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Ford Offers Employee Discounts To Everyone As Other Automakers Prepare For Price Hikes

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Fiat Showed A Born This Way Edition Punto In 2011 That It Insisted Wasn't A Lady Gaga Special Edition

Fiat claimed that its Punto Born This Way concept was created by the Fiat Style Center to showcase the new Punto's decisive, passionate and magnetic spirit.

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2025 Subaru Forester Hybrid Keeps Up With The Joneses And Then Some

A decent price, good technology and competitive efficiency will certainly make you think twice before heading to your local Toyota or Honda dealership.

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04.04.2025

Astronauts Lost Control Of Boeing Starliner While Docking With International Space Station

The Boeing Starliner incident which stranded NASA astronauts at the ISS for months was very nearly so much worse.

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I Want A Midlife Crisis Car With A Manual! What Should I Buy?

The kids have left, leaving behind memories of old British convertibles and a decent budget. But what could deliver fun but minimal wrenching?

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The Only Plant In The World Still Building Chryslers Is Going To Shut Down For A While

Chrysler's line-up of new cars in the U.S. was already looking sparse. Things could still get worse, though.

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These Cars Will See The Biggest Sales Drops In The U.S. Once Republican Tariffs Hit, According To Our Readers

Unfortunately for a few of you, we couldn't accept "all of them" as an answer, but individual brands still worked.

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What's The Funniest Way You've Misused A Car?

Whether you've used a Mazda Miata as a moving van or a Hummer H2 as a time attack truck, we want to hear about it.

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An Abandoned Victorian Tunnel Is Key To Developing The World's Fastest Accelerating EV

Like a scene out of Batman, there's something mesmerizing about watching a very weird EV go exceptionally fast down a dark tunnel.

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Toyota's Yuzu Special Edition GR86 Is A Throwback To The Best Scion FR-S

Toyota's newest special edition is very noticeably yellow, but not just any old yellow.

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04.04.2025

At $17,900, Is This 1955 Ford Country Squire A Killer Deal?

Dating back to the 50s - and wearing the patina to prove it - is this Country Squire classic Ford royalty?

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04.04.2025

It Only Took A $5 Raise For The FAA To See A Surge In Air Traffic Controller Applicants

The Federal Aviation Administration received over 10,000 applications for new air traffic controllers due to a recent recruiting push that involved higher pay.

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You're All Cowards With Terrible Taste For Allowing The Dodge Charger EV To Outsell The Toyota Supra

Why, coupe buyers? Why have you done this? What did the Supra ever do to you?

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New Cruise Ship Norovirus Outbreak Hits More Than 200 Passengers Aboard Queen Mary 2

224 of the 2,538 passengers aboard the cruise ship have come down with the virus, as have 17 of the crew members.

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03.04.2025

Hyundai Insteroid Concept Is A Bonkers Gaming-Inspired Widebody Drift Kart Based On The Inster EV

Hyundai has not announced any specs on the concept just yet, beyond its "unique sound signature" and the presence of a Drift Mode.

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03.04.2025

You'll Never Experience Stress Like Towing Lawrence Stroll's Enormous Yacht Through Tiny Dutch Canals

In order to get from one Dutch city to another, the $200 million yacht was squeezed along some of the 55,000 miles of canal that you'll find in the Netherlands.

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Watch Gordon Murray Automotive Thrash A T.33 Supercar Over Ramps And Cobbles To Calibrate Its Airbags

You might cringe at seeing a multi-million dollar supercar mistreated, but you'll be relieved if you ever hit a wild boar in one.

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03.04.2025

The World's Only Active Runway With Graves Underneath Is In Georgia

In the 1940s, the land around a private graveyard was claimed by the federal government to expand military facilities, and a proposed runway ran right over it.

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03.04.2025

It Sure Looks Like Elon Musk Ruined Tesla's Q1 2025 Sales

Tesla's first quarter of the year saw a huge slump in demand, and it's hard not to see Elon Musk as the driving reason behind that.

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These Are Your Favorite Summer Driving Songs

We asked you for your favorite summer driving songs, and after reading the suggestions, we'll be handing you the aux cord.

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New York City's New Subway Map Is So Beautiful, So Clean

The new layout ditches the street map entirely, instead returning to the more abstracted view of the beloved 1972 map from Massimo Vignelli.

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Genesis Brings Big Coupe And Full-Size Convertible Concepts To The Seoul Motor Show

The market for vast luxury convertibles and coupes may be questionable, but Genesis isn't going to let that stop it from designing them.

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2025 Polestar 3 Single Motor Is A Great SUV Overshadowed By Its More Powerful Sibling

The most affordable version of the Polestar 3 also promises the longest range, but is the lure of its dual-motor sibling simply too great?

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The Next-Gen Hyundai Nexo Looks Awesome, It's Just A Shame Hydrogen Isn't Gonna Happen

After previewing it with the Initium concept last year, Hyundai has revealed the awesome-looking second generation of the Nexo hydrogen fuel-cell crossover.

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At $3,000, Is This 1999 Mercedes SLK 230 A Bedazzled Bargain?

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Americans Rushed Out To Buy New Cars As Tariff Threat Loomed

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What Car Would You Put Up With Horrible Gas Mileage To Daily Drive?

Nobody likes paying for gas, but some cars have a way of convincing you it's worth it.

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'Mario Kart World' For Switch 2 Improves On The 'Forza Horizon' Open-World Playbook By Letting You Race As A Cow

The game's unified open world even includes racing between tracks, turning race series into unified endurance competitions that take place all across the map.

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03.04.2025

Converting A Honda Prelude To Four-Wheel Drive Is Easy: Just Add Another Engine

Trust me, this is absolutely within your wrenching skill level. You will certainly not regret installing a second engine in your Prelude.

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A Crystal Ball Told Me This 100 MPH EV-Swapped Honda Grom Will Be My Demise

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Trump Didn't Actually Say He Spoke To Long-Dead Lee Iacocca, But His Huge Tariffs Are Still Very Real

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Astronauts Would Fly Boeing Starliner Again After Nine-Month Ordeal In Orbit

After spending nine months stuck on the International Space Station, the last thing I would consider doing is flying the same spacecraft that stranded me there.

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2026 Hyundai Ioniq 6 Looks Slightly Less Weird, But It's Still Really Weird, And That's Good

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Is AWD Hurting Your MPG? Here's How Much Fuel You're Really Burning

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One Of The Dumbest Scenes In 'The Fast And The Furious' Makes Sense In The Script

Turns out, one of the most confusing scenes could've escaped criticism had they just stuck to the script.

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Red Bull F1 Team To Race With Amazing Honda Tribute Livery In Japan Before Jumping Ship To Ford

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NJ Fire Chief Sued For Dumping Rocks On A 1995 Nismo 270R Previously Owned By Drift King Keiichi Tsuchiya

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In Rare Bit Of Good News, Used Cybertruck Values Keep Trending Down

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America Has To Fix Traffic And Transportation If It Ever Wants People To Get Healthier

Our transportation infrastructure is designed to make us less healthy.

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One Of The Dumbest Scenes In 'The Fast And The Furious' Makes Sense In The Script

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