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Nissan Put a Snail on Wheels and Sent It Out to Make Deliveries

A delivery van usually gets noticed because it is blocking something. Nissan found another way: give it a face, a rounded shell and the proportions of a snail that has somewhere to be. The S-Cargo

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Hood Ornaments Started With a Job. Then Cars Turned Them Into Jewelry

Long before carmakers filled dashboards with screens, an important piece of engine information was displayed outside the windshield. Early automobiles often carried their radiator filler caps at

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Everyone Says Pop-Up Headlights Were Banned, but That Is Not What Actually Happened

Few automotive features can make a parked car look as alive as pop-up headlights. Turn the switch and two neat sections of bodywork rise from the hood, pause with theatrical precision and reveal the l

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Rubber Is Naturally Pale, So Why Did the Automotive World Make Every Tire Black?

A bright red car, a metallic blue car and a taxi painted the color of a highlighter will normally leave the factory with exactly the same footwear. Black tires. The color seems so inevitable

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One Rule Forced American Car Designers to Reuse the Same Headlights for Over 40 Years

Park a 1940s Jeep beside a Chevrolet sedan, an early Volkswagen Beetle and a British roadster, then look closely at their headlights. The surrounding bodies could hardly be more different. The glass c

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Whitewall Tires Started as a Manufacturing Compromise. Then They Became a Status Symbol

Whitewall tires have become visual shorthand for a particular kind of motoring glamour. Put them on a long Cadillac with chrome bumpers, tailfins and enough hood to host a family picnic, and the pi

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Some Dead Cars Deserve To Stay Buried, And Honestly, These Are At The Top Of The List

Car people love a comeback story. Give a nameplate twenty years in the grave, hint at a revival, throw a teaser online, and suddenly half the internet starts acting like an old badge alone is

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These Wheels Became More Famous Than the Cars They’re On

Some cars are remembered for their engines. Others for their shape. But every now and then, it is the wheels that people never forget. Car design is funny like that. You can have a beautiful body,

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The Car That Invented the Supercar Just Turned 60

The world's first supercar just turned 60. Wild to think but March 10 marked the anniversary of a car that's been dripping cool since it showed up on stage in Geneva. The Miura, built by Lambo

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Why Window Louvers Were Everywhere on Muscle Cars and Why They Disappeared

Window louvers are those slats you see covering the rear glass on classic muscle cars. They look aggressive as hell, but unlike hood scoops that actually feed air to the engine, louvers don't add

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