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This Governor Vetoed America's Worst Automotive Law And Should Be Remembered...
When it comes to heroes of early motoring in America, most people tend to think of figures like Henry Ford, Ransom Eli Olds, or, if you want to go older and wackier, Oliver Evans. But in the mid-1890s,...
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Should The Porsche-Designed Type 64 Racer Be Considered Nazi Memorabilia?
Yesterday, there was a massive and pleasingly idiotic screwup by RM Sotheby’s during the auction of a very rare 1939 Volkswagen-based Type 64 race car designed by Ferdinand Porsche. This car was...
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I Would Like You All To Be Aware Of F1 Not-Legend Harald Ertl's Mustache
One thing that’s very difficult to discern among the drivers filling up the entry lists of Formula 1 races is that it’s hard to tell what, or who, is a “pay driver.” That is, who is only where they are...
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It's Infiniti's 30th Anniversary So Let's Remember When It Had A Vision
I know it’s rude to throw shade on a sweet, innocent multinational carmaker on their birthday, but I don’t think it’d do anyone any good to hide it: Infiniti is a disappointment. I don’t actually think...
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Look At How Big An American 'Compact Car' Was 40-Odd Years Ago
One of the reasons why I like going carspotting is the juxtapositions you find completely by chance. In this case, here are two green American “compact cars” parked right next to each other in...
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There Is The Light There Is The Sauber-Mercedes C9
We are now 30 years removed from the 1989 running of the 24 Hours of Le Mans, which stands as the highest point of possibly the greatest era of modern sports car racing. And the car that sits atop that...
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Let Me Tell You About A Real Howling Thundercat: The Jaguar XJR-9
The 1989 24 Hours of Le Mans saw not one, not two, not three, but seven factory teams competing for victory, a high point for prototype racing. And the car that won it, well, was not the Jaguar XJR-9....
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The Audi V8 L Was Not Fucking Around
Go to any luxury manufacturer and you’ll find, right beside the top-tier luxury sedan, an even better one. The long wheelbase version of that top-tier luxury sedan. The current crop of LWB luxobarges...
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Watch Us Struggle And Fail To Answer Your Car Questions! It's Jalopnik's Ask...
Have you ever found yourself waking up in the middle of the night wondering about whether you should buy an imported 1992 Autozam AZ-1 or one from 1994? Have you woken up in the middle of the night...
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When Turn Signals Switched From White To Amber "Unexpected Turmoil" Gripped...
Being alive often means living through some genuinely horrific or at least incredibly dramatic events. Events like 9/11, the fall of the Berlin Wall, Pearl Harbor, all of these irrevocably changed the...
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It's Time To Learn About The Mystery Of The Insane Locomotive-Like 1932 Stapp...
When it comes to sheer madness, it’s hard to pick an automotive category more blessed with vehicular batshittery than Land Speed Record cars. They’ve been around since at least the later 1800s, and...
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The Mercedes-Benz Logo Was A Mashup Of Two Former German Automakers
Mercedes-Benz is arguably the oldest car manufacturer still around. But did you know that its famous logo was actually a fusion of two former German automakers?Read more...
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This Funny-Looking Old Car Is A Tragically Under-Appreciated Automotive Landmark
See that strange-looking car up there? It sort of looks like a phone booth landed on a pair of bicycles parked on either side of a patio fireplace? That strange little car happens to be one of the most...
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Watch GM Sell Its Soul Right Before Your Eyes
If you ask a casual car nerd when was the real golden age of GM, you’d probably get pointed to the late 1960s or early ‘70s. That’s when we got the Camaro, the big block muscle cars, the ultra-crisp...
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Ask A Car Nerd: What Cars Were Named For Family Members
Oh yeah, motherlovers, it’s that time again! You’re stuck indoors, you’re getting a little bored, a little randy, a little ready to ask some car questions that have been weighing on you, heavily....
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The Top 10 Cars Made Before Ulysses S. Grant Became President
I know Mercedes-Benz likes to crow about “inventing the automobile” in 1885, but we all know that’s complete bullshit. Motorized, wheeled vehicles capable of transporting a human being have existed...
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I'm Not Certain Why I'm So Into These Artist's Renderings Of 1970 Car Front...
It’s a pretty common refrain among gearheads to complain about how all modern cars look the same. And, sure, you can absolutely make a valid argument that they do, and go to any parking lot and wave...
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An Ancestor Of All Internal-Combustion Vehicles Was A Moss-Powered Jet Ski...
I have to admit, while I know that’s a fairly cumbersome headline, I really like just how much is packed in there, and, even better, it’s all true. The very first internal combustion to actually power...
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A Car You Forgot And Will Probably Forget Shortly After Reading This: The...
Look at the swell little wagon in the photo above. Wood grain, a four-speed manual transmission, an efficient-ish four-cylinder engine sending power to the rear wheels—it’s a nice car that you probably...
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The Antarctic Snow Cruiser Was A Building-Sized Car Doomed For Failure
Everything about the name “Antarctic Snow Cruiser” fires up my imagination. This long-forgotten behemoth was so ahead of its time and so doomed for failure that I was surprised to find that, somehow,...
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