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This Is Your Sign To Do A Photoshoot With All Your Friends And Their Cars

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This Is Your Sign To Do A Photoshoot With All Your Friends And Their Cars If you’re living in 2024 like me, you’re probably a part of a lot of group chats, many of which will be with people that don’t or can’t regularly get together. One of my most active chats is with eleven of my car enthusiast friends, almost all of whom live in LA and regularly hang out together whether its car-related… Read more…

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Selling vs. gifting cars in NY

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Selling vs. gifting cars in NY Our family is swapping cars to account for babies on the way, and we’re having trouble determining if we should sell for $1 or gift them. Car #1 is going from me to my brother-in-law, so not family per the DMV. Purchased/registered in NY. FMV is probably $10k. Car #2 is going from my husband’s dad to my husband. Purchased/registered in NY. FM…

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Porsche is holding on to gas cars for a bit longer

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Porsche is holding on to gas cars for a bit longer Photo by Sean O’Kane / The VergePorsche is not ready to turn in its gas caps for charging ports just yet. The company reportedly plans to launch more internal combustion engine models due to a slowdown in EV sales, according to Automotive News Europe. The automaker’s CFO, Lutz Meschke, told the outlet, “What is clear is that we are sticking with…

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HOA Tows Cars With Expired Tags Out Of Private Driveways

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HOA Tows Cars With Expired Tags Out Of Private Driveways We all know HOAs suck, but as with all things that suck, Florida HOAs are on another level. An HOA in Florida contracted with a tow company to tow vehicles with expired registration out of people’s driveways and, predictably, this is pissing people off. Read more…

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Cars are polluting less — but for how long?

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Cars are polluting less — but for how long? Photo by Kevin Carter / Getty ImagesCars are getting more efficient and less polluting, resulting in better air quality for everyone, according to a new report from the Environmental Protection Agency. But with a new administration coming in that has made climate change and air pollution less of a priority — and drilling for more fossil fuels mo…

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Embarrassing Cars, Worst Mechanic Stories And Rebrands In This Week’s QOTD Roundup

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Embarrassing Cars, Worst Mechanic Stories And Rebrands In This Week’s QOTD Roundup Stellantis’ current situation isn’t great. From production stoppages to big changes for new vehicle intros and potentially selling off brands in the portfolio, it seems like the automaker’s management is scrambling to figure things out. As the company’s management doesn’t seem to know what to do, we asked our readers… Read more…

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Eerily Familiar Space Shuttles And Vigilante Street Signs In This Week’s Beyond Cars Roundup

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Eerily Familiar Space Shuttles And Vigilante Street Signs In This Week’s Beyond Cars Roundup A common saying often attributed to Oscar Wilde is that “Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness,” and the latest example of that comes from the space race. China unveiled a new space shuttle last week to keep the Tiangong station supplied as the nation expands its space… Read more…

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2025 Fiat 500e Giorgio Armani Is As Gimmicky As It Gets And We Need More Cars Like It

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2025 Fiat 500e Giorgio Armani Is As Gimmicky As It Gets And We Need More Cars Like It Cars are often seen as fashion statements, or at least they end up taking on the same role as ones fashion choices do. The vehicles that people own can say a lot about them before any words are exchanged, and the 2025 Fiat 500e Giorgio Armani edition, as the press release states, “is meant to be worn, not driven.”… Read more…

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All The Most Interesting Cars At The LA Auto Show Are Crossovers, And That’s A Good Thing

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All The Most Interesting Cars At The LA Auto Show Are Crossovers, And That’s A Good Thing People want crossovers and SUVs. That’s no longer just an American thing; in the first half of 2023, market share for utility vehicles exceeded 50 percent in Europe for the first time ever, and it’s the same in China. Car enthusiasts love to hate on the things, which I think is usually pretty misguided anyway, but a… Read more…

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Here’s How Netflix Built 22 Replica F1 Cars For The Senna Miniseries

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Here’s How Netflix Built 22 Replica F1 Cars For The Senna Miniseries Having a Senna television series without any race cars in it would be absurd, but it would be impractical, if not impossible, to get all of the great racing cars of his career out for months of filming and running them on track. So Netflix worked with Argentinian sports car manufacturer Crespi to build two dozen-ish… Read more…

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After Hertz Workers Abandon Their Location, Customers Show Up And Take Whatever Rental Cars They Want

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After Hertz Workers Abandon Their Location, Customers Show Up And Take Whatever Rental Cars They Want After dealing with things like arrests over false complaintsof rental thefts and a bad EV bet that’s seen a massive sale of a bunch of cheap Teslas, Hertz has another problem on its hands, at least at one of its locations. Workers at a Hertz in Syracuse, New York, abandoned their posts, resulting in customers… Read more…

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Rats Love Revving Engines Say Scientists Who Taught Them To Drive Tiny Cars

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Rats Love Revving Engines Say Scientists Who Taught Them To Drive Tiny Cars Not all lab rats have the most exciting lives, but a few lucky rats got the job of a lifetime when they were chosen to participate in a University of Richmond Lambert Behavioral Neuroscience Laboratory study where they teach rats to drive. As it turns out, rats are pretty good at driving. In fact, as Futurism reports,… Read more…

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Australian Company Wants EV Owners To Volunteer Their Cars As Generators When Natural Disasters Hit

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Australian Company Wants EV Owners To Volunteer Their Cars As Generators When Natural Disasters Hit Vehicle-to-load tech is going to be a game changer in emergencies. The ability to power things simply using your car can literally save lives depending on the situation. One Australian company is incentivizing EV owners to share that technology with their fellow countrymen when natural disasters strike. Read more…

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Teslas Are The Most Fatal Cars On The Road, Study Finds

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Teslas Are The Most Fatal Cars On The Road, Study Finds Tesla has the deadliest cars on the road today. According to a new study from iSeeCars, Tesla vehicles have the highest fatal crash rate among all vehicle brands in the United States. The organization analyzed data from the U.S. Fatality Analysis Reporting System. Read more…

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MAGA Cars, Automotive Gimmicks And Cars That Could Save Stellantis In This Week’s QOTD Roundup

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MAGA Cars, Automotive Gimmicks And Cars That Could Save Stellantis In This Week’s QOTD Roundup Elon Musk will be in charge of the federal budget next year, from which he’s promised to cut a truly impossible amount of money. But you don’t find $2 trillion just by cutting your entire staff so nothing works except your burned-out employees — you need to take more drastic measures, like cutting the things that cost… Read more…

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City-Ruining Self-Driving Cars And The Billionaires Who Love Them In This Week’s Beyond Cars Roundup

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City-Ruining Self-Driving Cars And The Billionaires Who Love Them In This Week’s Beyond Cars Roundup Despite the constant debunking of UFO sightings, skeptics and grifters claim that aliens have visited Earth in vehicles beyond human comprehension but decided not to implode the planet to build an interstellar bypass. These so-called experts were again given a platform in Congress at a House Oversight hearing on… Read more…

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Chevy El Camino, Flxible Clipper, Mitsubishi Delica: The Dopest Cars I Found For Sale Online

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Chevy El Camino, Flxible Clipper, Mitsubishi Delica: The Dopest Cars I Found For Sale Online Happy Friday, everyone! I spent last weekend upstate, visiting friends (and establishments that serve garbage plates) in good old Rochester, New York, where I experienced something unexpected: The smell of winter. The cold, sharp scent in the air of snow yet to come, a harbinger of the season to come. Here’s hoping… Read more…

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