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This Citroën DS Drove With a Rear Wheel Missing. Here’s How

A photograph of a Citroën DS traveling with one rear wheel missing looks as though someone has caught the car halfway through a mechanical disaster. The body sits unexpectedly level. The front wh

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Honda Built Navigation Before GPS Using Helium, Transparent Maps and a Glowing Green Dot

There was a time when getting lost required some commitment. A driver would unfold a road map across the steering wheel, locate two towns that appeared to be printed directly on top of one another, th

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A Fatal Hand-Crank Accident Helped Change the Way Every Car Starts

Starting a modern car requires so little effort that the action barely registers. Turn a key, press a button or let the vehicle recognize that its driver has climbed aboard. A second later, the engine

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The Check-Engine Light Is Off, but the Car May Be Hiding an Unfinished Story

The seller has polished the paint, vacuumed the carpets and arranged the service receipts in a folder that looks reassuringly thick. The engine starts without complaint. No warning lights remain on af

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The Government Just Took a Real Step Toward Cars With No Driver, No Brake Pedal, and No Pretending Otherwise

For most of car history, one assumption sat underneath everything. There would be a driver. Not just in the vague philosophical sense. Physically. Literally. A person in a seat, looking forward

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Fuzzy Dice Used to Mean You Had a Bit of a Death Wish. Now They’re Mostly Just Nostalgia

There was a time when fuzzy dice actually meant something. Now they mostly mean the person driving either likes old-school car culture, enjoys ironic throwback accessories, or found them online for

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Why German Performance Cars Hit 155 MPH, Then Just… Stopped

If you have ever spent time around German performance cars, you have probably noticed the number comes up again and again: 155 mph. Not 152. Not 160. Not some random figure pulled out of an eng

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How Disc Brakes Took Over, and Why the ’65 Corvette Led the Charge

Drum brakes are mostly gone now, though weirdly the Audi Q4 e-tron still rocks them in back for some reason. Took forever to get here. Disc brakes got invented way back in 1902, same year drum brakes

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

Mercedes brought the W124 to America in 1985, and honestly, it might've been the last time they built a car that was basically indestructible. People bought them, drove them forever, and then just

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Waymo And Toyota In Early Talks To Develop A Self-Driving ‘Driver’ Platform

Waymo and Toyota are officially in early talks to team up on a next-gen autonomous vehicle platform—and while it’s still very much in the “let’s see where this goes” phas

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