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Beyond Cars (6)

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New Plug-In Hybrid Motorhome Has 150-Mile EV Range And 500-Mile Total Range
Range anxiety is one primary roadblock that prevents people from transitioning to an electric vehicle for their daily driver that often covers under 50 miles a day, so the concept of an electric recreational vehicle sounds like a sales disaster. To assuage those fears, Airstream’s parent company Thor Industries has partnered with commercial EV chassis builder Harbinger to create the world’s first plug-in-hybrid Class A motorhome, and it could be a real winner.
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The Cooking Oil You Eat Was Designed To Lubricate Engines In WWII
Canola oil is the third most used cooking oil in the world, falling just behind palm oil and soybean oil in terms of global consumption. But did you know that before the oil was a staple of almost every recipe you’ve ever followed, it was used to lubricate things like warships and aircraft during the war?
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Those Bright And Distracting Billboards You Hate Are Already Illegal
Bright, obnoxious digital billboards are one of the worst things drivers have to deal with on a daily basis. As we get into winter, with the days growing ever shorter, the problem is only made worse as illuminated signs blast you with the power of the sun when you’re just trying to get home from work. Well, luckily for you, they’re already illegal. For all the help that’ll do you.
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Volkswagen Brought Free Ketchup To The United States, But You (Probably) Missed Your Shot To Get It
Volkswagen is more than just a car company: It’s also a food maker, famously manufacturing currywurst in-house to feed its workers. Less famously, Volkswagen actually also makes its own ketchup with which to top that currywurst, and now it’s bringing the condiment to the United States for free — except you almost certainly can’t have it.
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Buy This $35M Oceanside Go Kart Track, Get A Mansion, A Castle, And A Replica Of Stonehenge Absolutely Free
If you’re looking for a new house in the Guilford, Connecticut area and you absolutely must have a go kart track and oceanside views, this might be your only option. Located at 215 Uncas Point Rd., this 13-acre property—featuring a 5,354 square foot mega main house, a 3,583 square foot guest house, and an in-law suite bigger than my apartment—is currently on the market with a very affordable $35,000,000 price tag. That’s a small price to pay for a private karting track right on the wide open Atl
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Giant Trucks And SUVs Are Killing People And Now The Feds Might Actually Do Something About It
Cars are safer than they have ever been — at least for the people inside of them. As long as you’re wearing your seatbelt, you should be just fine in a crash. Unfortunately for the people outside the cars, though, that’s not the case. Big, heavy trucks and SUVs with tall, flat hoods are extremely dangerous to pedestrians. For over a decade, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration knew it needed to do something about pedestrian safety, but now the Associated Press reports it’s actually
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Boatlopnik (10)

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'No-One Is Dying' Said OceanGate Boss While Arguing Over Doomed Titan Sub's Safety
In June 2023, privateer sea exploration firm OceanGate sent its Titan submarine to the wreck of the Titanic with four paying customers onboard. The craft experienced a catastrophic failure during the dive, killing every passenger as well as pilot and CEO Stockton Rush. Now, a probe into the disaster has found that Rush once said he had “no desire to die” in a craft he called the “safest thing I will ever do.”
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Craigslist Cruise Ship Sinks And Becomes City's Problem
Taking a chance on a 1950s German vehicle listed on Craigslist can be tempting, but there’s typically a lot of work involved in getting them running reliably. When the vehicle in question is a cruise ship, and not a Mercedes-Benz or a Porsche, the task is exponentially more difficult. California resident Chris Willson found this out the hard way after buying the Aurora, a rusted-out vessel built in 1955. The City of Stockton is now looking for a way to move a sunken 2,800-ton ship to a salvage y
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Titan Sub Crashed And Flipped Passengers Upside Down Days Before Implosion
An inquiry into the implosion of OceanGate’s Titan submarine launched this week and it’s unearthing all kinds of issues that arose in the buildup to the death of five passengers onboard the craft in June 2023. Now, it’s emerged that co-founder and pilot Stockton Rush reportedly crashed the craft just days before its doomed dive.
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Woman Sells Everything She Owns To Take Around-The-World Cruise Only To Get Banned For Complaining About 3-Month Delay
Villa Vie Residences promised cruise lovers at least a three-month voyage on what the company hopes will become a perpetual cruise. However, a 68-year-old Florida woman won’t get to traverse the world’s oceans on the Villa Vie Odyssey after the operator banned her for complaints in a private WhatsApp group chat over the cruise’s lengthy delays. Villa Vie Residences stated her contract was canceled for “behavior impacting community morale,” and she was effectively voted off the boat by the other
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The Titan Sub's Designer Knew It Was A Deathtrap
We were all captivated by the search for a submarine full of millionaires that had gone missing while diving to the wreck of the Titanic last year. After an extensive search, the submarine’s remains were found scattered on the sea floor and now, an inquiry into just what went wrong has revealed that OceanGate’s chief engineer said they would never have ridden in the doomed sub.
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Watch Amphicars Parade Through Amsterdam's Canals One Last Time Before Emissions Regs Outlaw Them
There has only been one mass-produced amphibious car that can tackle both land and sea. This vehicle was built in Germany, had a British Triumph Herald motor, and was aptly named the Amphicar. Early last month, the city of Amsterdam hosted an annual parade of amphibious cars for the final time, since the town will restrict waterway access to zero-emission vehicles only starting in 2025.
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Here's How Massive Cruise Ships Duck Under Suspension Bridges
With oceans covering 71 percent of the Earth’s surface, it’s easy to assume that cruise ships never have any issues maneuvering. However, the world’s largest all-inclusive cocktail dispensers must take extreme measures to sail underneath suspension bridges. Ships are designed with features to duck under the road deck and crews are encouraged to punch it, helping the boat get as low as possible.
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Globe-Trotting 3-Year Cruise Stuck At Dock For 3 Months
Imagine paying six figures on an around-the-world cruise and being stuck in Northern Ireland for three months. The Villa Vie Odyssey has been stuck at the Harland & Wolff shipyard in Belfast, where the Titanic was built, instead of embarking on a three-year voyage. The ship’s operator states that maintenance issues kept the Odyssey at the dock, but it promises the vessel will depart as soon as next week.
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Lots Of English Words You Use Everyday Come From Sailors, And Not Just The Dirty Ones
Modern day Anglophones are descended from generations of seafaring explorers, traders, naval military conquerors, and imperialism. The core of the anglosphere is found in the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, all former colonies of the British Empire, and all heavily water-based geographies. What I’m saying is, we used to spend a whole lot of time on boats, and the language developed over hundreds of years to incorporate sailor slang into everyday use. Do you
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Head Inside Abandoned Ships At Staten Island's Boat Graveyard
Urban explorers have uncovered all kinds of fascinating finds this year, including an abandoned international airport in Greece and a stash of hidden Volkswagens in the side of a mountain. Now, an aquatic explorer has headed to Staten Island’s ship graveyard to get up close and personal with some of the vessels rusting away off the east coast of the U.S.
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Brands (1)

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These Cars Instantly Make You Hate Their Drivers
We asked readers to sound off about the cars that make you hate their drivers at a glance. They picked some good ones.
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Buying (15)

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A Third Of All Drivers Are Underwater On Their Cars
Americans have a huge automotive debt problem right now. A new survey shows that 31 percent of American drivers who financed their car are underwater on their loans. The problem is even worse for EV owners – 46 percent of those folks have negative equity in their electric cars. Furthering the issue is the fact that over half of the drivers surveyed overestimated their vehicle’s value. Rough.
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A Tiny Part Failure Killed My Hyundai Elantra N On What Was Already The Worst Day Of My Life
The headline is hyperbole, granted. I’m 54 years old. I’ve had a lot of bad days. Was this one the worst? Impossible to say. Can I name a worse one off the top of my head? Now that I think about it, no! But we’ll get to that.
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I Need A Reasonably Sized Car That Can Fit My Large Frame | WCSYB?
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These Are The States Where It Is Most Expensive To Own A Car
Cars are expensive to own — too expensive, in fact, and getting pricier all the time. Don’t feel too bad for yourself, though. Depending on the state you’re in, some poor sucker might have it even worse.
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These Are The Cheap Cars That Consumer Reports Actually Recommends
The average transaction price of a new car has slowly been coming down since it peaked during the pandemic, but it’s still scarily close to $50,000. That might work for rich people, but most people can’t afford to spend that kind of money on a car. The good news is, even though you can’t get a new car for less than $20,000 anymore, you can still get a lot of value for your money for less than $25,000.
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This 2JZ-Swapped 1993 Volvo 240 DL Is A 500-Horsepower Sleeper Wagon
Volvo held a very stuffy public image for decades before it introduced any R or Polestar models, with its primary selling points being safety and comfort. The 240 wagon is arguably the most iconic Volvo, and a perfect example of the brand’s pragmatism, but this 1993 Volvo 240 Wagon that’s listed for sale on BringATrailer digresses from that in a big and exciting way. It’s powered by none other than Toyota’s legendary turbocharged 2JZ-GTE 3.0-liter inline-six attached to a five-speed manual tran
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These Cars Lost The Most Value On The Used Market In The Past Year
Considering the shambolic state of the American economy, inflation, and rampant wage stagnation, I love finding stories about affordable cars and prices dropping. In this case, the team at iSeeCars analyzed the listing prices of over 1.6 million one-to-five-year-old used cars listed for sale online between August 2023 and August 2024 to determine which cars have lost the most value on the used market.
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Tesla Cybertruck Is Kicking Every EV Truck's Ass In Sales
Say what you will about the Tesla Cybertruck and the people who drive it, but folks who want an electric pickup truck are choosing it over the competition at an astonishing rate. Granted, it’s a very small sliver of the overall car market, but back in July Cybertruck sales pretty much equaled the sales of every other electric pickup truck combined.
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I'm Starting A New Life And Need To Ditch My Old Camry | WCSYB?
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Half Of The Ten Slowest Selling Cars Are Made By Stellantis
There seems to be 10 models on the market right now that not very many people are interested in. First spotted by Mopar Insiders, Caredge.com has data showing the 10 slowest selling vehicles on the market. In a blow to Stellantis, half of the models on the list are from brands under the automakers corporate umbrella. Here are those models in order from the slowest selling with the highest inventory supply to least.
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The Kia EV9 Remains In A Class All By Itself | WCSYB?
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Kia Is Offering A Little Cash To Tesla Owners Who Switch To An EV6 Or EV9
Kia’s EVs are some of the best on the market right now, and the EV6 and EV9 are selling in record numbers for the automaker. But the industry is in a tumultuous place, especially for electric cars, so automakers are looking for any way to juice up sales. Kia’s latest solution is a conquest deal to get Tesla owners into its EVs.
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Depreciation Is Hitting C8 Corvettes Harder Than C7s
The luster of the Chevrolet Corvette C8 is finally wearing off. Over four years after production started, Chevy’s mid-engine sports car seems to be depreciating faster than the generation it replaced.
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You Can Buy A Hybrid Jeep For Cheap, But There Is A Catch
Hybrid cars are so hot right now, and many automakers are pivoting their electrified strategies toward these models. It’s easy to forget that Jeep has been offering plug-in models for the past few years and low-mile used units can be found at very tempting prices, they just have one small issue.
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Wild EV Depreciation Means You Can Get A Low-Milage Used Lucid For Nearly Half Of Its Original Price
Depreciation is hitting EVs hard. Many models that were once some of the hottest cars on the market can be found with prices so cheap you’d be dumb not to buy them. One segment getting hit particularly hard is luxury EVs. Lucid might be the poster child of this depreciation.
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Advice (4)

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I Need A Droptop For Under $15,000! What Car Should I Buy?
Joseph lives in Colorado and needs to replace his Eclipse Spyder with another droptop that can handle a road trip. He has a budget of up to $14,000 but would really prefer something with front or AWD. What car should he buy?
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I Love My GTI, But I Need More Space! What Car Should I Buy?
Nick is on his third VW GTI. His current one has 120,000 miles and it’s time to move on to something else, he wants something with a similar level of sportiness but needs more space to haul things. What car should he buy?
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My Garage Is Too Small For My Car! What Should I Buy?
Dylan just bought a house in the San Francisco metro, the downside is that the garage is a bit too small for his 2019 RAV4. Since his girlfriend will be driving a more practical car, he wants something fun that can fit in the garage. With a budget up to $30,000 what car should he buy?
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I Want A Car That Is Fun On Pavement And Dirt! What Should I Buy?
Tim lives in Vegas and has a short commute, but his 1998 BMW 318 is starting to get to the end of its usable life. He needs something with room for a car seat and is torn between a light sporty car or something more off-road oriented. With a budget of around $30,000, what car should he buy?
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Culture (41)

