Autos
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10 trucks owners keep for 20 years or longer
If you want a pickup you can buy once and drive for decades, you need more than good looks and a big tow rating. You…
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12 cars that refuse to die no matter the mileage
You know a car is special when the odometer rolls past 300,000 and it still feels ready for another cross-country run. Some models earn almost…
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Are subscription features changing what it means to own a car?
For more than a century, buying a car has meant buying a machine outright and living with its quirks long after the last payment cleared.…
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The era when car color palettes were anything but subtle
For much of the twentieth century, a walk through an American parking lot resembled a stroll through a paintbox. Family sedans wore mint green and…
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Remember when dashboards favored drivers instead of screens?
For a generation of drivers, the ideal dashboard was not a glowing tablet but a cockpit that wrapped around the person behind the wheel. Knobs,…
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When station wagons carried both families and status
For a long stretch of the twentieth century, the station wagon was more than a way to get from driveway to destination. It was a…
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The luxury automobile features that once felt revolutionary
Luxury cars have long served as rolling laboratories, introducing features that initially seemed almost otherworldly before quietly filtering into everyday traffic. From self-leveling suspensions that…
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A look back at when car design ruled over aerodynamics
For much of the twentieth century, the automobile was shaped less by the wind than by the whims of stylists and the desires of buyers.…
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The muscle cars that still define American performance
American performance has worn many faces, from drag-strip bruisers to track-tuned coupes and, now, silent electric missiles. Yet a handful of muscle cars still anchor…
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How long loans quietly rewrote the rules of buying a car
In less than a decade, the standard car loan quietly stretched from a five‑year commitment into something closer to a small mortgage. Longer terms have…
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