roundup of the top automotive headlines from around the world, in one place. Here are the important stories you need to know.
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Revel In The 2025 Toyota Crown Signia's Handsome New Looks
The 2025 Crown Signia probably won’t be the home run that Toyota was hoping it’d be, but it’s still got plenty going for it in the looks, tech, and comfort departments. I had a chance to drive one around for a few hours during a marathon Toyota press event, and I’m here to tell you all about it.
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Norfolk Southern Threatened NTSB Chair, Interfered With East Palestine Derailment Investigation, NTSB Claims
During Tuesday’s National Transportation Safety Board hearing on the East Palestine derailment, NTSB Chair Jennifer Homendy made startling accusations against Norfolk Southern. She accused the freight railroad of withholding information and even threatening her on one occasion during the investigation into the February 2023 derailment.
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Here's Why Train Horns Sound Far Away Right Before They Hit You
America has a real problem with railway crossings, with the intersection between road and rail causing more than 200 deaths in 2023 alone. While crumbling infrastructure is mostly to blame for the issues Americans have with rail crossings, another reason for the crashes we see on our railroads could be as a result of the way the sound of a train travels.
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Amtrak's Philadelphia-Boston Service Resumes After A Two-Hour Suspension
Amtrak’s service between Boston and Philadelphia was suspended earlier in today after a power outage caused service interruptions. Officials say the outage occurred in the New York City area and was affecting service out of the city’s Penn Station. ABC News reports the Amtrak service has resumed after crews worked for over two hours to restore the power.
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The Kite Bike Will Revolutionize Transit
How many times have you been riding your dirtbike to work and you’ve been waylaid by the need to cross a small river? Man, if that river weren’t there, you’d get to your destination in half the time! There’s got to be a better way! Introducing Kale Makeham’s Kite Bike, the first of its kind, a revolutionary way to combine riding with flying. All you need to do is gather up a good head of steam and rip all of your weight to the back wheel and crank the throttle. Once the front of the bike is tipp
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110-Year-Old Bridge Accidentally Blown Up After Engineers 'Forgot' To Get Approval
What kind of repercussions are there if you make a mistake at work? Maybe you pump the wrong gas for a driver in New Jersey, shred the wrong screenplay and break a budding writer’s heart or accidentally use soap on the Cybertruck production line leading to a massive recall. Whatever mistake you made, it can’t be as bad as the mess up the Swiss rail operator made when it blew up a 110-year-old bridge earlier this year.
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Even The Tesla Cybertruck's Bed Length Is A Lie
It turns out the Tesla Cybertruck’s quoted bed size is a bit of a lie if you actually want to carry anything substantial. Sure, it is technically six feet, one inch long, but an item that big will only fit the bed if it’s less than 6” tall. That’s not ideal if you want to use your Cybertruck for real truck things.
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Restomodded EMC Mercedes 250GD Wolf Is A Classic G-Wagen Come Back To Life
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2025 Volkswagen Golf R: Come For The Updated Design, Stay For The Extra Power
Volkswagen is solidifying the Golf R’s place as the ultimate hot hatch for 2025. For the coming model year, VW has given the hatch a refresh, but the biggest news isn’t the updated styling, though. It’s the extra power you get, as well.
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There's No Time Like Right Now To Get Started On Your Abandoned Project Car
What time is it? It’s time for a reality check. We’re halfway through summer already and you still have a project on jack stands sitting in the garage that you should have been working on instead of hanging out at the beach or sitting on your couch drinking beer in the air conditioning while watching the Dragon show on Max. I’m definitely not deflecting, I’m talking about you. Or, I guess I’m talking about former Donut Media wrench Zach Jobe, who has been looking at this engineless Nissan 240SX
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A Jump Start Won't Help If Your Car Stops Running While You're Driving It
I have a lot of experience jump starting cars because I have a long history of driving shitboxes, I’m usually too cheap to buy brand new batteries, and I’m the kind of forgetful that leaves headlights and dome lights on. Please let my lifetime of experience help guide you in your next vehicle breakdown. Jumper cables or a convenient jump box are definitely the kinds of tools you should keep in your arsenal if you’re like me, but they aren’t a magic talisman to ward off vehicle failure conditions
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Your Engine Will Make More Power With Less Oil In It
The horsepower wars are alive and well, with automakers seemingly vying for higher and higher power numbers with each new generation of car, but want a quick way to up your car’s power numbers? Now, this might sound like sacrilege, and it certainly might be depending on your vehicle’s primary purpose, but running your engine low on oil allows it to produce more power. Before you run out to your car to drain a few quarts of oil, know that running your engine low on oil is horrible for its longevi
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