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This Intense Car Chase Was Shot Entirely With RC Cars
It’s Friday, which means movie night is probably beckoning this weekend. So should you settle down for an automotive classic, like “Mad Max,” or head out and confuse yourself silly with a screening of “Megalopolis?” Personally, I wouldn’t recommend either this weekend, instead I think you should watch this short epic that’s shot entirely using remote control cars and iPhones.
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Jeremy Clarkson Says All Modern Cars 'Are Sh*t'
Throughout his decades as an automotive journalist, Jeremy Clarkson has been known for his often controversial takes on cars. Well, he’s got another one: modern cars are “all shit now.” Clarkson said this during a watch party for the final episode of “The Grand Tour” where he took questions from the audience.
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The Tired Podcast Is A Car Podcast For People Who Understand That Cars Are Bad
Cars: Are they good, or bad? Well, I like my cars, I like your cars, I like race cars, and driving. But, as far as building a society around cars, well, that’s not so good.
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You're Not Getting Free Premium Gas, You Bozo
You’ve probably heard the old trick: Pull up to a gas pump right after a fancy luxury car leaves, and you’ll get a little bit of the premium gas they left in the pump’s hose added to the 87-octane swill you’re buying. Suddenly, magically, you’ve got a little extra octane in your tank for free. Well, hate to burst your bubble, but that’s simply not how it works.
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The Plymouth Prowler Is Deserving Of Love | Jalopinions
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Where Have All The Good Vans Gone?
Minivans used to be all the rage. Every suburban household with two and a half children had to have the newest and most tech-filled people hauler. The auto industry pumped these out by the millions for decades. Every automaker worth their salt had to have a minivan in their lineup, and each one had its own cool features. At their peak in 2000, Americans bought about 1.3 million minivans, but now there are just four minivans on the market and the segment has shrunk by 80 percent. That sucks. You
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Artist Jason Rhoades Once Traded An Ex-Cop Caprice For A Ferrari 328GTS
The other day, as I left an amazing show of late Jacob Lawrence works at the DC Moore Gallery in Manhattan, I spied something odd at the art gallery across the street: a yellow Fiero. Knowing a bit too much about the history of America’s first mid-engine production car, I immediately noticed something was wrong. First, it was a notchback 1984 model and yellow was only available on this model in 1988. Second, the color was too lemon creamy to be an original talbot yellow car. Intrigued, I went in
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Jeremy Clarkson Just Revealed The Stig's Final Identity After More Than A Decade Of Secrecy
After more than two decades, Jeremy Clarkson finally hung up his driving gloves after the final episode of ‘The Grand Tour’ aired on Amazon Prime. When the show’s finale aired last week, Clarkson hosted a viewing party at his British pub, where he shared a few secrets from the show and its predecessor, ‘Top Gear,’ including the identity of tame racing driver The Stig.
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Wrencher Saves Totaled $880,000 Custom Rolls-Royce And Takes It Camping
Mansory is a company not known for doing things in half measures. It’s fitted all kinds of outlandish modifications to cars like the Aston Martin DBX and the Lamborghini Urus. Now, after one of its creations was totaled by soccer star Marcus Rashford, a budding mechanic set about restoring the ruined Rolls-Royce Wraith and turning it into the ultimate glamping rig.
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"The Grand Tour: One For The Road" Is An Emotional And Satisfying Finale
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General Motors Should Bring Back Saturn As An EV Brand
I’m normally not one to throw automakers a good ideas for free. I’m much more on the mocking bad ideas side of things, but this idea is so choice I’m going to break with tradition. General Motors, GM, The General, Bubbeleh, babe—to save your pivot to EVs in a time of slowing sales, you must bring back one of the best ideas your company ever produced: It’s time to bring back Saturn as an EV brand. Not just an EV brand, a brand geared towards introducing skeptical buyers to the EV.
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Dreaming Up The Perfect Honda Civic: A Mythical Civic Si Hybrid Hatchback
Folks, I just got back from driving a couple of new Honda Civics, the facelifted 2025 versions of the Si and Hatchback Hybrid. They were both brilliant little cars in their own ways, but I know what would make them even better: combining the two. What I need Honda to do is take a couple of really great cars and turn them into a single excellent one.
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Sexism Led To The Inception Of The Mary Kay-Pink Cadillac
Data shows that American car buyers have little-to-no sense of creativity when it comes to the color of their vehicle, with the four most popular colors being white, black, silver, and gray. It’s rare to find a colorful car at all, let alone one in a statement color like pink, and finding a pink car that’s not a Jeffree Star hot pink nightmare is practically impossible. One cosmetics company, though, has offered its top sellers tasteful pink Cadillacs for more than 50 years. The name Mary Kay is
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This Is How The Founder Of General Motors Died A Penniless Bowling Alley Operator
One hundred and sixteen years ago this week, William Crapo (yes, really) Durant founded General Motors in the hopes of creating a large conglomerate that could scoop up all the smaller automotive companies blooming in turn of the last century Detroit. While GM would eventually become a huge success, indeed one of the largest companies in the world, its founder died a penniless bowling alley operator reliant on friends to cover his debts.
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What Automaker Needs A Total Overhaul? | Jalopinions
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Forest Service Green Is The Greatest Color For A Hard Working American Truck Or SUV
A true vision in green, this XJ-generation Jeep Cherokee two-door appeared before me this weekend as if descended from the heavens. Forest Service Green is an S-tier color for an old timer 4x4, and this champion of sensible American off-roading is among the best to ever wear it. I believe former Jalop David Tracy (RIP) would call this a Holy Grail. If you haven’t yet prostrated yourself at the altar of FSG, now would be the perfect time to do so.
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2025 Honda Civic Si From Every Angle
The refreshed 2025 Honda Civic Si is a fabulous little sports sedan. Very few other cars on the market are so well-rounded at such a solid price point. Out the door, the Civic Si you see here will cost you $31,345, making it cheaper than the rest of the competition. At that price, you’re getting a whole lot of tech, safety equipment, fabulous driving characteristics and a wonderful six-speed manual transmission all wrapped in a very sporty yet understated body.
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You Cowards Don't Have The Guts To Drive A Caterham At The Nürburgring
Sometimes you don’t need dialogue in your short film to make it captivating. This ride-along video at the Nürburgring, featuring a Caterham 340R with far more grip than power, is a new high point for me in YouTube cinematic review. The lighting and character development leave a little to be desired, but the film chooses a gorgeous venue and an enigmatic protagonist to capture our attention for the full nine minute and five second run time.
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Toyota Prius Prime Is The Best Looking Car On The Market | Jalopinions
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Tim Walz Edition 'Crazy Taxi' Mod Lets You Wreak Havoc As The VP Nominee
The election cycle is in full swing, with presidential hopefuls Donald Trump and Kamala Harris trading blows over the auto industry, Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance flying into restricted airspace and Democratic nominee Tim Walz showing everyone how much of a car guy he is. Now, the Minnesota governor has professed his love for the Sega Dreamcast console, which has (naturally) earned him a spot in one of its most iconic games.
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YouTube Is Packed With Junk Car Content For Kids
If you’ve got kids, they’ve likely been exposed to YouTube via grandma’s iPad more than once. If they like cars, the algorithm is very likely serving them some weird, bootleg car content that gives me the absolute creeps to watch.
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Goodbye Autoblog; A Good Car Website
On Friday, September 13, 2024, the car news website Autoblog.com will cease to exist. The site that started with the philosophy of covering every single scrap of automotive news is shutting down after 20 years in the biz. And though we had, at times, an adversarial relationship with the ’Blog, you won’t find one Jalopnik alum who would disagree that Autoblog and the great people who worked there deserved better.
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Cybertruck Owner Spends $4,200 On Stainless Steel-Look Wrap To Avoid Headache Of Actual Stainless Steel
Stainless steel often proves to be anything but—anyone with stainless steel appliances can tell you that—but the Tesla Cybertruck’s steel body panels have made a mockery of the adjective. What is a Cybertruck owner who wants the benefits of blinding body panels without the hassle of near-constantly cleaning to do? One owner had a brilliant idea, and it only cost him $4,200 on top of his $100,000 truck.
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Autonomous Taxis Aren't The Biggest Threat To Uber, Uber Is
Taxi drivers have been ferrying people around America’s cities for decades with the biggest change to the sector coming when Uber burst onto the scene and made us all rely on our phones to get a ride. Now, the ride hailing app is facing an uncertain future as drivers grapple with increased competition for rides, lower fares and the ever-looming threat of self-driving taxis.
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$2 Million Hispano-Suiza Is Second Car Destroyed In Fire Leaving Monterey This Year
You don’t often hear about disasters befalling the annual luxury gathering that is the Monterey Car Week. However, this year catastrophe struck when a priceless Ford Ghia Probe 1 Concept Car went up in flames leaving the event and now a second multi-million-dollar motor has been destroyed in a fire following the meet.
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Discover True Peace While Watching Lamborghini Mechanics Build The Countach
There are a few simple things I enjoy in life: fresh donuts, cycling through enormous puddles and watching people build stuff. Whether it’s budding wrenchers making motorcycles out of tractor parts or Formula 1 mechanics building a new car for a world champion, there’s something calming about watching a machine come together. Nowhere is that more true than at Lamborghini’s factory in Italy, with a new film showing just what it took to build an icon like the Countach.
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Abandoned Cybertruck Tourist Destination Towed Away In The Dead Of Night
Good things can’t last forever, which is why we had to say goodbye to the abandoned Seattle Cybertruck tourist destination. It would appear that the badly damaged Tesla, dubbed the “CyberStuck,” has been towed away from its now-iconic parking spot in the city.
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Abandoned Tesla Cybertruck Becomes Tourist Destination In Seattle [Update]
Say what you will about the Tesla Cybertruck, but one thing is undeniable: the damn thing is attention-grabbing, and that’s especially true for one wrecked Cybertruck in Seattle, Washington. In fact, this stranded truck has become a bit of a landmark in the city with its own Google Maps pin entry. Move over Chicago’s Rat Hole, there’s a new tourist destination on the map.
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Jeremy Clarkson Hits Out At Chris Harris For Claiming He Faked His Negative Tesla Review
When Jeremy Clarkson was leading the charge at “Top Gear,” the team came under fire for faking all kinds of stunts and tricks, but he maintained through it all that the show’s road tests were fair. However, his successor at “Top Gear,” Chris Harris, claimed on Joe Rogan’s podcast that a review of the original Tesla Roadster was faked on the show and this hasn’t gone down well with Clarkson at all.
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2025 Volkswagen Jetta GLI Autobahn Ride Along
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Tesla Cybertrucks Finish 5,500-Mile Trip To The Shores Of The Arctic Ocean
I’ll admit, I never expected to shout “woo hoo!” about something done by a Cybertruck, but the expedition from Southern Florida all the way up to the Arctic Ocean completed this week is an incredible feat, one the organizers should be proud of no matter what vehicle they took, but especially in an EV.
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Penny Farthing Made From Tractor Parts Is A Go-Anywhere Beast That Won't Go Anywhere Quickly
The internet is awash with budding mechanics undertaking some audacious builds. There are people like Whistlindiesel building jet-powered merry-go-rounds, another wrencher is working to restore a six-figure one-off Rolls-Royce and now someone is assembling a ridiculous motorcycle from tractor parts in their shed.
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This Old Minivan Has A Bizarre Unlock Procedure
I recently borrowed my grandmother’s 2004 Chrysler Town & Country to help with my move in New York City. Overall, the van – despite its rough appearance – performed wonderfully. It made me realize how great vans really are, but there was a single aspect that I found extremely strange: its unlock function.
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Tesla Fanboy 'Shadowbanned' From X For Complaining About His Broken Cybertruck Online
It’s tough being a Tesla fan these days, you’ve got to defend the company’s combusting cars, its CEO that keeps dragging the brand through the gutter and years-long delays to almost every product it announces. Now, it turns out that if you even think about changing your tune on the automaker, you could risk getting banned online.
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Here's How Self-Serve Gas Created Giant Buc-Ee's Stations
Rivalries between regional gas station chains, like Buc-ee’s in Texas or Sheetz and Wawa on the East Coast, reached a fever pitch in recent years. While regional pride played a factor in the rivalries that developed between brand fans, the drive to draw customers through their doors and make a profit created zealous supporters in the first place.
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Aston Martin Vanquish Returns Longer And More Powerful Than Ever Before
While Lamborghini was working on a new hybrid flagship and Rimac was making its electric hypercar even faster, Aston Martin was busy eking even more power from its V12 motor and fitting it into a brand new Vanquish.
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I Can't Believe How Much Room There Is Inside Of Modern Kei Cars
I’ve fawned over kei cars for years. Growing up I’d buy the $10 imported Japanese car magazines just so I could look at pictures of them, but it’s hard to find video reviews of new modern kei cars online. So when I found this Australian video review and I was truly shocked by how spacious these little boxes on little wheels are. The presenter is about six-foot-two and he is positively swimming in every seat in the car, plus the storage and seat configuration solutions mean they offer more usable
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Motocompo
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How Frank Lloyd Wright's Futuristic Gas Station Was The First Starbucks
The small town of Cloquet, Minnesota (pop: 11,000) is home to the gorgeous R.W. Lindholm Service Station, the only gas station design by Frank Lloyd Wright. But this was not just a place for pumping gas. This little two-floor car-centric building was to be the social and cultural center of the architect’s vision of a future — a future we now live — and drink coffee — in.
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Here Are Some Wagons You Probably Forgot About
The introduction of the SUV into the American Zietgeist surely went a long way towards killing the beloved wagon. Vehicles like the Ford Explorer convinced people that they need something that looked tough, rode high and drove big. People forgot that they really just needed something that had room to carry people and their stuff without all the extras.
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How The World's First Automotive Theme Park Died Of Boredom In Just 6 Months
In the midst of an American manufacturing collapse, Flint, Michigan, spent millions building a twisted monument to the very industry that was leaving its citizens high and dry. AutoWorld, the world’s first automotive theme park, was sold as the answer to Flint’s woes. It would turn around the city with the highest unemployment in the nation. It lasted all of six months.
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Car Design (15)

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Rolls-Royce Spectre Lunaflair Has Rainbow Holographic Paint That Mimics The Moon's Halo
I’ve always had a fascination with space, especially with a dad who does astral photography in his free time, and it’s always cool to see cars that take extraterrestrial inspiration whether it be an economy car’s design or an ultra-luxury car with trim made from moon rocks. The latest in the latter category is the one-off Rolls-Royce Spectre Lunaflair.
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These Iconic Designs From Bruno Sacco Completely Transformed Mercedes-Benz
The Italian design legend who helped shape Mercedes-Benz automobiles from the 1950s through the 2000s, Bruno Sacco, died last week at age 90. He helped usher in an era of iconic and stately designs which Mercedes-Benz quite clearly no longer employs. He wanted to ensure that his designs did not age, and he largely succeeded. He made the car you think of whenever you think of Mercedes. Yeah, that one. The guy clearly had an eye for design, and the world is a little less bold and cohesive without
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Is This Porsche 911 GT3 RS Without A Rear Wing Blasphemous?
Every new generation of Porsche 911 GT3 RS is more outrageous than the last, with increasingly race car–like aerodynamic packages designed specifically to extract the fastest lap times and best performance possible. The current 992-gen GT3 RS is no different, with wild fender cut-outs, fins on the roof, a deep diffuser, large hood intakes and a truly ginormous rear wing that has F1-style DRS. That wing isn’t for everyone, though, as evidenced by this brand new GT3 RS I spotted that had its wing
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Headrests Don't Just Keep You Comfortable, They Keep You Safe
In a video shared to Twitter today, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) clarifies the importance of a properly adjusted car seat head restraint. Though we colloquially refer to them as headrests, they are more accurately called head restraints, and they are designed to protect your head if you get in an accident, not necessarily for maximum comfort. In order for the restraint to work properly and keep you as safe as possible, you need to have it properly adjusted, something many dr
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In The 1990s, You Could Option Your Chrysler With A Hands-Free Cell Built Right Into The Visor
While the technology we have in vehicles now is helpful, a lot of it is distracting. In addition to ever increasing screen sizes, cell phone use while driving continues to be a problem. Cell phone usage while driving spiked during the pandemic and has only gotten worse unfortunately. While bluetooth technology for hands free usage hasn’t always been around, some automakers were thinking about hands free cell phone use decades before it became mainstream.
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Chrysler Should Have Built This Weird Prowler-Based Coupe Inspired By The Mercedes 300 SLR
My parents were in town over the weekend so we went to the Petersen Automotive Museum, which has currently has a few awesome new exhibits including a showcase of Los Angeles lowrider culture and a history of electric vehicles. The best exhibit features a number of 2000s concept vehicles, the standouts of which are the Cadillac Cien, Chrysler ME-412 and Ford GT90, but my favorite was this weird-ass Chrysler concept that was never shown to the public.
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One Bugatti Veyron Sang Noir Headlight Costs As Much As A Nicely Equipped Mid-Size Crossover
The price of not just buying, but keeping a super- or hypercar running, is astronomical. What would otherwise be your standard, run of the mill car parts on a regular vehicle can cost as much as vehicle themselves on a supercar. From McLaren F1 windshields that cost as much as a midsize family sedan to Mercedes SLR McLaren brakes costing as much as a Mercedes themselves, you have to be disgustingly rich to afford the upkeep on these vehicles. The car that is likely the king of ultra expensive ca
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Does This Cyber Yellow Cadillac Celestiq Do It For You?
One of the best parts of being at Monterey Car Week is just driving around the peninsula and carspotting. You’ll see everything from Ferrari 250 GTOs and unrestored pre-war Bugattis to brand new hypercars and one-off concepts casually sitting in traffic or in parking lots. It’s really incredible. But this year, the car I spotted that had me the most excited was a metallic yellow electric Cadillac.
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This Porsche 993 GT2 R Is The Only Art Car That Needs A NSFW Warning
Retired French racing driver Hervé Poulain is the father of the “Art Car,” having commissioned Alexander Calder to paint a BMW 3.0 CSL for the 1975 24 Hours of Le Mans. Since then BMW has created nearly two dozen different Art Cars, some of which were fielded at Le Mans by Poulain, though BMWs wasn’t the only brand he worked with. This 1998 Porsche 993 GT2 R that he raced was on display at the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance this year, and it’s probably the only Art Car that needs a NSFW warnin
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The Renault R17 Restomod Is The Future We Were Promised
French carmaker Renault has had quite the run of eye-catching concept cars in recent years. There was the flying Renault 4 from 2021 and a wonderful R5 Turbo showcar that it unveiled in 2022. Now, the automaker has rolled out another stunning one-off creation, this time based on the Renault 17 from the 1970s.
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2025 Volvo EX90's Rear Seat Cupholders Did Not Need To Be This Cool
My old 1994 Volvo 940 Turbo wagon was the first car I owned with usable cupholders, coming from a 1984 Mercedes-Benz 300TD with none and a 1994 Mazda Miata with two cupholders positioned just ahead of the shifter, rendering them unusable. Not only were the Volvo’s usable, but they were cool, metal and plastic units that popped out of the center armrest like a playground swing. Now Volvo is continuing its history of cool cupholders with the second-row units in the 2025 EX90, the brand’s electric
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How We'd Spec It: Lamborghini Temerario
Last month’s Monterey Car Week saw the debut of a host of new supercars and high-end rides, and one of the most exciting reveals was the new Lamborghini Temerario. The replacement for the Huracan ditched the V10 engine for a twin-turbo V8 that revs to 10,000 rpm, and if that wasn’t enough it has three electric motors and a plug-in-hybrid system stuffed in, too.
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You Cowards Are Too Afraid To Admit The 1999 Mercury Cougar Was One Of The Best Looking Cars Ever
I fear that I’m in the minority for even thinking about the now-defunct entry-level luxury brand Mercury and its cars, but I should not be in the minority when I say that I think the 1999 Mercury Cougar is one of the best-looking cars ever sold in the U.S.. I was a huge fan of most of the Ford Motor Company’s new-edge designs like the Ford Focus and the Ford Ka , but the 1999 Cougar was the first FoMoCo vehicle sold in North America with this striking design theme. This was the first front-wheel
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What Is Going On With Genesis Wheels?
I was recently driving a sleek Genesis G70 sedan and noticed that the 19” wheels on it looked like a stick-tortoise trying to escape from a starfish caught in a giant whirling asterisk. Compelled, I Googled the designs of other Genesis wheels and discovered that they were similarly complex, fractalized, and animal-inspired, resembling things like a pane of glass splintered by a lightning strike, an argent snowflake subsumed with a gear rotating around Sauron’s eye, a blistered starfish, or the s
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This Pink Ferrari 365 GTC Was Built For One Of The Richest Women In The World
My favorite sections at the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance are always the preservation classes, which feature unrestored cars in various levels of condition, split into pre- and post-war categories. This year even marked the first time a preservation-class car has ever won best in show at the Concours, with a 1934 Bugatti Type 59 taking the top prize. The most eye-catching preserved car on the lawn (and the one with the best backstory) was this 1969 Ferrari 365 GTC that was custom built for on
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Crashes and Safety (2)

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Feed Your Morbid Infatuation With New And Vintage Crash Test
If you’re anything like me, you have a totally healthy and not-at-all weird obsession with crash test videos. I’ve been scouring the internet for crash test videos since I was in middle school, so I was surprised when I recently came across a YouTube channel that lured me in with some crash footage I had never seen before. Naturally, being the well-adjusted human I am, I instantly dove down the rabbit hole and spent hours watching them. The CarPro1993 YouTube channel is uniquely addicting becaus
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Driver Steals Truck Attempting To Tow His Pickup And Smashes Everything In His Path [Update]
A lot of drivers on America’s roads are pretty angry, but perhaps nobody is quite as angry as this pickup owner who had their truck towed in New York this weekend. Instead of letting the tow truck drive off with their Chevrolet, the owner instead fought off the tow truck driver, stole their vehicle and drove off in a rage. As you do.
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Crime (2)

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Pre-Teen Keeps Breaking Into Car Dealerships Despite 8 Arrests
Police in Maryland are trying their best to stop a 12-year-old suspect from burglarizing car dealerships outside of Washington, D.C., but their efforts are severely hampered by the fact he’s too young to be arrested or jailed for most nonviolent offenses under the state’s juvenile justice laws.
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Mayor Who Drove Away In 1975 MGB Without Paying: 'It's Not Like I Went Over And Stole The Car'
A Rhode Island Mayor is facing a lawsuit that alleges he got into a 1975 MGB and drove away without paying for it back in 2021. It’s a dizzying he-said-he-said case, and neither party comes off as particularly the good guy here.
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Entertainment (2)

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Kevin Smith Embraces 80s Nostalgia In His New Film 'The 4:30 Movie'
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Hey Esquire Magazine, That's Not A Quattroporte
Esquire magazine is apparently still a thing for fashionable gentlemen looking for advice on whatever it is they need advice for. I wouldn’t know, I am not a fashionable gentleman, and while I may not know my fancy timepieces, I know a thing or two about cars.
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EVs and Hybrids (1)

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These Used Electric Crossovers Offer Supercar Speed For Under $35,000
Most buyers know that the EV market is where you are going to find some of the best deals right now, but I don’t think a lot of people realize that they can score supercar-level performance in a practical body style at economy car-level prices.
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First Drive (1)

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2025 Bentley Continental GT Speed May Be Obscenely Expensive, But It's Also Obscenely Good
Bentley was in a bad state at the end of the 20th century. It was a super low-volume manufacturer with a handful of cars that looked just like Rolls-Royces (because they were), but then in the early 2000s, the automaker changed its entire fortune around by introducing the Continental GT to the world. Its quad headlights, W12 engine and supreme comfort took the world by storm, and now the rest is history.
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Ford (1)

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It's Your Time To Get A Deal On A New Ford Bronco
It wasn’t that long ago that we regularly reported on buyers having a hard time scoring a fair deal on the Ford Bronco. From big markups to dealers selling the car out from under them, it was a seller’s market because Ford couldn’t make them fast enough. Inventory has caught up with demand, and for buyers that held out, now could be the time to grab a deal.
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Found For Sale (12)

