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The Heavy Truth: Why Your 2026 Car Probably Has an Aluminum Hood

Cars are getting heavier every year, and there's no sign of it stopping. The EPA has been tracking this since the early '80s, and new vehicles just keep adding more weight. Electric batteries,

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The History of Audi Quattro: How Military Tech Built a Racing Icon

Audi talks a lot about the future, but one of the brand’s most defining features is something it figured out decades ago—and never let go. It’s called quattro, and it’s the rea

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Why Race Cars Taped Headlights: The History of the Glass "X"

That taped X across a car’s headlights didn’t start as a fashion statement, a movie reference, or something to show off at Cars & Coffee. It was there for a very real, very practical r

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The End of an Era: Why Pop-Up Headlights Were Discontinued on Cars

For anyone who grew up in the ’80s or early ’90s, pop-up headlights were peak cool. They showed up on everything — exotic supercars, oddball sports coupes, even perfectly normal fami

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The Secret History of the Dual-Clutch Transmission (DCT): Adolphe Kégresse, Porsche PDK, and the Volkswagen Golf R32

Most people think dual-clutch transmissions showed up out of nowhere in the 2000s, right around the time paddle shifters went mainstream. In reality, the idea is a lot older — and the journey to

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The Vector W8: The 200+ MPH American Supercar That Europe Never Saw Coming

When people talk about supercars, the conversation almost always jumps straight to Europe — Ferraris, Lamborghinis, McLarens, all the usual royalty. The U.S. is usually the land of muscle cars,

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The Porsche 959: The 1980s Supercar That Still Costs $1.7 Million and Shaped Porsche's Future

Back in the ’80s and ’90s, the supercar world was packed with legends — the Ferrari F40, the McLaren F1, the Bugatti EB110, the Lamborghini Countach. But among all those poster cars,

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Five Fastest Muscle Cars of the 1990s: Can You Guess Them?

So muscle cars basically started when some genius at Oldsmobile in '49 thought "hey, what if we just throw a massive V8 in a lighter car?" The Rocket 88 happened, people went nuts, and s

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The $90K Camera Car: Porsche Apprentices Built a 345 HP 3-Seat 718 Boxster S

Cars and cameras have been a thing forever. Whether it's capturing design details or high-speed track action, motorsport photography has come a long way from those giant, clunky cameras to the tin

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The Indestructible Mercedes W124: Why This 80s Sedan Lasts Half a Million Miles

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