• Auto Tech
    Therefore I Bought a Harley

    And then there are Harley riders, with their corpulent bodies and dry wells for eyes and tattoos up and down their arms like seedy strip malls and packing more weapons than the average Texas citizen. And that’s just the women. My wife Lisa, the guiding goddess of motorcycling on account of her 40 years of […]

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    Romanian Driver Finds New, Terrifying Way to Take a Roundabout

    One Romanian driver found a new, terrifying way to go through one. Literally, they went over it. Roundabouts are a fairly common way to negotiate an intersection. They’ve been around for ages, everyone knows how to go around one. We don’t know what caused this driver to go over the roundabout and jump like this, […]

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    Go To Watch a McLaren Race Car Fall From the Sky

    Professional and fast, they’re exactly who you want to see after an issue because you know you’ll be in good hands. Safety workers in professional motorsports are the best in the business. That’s what makes this incident at the Monaco Historic Grand Prix all the more perplexing. What we have here is a disabled McLaren M23 F1 […]

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    Watch Jay Leno Drive a Vintage 1961 California Cop Car As He Stole It

    Which is what makes this episode of Jay Leno’s Garage particularly special. Police cars are perhaps the most unloved of any vehicle. The folks who drive them put them through incredibly severe use, and the rest of us dread the sight of them. They’re used hard, stripped down, and auctioned off like the unromantic work […]

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    How the All Carbon Fiber Alfa 4C Is Built

    And despite only having a 237-horsepower four-cylinder under the hood, it’s also able to hit 60 mph in barely more than four seconds. The Alfa Romeo 4C doesn’t offer any luxury features, but its light weight, simplicity, and manual steering make it an absolute blast to drive. How is that possible? Well, a large part […]

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    Japan Shares Close Little Changed as Crude Oil Rises

    The Topix finished at 1,342.87 in Tokyo, erasing earlier gains of as much as 1.1 percent as about nine shares advanced for every eight that fell. The Nikkei 225 Stock Average climbed less than 0.1 percent to 16,772.46. The yen added 0.4 percent to 109.74 a dollar, while Brent crude traded at the highest level […]

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    Google Planed Self-Driving Car Development Center Near Detroit

    The company said Wednesday it will open a self-driving technology development center in Novi, Michigan, a city about 30 miles from downtown Detroit. Google is expanding efforts to make autonomous cars at a time startups such as Uber Technologies Inc. and Comma.ai, as well as established companies like General Motors Co. are investing in the […]

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    The Longest Recall – Takata

    Like tens of millions of American cars, his is equipped with a potentially deadly Takata air bag, one that won’t be fixed anytime soon because parts aren’t available. The vehicle is parked in his driveway. “I tell my wife and kids the same thing we’re telling everyone else: For all the frustration, make sure you’re […]