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If You're Looking For A Truck That Says 'I'm A Weird Dork' But Don't Like The Cybertruck, Buy This Instead
Are you a weird dork, but the prepper kind that lives in a bunker because they’re afraid of EMPs instead of the wannabe-future-tech kind who lives in the metaverse? Then boy howdy do I have the truck for you. This 2020 Terradyne Gurkha RPV is a ’roided up Ford F-550 Super Duty with real actual armor and real military purpose, but you can buy it and drive it on real American roads to show everyone how big your, um, ego is. It’s currently up for bidding on Cars & Bids, and it isn’t going to go che
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You Only Get One Chance To Buy Oldsmobile's Most Successful Race Car
There was a time that General Motors was trying to make Oldsmobile a more exciting brand, and decided the best way to do that was to take its new Aurora racing in IMSA’s GTS-1 category. The car won on its debut at the 1996 Daytona 24, cementing Oldsmobile in the annals of motorsport history and kicking off a brand revitalization campaign that made it the massive international success it is today. Wait, which part of the multiverse am I in today? Right, the one where Oldsmobile died in 2004. Anyw
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Chevy El Camino, Mercury Cougar, Subaru WRX STI: The Dopest Cars I Found For Sale Online
Friends, I come to you today tired. Tired of dealing with internet connectivity issues, tired of constant phone calls to my cable provider, tired of dealing with problems that have no clear cause and no clear solution. Are you, too, tired?
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Buy This Six-Wheeled Porsche 944 Pickup That You'll Probably Have A Love/Hate Relationship With
Sometimes we come across custom cars that you hate to look at, but that also draw you in at the same time. I’m talking ridiculous stuff that’ll make you have confusing feelings of disgust and delight. If you have deep enough pockets, I’ve come across the exact kind of vehicle that’ll draw out those kinds of feelings: a custom six-wheeled Porsche 944 pickup truck.
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This Low Mileage Jeep Grand Cherokee Selling For Over $30,000 Shows That Bring A Trailer Is Still A Wild Place
Bring A Trailer is still primarily populated with amazing and rare cars for sale. But lately, you’ll also see someone’s aunt’s Camry. Often they’ll have low miles and go for big money for what they are but they won’t necessarily be anything special. Take this recent Jeep auction.
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Unique Bentley Longroof Has An Interior Only The Sultan Of Brunei Could Love
If you’ve been looking for an ultra-lux family car that looks stately and effortlessly alluring on the outside, but like a Wisconsin Dells water park inside, then this unique Bentley from the collection of the Sultan of Brunei is exactly the one you need. There is enough room inside for your whole family and all of their stuff, plus enough power from the turbocharged 6.75 liter V8 to smoothly waft from coast to coast, or across Europe or wherever you’re headed. This mad machine was ordered new b
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Drag-Prepped Chevy S10, Honda Beat, Bonneville Land Speed Record Car: The Dopest Cars I Found For Sale Online
Do you feel that? It’s not a chill in the air, not yet, but it’s the anticipation of one — the sweltering heat getting a touch less sweltering, the nights getting ever cooler as you drift off to sleep. These dog days are ending, friends.
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Get Over Yourself And Everything Else In This Jeep Pickup That's Ready For Anything
If you recently watched the film “Twisters” in theaters, or saw our pro-Jeep truck propaganda about it, and decided you needed to get yourself into a vehicle that you could reasonably call a “rig,” then this is the Jeep for you. This 4-wheel-drive manual-transmission Jeep J-10 is built for the explicit purpose of looking cool as all hell. I suppose it has a secondary purpose of going off-road and providing you the ability to camp there when you’re done. And if you’re doing your off-roading at ni
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Buying This Astro Van Tank From Vladimir On Facebook Marketplace Is A Certified Good Idea
There is absolutely no way anything could go wrong buying this Chevrolet Astro Van on metal tank tracks. I mean, sure, you can’t actually drive it on the street anywhere, but if you need to climb to the top of a snow-covered mountain, or have a desire to comb wide swaths of desert and sand dune, this is the perfect machine to fit your desires. Especially if you want to do it in early-1990s General Motors comfort and style. The Astro truly can’t be beat, and this one can’t be stopped. Is this the
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This BMW E46 Drag Car Has Chevy Big Block Power And It's Here To Whoop Your Butt
Leave it to an American hot rodder to take a German personal luxury sports coupe and turn it into a straight-line acceleration monster powered entirely by screaming bald eagles. While this car would have left a factory in Bavaria 22 years ago powered by a comparatively diminutive inline six-cylinder engine, it is now packing 468 cubic inches of pure American rat motor. Oh, and every inch of leather-covered luxury has been jettisoned in favor of a tubbed rear end, an 8.50-second-legal roll cage,
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This 422,000 Mile Honda Accord Is A Poster Child For Honda Reliability
Honda and Toyota built their reputations on simplicity and, more importantly, reliability. They build cars meant to stay in working condition for a couple of decades. This Honda Accord with nearly half a million miles on it is a rolling testament to Japanese automaker’s long-lasting philosophy
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Mitsubishi Pajero, Lotus Exige, Lifted Smart ForTwo: The Dopest Cars I Found For Sale Online
Happy Friday, folks! Have you done anything weird today? This week? Have you done anything out of the ordinary, anything to add some spice to your life? If not, you should get on that. You won’t remember the time you spent at work, you’ll remember the rest.
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GMC Trucks (1)

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GMC Sierra Has A Backup Camera That's Nearly Useless At Night, And It's A Problem On Most Trucks
The GMC Sierra 1500 Denali is one of the most luxurious and capable pickup trucks on the market. It’s a great truck a lot of people would be happy to own. But there’s one major downside that speaks to a larger automotive industry problem that’s hardly talked about: It has a terrible backup camera at night.
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Honda (4)

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2025 Honda Civic Hatchback Hybrid Is The Platonic Ideal Of Economy Cars
Economy cars are not exactly known for being enthralling driving machines. For the most part, they’re meant to bring you from point A to point B as efficiently and with as little fuss as possible. But, sometimes an economy car can be a whole lot more than that. Enter the 2025 Honda Civic Hatchback Hybrid.
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2025 Honda Civic Si Is The Budget Friendly Sports Sedan
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2025 Honda Civic Si Is Proof That Bullying Works
When the FE1 Honda Civic Si first went on sale a few years ago, people tended to love the way it drove and the way it looked, but they complained it was missing out on certain features the car should have absolutely had. Stuff like a full-digital gauge cluster, an LED shift indicator (from the Type R) and heated seats were notably absent from the U.S.-spec version of Honda’s hot sedan. With the Civic’s 2025 facelift, those features are all standard on the Si. Oh, happy days.
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Joyriding On Two Honda Bikes In The Hudson Valley
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Hyundai (1)

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Facelifted 2025 Hyundai Ioniq 5 Gains A Hideous Off-Road Trim And Tesla Charging Port
Making a sequel anywhere as good as the original is a difficult task, so thankfully when Hyundai went about refreshing its smash-hit Ioniq 5, it didn’t muck up the electric crossover’s winning original formula. When the Ioniq 5 first hit the market just two years ago in 2022, it was praised for its distinctive styling, daring interior design, and all-around usability. The 2025 update retains much of those traits while adding battery capacity, more standard features, the new Tesla-style North Ame
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Jalopnik Explains (1)

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Here's Why Saltwater Can Cause EVs To Burst Into Flames
Electric vehicle fires have made headlines for years now, but in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene, the Category 4 hurricane that caused record devastation from wind, rain, and storm surge, EVs are spontaneously combusting and saltwater is a main culprit. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis urged EV owners to get their vehicles to higher ground before Helene hit to prevent submersion and minimize the likelihood of fires. Tesla advises owners to avoid letting its vehicles become submerged, but if it happen
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Motorcycles (5)

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This Yamaha Cruiser With A Ford F-100 Sidecar Is Peak Boomer Chic
Little-known fact: Motorcycles are very cool. Old pickup trucks, similarly, are much cooler than their modern counterparts. Yet, while you’d think the two would go together like chocolate and peanut butter, seeing them actually mixed just feels wrong.
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Biker Hit With 86 Tickets After Posting Reckless Riding Videos Online
Police in Denmark charged a motorcyclist with 86 separate moving violations over the weekend, adding excessive speed, endangering others, even “riding on the rear wheel,” to his rap sheet. Danish authorities, however, were absolutely dumbfounded by one unique factor of the case: Most of the evidence came from the motorcyclist himself, thanks to his helmet-mounted GoPro.
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Would You Ride Along With Me In A Wicker Sidecar?
George Singer’s famed motor-wheel machinery helped set the English-speaking world in motion. Brass-era motorized cycles were much less expensive than their four-wheeled automotive counterparts, and their ability to run on pedal power made them quite a good choice for upwardly mobile contemporaries. If you, perhaps, didn’t have enough money to buy a Vauxhall Prince Henry sport runabout, but you needed to carry more than one person, you might have opted for a gorgeous motorbike with a matching wic
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2024 Zero DS Is Perfectly Engineered For Your Commute
The DS has been part of Zero’s lineup of electric motorcycles since its first year of wide availability in 2010. It has always been, more or less, a taller version of the brand’s standard “S” model. The vibe is more sport touring than adventure touring, which is probably the ideal form factor for anyone with an urban commute. Now in its third generation, the new-for-2024 model has been seriously upgraded and it has morphed its way into possibly the best daily rider on the planet.
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There's A Hole In The Modern Motorcycle Market Shaped Like The Universal Japanese Motorcycle
Back in the 1970s, there was a specific bike you could buy from Honda, Kawasaki, Suzuki, or Yamaha: The Universal Japanese Motorcycle. It was a successful formula, successful enough to get the attention of the entire Big Four, yet it’s a bike you can’t go out and buy today. Why?
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News (126)

