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Tow Truck Companies Sell Your Car In 15 Days If You’re Poor Enough In Connecticut

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Tow Truck Companies Sell Your Car In 15 Days If You’re Poor Enough In Connecticut While we all probably have a story of an egregious parking job that fully justified calling a tow truck, most cars aren’t towed because some rando blocked a pregnant woman’s driveway right before she tried to leave for the hospital. It can happen for much more minor reasons such as simply misreading a sign. If you… Read more…

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These Are The Quickest EVs You Can Buy In 2025

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These Are The Quickest EVs You Can Buy In 2025 There was once a time when if a car was able to go from 0-60 in less than four seconds, it was astonishingly quick. Well, not anymore. In the age of EVs, if your car takes four seconds to get to 60 mph, you’ve got a one-way ticket to Gapplebees. Now that we live in an age of ostentatious torque and clever AWD systems, … Read more…

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Toyota Knows The bZ4X Isn’t Good

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Toyota Knows The bZ4X Isn’t Good To put it bluntly, the Toyota bZ4X is not good. We know it. Dealers seem to know it, given the wild lease deals that you can get on one and, surprisingly, Toyota seems to know it as recent comments from one of the company’s executives show. Read more…

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Airplane Cloud Seeding Probably Isn’t Controlling The Weather As Well As State Governments Hope

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Airplane Cloud Seeding Probably Isn’t Controlling The Weather As Well As State Governments Hope The American West is in a horrifying drought and the deleterious effect of the resulting wildfires has been felt by many in recent years. Naturally, state governments have spent millions on cloud seeding in the hopes that the practice would promote rainfall and help quell these deadly eventualities. Unfortunately, acco… Read more…

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Great Wall Motor’s Flat-Eight Touring Bike Is Cool As Hell

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Great Wall Motor’s Flat-Eight Touring Bike Is Cool As Hell CES is a show full of wondrous electric cars and improbable autonomous vehicles, but I managed to wander through its halls and find a gas-powered motorcycle with eight whole ass cylinders. It’s the first bike from Great Wall Motor’s new Souo moto brand, the S2000, and I love it. Read more…

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2025 Ram Heavy Duty Trucks Keep The Hemi, Improve The Cummins Diesel And Jump On The Split Headlight Trend

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2025 Ram Heavy Duty Trucks Keep The Hemi, Improve The Cummins Diesel And Jump On The Split Headlight Trend Ram unveiled official specifications for its updated 2025 heavy duty trucks Tuesday, making strides in arguably the biggest pissing contest of the automotive space. For 2025, Ram’s HD trucks bring bolder looks that were teased last year, beefed up internals for the 6.7-liter Cummins turbodiesel I-6 with a new… Read more…

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Honda 0 Saloon Looks Extremely ‘Miami Vice,’ But Are We All Still Doing The ’80s Thing?

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Honda 0 Saloon Looks Extremely ‘Miami Vice,’ But Are We All Still Doing The ’80s Thing? Remember the wave of ’80s nostalgia that tore through the world a few years back? The one that gave us “Stranger Things,” a surge in synthwave, and the revived Lamborghini Countach? That wave is finally cresting, giving way to the Y2K revival, and that puts Honda’s 0 Saloon concept in a tough spot. Read more…

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Honda’s 0 SUV Is A Near-Production Space Hub Crossover

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Honda’s 0 SUV Is A Near-Production Space Hub Crossover Way back at last year’s CES, Honda rolled out two concepts for its electric future: The Saloon, a Countach-looking wedge, and a screen-covered van called the Space Hub. Now, a year later, the Space Hub has become has evolved into something much nearer to production: A new concept called the 0 SUV. Read more…

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Archbishop of Canterbury’s tenure ends after resigning over failures in handling abuse scandal

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Archbishop of Canterbury’s tenure ends after resigning over failures in handling abuse scandal LONDON (AP) — Justin Welby ’s tenure officially ends Monday, two months after he resigned following an inquiry that found he failed to tell police about serial abuse by a volunteer at Christian summer camps as soon as he became aware of it. The post Archbishop of Canterbury’s tenure ends after resigning over failures in handling abuse scandal ap…

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Pope names like-minded ally Cardinal McElroy as Washington archbishop

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Pope names like-minded ally Cardinal McElroy as Washington archbishop ROME (AP) — At a press conference, McElroy said he prayed the incoming administration would work to make America a better place. But he also identified Trump’s threats of mass deportations of immigrants as a point of potential conflict, saying such policies were “incompatible with Catholic doctrine.” The post Pope names like-minded ally Cardinal…

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4-Time Indy 500 Winner Helio Castroneves To Give NASCAR A Try At 49-Years-Old

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4-Time Indy 500 Winner Helio Castroneves To Give NASCAR A Try At 49-Years-Old It goes without saying that Helio Castroneves is a racing legend. Since 2001 he’s been a staple of American open-wheel racing winning racing’s greatest prize four times, and has proven himself in top-flight sports cars as well, winning the 2020 IMSA prototype championship for Team Penske. Next month he’ll get behind… Read more…

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Watch Snowplow Drivers Safely End Police Chase By Blocking Highway

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Watch Snowplow Drivers Safely End Police Chase By Blocking Highway The safest police chases are the ones that never happen. It’s far too common for pursuits to injure or kill innocent bystanders. Three snowplow drivers in Colorado decided to intervene on their own and end a police chase last week. The rolling wall of metal immediately defused the situation without anyone harmed and… Read more…

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‘Smooth, Shiny’ Spheres ‘Came Right At’ NASA Astronaut Flying Over Texas

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‘Smooth, Shiny’ Spheres ‘Came Right At’ NASA Astronaut Flying Over Texas You might think that the most likely place for a NASA astronaut to see an unidentified flying object would be while orbiting Earth or docking with the International Space Station, however one NASA astronaut says they came close to a UFO while flying their private plane over Texas instead. Read more…

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