Autos
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8 1970s muscle cars so powerful they got regulated out of existence
The 1970s changed the American performance car forever. Rising insurance costs, emissions requirements, fuel concerns, and new safety standards all worked against the big-engine muscle-car…
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6 hot rods that mechanics quietly rank among the best
A great hot rod is about more than horsepower and flashy paint. The best ones use strong platforms, simple mechanical layouts, plentiful parts, and proven…
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Grown Men Cram into 9-HP Toy Cars, Then Take Drag Racing Way Too Seriously
Picture four classic cars. A Porsche Speedster. A Ferrari 250 GT California. A Jaguar E-Type. A Mercedes-Benz 300 SL. Now shrink every one of them…
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This 23-Year-Old Skipped University for a BMW Apprenticeship, Now He Makes About $5k a Month at the Munich Factory
Hey, what were you doing at 23? Maybe you were still figuring things out, finishing up a degree, or working a part-time job just to…
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Yianni Told His Son His Dream BMW M2 Competition Had Already Been Sold, But He Had Secretly Bought It and Was About To Pull Off a Perfect Surprise
A handshake deal is easy to make. Living up to one is the hard part. That is the bet Yianni Charalambous made with his son…
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This $2,340 BMW Had 140,000 Miles, A Broken Injector Seal, And Somehow Made 223 HP
Most car buyers would walk straight past a high mileage diesel with a known engine fault. It sits low on the list of cars anyone…
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Rich Rebuilds Somehow Bought a $140,000 Lucid for Just $4,100, But Bringing It Back to Life Was a Nightmare
Most salvage car deals come with an obvious catch. A bent bumper here, a cracked windshield there, something that explains why the price dropped so…
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Mark McCann Spent $50,180 on a $1.63 Million McLaren P1… Then Watched It Jump to $2.38 Million
It’s easy to assume a hypercar either quietly depreciates in a garage or drains money without much to show for it. Ownership at that level…
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The ‘Unbreakable’ Land Rover Engine That Seized Its Own Crankshaft.
Mechanics in the UK have a nickname for the sludge that shows up inside a neglected diesel engine. They call it “Black Death,” a thick,…
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They Snagged a Dirt-Cheap Aston Martin DB9, Only to Discover It Was a “Very Rare” V12 Manual
Buying a damaged car sight unseen is always a gamble. Most of the time, buyers get exactly what the listing describes and nothing more. Every…
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