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Amazon Driver Fired After Video Of Big Rig At Sideshow Goes Viral
Sideshows are dumb and illegal but they keep happening. They also seem to be getting worse, with unexpected people and vehicles taking part in them. A recent sideshow in Sacramento, California would be the last place you’d expect to see an Amazon semi truck, for instance.
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Maserati GranTurismos Are Running Out Of Gas Because The Fuel Gauge Doesn't Work
Maserati will never beat the allegations that cars built in Italy have some very strange faults. Now, the recall bug is coming for the GranTurismo and GranCabrio because of an issue with the fuel level display in the sports cars’ instrument cluster.
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Hurricane Helene's Devastation Of A Small Town In North Carolina Could Spell Disaster For Global Automotive Industry [Update]
Hurricane Helene left a trail of death and destruction throughout the U.S. Southeast, but the impact of the massive storm may disrupt the automotive industry worldwide for months to come.
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California Wusses Out On Weak Speed-Limiters Law
California Governor Gavin Newsom vetoed SB-961 on Saturday. If the bill had been signed into law, it would have required every vehicle built, sold, or leased in the state to be equipped with a passive intelligent speed assistance system by the 2030 model year. The bill defined such systems as a warning if a driver exceeded the posted speed limit by 10 miles per hour, not actively slowing the car against the driver’s will.
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Cement Prongs Left On Georgia Highway Cause $2,000 In Damage To Man's Vehicle
Two random cement prongs off the side of a Georgia interstate have caused thousands of dollars in damage to a man’s car after he hit them, and the state’s transportation department won’t handle the claim he filed for the damage. Atlanta’s WSB-2 reports that earlier this month, Brian Briggs was on Georgia’s I-285 in metro Atlanta when he became lost while using his GPS. Cutting across the highway’s gore — the triangular area separating the main highway from an exit — to pull over is when he heard
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This Alfa Romeo Dealership Has Just Six New Cars, And Four Of Them Are Two Model Years Old
Stellantis is in trouble right now. Sales for all of its American brands are down, and the company is on the hunt for a new CEO. You get a better picture of things at the dealership level. Over at brands like Jeep, dealers are sitting on inventory they can’t seem to sell. Dealers for Fiat and Alfa Romeo are in even worse shape. A perfect example of this is an Alfa dealership in Northern California that only has six new vehicles on the lot.
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Sexual Harassment, Racial Discrimination And Dangerous Conditions Said To Run Rampant At Tesla's Austin Factory
Tesla’s factories and other facilities have been dealing with nasty issues – whether it’s sexual harassment, racism or unsafe conditions – for a really long time, and it seems that poisonous work environment has reached its Gigafactory in Autin, Texas. A number of employees at the plant – which began operations back in 2021 – spoke with The Nation about the things they’ve gone through at Elon Musk’s flagship Tesla factory.
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Chechen Warlords Say They'll Use Tesla Cybertrucks In Russia's Invasion Of Ukraine
Tesla Cybertrucks are headed to war. No, this isn’t a joke. A handful of Chechen soldiers are supposed to ride into battle in Ukraine with Cybertrucks. Ramzan Kadyrov, a Chechen warlord and the leader of the region, posted two green CTs armed with Soviet-era DShK 12.7 x 108 mm heavy machine guns. They’re meant to further Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine as they fight alongside Russian forces.
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McLaren Confirms W1 As Its Next Era-Defining Supercar
It’s difficult to argue that McLaren doesn’t go all-out when they build a supercar. The company announced the W1 as the name for its upcoming flagship supercar, tying its lineage to the F1 and the P1. The W1 is rumored to be a hybrid-V8-powered, all-wheel-drive monster. The car will be revealed on October 6, the fifth anniversary of the company’s first Formula One World Championship.
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Fisker Ocean Owners Are No-Longer Marooned As New Service Centers Arise
Fisker Inc. went bankrupt back in June, but not before selling over 3,000 Fisker Oceans to customers who have since been marooned by the defunct EV manufacturer. In July, my colleague Ryan told you about the 3,000 frustrated Ocean owners who banded together to form the Fisker Owners Association (FOA) to fight for the resources needed to support their cars in the wake of the company’s collapse. Now, the FOA said on Tuesday that it helped establish a network of 21 approved Fisker service centers i
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Tesla's 'Full Self-Driving' Can Only Travel 13 Miles Without A Driver Stepping In
For years, Tesla has proudly paraded its advanced driver assistance system, Full Self-Driving as being the real deal. It’s claimed the system can navigate traffic, manage highway driving and repeatedly claimed it’s the future of driving, despite the number of crashes, collisions and even deaths linked to the system mounting. Now, a new study has looked into just how far the system can actually drive before needing assistance from a human, and it’s not very far.
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Tesla Visiting German Employees' Homes To Check If They're Abusing Their Sick Days
Tesla decided to take a very hands-on approach to tackling employees who call out sick at its gigafactory in Germany. Factory management is going to employees’ homes when they call out sick to check if they are actually ill. Plant workers are understandably pissed off, slamming the door in their faces and even calling the police. Despite the public backlash, Tesla hasn’t ruled out future home visits.
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You Can Build A Brand New Toyota AE86 With This $9,500 Body Shell On Alibaba
There isn’t much on Alibaba, Temu or Shein that you need in your life. The vast majority of the ultra cheap stuff coming from these Chinese bargain sellers is scam garbage that will make your life worse. But if you’ve got a rusty, clapped-out AE86 Toyota Corolla hatchback in need of restoration and rust repair, this brand new shell might be the ticket. The availability of brand new metal-stamped chassis isn’t new, as they have been available for things like Camaros and Mustangs for years. As the
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Hyundai Isn't Even Close To Selling Cars On Amazon
It’s been just about a year since Hyundai announced it would sell its full lineup of cars on Amazon, and since then not very much has happened. Now, dealers are starting to get pissed, and folks are wondering if this team-up between the automaker and online retail giant will ever actually happen.
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Fiat 124 Spider Recalled For Airbags That Deploy Using Excessive Force
The National Highway Traffic Administration issued a recall for 15,835 2017-2020 model year Fiat/Abarth 124 Spiders because the airbags could deploy with “excessive force.” Specifically, the Bosch airbag control module can command a dual-stage front airbag deployment instead of the intended single-stage deployment in low-speed accidents.
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Woman Receives Careless Driving Ticket After 'Rear Ending' State Trooper In A Car Wash
State troopers seem to get a lot of things wrong. From performing the PIT maneuver on the wrong car during a chase, to causing unnecessary deaths during said chases, to issuing fake tickets to cover up racism, major screw ups are commonplace at departments across the country. They can even mishandle what would otherwise be minor situations, like giving a ticket to someone over a small bump in a car wash.
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Eric Adams Once Drove His Prius Down A Brooklyn Sidewalk To Avoid Traffic
Eric Adams is in a hell of a lot of trouble right now. Not only is he the weirdest mayor New York has ever had (dethroning Bill DeBlasio), but he is now the first sitting mayor to be indicted and criminally charged. That’s not what we’re here to talk about, though. Nope, I want to chat about my favorite Eric Adams story that just happens to involve a car.
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Passenger Shot And Killed During Bus Hijacking In Los Angeles
An armed hijacker took control of an LA Metro bus early Wednesday morning. He led seemingly half the Los Angeles Police Department on an hour-long chase from South Los Angeles into Downtown while holding the bus driver at gunpoint. The police stopped the bus using spike stripes near Sixth and Alameda Streets. Then, SWAT officers used flash bangs and bean bags to rescue the driver and apprehend the gunman.
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34-Mile-Long Tunnel Project Could Add Even More Lanes To Widest Highway In North America
Ontario’s Highway 401 is the widest highway in North America, 18 lanes across at its widest point near Toronto Pearson International Airport. Ontario Premier Doug Ford announced a feasibility study on Wednesday for a 34-mile tunnel underneath the 401 as it traverses Toronto in an ill-conceived effort to alleviate gridlock. Ford promised to build the tunnel regardless of the study’s outcome, because we’re just one more lane from fixing traffic.
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Ferrari's Purosangue SUV Is So Ugly That Mansory Actually Made It Look Better
If you’ve always wanted a family SUV with an Italian V12 up front and the aesthetic cleanliness of a Dodge Viper ACR that crashed into an AutoZone full of stick-on fender flares, then you absolutely want the new 755-horsepower Mansory Pugnator. There isn’t a single thing that is subtle, restrained, or classy about this beastly machine, but somehow it manages to look better than the godawful “pure blood” Ferrari it’s based on. Only seven of these things will be built, so you’re all but guaranteed
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Porsche Restoration Company Accused Of Not Honoring Contracts As It Faces Millions In Lawsuits
A restoration and consignment sales company specializing in Porsches that has been in the business for over 40 years is in hot water over not doing business properly. NBC San Diego reports the company is facing millions in lawsuits over not completing work it was paid to do.
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Consumer Reports Says These Are The Best Car Insurance Companies
Paying for car insurance sucks now more than ever. Premiums seem to keep rising and consumers aren’t receiving any benefits for their extra expenditure. Previously, we shared the worst performing car insurance companies according to a Consumer Reports survey, so now we’re going over the top car insurance companies. No company received perfect scores, with the highest overall score being 72 out of 100 possible points, and no company scored above a 3 out of 5 for customer satisfaction for the pric
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Four High Schoolers Develop Deer Avoidance AI Tech You Can Add To Your Car
Deer are beautiful and majestic creatures, but they also seem to be vehicle-seeking missiles. Four high-school girls enrolled at STEM School Highlands Ranch in Colorado are developing a small device that can alert drivers to nearby wildlife faster than a human could visually spot unaided. The group called Project Deer has already won the state’s $12,000 Samsung Solve for Tomorrow prize to invest toward building a working prototype.
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Donald Trump Doubles Down On 200-Percent Imported Car Tariffs: 'One Of The Most Beautiful Words I've Ever Heard'
During a speech on the economics in Savannah, Georgia on Tuesday, former president Donald Trump doubled down on his desire to impose a triple-digit percentage tariff on cars imported to the U.S., allegedly in an effort to increase the number of cars built on American soil. Economic history tends to indicate the opposite, actually, as large-scale tariffs “result in significant declines in domestic output and productivity, higher unemployment, more inequality, and real exchange rate appreciation,
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2026 Honda Passport TrailSport Should Be A More Capable Off-Road Crossover
The 1994 Honda Passport was the first time the United States saw an SUV with a Honda “H” on the grille. A joint venture between Honda and Isuzu. The first the first two generations of the Honda Passport were traditional body-on-frame SUVs that offered either rear- or four-wheel drive. The Passport name was resurrected in 2019 for a Pilot-based crossover, but the TrailSport trim introduced in 2022 brought back some of the Passport’s ruggedness. Teased in a new video, the upcoming fourth-generatio
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Snowmobiler Who Crashed Into Parked Black Hawk Helicopter At Night Awarded $3.3 Million
A federal judge ruled on Tuesday that the government is primarily responsible for a snowmobiler crashing into a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter that was parked on a trail at night in March 2019. While the judge also criticized the 48-year-old man for speeding and wearing tinted goggles, he was awarded $3.3 million in damages.
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Indiana Police Department Is Selling Some Of Its Dodge Durango Patrol Cars That Had Engine Failure
The Dodge Durango Pursuit police vehicle has been a total headache for police in Indiana. Just a few months after Indiana State Police pulled 18 percent of its fleet from service over oil cooler issues, another Indiana police agency has announced that it’s getting rid of some of its Durango Pursuit fleet because of problems related to the oil cooler issues, CBS News reports.
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2025 Toyota GR Corolla Starts At Just Under $40K, New Automatic Costs Another $2K
In a world full of crossovers that’s teetering on an EV future, it’s great to see Toyota’s GR Corolla sport compact returning for another year. The model has gotten a big update, bringing an eight-speed automatic transmission into the fold that should open it up to more buyers along with other styling and performance upgrades. The downside is that the GR Corolla’s price has grown, and the automatic makes it even more expensive.
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Southern California Police Department's Expensive Cybertruck Purchase Has People Pissed
Police departments across the country have been scrambling to be the first to purchase one of Tesla’s Cybertrucks. For whatever reason, the low-res truck appeals to law enforcement. Irvine, California looks to be the first police department in the country to have purchased the electric truck, and after it was been revealed just how much money the department dropped on the truck, a lot of people are unhappy.
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Donald Trump Threatens Big Three And John Deere With Punitive '200 Percent Tariff' On Mexico Production
“If I win, John Deere is going to be paying 200 percent,” presidential candidate Donald Trump announced during a campaign stop in Pennsylvania on Monday. While Trump currently trails Vice President Kamala Harris in polls by a narrow margin, threatening American farmers with increased costs and an iconic American brand with the highest import tariff in American history might not be helpful to his campaign. While he was on that train of thought, seemingly inspired by the giant green tractors behin
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Michael Valentine, The Man Who Put Arrows On Your Radar Detector, Dies At 74
Have you ever been saved by a radar detector? Was it one with the little arrows on it, to tell you where the cop actually is? If so, you have Michael Valentine to thank for that money you saved. Pour one out for him today in honor of his death last week at the age of 74.
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Ford's Latest Patent Would Protect Drivers From Accidentally Becoming Drug Traffickers
Car technology seems to get better by the year. From hands-free driving tech to in-car entertainment, we’re spoiled. While not everyone may use the technology that’s available to them, much of it is helpful if you need it. Ford’s latest patent can help with something you’ll probably never have to deal with, except as an AI-generated hypothetical situation on your uncle’s Facebook feed.
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Senate Bill Would Mandate AM Radios In All New Cars: 'This Is Exactly Why People Hate Washington'
Many automakers have already begun to remove AM radio from the list of options available in new cars. We live in a supply and demand world, and nobody is demanding AM radio in their cars, so it’s going away. Not to mention the difficulty and expense necessary to reduce and shield interference from high voltage electrical systems in hybrid and battery electric vehicles enough to allow AM radios to even function in new vehicles. A bill recently passed committee vote in the U.S. House of Representa
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San Francisco Police Use Halloween Costumes To Catch Motorists Who Don't Brake For Pedestrians
Aside from fighting crime, it seems like police are always finding more creative ways to catch people so they can give them a ticket. Aside from the revenue generators, sometimes these solutions are legitimately for public safety, as evidenced by the San Francisco Police Department’s latest tactic. SFGate reports that SFPD are using Halloween costumes to catch people that don’t stop for pedestrians who are using the crosswalk.
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Card Game Maker Sues SpaceX For Trespassing On Land It Bought To Prank Donald Trump
Elon Musk and his space exploration firm SpaceX are staring down the battle of a multi-million-dollar lawsuit from an unlikely source. No, the company isn’t being sued by ex-employees or locals pissed at all its rocket tests, it’s instead being sued for trespass by the makers of hit card game Cards Against Humanity.
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Chechen Warlord Claims Elon Musk Disabled Gifted Cybertruck While It Was On The Battlefield
Head of the Chechen Republic Ramzan Kadyrov claimed Friday the Tesla Cybertruck supposedly gifted to him personally by Elon Musk was remotely disabled by the very same CEO. Musk denied sending Kadyrov the truck in the first place, but that won’t stop Kadyrov for calling Musk’s supposed move to brick his Cybertruck “unmanly.”
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Paramedics 'Surprised' By Severity Of Burns Caused By Airplane Coffee Dumped On Woman
Spilled beverages on a flight are typically an annoyance that you just wipe yourself off and forget about. However, if the beverage is scalding hot, it’s a life-altering event. A woman was on a Delta Air Lines flight from Paris to Seattle in December 2023 when a flight attendant spilled a scalding hot cup of coffee on her. The resulting burns were so severe that she was scarred permanently. The woman, a flight attendant for a different carrier, is now suing Delta for negligence.
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Elon Musk's Far-Right Turn Isn't Stopping His Employees From Donating To Kamala Harris
Elon Musk has a lot of influence over the companies he heads, but apparently, it is not enough to keep his employees from donating to Kamala Harris’ campaign despite his militant support of former President Donald Trump.
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California Residents Can Now Add Their Driver's License To Their iPhone's Apple Wallet
Digital driver’s licenses are slowly becoming a thing. Sooner or later, most won’t ever need to pull out their wallets or purses to grab their IDs again. Apple has partnered with a handful of states to offer residents the ability to add their licenses into their phones. Now, the tech giant has announced that California will be the latest state whose residents will be able to have a digital driver’s license in their Apple Wallet.
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You Can Read All 129 Years Of Autocar Magazine For Free
Autocar is one of the oldest automotive publications on the planet, first putting ink to paper in 1895. The British weekly car magazine announced on Thursday that its digital archive will be open to the masses free of charge for the next five days. I highly recommend that every enthusiast take the opportunity to immerse themselves in nearly 130 years of vehicular history.
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How Exactly Does Trump Plan To Lower Car Insurance Rates?
Former President of the United States and current presidential candidate Donald J. Trump made an interesting promise on Twitter earlier this week: Lowering car insurance rates. That would be a major boon for American drivers, putting tons of money back in our collective pockets if not for one little issue. He can’t do it.
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Toyota Replacing Failing Automatic Transmissions In 2024 Tacoma Pickups
A blemish on Toyota’s reputation for reliability appeared last month as reports poured in from 2024 Tacoma owners about the truck’s transmission failing. In response, Toyota issued a technical service bulletin last week stating the eight-speed automatic transmission should be replaced if it exhibits one of six diagnostic trouble codes. While not directly stating the failure’s cause like a recall, most of the trouble codes point towards a stuck pressure control solenoid actuator.
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Tesla Cybertruck's Rear Emergency Door Release Is A Dangerous Nightmare
If you’re in the back seat of a Tesla Cybertruck in some sort of emergency situation or with no power then you better start praying, because getting out won’t be easy. The Cybertruck, like many electric cars, has electronically popping doors for whatever goddamn reason. If the battery is dead or there’s some other sort of emergency, the doors can’t be popped, so automakers fit emergency releases that’ll open the door regardless of what state of charge the car has.
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Cybertruck Owner's Manual Says Its Hitch Is Only Designed To Support Vertical Loads Up To 160 Pounds
Tesla claims its Cybertruck is built for any planet, and that it’s durable enough to go anywhere and tackle anything, but its owner’s manual says that its hitch assembly is only designed to support vertical loads up to 160 pounds. That’s less than the weight of the average American female. WhistlinDiesel’s Cybertruck Durability Test video on YouTube has over 23 million views, and caused quite a stir surrounding the real-world durability of Tesla’s most polarizing vehicle. A member of the Tesla C
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Car Thief Asks Corvette Owner For Help After Getting Locked Inside Car
Being a car thief is dumb. Being a car thief who gets caught inside of a car is even dumber. Being a car thief who gets stuck inside of the car they are actually trying to steal? Dumbest person on earth. And that’s exactly what happened to one Florida Corvette thief who got cough — and stuck — in the act.
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First Drunk Driver Smashed His Electric Cab Into A Building 127 Years Ago
When 25-year-old London cabbie George Smith ran his vehicle headlong into a building (165 New Bond Street) under the influence of the drink, it would be 56 years until the first breathalyzer was invented. Nevertheless, on September 10, 1897 the Londoner became the first person in recorded history to be arrested for driving while intoxicated. Smith was one of just 12 men chosen to drive for Walter C. Bersey’s London Electrical Cab Company, and the newly christened electric cabs (pictured above) h
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Secret Service Probing Elon Musk Over Biden/Harris Assassination Post
Elon Musk has a bad habit of being a dickhead idiot on the internet, and for the most part that has worked out fine for the richest person in the world. Now, though, his online shittiness may have caught up with him.
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SpaceX Flights In 2024 Will Emit More CO2 In The U.S. Than Tesla Will Save
It’s pretty obvious by now that Elon Musk doesn’t really care about the environment. While he was once a warrior in the battle against climate change, or claimed to be, he has evolved into a climate denialist and seems intent on kneecapping whatever environmental and emissions gains Tesla may have made. So far this year SpaceX has launched Falcon 9 rockets 90 times, in addition to two launches for Starship and one for Falcon Heavy. The company has plans for at least 27 more by the end of the yea
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Porsche-On-Porsche Crash On Angeles Crest Rips Engine From 911
Another day, another horrible situation on Angeles Crest. The highway is home to plenty of car culture, including some truly gorgeous builds, as well as more than its fair share of deadly crashes and near-misses. In this latest crash, a Porsche 911 GT3 managed to entirely rip the engine out of another, lesser 911, leading us all to wonder: When are we going to stop this?
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Trump Tells Auto Workers Nuclear Weapons Are A Threat To Michigan's Manufacturing Industry
Look, it’s not a left or a right view to say that Donald Trump doesn’t exactly know what the hell he’s talking about. Especially when it comes to the auto industry. He was sort of right however, with this weird non-sequitur during a campaign stop this week in Flint, Michigan: Nukes are a threat to the auto industry.
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Dealership Closes Rather Than Pay Customer It Screwed Over A Measly $3,000
Well, this is a new one: A woman in Toledo, Ohio got a major victory when a judge awarded her a court order against a dealership that sold her a faulty car, but it all fell apart when she went to collect and found out the goddamn dealership closed.
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Cobb Tuning Hit With $2.9 Million Fine Over Emissions Defeat Devices
Cobb Tuning and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency have reached a massive settlement after it was found out the popular tuner was selling “defeat devices” that allow customers to bypass the emissions controls in their cars. It’s not really something anyone should be doing. Now, the Texas-based company must pay a $2,914,000 penalty and comply with a slew of new rules and regulations – including offering buybacks to Cobb employees who bought the illegal devices.
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Silicon Valley Tech Bros Are Out On Tesla
Even the techiest tech bros in the world are starting to turn on Tesla and its CEO, Elon Musk. Car buyers in California’s Silicon Valley – where Tesla was started – are leaving the brand as its lineup rapidly ages, the competition gets stronger and Musk becomes even more of a right-wing piece of shit on social media. This isn’t just a vibe-based thing either. There’s hard data pointing to folks in the Bay Area saying no to Tesla and Musk.
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Firefighters Wheel Burning Audi EV Outside After It Caught Fire In Service Center
Statistically speaking, your electric vehicle is much less likely to catch fire than a gas-powered car, but when EVs do go up in smoke it’s a much tougher blaze for firefighters to tackle. The challenge of fighting an EV fire is much harder when the car that’s burning is inside, which led one team of firefighters to try and wheel a smoldering Audi E-Tron GT outside to fight the fire.
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Tesla 'Explodes Like A Bomb' In Fiery Fatal Crash
Two people are dead after a dramatic Tesla crash on Monday morning in White Plains, just north of New York City. The electric vehicle hopped a curb, hit a tree and slammed into an apartment building. Firefighters pulled the flaming wreck away from the structure, but then the EV exploded, injuring a bystander with flying shrapnel. It’s unclear how the crash happened, but eyewitnesses described something eerily similar to an unintended acceleration event.
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Elon Musk Could Soon Become The World's First Trillionaire And That Sucks
If you’re the type of person who feels one trillion dollars is too much money for any single human to have, and you feel Elon Musk doesn’t deserve all the money he already has, then I’ve got some bad news for you. Thanks to six companies Musk currently leads – Tesla, SpaceX, X, xAI, The Boring Company and Neuralink – he has become the richest person on Earth with an estimated net worth of around $250 billion, according to Forbes.
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Race To Build Trains Could Mess Up The Construction Timeline For The LA To Vegas High-Speed Rail
Brightline’s L.A. (it’s actually not L.A. but whatever) to Las Vegas high speed rail project is slowly moving forward. Officials are eyeing a 2028 completion date, but a corporate rivalry over who gets to be the first to build the high speed trains themselves might screw things up.
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This Is The Cheapest Way To Become A Porsche Club Of America Member
If you’ve always looked up to the fine folks in the world’s largest single-make enthusiast ownership club, the Porsche Club of America, and aspired to rub elbows with those well-heeled elites of the automotive world, but couldn’t ever afford a Porsche, here’s your chance. To be a member of the PCA, you have to have a Porsche, and to prove your membership you have to input a VIN with your application. Most times a Porsche VIN is pretty pricey, and though there are some exceptions, that will proba
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GMC Hummer EV Left Abandoned On Off-Road Trail After Suspension Failure
GM made huge waves with the debut of the GMC Hummer EV. In addition to big power and weight (up to 1,000 horsepower and a curb weight of nearly 9,000 pounds) it was the return of one of the most capable SUVs ever made. If one recently found abandoned off the side off an Arizona desert trail is any indication though, an owner can easily get over their head off-roading the electric SUV.
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This Guy's Hummer EV Finance Deal Is The Worst I've Ever Seen
Financial literacy is fundamental, folks. The first rule of being financially secure is to not roll two vehicles worth of negative equity into a ten-percent APR finance deal on a Hummer EV for 50 grand over MSRP. Don’t do that and you’re well on your way to being better with money than the guy featured in a recent Tiktok video from user @ridewithyusuf. Yusuf is a car dealer and this call with a customer is jaw dropping and eye opening. Don’t trust a bank to give you a finance deal you can afford
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2025 Jeep Wrangler's V6 Is Now Manual Only, Power Door Locks And Windows Are Standard
The JL Jeep Wrangler has been on sale since the 2018 model year, so for its seventh year of production, Jeep decided to switch some things up. Mainly, the only way you’ll be able to get a Pentastar V6 in the Wrangler is if you pair it with a six-speed manual transmission, and power locks and windows are now standard for the first time ever. Purists look away.
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Left Your Kid In The Car? The 2025 Toyota Sienna Will Call You
Everyone knows not to leave kids in a hot car, but that doesn’t mean they always remember or fully understand just how hot a car can get even when it’s not that warm outside. To help with that, automakers have started adding features that remind you to check the back when you park, Toyota has now taken that a step further, adding a feature it calls Advanced Rear Seat Reminder to all Siennas.
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That Video Of A Sparking, Arcing, Electrified Cybertruck Body Is Not What It Seems
The Tesla Cybertruck has been plagued with problems since its launch, with seemingly every issue imaginable manifesting in the first few thousand units. Now, though, an issue no one could’ve imagined has popped up in a widely viewed video: It seems a messed-up Tesla wall charger can electrify the very skin of the Cybertruck.
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Eight-Year-Old Hit Mailbox On 10-Mile Solo Drive To Target
Kids are pretty amazing when you think about it. Sure, they’re all icky and gross most of the time, but they can also store all kinds of useless information about dinosaurs, come with an entire extra set of teeth and grow into real life adults. They’re also good at terrifying their parents as one eight-year-old managed to do recently when they borrowed the family car for a solo Target run.
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It's Well Past Time For The U.S. Government To Remove Elon Musk's Security Clearance
Elon Musk's recent statements and many conflicts of interests make him a poor candidate for a government security clearance.
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Police Wrongly Arrest Woman Using License Plate Scanner Data For A Shooting She Wasn't Involved In
License plate scanner usage by law enforcement has exploded in the last decade or so. One company that makes the software used in the scanners saw a near 3,000 percent increase in usage in the period of 2017-2019. Even a decade ago, millions of plates were being scanned using the tech. So we must wonder, is law enforcement always right when it uses the tech? It doesn’t look that way, as a lawsuit out of Michigan shows.
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Car Loans Pass Student Loans To Become Largest Debt Other Than A Mortgage
With an average transaction price of nearly $50,000, it’s no secret that new cars are basically just for rich people now. You can’t even buy a single new car for less than $20,000. If wages had kept up with the rising cost of a new car, that wouldn’t be as much of an issue, but here we are. And yet, people keep buying them even when they can’t afford them. In fact, it’s gotten so bad that Motor1 reports car loans have passed student loans to become the second-largest debt that Americans hold nex
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Fisker Charging Ocean Owners For Recall Fixes
Fisker is dead — no, not that dead Fisker, the other one — but every Ocean crossover it managed to release before bankruptcy is still out there. Those cars are still being recalled for various issues, which has led buyers to wonder: Who’s actually going to pay for those recall repairs? Well, the verdict is now in: them.
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Driver Stops Out-Of-Control Car With His Dodge Ram On Highway
A Colorado driver saw someone else in danger and decided to take action earlier this month on the 6th Avenue Freeway, just west of Denver. A woman suffered a seizure and lost consciousness behind the wheel. Ryan Myrick took his Dodge Ram, pulled in front of an SUV, and intentionally caused a collision much safer than most other potential outcomes.
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Cops 'Punished' Dolphins Wide Receiver Tyreek Hill 'Because They Didn't Like His Attitude,' Says Legal Expert
“It’s not clear what order Hill didn’t comply with. Probably not lowering the window. But it’s also not clear he had time to comply,” says Devin Stone, lawyer and YouTuber known as the Legal Eagle. If you have not yet seen the body camera footage of the arrest of Miami Dolphins player Tyreek Hill, make sure you do so. What started as a regular traffic stop, allegedly for Hill driving a (visually estimated) 60 miles per hour in a 40 mph zone in his flashy McLaren, ended with his arrest and charge
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Diesel Shop Sold Over 250,000 Emissions-Cheating Devices In Just 5 Years
You’d think after the huge scandal that was VW’s Dieselgate that the automotive industry as a whole would have learned something. A multi-billion dollar corporation getting hit with billions in fines wasn’t scary enough it seems, as diesel emission cheating keeps happening, albeit at a smaller scale. The latest bust is out of North Carolina.
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Arizona Town Is Attacking The Fundamental Right Of Car Enthusiasts To Own Inoperable Vehicles
Gilbert, Arizona has decided that your race car is ugly and it should be hidden from sight at all times. The southeast suburb of Phoenix is packed with sprawl and is adding more people to its population seemingly every day. As more people move in to more planned and gated communities, the city has decided to put on its best “Karen” impression and tell the people who live there what they can do in the privacy of their own driveways and backyards. The city’s newly clarified anti-blight rule determ
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Ford Mustang GTD's 815 HP Helps Justify The $300,000 Price Tag
The Ford Mustang GTD aims to elevate the iconic muscle car’s image to a level it has never approached without a helmet and Nomex overalls. Ford revealed that the GTD’s 5.2-liter supercharged V8 engine will produce 815 horsepower, making this $300,000 pony car the most powerful production Mustang ever. The Blue Oval hopes an official sub-seven-minute lap around the Nürburgring is in the Mustang GTD’s future with this level of performance.
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Tesla Locks Baby In Car On 109-Degree Day For Seemingly No Reason
A mom in California faced a frightening situation last week when her child was locked inside her Tesla while it was charging on a 109-degree day. With no way of opening up the vehicle to get her child out of the sweltering car, Kassandra Pineda and a bystander were forced to smash the car’s window to free the child.
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The Subaru BRZ's Price Has Gone Up More Than $3,200 In Just Three Years
It looks as if the universe is working to protect car enthusiasts, as the Subaru BRZ is sticking around for 2025 alongside its Toyota GR86 twin. Unfortunately, the price of the compact sports car has gone up once again. Subaru released pricing for the 2025 BRZ and it now starts at $32,265 including destination, an increase of $950 over last year’s model.
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Our Global Nightmare Ends: Porsche Finally Has A Fix For Carrera GT Suspension Failures
It took Porsche a year and five months to come up with a fix to the recall and stop-drive order it issued for every single Carrera GT built. The suspension failure–related recall addressed a particular propensity for control arms to corrode and fail, which could lead to a crash. If you are one of the folks who own a Carrera GT, make sure you get booked in for service, because Porsche is ready to fix the issue.
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A Nissan Frontier Owner Found Out His Truck Was Missing Frame Welds
