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Before Every Car Got a Third Brake Light, 343 San Francisco Taxis Had to Prove It Worked

A third brake light is remarkably easy to ignore. It sits in the rear window or above the tailgate, performs one job and receives considerably less attention than the lamps surrounding it. That ano

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Your Headlights Perform a Little Bow at Startup. They May Be Checking Their Own Aim

Start certain cars in front of a garage wall and the headlights put on a brief performance. The beams drop, rise and settle. Some sweep sideways too, giving the impression that the car has opened i

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Your Car Will Not Leave Park. The Escape Route May Be Under a Tiny Plastic Cover

The brake pedal is down. The engine may even be running. Yet the gear lever remains planted in Park with the determination of a fence post. Pulling harder rarely improves the situation. It can, how

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Your Brake Rotors Turned Orange Overnight. They Probably Did Not Wear Out Overnight

Wash a car in the evening and look through its wheels the next morning. The brake rotors may have turned bright orange. The change can happen quickly enough to feel impossible. The discs looked cle

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Jeep Wrangler Smoky Mountain Edition Adds 33-Inch Tires And Blacked-Out Style

Jeep knows its Wrangler buyers love a good theme, and the new Smoky Mountain edition leans into that idea hard. Revealed at the Smoky Mountain Invasion in Tennessee, the special-edition Willys mixes d

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Your Headlights Dip and Rise at Startup Because They Are Quietly Checking Themselves

Park some cars facing a garage door at night and start the engine. Before the wheels have moved an inch, the headlights perform a small piece of theater. The beams dip toward the ground, rise again

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That Spaceship Sound From an Electric Car Is Not the Motor. It Was Put There on Purpose

Electric cars have developed a sound of their own. Not the familiar chug of an engine or the rising growl of an exhaust, but a smooth, slightly eerie hum that seems better suited to a spacecraft glidi

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Found Every Window Open? The Culprit May Be Sitting in Your Pocket

Few things make a car owner question reality quite like finding every window open in the morning. The doors are still locked. Nothing appears to be missing. There is no broken glass, no damaged wea

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This 2,100-LB American Supercar Has 700 HP and Almost Nothing to Hide Behind

Supercars keep getting more powerful, more digital, and more complicated. Then along comes Peregryn Automotive with a very different idea. What if all you really needed was a lightweight chassis, a

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That Little Shark Fin on Your Roof May Be Running Half the Car’s Digital Life

The old-fashioned car antenna made no attempt to hide what it was. It was a long metal whip sticking proudly out of a fender, ready to catch radio stations, snag a car-wash brush or disappear overnigh

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