Autos
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8 Land Cruisers that deserved more attention than they got
The Toyota Land Cruiser passed 10 million sales in the summer of 2019, and the milestone came in Australia. That number tells you how far…
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12 four-cylinder motorcycles to avoid at all costs
Honda priced the 1983 VF750F Interceptor at $3,499, and within months owners were hearing noises from the cylinder heads. A year earlier, the Yamaha XJ650…
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Evel Knievel’s Skycycle X-2 for the 1974 Snake River Canyon jump was built by ex-Aerojet engineer Robert Truax
Evel Knievel’s most famous machine was not really a motorcycle. The Skycycle X-2 he rode at Idaho’s Snake River Canyon on September 8, 1974, was…
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10 straight-eights we’d trust completely
Pontiac built its last straight-eight engine for 1954, and Buick had dropped its own the year before. For roughly two decades, though, the long inline…
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12 American cars so powerful they seemed almost too wild for the drag strip
A 1966 Chevy II Nova SS with the right 327 could run the quarter-mile in the low 15s straight off the showroom floor. Yet that…
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7 rare drag cars now highly sought
Chevrolet’s COPO Camaro began as a back-door order. Racers and dealers used the factory’s COPO special-order route to get a car the brochure never offered.…
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8 big-block V8s so powerful they made regulators nervous
The 1960s American horsepower war pushed big-block V8 technology into territory that racing officials could no The American horsepower wars of the 1960s pushed big-block…
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15 factory V8s so powerful they affected the rules
There was a time when a new factory V8 could change the rules of the game almost overnight. American manufacturers were not just building engines…
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8 Oldsmobiles so powerful they forced change
Oldsmobile built a reputation for combining advanced engineering with serious performance, especially during the golden age of American muscle. While not every model became a…
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10 street machines so powerful they became icons
Some high-performance cars became so fast, modified, or purpose-built that they were eventually banned from certain racing series, deemed illegal for public roads in some…
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