We trust automakers to make quality vehicles that are not only reliable, but most importantly safe to drive for years to come. That isn’t always the case though. One Nissan Frontier owner experienced this first hand after discovering his truck was missing frame welds.
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New Generation Postal Trucks May Look Goofy, But Mail Carriers Love Them
We love a good postal truck around here, and apparently the long-delayed, strangely designed electric postal trucks are pretty dang good, according to the mail carriers that use them every day.
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Tesla Semi Fire Took 50,000 Gallons Of Water To Extinguish
The National Transportation Safety Board revealed on Thursday that California firefighters used 50,000 gallons of water to extinguish a Tesla Semi fire last month. The electric truck crashed on Interstate 80 in Northern California and burst into flames. The resulting 1,000-degree fire shut down the highway for 16 hours and drew federal investigators to the scene.
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Massachusetts Introduces Bill To Legalize Kei Cars
By most metrics, Massachusetts is a fantastic state to live in. It isn’t cheap, but you get a lot for your money. Unfortunately for the people who live in Massachusetts, the state’s Registry of Motor Vehicles is full of a bunch of jerks and decided to ban kei cars. The enthusiast community pushed back, though, and lawmakers have now introduced legislation that would legalize kei cars, the Drive reports.
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Stock Toyota Prius Sets World Fuel Economy Record Of 93.2 MPG Over 3,200-Mile Road Trip From LA To NYC
Since its inception the Toyota Prius has always been one of the best fuel sippers around. From the first generation’s 41-mpg combined rating to the current generation’s 57-mpg combined rating, you’ll definitely save on your monthly gas bill. But the Prius can far exceed its advertised gas mileage if you really try, as one owner just set a new fuel economy world record in a cross country road trip.
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Corvette Thief Hides In Swamp After Wrecking Stolen C7 In 100-MPH Police Chase
When someone is willing to steal a car and lead police on a high-speed chase, it usually doesn’t end well, and sometimes the circumstances are hard to believe. We’ve seen everything from a Google Street View car going over 100 mph before crashing into a creek to a U-Haul truck leading police on a 53-mile chase. The latest wacky incident saw a man start a high-speed chase in a stolen Corvette before wrecking it and thinking he could get away by hiding in a swamp.
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Huge Sub-Prime Auto Lender Makes Big Bucks Repossessing Vehicles Using Shady 'Loan Extensions' [Update]
When a prospective buyer of a used vehicle from CarMax doesn’t qualify for financing, they’ll likely be offered a loan from Exeter Finance as a lender of last resort. Through its partnership with the country’s largest used car retailer, Exeter positioned itself at the pipeline of sub-prime borrowers, according to a ProPublica report. The lender would then use dubious extensions to stretch out loan periods and squeeze the poorest borrows for unbelievable sums of money.
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Skeletal Remains Inside Submerged Car Found After 48 Years
When fishermen on the Pecatonica River in Northern Illinois likely had no idea that their sonar discovery of a vehicle under the water would lead to a breakthrough in a nearly 50-year-old missing persons case. Authorities pulled a metallic brown 1966 Chevrolet Impala from the river and found the skeletal remains of two men who were last seen in 1976.
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Wall Street Doesn't Know If Tesla Is A Car Company
Is Tesla a car company or a tech company? It’s a question not even analysts on Wall Street can agree on. CEO Elon Musk seems to split the difference between the two, and it’s hard to argue the cars his companies build aren’t more tech-forward (for better or worse) than most other cars currently for sale.
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GM And EVGo Partner To Build Hundreds Of Pull-Through Chargers To Make Towing With EVs Easier
The state of EV charging infrastructure in the U.S. market right now is a joke. There’s nothing worse than having a smooth and easy road trip sidelined by a bad charging experience. At some point the market should have figured out that consumers want a charging experience that is better than going to the gas station, not worse. The poorly-lit (or unlit), crowded, undersized, slow chargers don’t fly anymore. Thankfully General Motors has seen the light and will partner with EVGo to build 400 new
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Gorgeous DS Tribute Concept Imagines What A Modern Citroën SM Would Look Like
One of the most fun thought exercises as a fan of automotive design (or as an amateur or professional designer) is to imagine what a classic car or iconic design would look like if it still existed in modern times. That’s exactly the idea behind the DS Automobiles brand’s latest concept car. Called the SM Tribute, this gorgeous coupe is inspired by the 1970's Citroën SM, and the design team worked as if the car had remained in production over the past five decades.
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AAAOC: Ocasio-Cortez Helps Jumpstart Stranded Car At The Capitol
Our elected officials are meant to help the communities they serve, and apparently New York Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez really took that to heart. The 34-year-old representative sprung into action when her chief of staff’s Honda Civic was stranded with a dead battery.
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Grieving Father Calls Trump And Vance 'Reprehensible' For Using Child's Death In School Bus Crash For Political Gain
While Donald Trump’s claims that Haitian immigrants are kidnapping and eating pets aren’t supported by any evidence, vice-presidential nominee JD Vance’s exaggerated statements regarding a child killed in an Ohio school bus crash in August 2023. The father of the deceased child is telling Trump’s supporters to leave him and his family alone.
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Tesla CEO And World's Richest Man Elon Musk Parrots Weird Racist Pet Eating Propaganda, Says He'll Give Pop Star Taylor Swift A Child
Elon Musk has a had a questionable few weeks in the Twitter-verse, including an odd foray into racist propaganda and World War II revision.
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A Student Kicked A Field Goal To Win A Car, The Dealership Tried To Weasel Out Of It
A Purdue University student thought he kicked his way to a two-year car lease for making three field goals in a contest held during the Boilermakers’ season opener in West Lafayette. However, the dealership sponsoring the giveaway later reneged on the deal because of a technical. The final kick – a 40-yarder – left his foot just a split second too late on August 31. Car dealerships really cannot help but be bastards, can they?
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Ford Will Pay EV Owners Double What Fast-Charging Costs To Send Power Back To The Grid
Ford is continuing its push into making vehicle-to-grid technology more mainstream. The automaker’s latest partnership is teaming up with a Southern California utility provider to pay EV owners a pretty nice amount for helping to bolster the grid.
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Ford Faces Lawsuit After Out-Of-Control Mustang Severely Injured Students On Test Track Field Trip
Two elementary school students were seriously injured while on a field trip to Ford’s test track in Auburn Hills, Michigan. A demonstration driver, in what appears to be a Mustang, lost control of the machine and ran headlong into the guardrail behind which the classroom of students had gathered. Elijah Gibson, eight at the time, and Lavell McGee, ten at the time, were hospitalized as a result of the July 2023 crash. A lawsuit in Oakland County Circuit Court names Continental Automotive Systems
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Dodge Wants More Than $113,000 For Another Durango SRT Hellcat Special Edition
Dodge just can’t let go of the Hellcat V8. Despite the LX-platformed Charger and Challenger having driven off into the great dealership in the sky, and the Ram 1500 switching to inline-6 power, the supercharged V8 is sticking around in the Durango SUV for now. For 2025, the Durango Hellcat returns once again with a new special edition model called the Hammerhead.
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NYC Pays Citizens To Report Emissions Infractions, But Mayor Adams Is Using Police To Thwart Their Efforts
Since instituting a citizen-driven anti-idling enforcement policy in New York City back in 2018, the city has made about $50 million in revenue from the resulting fines. Some 83,000 fines were issued in 2023 alone, up from 48,000 the year before. Many of these fines are the direct result of citizen complaints, timestamped videos showing the offense and location laboriously uploaded to the Department of Environmental Protection’s clunky submission system. A small handful of people are making a li
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Here's Our First Look At Lucid's Sub-$50,000 Crossover Coming In 2026
We recently reported that Lucid is going to start aiming downmarket with a lineup of cheaper vehicles, and just a few days later we’re getting our first real look at what one of those cars will look like. Lucid posted a teaser image of its upcoming midsize crossover, giving us a pretty good look at the model’s design.
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Consumer Reports Says These Are The Lowest Rated Car Insurance Companies
Car insurance has gone from being an annoying monthly bill to a crippling expenditure that makes me question if I want to own a car. Headlines across the country have reported on the unprecedented explosion in insurance premiums over the past few years, so if you’re paying out the nose for coverage you want to be sure you are covered by a good company. In a turn of events that is best described by one of my favorite catchphrases, I was Disappointed But Not Surprised to learn that the big name co
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Cops On A Power Trip Arrest Miami Dolphins Wide Receiver Tyreek Hill During A Traffic Stop
NFL star Tyreek Hill was arrested on Sunday, right before the Dolphin’s season opening game, though it’s hard to say exactly why. Body camera footage from the incident appears to show the arresting officers escalating the situation all because of Hill’s window.
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Cruise Ships Are Ruining Greece
The Greecian Islands, home to some of the most beautiful natural and human-built wonders, are being overrun with cruise-ship tourists. While the Mediterranean nation’s economy is supported largely by tourism, the strain of tens of millions of travelers annually has become too intense to sustain. Similar to many other European tourist destinations, Greece is formulating a plan to curb some of the busiest and highly crowded destinations. If you’re going to be visiting Mykonos or Santorini, be prep
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Neighbor Tired Of Disrespect Gets Airbnb Guests' Car Towed After Being Blocked In Their Own Driveway
Airbnb does more than just help make a mess of the already messy housing market. Every once in a while something cool comes across the platform, but for the most part it’s an annoyance for surrounding homeowners who aren’t hosts. Take what one homeowner had to go through with a guest’s vehicle.
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Car Companies To Try Bold New Strategy Of Building EVs People Can Actually Afford
Electric vehicles aren’t cheap yet. I mean, to be fair, no cars are cheap anymore with an average transaction price above $48,000, but now “luxury” EV makers looking to capitalize on a market looking for cheaper all-electric vehicles. Tesla, Rivian, Lucid and even VinFast are planning on bringing cheaper offerings to the U.S. and more and more people are turned away by high-priced electric vehicles.
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Hoonigan Files For Bankruptcy With $1.2 Billion In Debt
Hoonigan, one of the biggest automotive brands to emerge in the 2010s, has filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy in Delaware.
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Trailer-Tractor Plows Into Highway Exit Sign, Ripping Raised Bed Off Cab
Some people just aren’t early risers. Our work might suffer a bit when our minds aren’t running at 100 percent. However, some of us drive tractor-trailers for a living, where mistakes are never small. A 62-year-old Virginian is facing reckless driving charges after plowing a raised trailer bed into a highway exit sign last Thursday morning on Interstate 64.
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This 1,200-HP Quad Bike Is A Rideable Rocket With A Supercar Facade Provides A Cool Way To Die
Typically, any vehicle with four wheels and over 1,000 horsepower comes equipped with a roof standard. Engler, a small boutique manufacturer, decided to elevate quad bikes to a performance level comparable to supercars. The company’s latest creation will be fitted with a 1,200-hp V-12 engine.
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Great News Everyone: Average New Car Transaction Price Drops To Only $48,401
Hey everyone, great news! The average new car transaction price has officially dropped to only $48,401. Take that, rich people. New cars are finally affordable again. Time for all of us to go out and... wait, you can’t afford to spend $48,401 on a car? Damn. Me either. Well, that sucks. Still, this actually is good news even if you’re currently priced out of owning a new car. As Carscoops reports, inventory is up, payments are down and that can only mean good things for the used car market, too.
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Towing A Cybertruck Incorrectly Could Make It Explode
As it turns out, you can make a Tesla Cybertruck catch on fire and burn to the ground simply by towing it the wrong way. Nope, I’m not joking. It’s right there in the Cybertruck’s owner’s manual under “Instructions for Transporters.” For a truck that is meant to go anywhere and do anything, I feel like towing it the wrong way shouldn’t cause such a catastrophic result.
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Kia Says It Has Proof The K5 GT Is Faster And Comes With Better Handling Than The BMW 530i
Kia says the brand’s K5 GT family sedan is both faster and better handling than the BMW 530i and can prove it through independent testing.
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Elon Musk Could Be In Charge Of Government Spending Under A Trump Presidency
Over the past few months, Elon Musk has worked his way back into the inner circle of Donald Trump — a circle he once left over climate change concerns, back in a different time. Now, despite Trump’s apparent personal dislike of Musk, it seems the former President has big plans for the world’s richest man in a future administration: Setting Musk in charge of massive cuts to government spending, totaling in the trillions of dollars.
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Truck Driver Survives Plunge Into Freezing Ocean In Alaska
We’ve got another reminder of just how dangerous over the road truck driving can be. This time it comes by way of the freezing temps of Alaska and a driver that’s lucky to be alive.
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Ferrari F1 Driver Charles Leclerc Bashes His Purosangue Into Another Car In Monaco Traffic
Just because Charles Marc Hervé Perceval Leclerc won the Italian Grand Prix last weekend doesn’t mean he is actually any good at driving regular street cars. On Thursday in his home town of Monaco, the Ferrari F1 ace blasted into the back of what appears to be a Volkswagen van while driving around in his new Purosangue. The video surfaced on TikTok, but was quickly taken down, and thankfully it has resurfaced on Twitter several hours later.
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Salesman Scams His Own Dealership Out Of $1.1 Million In High End Cars
You’d have to be a special kind of dumb to steal from your own job. It looks like a Canadian car salesman may be just that kind of dumb after he was arrested for using fraud to buy cars from his own dealership.
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Elon Musk's Antics Cause Tesla Superfan Journalist To Sell His Shares
Fred Lambert, editor and lead content producer of EV-centric blog Electrek, has been a homer for Tesla since the early days. For years he was a leader in the cultural phenomenon that is/was Tesla, and seriously financially benefitted from his position as an OG Tesla Stan. But on Thursday, Lambert posted that he had sold all of his $TSLA shares, and his reasons were perfectly sound. Though they were similarly sound last year, the year before, and on and on. So why did he do it, and why now? Here’
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Ford Bronco Thief Attempts To Drive Over Cop Car, Learns That Not All Off-Roaders Are Monster Trucks
When the Ford Bronco was introduced, with its Sasquatch rock-crawling trim, we all thought the same thing: “Surely, this would be the perfect factory vehicle to steal if I knew I would have to drive over cop cars while escaping a Tim Hortons.” Wait, did you all not also think that?
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Defense Attorney Blames Mustang Mach-E's Blue Cruise For Fatal DUI Crash
As Pennsylvania police announced double homicide charges against a woman for a fatal March DUI crash, they mentioned she was using some of the driver-assistance functions that can be found in her car, a Ford Mustang Mach-E. State and federal investigators say the woman’s crossover struck a stationary vehicle of a man who had stopped on the left shoulder of I-95 to help out a driver whose car had broken down ahead of him. The collision, which occurred around 3 a.m., killed both men.
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Good Samaritans Right Overturned Van Only For Liquor Bottles To Roll Out Of It
A drunk dumbass tried to flee the scene of a crash after striking two parked cars and two pedestrians on Saturday and ended up significantly worse off for it. Following a u-turn and a high-speed getaway, the driver ran headlong into the back of a parked Jeep and rolled his van. Around a dozen people rushed to the overturned car and pushed to right it before getting the injured driver the medical help he needed. When the car was once again upright, the driver was attended to by first responders.
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Mercedes Will Fix Janky Naming Scheme For Next Generation Of Cars
Oh, happy days: Mercedes-Benz seems to be getting rid of its silly and convoluted electric vehicle naming scheme in favor of unifying both gas-powered and EV variants of its cars under one nameplate. That means the EQS name is going away, and it’ll be replaced with the “S-Class” nomenclature.
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Police Catch Man With $100,000 In Drugs After He Fell Asleep Behind The Wheel Of His Tesla On Autopilot
A Tesla driver learned the hard way that yes, you still need to keep your hands on the wheel in a Tesla and yes, you really aren’t allowed to smuggle drugs.
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Tesla Owners Rejoice! Your Car Finally Has ASS (Actually Smart Summon)
Tesla, the EV maker famously led by notorious bigot and billionaire Elon Musk, has a tendency of struggling to meet its self-imposed deadlines. In another egregious example of this, the company’s latest software update makes “Actually Smart Summon,” or ASS, available after initially promising owners the availability of this feature by September of 2022.
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Two LA Street Takeovers Cause Vehicle Fires And Dealership Damage In The Same Night
There was chaos in Los Angeles this week as two takeovers happened in the same night, resulting in vehicles set ablaze and broken windows at a nearby dealership. LA’s ABC 7 reports the first of the two takeovers happened around midnight on September 3rd in South Los Angeles. Footage shows this takeover even included a vehicle fire, as crowds surrounding the area watched it burn.
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Tim Walz Being A Car Guy Could Help In The Election
Minnesota Governor and Vice Presidential-hopeful Tim Walz is a bona fide car guy. His teal 1979 International Harvester Scout II has sort of become an icon of the Harris-Walz campaign, and it reinforces his whole “small-town Midwest dad” vibe. As it turns out, that old truck, what it represents and Walz’s DIY attitude are paying dividends with voters. The Los Angeles Times explains:
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Refreshed Volvo XC90 Is A Smart Update For An Aging Crossover
The Volvo EX90 is a ridiculously comfortable, quiet and luxurious electric vehicle, but what if you aren’t quite ready to go fully electric? Well, that’s where the XC90 comes in. It’s been refreshed with new styling and a new infotainment system, and while those changes aren’t exactly revolutionary, they should make the XC90 more desirable. At least as long as Volvo works out those software bugs we noticed in the EX90.
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Takata Airbags Are Still Killing People
The death toll related to faulty Takata-built airbags continues to grow as the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration confirms a 28th related fatality. On Tuesday the agency reported yet another air bag inflator death in a saga that has been ongoing since 2009, this one involving a Honda which crashed in Alabama back in 2018. The airbags have been shown to shoot shrapnel at vehicle occupants, prompting the largest automotive recall in American history. Across the last decade over 100 mil
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Amazon Drivers Complain Their Ability To Sing Along With The Radio Is Being Stifled: Report [Update]
No matter how badly Amazon treats its workers, we all keep shopping there. There have been accusations that delivery drivers weren’t allowed to go to the bathroom, the company reportedly left airport workers toiling away in 100 degree heat and now it’s apparently banned delivery drivers from their last remaining joy at work: singing along to the radio.
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We Are Less Than One Month Away From Florida Offering Margaritaville License Plates
Parrot heads everywhere were devastated when Jimmy Buffett passed away on September 1 last year, but his home state and the place that inspired his whole vibe is commemorating him in a few very special ways. In what’s likely the best legislation ever signed by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, Floridians will be able to honor their state’s musical legend Jimmy Buffett with a special Margaritaville license plate design. To further pay respect to his cultural contributions, August 30 was declared Ji
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2025 Nissan Armada Finally Lives Up To Its Patrol Heritage With Pro-4X Off-Road Trim And Locking Rear Diff
It’s been a long time since the Nissan Armada was discussed as a serious contender against some of the industry’s toughest competitors, but the large SUV’s redesign for 2025 sees it gain a new beefed-up off-road trim, a more powerful twin-turbo V6 shared with the also new Infiniti QX80, and other mechanical goodies that were previously relegated to the Patrol that the rest of the world got.
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The 500-Mile Electric Car Is Officially Here
The Arizona-made Lucid Air is perhaps the king of modern electric car luxury. It’s got its own aerodynamic design aesthetic, efficient layout, tons of power, but the new 2025 Grand Touring model is also the king of EPA-rated EV range, supposedly delivering more miles per charge than any other EV on the market. And it might surprise you to learn that Lucid actually under-sold its range ratings, as YouTube tester Kyle Conner recently found out with an all-highway real-world range test.
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2025 Audi Q5 Is The Prettiest Audi In Years
When Audi finally killed off the R8, we lost something more than the company’s highest-performing car — we lost its prettiest design. Since then, we’ve only had the E-Tron GT as the Pretty Audi, but even that lost its luster with the most recent redesign. Now, though, there’s finally a truly good-looking car back in the Audi stable: The new Q5.
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At $12,000, Does This 1980 Fiat X1/9 Prove A Point?
The seller of today’s Nice Price or No Dice Fiat X1/9 claims it is “cosmetically very original, but has quite a few good modifications.” Let’s see if we like the price or if it needs some changes.
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At $2,500, Will You Give This 1982 Peugeot 505 TD A French Toast?
Considering that today’s Nice Price or No Dice Peugeot has almost 240K on the clock, it’s safe to say that anything that could go wrong has long passed the opportunity to do so. Let’s decide if old, quirky, and slow demands a price that is low.
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At $27,000, Will This Supercharged S52-Swapped 1991 BMW 318i Blow Your Mind?
BMW fans hold the ’80s E30 in extremely high regard. Today’s Nice Price or No Dice 318i has been upgraded with a supercharged S52 straight six, replacing its puny four. Let’s see if that warrants a supercharged price tag.
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At $7,900, Is This Ford-Powered 1975 Jensen A Find?
Today’s Nice Price or No Dice Jensen Healey offers the British roadster experience with a side order of quirkiness not available in mainstream MGs and Triumphs. Let’s see if this one, which has lost its original Lotus motor for a V6 out of a Ford, isn’t too oddly priced.
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At $3,900, Is This 2009 Moto Guzzi V7 Classic A Throwback Thrill?
Like a hot potato, Italy’s Moto Guzzi has been handed around to various owners for years due to its frequent financial difficulties. Today’s Nice Price or No Dice V7 Classic harkens back to the marque’s heyday, but could it also prove financially fruitful for a buyer?
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At $2,500, Is This 1993 Chevy Corsica A Boring Bargain?
If life as a whole is getting too overwhelming, then today’s Nice Price or No Dice Corsica might be the panacea for that agitation and festering angina. That is, as long as its price tag doesn’t piss us off.
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At $8,000, Is This 1957 Powell Sport Wagon A Project With Potential?
There are few weirder stories in automotive lore than the one about the origin of today’s Nice Price or No Dice Powell Sport Wagon. Let’s explore that story and see if it makes this project truck’s price palatable.
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At $13,900, Does This 1993 Ford Mustang LX 5.0 Give You Goosebumps?
In the wild, an ostrich can run faster than a horse. In today’s Nice Price or No Dice Mustang, that’s been evened up, as this pony wears pimply ostrich upholstery along with its red velour seating. Let’s decide what such an expressive combo might properly fetch.
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At $28,500, Is This 1985 Toyota Corolla GT-S A Venerated Value?
Like the current GR Corolla, today’s Nice Price or No Dice GT-S is a rare anomaly: an exciting and engaging edition of Toyota’s compact car. Let’s see how much interest this classic edition’s price generates.
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At $9,000, Is This 2006 Mazdaspeed 6 GT A Memorable Deal?
Today’s Nice Price of No Dice Mazdaspeed 6 is rough around all the edges, but according to the seller, it hasn’t been overly hooned. Let’s decide what this almost-forgotten sport sedan might hope to command.
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At $15,500, Will This Cosmetically Restored 1987 Porsche 924S Clean Up?
According to the seller, today’s Nice Price or No Dice 924S is back on the market after an auction agreement fell through. It now has a lower price, and the seller is open to offers. What should we reasonably suggest?
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At $12,750, Is This 1985 BMW 635CSi A Classic Coupe Coup?
While not perfect, today’s Nice Price or No Dice 635CSi covers the basics and is handsome as all get-out. Let’s see if that’s enough to also cover its asking price.
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At $6,950, Would You Pick Up This 2003 Cadillac Escalade EXT?
Today’s Nice Price or No Dice Escalade is a pickup. Or is it an oddball sedan with an extra big trunk? Whatever it is, we’ll have to decide if its price makes it a bargain.
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At $7,985, Are You In League With This 1985 Renault Alliance?
If you don’t want to “stop and smell the roses” but are interested in cars slow enough to ensure olfactory satisfaction in normal driving, then today’s Nice Price or No Dice Renault is for you. Let’s see what this quirky convertible might reasonably be worth.
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At $7,700, Would You Make Tracks In This 1995 Geo Tracker?
Geo is one of the many marques General Motors has kicked to the curb over the years, but as today’s Nice Price or No Dice Tracker proves, there’s still some life left in the products of that moribund brand. Let’s see how much you might pay to live with it.
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At $3,950, Is This 2000 Saab 9-3 Viggen A Friggin' Bargain?
Not only is today’s Nice Price or No Dice Saab a drop-top, but it also has performance chops, as it sports the reasonably rare Viggen package. Let’s see if that makes its price anything worth getting worked up over.
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At $34,750, Does This 1974 BMW 1802 Pass The Touring Test?
Today’s Nice Price or No Dice 1802 Touring is a private import as BMW never sold the three-door hatchbacks here in the U.S. Let’s see what such a rare Roundel wearer might reasonably be worth.
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At $4,450, Is This 2000 Buick Park Avenue An Ultra-Good Deal?
Very little information is provided by the ad for today’s Nice Price or No Dice Park Avenue; other than that, it runs smooth, has passed smog, and has a clean title. Let’s determine if its price tag says everything we need to know.
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At $19,900, Is This 1976 Fiat 131 Abarth Rally Replica The Real Deal?
Today’s Nice Price or No Dice 131 is a homage to Fiat’s series-dominating rally cars of the late 1970s. Let’s see if this rare opportunity comes at a winning price.
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At $24,500, Will This 1989 Maserati Biturbo Spyder Double Your Fun?
The seller of today’s Nice Price or No Dice Biturbo Spyder claims the car “needs nothing.” We know that ALL Maseratis eventually need something, so let’s decide if this one needs to be cheaper.
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At $10,499, Is This 2009 Ford Mustang 'Number One With A Bullitt?'
Today’s Nice Price or No Dice Mustang won’t turn you into Steve McQueen or Jacqueline Bisset, but it should be a pretty fun time at the show nonetheless. Let’s see if it’s worth the price of admission.
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This Is Koenigsegg's Le Mans Race Car That Was Banned Before It Ever Raced
Koenigsegg was still a fairly new company with just 30 employees when it built the CCGT. Based on the Competition Coupe CC8S, which had been launched as the company’s first road-legal offering in 2002, the CCGT was intended to go GT1 racing. From the beginning, the road car was designed to GT1 regulations, including the vehicle width and cockpit frontal area. The homologation rules required at least twenty road cars, and with Koenigsegg’s hand-built philosophy that took a handful of years, so by
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Sports Team Blimp Crashes Into Neighborhood Ahead Of Loss
Nothing adds gravitas to a major sports event like a blimp causally patrolling the skies around the stadium. A soccer club’s blimp slowly crashed into a residential neighborhood in São Paulo, Brazil on Wednesday. Thankfully, only one person was injured in the slow-motion disaster that caused people to jog for their lives.
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Two Passengers Injured As United Flight Avoids Mid-Air Collision
The sky doesn’t seem crowded at a glance, but there are 5,400 planes in FAA-controlled airspace at any given time. A United Airlines flight took an evasive maneuver while approaching San Francisco International Airport on Tuesday, injuring two passengers onboard. The plane stopped its descent at 31,000 feet to avoid dropping into the vicinity of two other commercial aircraft.
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Hackers Demand $5.7 Million Ransom For Seattle Airport Data
Hackers attacked Seattle-Tacoma International Airport and the Port of Seattle last month, stealing roughly three terabytes of data while snarling ticketing and baggage systems. Airport officials stated today that it won’t pay the 100-bitcoin (or $5.7 million) ransom to prevent the stolen information from being posted publicly. It’s not clear what was taken, but the hackers claim to have internal logins along with personal staff and customer data.
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Delta Flight Blows Out Passengers' Eardrums After Cabin Fails To Pressurize
A Delta Air Lines flight on Sunday from Salt Lake City to Portland, Oregon immediately returned to Utah’s capital when the flight crew realized the Boeing 737-900 was suffering cabin pressurization issues. The 140 passengers onboard were met by paramedics at the gate when the plane landed and 10 people were either evaluated or treated for bloody noses or ruptured eardrums.
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Mexican Customs Agents Aren't Scamming Tourists Cancun's Airport, Import Taxes Are Real
Whether traveling for business or pleasure, most feel the need to remain tethered to the digital world in some capacity. Some travelers are discovering the hard way that Mexican customs agents in Cancun will tax them at the airport for bringing multiple electronic devices into the country. While tourists feel like they are suddenly being extorted, the law has always been on the books but just selectively enforced.
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Boeing 737 Max Blows Tires Braking Hard To Avoid Takeoff Collision With Another Plane
An Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 Max aborted a takeoff at Nashville International Airport on Thursday to avoid hitting a Southwest flight that had mistakenly been given clearance to taxi across the runway. The force put through the wheels during braking blew out the Alaska plane’s tires. The 78-ton aircraft reached 120 miles per hour before the takeoff was called off. The incident occurred despite Nashville being one of four airports reportedly equipped with the FAA’s latest runway safety technolog
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Passenger Threatened To Bomb Vegas Airport Because He Couldn't Get A Direct Flight Home
No one enjoys enduring an airport layover. However, very few people go as far as to threaten to blow up an international airport over the lack of direct flights to their preferred destination. As KLAS reported, an angry passenger in Las Vegas on Monday not only said he wanted to bomb Harry Reid International Airport, but also made comments about Donald Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign. Why? Alaska Airlines wasn’t operating any non-stop flights between Vegas and South Carolina.
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Increasing Lightning Strikes From Stronger Storms Could Cripple Airports And Airbases
While flying planes are hardened to withstand lightning strikes, airports are typically a cluster of free-standing structures on a flat, open plot of land. The ongoing increase in lightning strikes caused by climate change is a direct danger to facilities and people on the ground. The adage that “lightning never strikes the same place twice” isn’t true, and I’d never want to stand out on the tarmac during a thunderstorm to prove it.
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Two Delta Planes Crash On Atlanta Runway Ripping Tail Off Regional Jet
Airports might seem like organized chaos at times, but believe it or not there’s a careful choreography going on to bring aircraft in to land and send others into the skies safely. Sometimes, it doesn’t all go to plan and this week disaster struck when two Delta aircraft collided on the tarmac at Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport.
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JD Vance's Plane Accidentally Enters Prohibited Airspace Over Washington, D.C.
JD Vance’s Vice Presidential campaign has been one for the history books for all the wrong reasons, and we can now add “entering restricted airspace” to his list of accomplishments. You see, the Ohio Senator and Republican VP hopeful’s Boeing 737-800 accidentally violated the Prohibited Airspace 56 over Washington, D.C. a few days ago as it was leaving Washington Reagan National Airport for Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport in Arizona. Woof.
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Unruly Passenger Forced To Pay $5,750 For The Fuel His Plane Had To Dump To Land
An Australian court ordered an unruly passenger to cover the costs of jet fuel dumped so his flight could be diverted on Monday. The 33-year-old man will pay $5,750 for the fuel along with a $5,980 fine for his actions. The passenger was on a 4-hour flight in September 2023 from Perth, Western Australia to Sydney on the other side of the country. However, he forced the plane to return to its destination.
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Do Frequent Flyer Programs Feel Like A Scam? The Feds Are Investigating Because They Just Might Be
Frequent flyer miles are meant to serve as a reward for loyalty toward a specific airline but have evolved into a quasi-currency unilaterally regulated by the whims of airline executives. The U.S. Department of Transportation launched an inquiry into the miles programs of the country’s four major carriers: American Airlines, Delta Air Lines, United Airlines and Southwest Airlines.
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First-Class Vaper Diverts American Airlines Flight Because It's Not That Different From Smoking
The federal government banned smoking on all flights 24 years ago, but one passenger didn’t get the memo that the ban also included vaping. On Tuesday, an American Airlines flight from Milwaukee to Dallas-Fort Worth diverted to Oklahoma because of an incident caused by someone in first class openly vaping. Accounts differ after a flight attendant told the passenger to stop, but the plane undisputedly landed in Tulsa.
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This $80 Million Airbus Private Jet Comes With 3 Bathrooms And 2 Full-Size Beds
If you want to buy this airplane (or one like it) and travel in the lap of luxury, it’ll cost you at least $80,000,000. The average American worker would have to spend approximately 1,200 years laboring in order to buy this plane, assuming they never spend a dime on anything else. It’s cool and chill that any one of America’s 759 billionaires can just trot down to their local airplane dealership and drop the annual GDP of a small island nation on a single transportation device. Is this the kind
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Watch The World's Largest Operational Flying Boat Take Its Final Flight
Boats are pretty cool, as are planes. But do you know what trumps both of them? A flying boat, especially if it’s the world’s largest operational flying boat. However, today I have some sad news about the world’s largest operational flying boat, as the Hawaii Mars has just taken its final flight to a transport museum in Canada.
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Filthy TSA Trays Are The New Luxury Backdrop On Social Media
Gray airport security trays are the modern silver platter for social media influencers this summer. Photos of luxury goods artfully posed in the checkpoint bins took over certain corners of Instagram and other platforms. While the “TSA tray aesthetic” portrays an elevated level of status, it also spotlights one of the most germ-infested surfaces inside an airport: the security trays.
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These Cars Should Be Turned Into Wagons
We’re car enthusiasts, of course, we think wagons are God’s gift to us and every single vehicle should have a low, long roof. Sadly though, that’s not the case. In fact, the wagon is a dying breed as more folks switch to SUVs and crossovers. It’s what brought me to our question from last week.
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What's Your Wildest Road Rage Story?
From the reckless drivers and dangerous sideshows to the overpass strikes and bus hijackings, it would be easy to assume that every road is only one bad driver away from becoming the Wild West. While I have a laid-back “I get there where I get there” mentality when I drive, others seemingly have short tempers and hair triggers when they get behind the wheel.
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These Are The Best Hot Hatches Of All Time
Is there a better car segment than the hot hatchback? There’s plenty of reasons to gravitate toward a little city street-gobbling pocket rocket. For one thing, they’re big enough for a moderately-sized family to drive everyday without being too gigantic to fit in your garage, or too thirsty for your fuel budget. The true ideal automobile shape is a two-box with too much power. We love a hot hatch, don’t we folks?
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What's The Ugliest Truck Of All Time?
If there’s one vehicle that sums up the American people, it’s got to be the pickup truck, right? These humble machines carry around everything from camping kit and home-improvement supplies to the country’s hopes and dreams. But let’s be honest, they aren’t all particularly good-looking vehicles.
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These Are The Best Cars In Music Videos
Earlier this week I asked you to name what you think are the best cars in music videos, and I’m happy to report that I’ve got a diverse list of answers to share. Vehicles can be used as everything from set decoration to integral plot devices in a music video, and your examples ran the gamut. The cars themselves are diverse too, ranging from muscle cars and lowriders to drift cars and exotics.
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What Car Would You Turn Into A Wagon?
As car enthusiasts, we’re hard-wired to love a wagon. They just bring that perfect blend of practicality, good driving dynamics (since they’re based on cars) and solid looks. You can’t say a long roof doesn’t make most cars look better. Unfortunately, wagons are pretty hard to come by, especially here in America. That’s what has led me to today’s question.
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What's The Best Hot Hatch Ever Made?
If you want a sensible everyday kind of car that can haul a couple people and their stuff across the city or across the country, but you also want something fun you can hustle on a country road, there’s nothing better than a hot hatch. There’s just something so great about a powerful little bulldog of a car that wants to torque-steer the wheel right out of your hands, and a stiff rear swaybar. You can have fun at low speeds in a hot hatch, but they’re also capable of some pretty impressive spee
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These Are The Worst Things A Passenger Has Done In Your Car
Cars have more than one seat for a reason, but some people throw manners out the window when they step into someone else’s vehicle. Earlier this week we asked you to share the worst things a passenger has done in your car. The responses ranged from suffering through hauling their drunk friends home to mishaps caused by inconsiderate passengers. Without further ado, here are the worst tales submitted:
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These Are Your Sketchiest Public Transit Stories
It looks like there were more than a few people who have had some strange experiences with public transit. Last week we asked readers what their sketchiest public transit stories and encounters were. These were their responses.
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What's The Best Car In A Music Video?
As a gay person, I spend a lot of time at friends’ apartments throwing on our favorite music videos and gabbing about them, and I’m always pointing out the cars. Just like in television or movies, car casting is super important when it comes to music videos, whether they be purely for background aesthetics or an integral part of the video’s plot. So today I ask you, dear reader, what’s the best car in a music video?
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What's The Worst Thing A Passenger Has Done In Your Car?
Unless you’re strapping into a race car, there’s almost always a seat for a passenger. You’ve probably had many memorable experiences in your car with someone sitting beside or behind you. It could be a date night with your significant other or taking your child to their first day of school. However, not everyone who steps foot in your car is welcome to come back.
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These Car Models Were Ruined By Their Redesigns
Last week we asked you what car redesign ruined a model, and as per usual our audience didn’t disappoint. The answers were varied but all very applicable to the prompt, and some unexpected answers arose that were very valid, too.
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What's Your Sketchiest Public Transit Story?
The U.S. for the most part is behind when it comes to public transit. But, data from the American Public Transportation Association shows that in the second quarter of this year, public transit ridership was up slightly across the country. That’s good, but we’re still a heavily car dependent country. Why is that though? It might have something to do with just how sketchy public transit can be.
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What Car Redesign Ruined The Model?
The legendary West Coast delicacy that is In-N-Out Burger has an incredibly simplistic menu that has hardly changed throughout its 75-year history, and yet the In-N-Out behind my apartment building has a line wrapping around the block every single day. Sometimes you have to know when you get a recipe right; you don’t always have to reinvent the wheel every couple of years to remain relevant. In contrast to the food industry, car companies face significantly more roadblocks that arise as time pas
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These Are The Dumbest Mistakes You've Made In Your Cars
No matter how long you’ve been driving for, we all make mistakes with our cars from time to time. They might be driving mistakes, errors of judgment while buying a new car or simple mishaps that left a bitter taste in your mouth.
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What's The Best Luxury Car Ever Built?
I’ve been back visiting my parents recently, which is always a great chance to catch up with my brothers, hang out with my niece and nephews and sleep in a twin bed with terrible pillows for a few days. It also gives me the chance to spend a little time with my E39 BMW 540i they’re storing for me. I love that car, but unfortunately for me, it’s 25 years old, and the city isn’t a place for German cars to grow old.
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These Are The Best Sports Sedans Of All Time
I love sports sedans. You love sports sedans. We all love sports sedans. That’s why it comes as no surprise that you folks were so passionate about the best sports sedans of all time when I asked you to tell me your favorite in last week’s question of the day.
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What's The Dumbest Mistake You've Made In Your Car?
We all like to think that we’re great at playing cars, right? We’re grown ups who’ve learned a lot about cars over the years, but do you know the best way to learn more about cars? Make mistakes around cars.
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These Are The Best Cars For Solo Road Trips
Earlier this week we asked the readers of Jalopnik to tell us about their favorite cross-country road trippers. While nobody picked my favorite option, the Volkswagen XL1 fuel sipper, there were plenty of great choices on the list, and a few questionable ones. These days pretty much any car will comfortably and efficiently get you across the country, so you have a wide variety of great choices.
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What's The Best Sports Sedan Of All Time?
Who doesn’t love a sports sedan? They’re able to mix together a lot of the fun-to-drive aspects of a sports car with enough practicality to bring your friends along for the ride as well. I for one am a big fan, but I’ll admit that not all are created equally. Some stand head and shoulders above the rest. And that is what leads me to today’s question.
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What's The Best Car For A Solo Cross-Country Road Trip?
Eastbound and down, loaded up and truckin’. If you’ve got to run across a wide swath of countryside, and you have a limited period of time in which to do it, put another way, a long way to go and a short time to get there, what’s your vehicle of choice? If you had to, lets say, get from Los Angeles to Miami in short order, what’s the best way to skin that proverbial cat? Are you taking something small and economical, or do you want a big teutonic cruiser? Do you care more about speed, fuel econo
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These Cars Are Police Magnets
No one’s ever happy to be pulled over by a police officer, especially if they were driving a bit faster than the speed limit. Earlier this week we asked our readers which cars are magnets for police. The comments section featured a variety of responses ranging from specific models to just general aesthetics. There was even a nod to the recent traffic stop of a Miami Dolphins wide receiver. Without further ado, these are the cars that law enforcement can’t stay away from
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Here's How Much Horsepower You Really Need
It turns out a lot of people disagree on just how much horsepower one actually needs. Last week, we asked readers; some want hypercar levels of power. Others seem to be fine with horsepower levels so low, they haven’t been seen since the 1980s on compact cars. No matter the amount, its safe to say there’s no right amount for anyone person.
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These Are Your Favorite Car Chase Scenes From Movies
Earlier this week I asked y’all to share your favorite car chase scenes from movies, and you delivered. Some of you picked some of my other favorite car chases, like from “The Bourne Identity,” “Jack Reacher” and “Terminator 2,” while others named movies I had never seen before. Click through to watch all of the best car chases that people suggested, and let us know in the comments which of your favorites were missed.
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What Car Is A Magnet For Police?
It’s commonly said that police officers are more likely to pull over red cars than other colors. However, there isn’t any conclusive evidence to prove the sentiment is factual. What we know is true is that we have our own preconceived notions about which vehicles get pulled over more. We want to know what cars are magnets for police?
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How Much Horsepower Do You Really Need?
When mass produced automobiles first came around you were lucky to get 20 horsepower in your Model T. A century later, Yet we’ve advanced so far and so fast that now your average person can pack 500 or more ponies under their hood. It makes you wonder though just how much power do you actually need?
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These Are The Cars That Nobody Knows About Except Our Readers
Ask the Jalopnik audience about obscure cars and the Jalopnik audience will provide. I asked for you to name a car that nobody else knows about, and I’m proud to say that most of your answers taught me about cars I never knew existed! I recommend clicking here to read all the comments, because you nerds have quite the encyclopedic knowledge of this whole car thing.
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These Cars Deserve A Modern Generation
Some cars just shuffle off this mortal coil a bit too early. Mergers, buyouts, simple lack of profit — carmakers have any number of reasons for ending a good car’s production run before its time. But, as you start to think about how car design has changed, you start to wonder: What car would be best if it had continued into the modern day? That’s the question we posed to you all earlier this week, and today we’re sorting through your answers. Let’s go.
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What's A Car That Nobody Else Knows About?
Car nerds occupy a small niche of the wide array of folks with special interests — some might even call that wide array of folks with special interests a spectrum. Regardless of what you or medical professionals may call it, we all like cars. Judging by the fact that you’re reading this article right now, you make a habit out of reading about cars and learning about them, too, so what’s an obscure car you know of that nobody else seems to know about? I don’t want to see any one or two-word answe
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What's Your Favorite Car Chase Scene In A Movie?
There’s little in this life I love more than a good car chase scene in a movie. As a little kid it was movies like “101 Dalmatians” and “The Italian Job” that gave me the car chase itch, and as I got older I graduated to more serious franchises like “Fast & Furious,” “Mad Max” and “Mission: Impossible.” Car chases can be serious, or humorous, or just plain fantastical, and they can fit into so many different genres of movie.
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These Are The Best Entry-Level Sports Cars You Can Buy Right Now
You don’t need to have a multi-million-dollar supercar to have fun behind the wheel, I’m sure you’ll agree. There’s a lot to be said for a budget runaround that offers you an introduction to performance, better handling and fun when you’re out and about.
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What Car Do You Wish Got A Modern Generation?
Often we look back on cars of olde, wishing we could buy them preserved in amber — walk into a dealership, slap down $30 and some pocket lint, and walk out with a brand new ‘94 Miata. “They just don’t make ‘em like they used to,” we say, sadly scrolling through endless Facebook Marketplace rustbuckets.
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Renault Doesn't Even Trust Renault To Build Competitive Formula 1 Engines
Renault’s near-non-stop participation in Formula 1, which began in 1977, has been tumultuous, to say the least. While the company handed over its entry in the sport to sub-brand Alpine in 2021, the yellow diamond brand has been a powertrain supplier to no fewer than 12 teams in that time. Currently the only car carrying Renault power is the Alpine, but after the new engine regulations take effect for the 2026 season, even that deal is done. Renault will not spend the money to develop a new engin
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Michael Andretti Is Ditching His Ownership Of Andretti Global: Report
Andretti Global is a racing team with its fingers in damn near every racing series in the world. The company runs IndyCar, Indy NXT, Formula E, and Extreme E efforts on its own, and partners with other teams for additional efforts in IMSA GTP, Super Copa, and Australian Supercars. It has been campaigning to enter Formula One with Cadillac for a couple of years, thus far without success. The team’s eponymous owner Michael, son of Mario, father to Marco, has been running the enterprise since buyin
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Cup Series Driver David Ragan On ABB NASCAR's EV Prototype
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Off-Roaders Destroyed 3,000-Year-Old Art While Racing On Legal Trails In Chile
Off-roading is a pretty great pastime that brings people together, is a fun way to explore the outdoors and showcases some incredible automotive engineering. However, its impact on the natural world shouldn’t be underestimated and now off-road racers have been linked to the destruction of centuries old art in the Atacama Desert.
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Max Verstappen Might Cut His F1 Career Short Because The FIA Won't Let Him Cuss
“As soon as I headed into qualifying, I knew the car was fucked.” That’s it. That’s the sentence that started this whole ridiculous FIA crackdown on drivers saying swears. And according to Max Verstappen, his own words might be the catalyst for him retiring from Formula One earlier than he had planned. Verstappen’s F-bomb earned him a penalty from the very top of the FIA, and he has been “obliged to accomplish some work of public interest” to pay for his misdeeds.
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Daniel Ricciardo's Last Lap In F1 Probably Helped Max Verstappen Win Another Championship
Once considered a serious title contender, Australian fan favorite Daniel Ricciardo’s career on the F1 grid has fizzled out in a disappointing way. This weekend in Singapore he ran a race that can be described as forgettable, starting 16th and finishing 18th, but that middling performance has the potential to impact the 2024 world championship title fight. It’s clear that the battle for the WDC is between defending champ Max Verstappen and McLaren’s Lando Norris, but Danny Ric’s actions on the f
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Max Verstappen Handed Community Service For Dropping F-Bomb In F1 Press Conference
Just 24 hours ago, FIA president Mohammed Ben Sulayem was ranting in disgust at the filthy language Formula 1 drivers were using over team radio, arguing that things like the F word could corrupt kids watching F1. Now, championship leader Max Verstappen has been ordered to do community service for swearing in a F1 press conference.
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McLaren Partner Neom Is A Dystopian Tech City That Looks Like A Holiday Inn Express In Glendale, CA
If you follow motorsports you’ve probably seen the word “Neom” somewhere. It’s pretty prevalent in trackside billboards, and it is the title sponsor of McLaren’s Formula E and Extreme E efforts. You might not, however, have known what Neom is. Aside from another avenue for Saudi Arabia to sportswash its horrific reputation, Neom is a region of the Middle East nation “built from the ground up as a living laboratory.” Put another way it’s a dystopian surveillance state, a giant waste of money, and
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'We're Not Rappers:' F1 Drivers Told To Quit Swearing Over Team Radio
Formula 1’s broadcast features all kinds of graphics, animations and explainers to keep viewers engaged and up to date when they’re watching a race from anywhere in the world. But while all the commentary is exciting enough, the real highlight of F1 coverage comes when we can hear what the drivers really think over team radio. However, the language of some drivers has irked FIA president Mohammed Ben Sulayem, who’s calling for an end to swearing over team radio.
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FBI Raids Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing Over Allegations It Stole Secrets From IndyCar Rival
While we’re no stranger to the sight of stewards probing cars at a race meet, one things that’s a bit stranger to see is hordes of officers from the Federal Bureau of Investigation raiding a race team. That’s exactly what happened earlier this week when the FBI probed the offices of Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing amid allegations that it stole secrets from a rival IndyCar team.
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Denim Livery For Singapore Grand Prix Gives Us The First Jormula 1 Car
The Visa Cash App RB team will run in a special denim-styled livery for the Singapore Grand Prix this weekend in partnership with apparel partner Hugo, a division of Hugo Boss. With a pair of zippers on either side of the cockpit, and stitched pockets on the nose cone, it’s a stunning departure from the normal and boring liveries that have been on every car on the grid this year. Team drivers Daniel Ricciardo and Yuki Tsunoda will also be decked out in full Hugo denim racing suits for the event.
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Toyota Is Building A V8-Powered Supra, But You Can't Buy It
Toyota Australia has announced that it will be joining Chevrolet and Ford in Australia’s Repco Supercars championship for the 2026 season with at least four A90-generation Supras. The manufacturer has tapped Walkinshaw Andretti United as its lead development team, and drivers Chaz Mostert and Ryan Wood will pilot these GR machines. A second team will be announced before the car’s on-track debut. With Toyota already involved in FIA WEC Hypercar, NASCAR, and WRC, the Japanese automaker is making s
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Red Bull Didn't Take Car Development Seriously For Over A Year 'Because Max Kept Winning'
Despite early season dominance in 2024, Red Bull Racing has only managed to find victory twice in the last ten grands prix. The team has struggled to figure out Max Verstappen’s rapid decline all summer, while teammate Sergio Perez has been hung out to dry for over a year. After this weekend’s abysmal Azerbaijan Grand Prix, Red Bull has lost the lead in the constructors’ championship to McLaren. In an interview with German publication Auto Motor und Sport, team boss and alleged sexual misconduct
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How Much Faster Will You Go On Drag Slicks?
One of the most important things to keep in mind when building your car for any kind of motorsport application is that the tires are almost always the most important part of your “build.” Well, okay, driving ability is most important, but tires are second. You have to have good tires to build the foundation of your race car, because they’re the only thing that actually touches the ground. In the new season of Donut’s Hi Lo, they’re building Mustang GTs to go drag racing, and starting from the gr
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Genesis Is Going Racing At Le Mans
Upmarket Hyundai sub-brand Genesis is becoming a real grown-up automotive brand and finally kicking off its own major international racing team. While Hyundai has been doing the yeoman’s job racing in TCR and WRC, Genesis has been sitting on the sidelines waiting for its turn at the big leagues. This week the brand announced a program to compete in the top level of endurance sports car racing with a new LMDh prototype.
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Aston Martin Just Signed F1's Most Successful Car Designer
This has been a big year for monumental team changes in Formula 1. We kicked things off with Lewis Hamilton’s move to Ferrari for 2025, then it was announced that Audi was bringing Mattia Binotto in as team principal for its F1 effort. Now, Aston Martin has played its ace by revealing that it’s signed Red Bull designer Adrian Newey to join the team from 2025.
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This Twin-Engine Mini Pickup Makes Me Feel Things I Haven't Felt In A Long Time
There is a fine line between wack and inspired. Liam Doran toes that line with incredible deftness with his most recent monster Mini Cooper pickup. This little guy features a pair of Suzuki Hayabusa GSX1300R engines, each pushing high-rev ponies to the tires. This flyweight wonder is built to go fast, do wheelies, and shred tires, and it manages to do all of those, often all at once. This truck was originally built for the British Autograss series, which is basically short-course rallycross with
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Would You People Think I Was Cool If I Bought Michael Schumacher's Omega Speedmaster?
Arguably Formula 1's greatest driver, Michael Schumacher, was the poster boy for Omega’s “MK40” triple date automatic Speedmaster campaign. Because of this, the reference 3520.53—like this one—became known as “The Schumacher.” Presumably this watch was a gift from Omega to Schuey in 1996 for his work on the ad campaign, as it is engraved with his name on the back, and the date he received it. It’s currently up for auction with RM Sotheby’s online “The Schumacher And F1 Legends Collection” sale.
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The Lister Storm Is A Monster V12 With A Driver In Its Back Pocket
You probably only know about the Lister Storm GT1 cars if you were a sports car racing fan in the back half of the 1990s, or you played “Gran Turismo” growing up. These wild front-engine machines were powered by a massive 7-liter Jaguar V12 yoinked directly from the XJR-14 Group C prototypes. That motor gave these cars a unique sound. The cars were finicky, suffering a bunch of DNFs, but they were incredibly fast and when they held together actually won a lot of races. And thanks to a few desig
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Watch Mechanics Build Graham Hill's 1970s Formula 1 Racer From Scratch
People love claiming that they just don’t make them like they used to. Whether it’s muscle cars, snacks or Britpop bands, there’s always a loud crowd of people on hand to say that things were better back in their day. Now, to see just what made Formula 1 better back in the day, we’ve unearthed this lovely archive footage of a 1970s F1 car being built.
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I Graduated From The Mid Ohio School And I'm Basically A Racing Driver Now
Most Americans are convinced they’re proficient at three things; fighting, fucking, and driving cars. In reality, they don’t know how to do any of them properly without instruction. I would say I’m an OK driver. I don’t have any points on my license, I passed a motorcycle safety course, I’ve done some track days, rallies, and autocrosses, and I’ve done hundreds of thousands of miles behind the wheel. But the key to good driving is to never stop learning. That’s why, when the opportunity presente
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2025 Polestar 3 Is A Performance SUV For The Design Aficionado
Staggered-width wheels wearing summer performance tires. A front aero wing and pass-through rear spoiler. Prominent rear haunches and wide flared fenders. A nicely tapering roofline. Gold Brembo brake calipers. A badge that says how much horsepower it makes. All attributes that would typically be associated with a sports car, and yet I’m describing an electric SUV from a Volvo spinoff brand. It’s the Polestar 3, the third model, largest offering and first true crossover from the Chinese-owned Sw
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2024 Toyota Tundra TRD Pro Begs For Your Attention
Toyota has been on a roll lately. With models like the redesigned 4Runner, Tacoma and Land Cruiser, if you’re an off-road enthusiast and a Toyota fan you should be in heaven right now. If you don’t wanna pay markup or wait on more hardcore versions of the new models to launch, you can indulge your off-road needs with the existing Tundra TRD Pro. You’re just going to need some deep pockets and prepare to look like a bro wherever you go.
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2025 Nissan Kicks Is A Cheap Car Done Right
As enthusiasts, we love the cars that really get your heart pumping. Unfortunately for us, that kind of stuff costs money. A lot of money. The vast majority of car buyers, on the other hand, just want something decent to get them from point A to point B, and the cheaper it is, the better. Sadly, there are no new cars available for less than $20,000, but with an MSRP of $21,980, the 2025 Nissan Kicks looks temptingly affordable by new car standards. And the good news is that while it may not be t
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2025 Volvo EX90 Is So Quiet And Nice You Hopefully Won't Mind The Software Bugs
Usually the dinner conversation at a first-drive event consists of journalists talking about their favorite features of the new model, what it’s like to drive or how they think it stacks up against the competition. But following our drive of the 2025 Volvo EX90, the brand’s new flagship SUV that’s an electric equivalent to the XC90, all we could talk about was how damn quiet it is.
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SpaceX Launches Mission To Save Boeing's Stranded Astronauts
Elon Musk-backed SpaceX has just launched its latest mission to the International Space Station, but there is a lot more riding on its success this time. That’s because the Crew Dragon capsule that just launched into orbit will be used to bring back two astronauts that Boeing stranded in space earlier this year.
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Watch This Chinese Rocket Explode Attempting Vertical Landing
Chinese space startup DeepBlue Aerospace conducted a near-flawless flight test of its first vertical launch and vertical landing rocket on Sunday. However, the Nebula-1 reusable rocket failed the test’s final component, the landing. The rocket slammed into the pad and exploded dramatically in front of drones there to capture what was intended to be a marketable achievement.
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Elon Musk's 6,350 Starlink Satellites 'Blinding' Our View Of Space
Fun fact, there are now more Starlink satellites in space than there are Tesla Supercharger stations in the U.S., with the internet-enabled satellites outnumbering charging stations at a rate of around three to one. Now, the 6,350 satellites are beginning to annoy the world’s astronomers, who report that the extra space junk is getting in the way of some pretty important science.
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Voyager 1 Is Juggling Failing Thrusters 15 Billion Miles Away From Earth
Voyager 1 spent the last 47 years hurtling in a straight line away from Earth, exploring the deepest reaches of space that humanity has ever ventured. However, NASA must carefully manage Voyager 1 as the probe ages and slowly breaks down 15 billion miles away from the closest person. The most pressing dilemma is a rubber diaphragm deteriorating inside the fuel tank.
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Stranded Astronauts 'Could Not Get Comfortable' With Returning To Earth On Boeing Starliner
On Friday NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams had their first news conference from the International Space Station since the Boeing Starliner returned to Earth empty last week. While the pair wouldn’t discuss the troubled spacecraft in detail, they made it clear that NASA and themselves weren’t comfortable with going back on Starliner when it needed to depart.
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POV: You're A Billionaire Getting Your First View Of Earth From Space
It’s been a big week for space travel, after Boeing’s Starliner craft returned to Earth empty, a new record was set for the number of people in orbit and the first private space walk was a success. Now, footage of that spacewalk is online, offering you a first person view of life as a billionaire floating through space.
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There Are More People In Space Right Now Than Ever Before
Ever since November 2000, there has always been at least one person in space at all times thanks to the International Space Station. But now, the rise in space tourism and issues faced with Boeing’s Starliner mission mean that there’s a record-breaking number of people in orbit above our planet right now.
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Here's A Timeline Of Everything That Went Wrong With The Boeing Starliner
The Boeing Starliner finally plopped down in the New Mexico desert last week after spending three months in orbit. The beleaguered spacecraft suffered technical problems during its rendezvous with the International Space Station. It drastically prolonged the eight-day mission as engineers raced to identify the issue and fix a solution. Despite NASA allowing the Starliner to return, the space agency wasn’t willing to have astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams for their safety.
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NASA Was 'Right' To Bring Starliner Back Empty As Thrusters And Guidance Fail On Return
Boeing’s first foray into manned space flight has been an unmitigated cock up. Starliner launched to the International Space Station with two astronauts onboard in June and landed back on Earth two months later without them after issues were uncovered with the craft. Now, more problems have surfaced during Starliner’s return, reaffirming NASA’s decision not to trust it with the lives of Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams.
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Crewed SpaceX Flight To Mars In Four Years? Whatever You Say, Elon
Elon Musk says a lot of things. Much of what he says is just vile bigotry or outright lies, but you can’t deny that he is a man of many words. On Saturday evening, he hopped on Twitter to say more words, this time about his plan to send a crewed space flight to Mars. And, well, they sure were some words. Apparently, if unmanned tests go well in 2026, SpaceX will have people headed to Mars in just four years.
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SpaceX Rocket Explosions Blew Holes In The Atmosphere: Scientists
SpaceX launched a test rocket last November that managed to explode twice in the air. That sort of event doesn’t happen every day, so it gave geophysicists a chance to see what exactly that kind of trauma does to the Earth’s atmosphere. The verdict? It’s not great!
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Empty Boeing Starliner Will Hopefully Return To Earth On Friday
The Boeing Starliner’s hatch is closed, and the months-long debacle in low Earth orbit is nearly over. NASA confirmed that the troubled spacecraft will undock from the International Space Station at 6:04 p.m. EDT on Friday. From there, the Starliner will begin an autonomous re-entry with a scheduled landing at White Sands Test Facility in New Mexico six hours later. While the space agency will do everything possible to minimize the possibility of disaster, it won’t be a zero-risk operation.
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Tech Bros Trying To Sell Sunlight Can't Even Make A Convincing Fake Video
There are a few basic things in life that should be free for everyone: water, education and sunlight. Sadly, there’s now a Californian startup hoping to monetize the latter with a fleet of mirrored satellites that offer on-demand sunlight. In order to show off what the tech could one day do, Reflect Orbital released a dystopian video that looks as janky as the startup sounds.
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NASA Will Push Starliner Away From ISS Quickly Because Of Its Troubled Thrusters
With NASA announcing that astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams will return to Earth next March on SpaceX’s Crew-9 mission, the focus quickly shifted to what will happen to the beleaguered Boeing Starliner. The space agency plans to autonomously undock the craft from the International Space Station but fears the Starliner could drift out of control and potentially crash into the station.
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Boeing Starliner Haunted By Unexplained Noises Now
The Boeing Starliner has been, in technical terms, a bit of a clusterfuck. Its development was hamstrung by Boeing’s greed, and now the spaceship is stuck on the International Space Station unable to transport its astronauts home. The ship is now scheduled to undock and head home later this week, but a new issue has cropped up since that announcement: The Starliner is haunted by unexplained noises.
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It Takes An Army Of Engineers To Make Self-Driving Cars Actually Self-Drive
The race to create a real self-driving car is heating up, with startups like Waymo deploying its autonomous taxis across U.S. cities, billions of dollars being plowed into new technology and Tesla shouting that its cars will one day really be able to drive themselves. Now, a new report has looked into what it really takes to run an autonomous taxi service, and it includes a fleet of engineers hundreds of miles away that can control the cars in some situations.
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Jeep's First Try At Diesels Came With A Little Help From Europe
Diesel is no longer a thing at Jeep as the company ended its experiment with the Ecodiesel engine late last year. While that V6 diesel was the torquey engine that Jeep fans had been waiting for, it wasn’t the first time the brand tried offering diesel models.
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What's The Point Of Passenger Screens?
Recently, there’s been a trend in fancier vehicles: Passenger screens, where the person riding shotgun gets their own display. What should that screen actually show or do? Doesn’t matter! More screens, more better, right?
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Here's What Consumer Reports Thinks Of The Tesla Cybertruck
I do not like Elon Musk or the Tesla Cybertruck, and if that’s news to you, I hope you enjoy your first day on Jalopnik. I won’t pretend the Model S isn’t the most important car of the 21st century because it just is, but Musk and the Cybertruck are hot garbage. The great thing about Jalopnik, though, is that we’ve never pretended to be objective. We share our personal opinions and admit we have biases. Consumer Reports, on the other hand, works to be as unbiased as possible. So what do they thi
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It Sure Sounds Like Elon Musk Is Propping Up xAI With Tesla Revenue
Elon Musk's new business arrangement between Tesla and xAI smells fishy.
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The Morning Shift (21)

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Chinese EV Ban Could Make Buying A Domestic Car More Expensive
Good morning! It’s Monday, September 30, 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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Automakers Slash More Than 4 Million EVs From 2030 Sales Targets As Adoption Slows
Good morning! It’s Friday, September 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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Carlos Ghosn Ordered To Give Nissan A Yacht And $32 Million
Good morning! It’s Thursday, September 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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More And More Americans Don't Believe EVs Are Good For The Planet
Good morning! It’s Wednesday, September 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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Stellantis Starts Search For New CEO After Sales, Profits Plummet
Good morning! It’s Tuesday, September 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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Stellantis And Ferrari Chair Caught Up In $84 Million Tax Evasion Case
Good morning! It’s Monday, September 23, 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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Cruise Robotaxis Are Back After Maiming A Pedestrian Last Year
Good morning! It’s Friday, September 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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What The Fed Rate Cut Could Mean For Car Buyers
Good morning! It’s Thursday, September 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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'If I Don't Win, You Will Have No Auto Industry' Claims Trump While Ranting About Chinese EV
Good morning! It’s Wednesday, September 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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Driver-Assist Systems Are Making Us More Distracted Drivers: Study
Good morning! It’s Tuesday, September 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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BMW Recalls 1.5 Million Cars After Two-Year Probe Into Braking Issues
Good morning! It’s Monday, September 16, 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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'Disaster Has Arrived' At Stellantis As Dealers Call Out Damage Done To Brands
Good morning! It’s Friday, September 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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Almost 800,000 Jeep Wrangler And Gladiator Trucks Probed Over Engine Fires
Good morning! It’s Thursday, September 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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Trump, Harris Spar Over Auto Industry At First Presidential Debate
Good morning! It’s Wednesday, September 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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GM To White Collar Workers: Get With The EV Program Or You're Out
Good morning! It’s Tuesday, September 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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Tesla Workers Trained Autopilot To Ignore Road Signs So It Didn't Drive Like 'Robot That's Just Following Rules'
Good morning! It’s Monday, September 9, 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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Toyota Slashes Its Already Low EV Targets
Good morning! It’s Friday, September 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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Ditching EVs For Hybrids Is Already Paying Off For Automakers
Good morning! It’s Thursday, September 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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Volkswagen Has 'One, Maybe Two' Years To Turn Itself Around
Good morning! It’s Wednesday, September 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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Cops Are Now Towing Teslas For Evidence At Crime Scenes
Good morning! It’s Tuesday September 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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Chrysler Not For Sale As Stellantis Won't Kill Or Sell Struggling Brands
Good morning! It’s September 2, 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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Two Fashionable Teens Joyride And Crash NYC Subway Train
The New York City Subway is open 24 hours a day, seven days a week. While the wait for a train can be lengthy late at night at some parts of the system, even on rare occasions when everything’s running smoothly, it doesn’t permit anyone to steal an empty train. The NYPD arrested two teenagers last week for allegedly joyriding and crashing a subway train on September 12.
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This Is A Ridiculously Cool Use Of Both Trains And Bikes
I don’t have the kinds of skills needed to do a bicycle backflip, regardless of the circumstances. But I especially don’t have the skills to do it on the back of a moving ten-car freight train. Polish rider and Crankworkx Triple Crown winner Dawid Godziek worked with his brother Szymon to build a series of special jumps and quarter pipe tricks that he could do on a moving train. The result is an incredible sequence of two-wheeled dominance, like something out of a wild action film.
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Trains Are An Integral Part Of Every Truly Great Movie
Train scenes in movies are better than car chases 100 times out of 100. By setting an action sequence in or on a moving train, the stakes are amped up by orders of magnitude. One of my favorite action films of the last decade, David Leitch’s “Bullet Train” makes incredible use of the train as its restrictive dimensional home. It’s so easy to instantly know where anything is in a train, because it can only be forward or backward. Big fights happen with a linearity that isn’t available in larger o
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Jon Bon Jovi Talks Woman Off Ledge On Nashville Bridge
American singer-songwriter Jon Bon Jovi and a member of the crew from a video shoot he was working on talked a woman away from the ledge of a bridge earlier this week. The New Jersey singer was shooting a video in Nashville on Tuesday when he spotted a woman over the safety rail on the Seigenthaler Pedestrian Bridge.
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Climate Change Will Make Our Bridges Crumble
Climate change is real and it’s going to make infrastructure around the country even worse than it already is. At least, that’s according to experts who say that a warming planet is going to make bridges crumble.
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Ford Truck 30,000 Pounds Over Weight Limit Smashes Through Historic Bridge
Americans have a real issue with restrictions on their roads, whether it’s speed limits that nobody sticks to, height restrictions that all kinds of tall vehicles miss or weight limits that certain bridges can’t sustain. Case in point, a driver in Maine crashed through a historic crossing last month after attempting to drive over in a Ford truck that was 30,000 pounds overweight.
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Here's How Toyota Gazoo Racing Built A One-Off Zero-Emission Racer
Toyota has built some pretty incredible racers in its time. Cars like the Toyota Celica ST185 triumphed in World Rally in the 1990s and the TS050 Hybrid has become a formidable Le Mans racer for the Toyota Gazoo Racing team. Now, the Japanese team has a new racer that’s ready to conquer the streets of Europe, and this time it’s a one-off creation that doesn’t create any emissions.
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2025 Jetta GLI: The Last Manual Volkswagen
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2025 Volkswagen Jetta GLI Autobahn Is Way More Fun Than A Crossover And Just As Practical

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Your New Volkswagen ID Buzz Can Already Become A Camper
Back in the halcyon days of Woodstock, all the cool kids were living out of their Volkswagen Busses. Now that Volkswagen’s brought the Bus back to North America, it’s only fitting that a company has already outfitted it as a camper.
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2025 Volkswagen Jetta SEL Offers A Lot For Its Reasonable Price
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2025 Volkswagen Jetta Is A Classy Compact With Good Value
The 2025 model year marks the Volkswagen Jetta’s 45th year in the United States, and despite a lot of change between 1980 and now, the Jetta remains an affordable compact car with a dash of elevated German panache. Changes for the seventh-gen Jetta’s second facelift are minimal, including restyled front and rear ends, and a reworked dashboard with a new tablet-style infotainment screen. The bigger news is that Volkswagen has kept 2025 Jetta prices virtually the same as the outgoing 2024 model, a
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This 'Barn Find' Ford GT Didn't Need Much To Get It Going Again
Hardly any modern supercar will respond well to sitting in a garage for 15 years, but if you had to pick one that could, it’s probably the Ford GT. With a relatively simple supercharged American V8 in the middle, very few electronic systems to speak of, and a whole bunch of parts plucked from other Ford cars, the GT is maybe the simplest way to go stupid fast. When The Cultivated Collector found this car languishing in a state of illness, everyone knew it wouldn’t take much to get it going again
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Here's How My Honda-Powered Lada With A BRZ Chassis Made It To The Empire Hill Climb
According to Peter’s text records, the call to pull the engine was made at 2AM on race day. I’d slept a few hours on Wednesday, one hour on Thursday and was about to get a nice round zero before piloting a car that had never been driven —by anyone — up a narrow road course in the woods. We’d been talking about Steve Albini, so we put Terraform on the shop stereo.
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It's Really Easy To Over-Modify Your Sports Car
Louder, stiffer, faster, lighter, lower; Is it better? Enthusiasts like to modify their cars, and the logic goes that the more stuff we can put on a car the better it’ll be. We deliberately make our cars more difficult to live with by installing less comfortable seats, stickier tires, stiffer suspensions, and louder exhausts. There’s something in our lizard brains that makes us happy about a demonstrably worse car. There’s probably a tipping point where modifications become too much. Where does
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This Bricked Fisker Ocean Only Needed A $100 Part To Run Again
Fisker is dead, so if you own a Fisker and you need Fisker parts, you’re totally shit out of luck. Unless you can track down the parts you need on eBay from a dismantled car, like Rich from Rich Rebuilds did. A few months ago he bought a bricked Fisker Ocean for just $10,000 from a dealership that just totally ran out of fucks to give. With the vehicle in hand, Rich was able to get it to respond by charging up the low-voltage battery system, but something wouldn’t allow the vehicle to accept a c
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Nothing Completely Changes A Car Faster Than A Sick Set Of Aftermarket Wheels
Most people go through life perfectly happy with a car exactly as it left the factory on its build date. It’s a handful of years of oil changes and tire rotations before trading it in for the next new thing. But my brain is broken (that goes without saying, I work here) in the way that makes this kind of automotive complacency completely unacceptable. My cars have to have main character energy, even if I don’t. I can’t do grey or white cars, and they have to have the perfect set of aftermarket w
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I Ripped The Interior Out Of My Porsche 996 Turbo And I'm Kind Of Freaking Out About It
When I kicked off this particular Porsche project, I had a vision of what I wanted it to look like when I was done. Way back before the painting process had even begun I met with Sean from Spotlight Customs to discuss options. I knew that if the exterior of the car was going to be bright and ostentatious, I would need an interior to match its freak. The biggest downside of the 996-generation 911 was its lackluster interior materials, and I can’t handle the original boring grey leather much long
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