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We, as Jalops, all enjoy cars. It’s one of our defining traits. While we may get into our own debates about whether cars are better for pleasure or commuting, long trips or short grocery runs, there’s one use case we can all agree is bad: Cars should really not be weapons.

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Housing is tight across the country, but it seems to feel tightest in Southern California. Between low supply and rents that stubbornly won’t come down, residents — like myself — are being squeezed on both sides by the issues. Some are taking things into their own hands and literally making their own dwellings near…

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Mercedes-Benz AMG's redesigned C 63 finally rolls into showrooms in the U.S. this spring, and the automaker on Wednesday confirmed prices will start at $85,050, including a $1,150 destination charge. It arrives as a 2024 model in a single grade called the C 63 S E Performance, and there's no longer a V-8 under the hood. Instead you get a hybrid...

The Ford Mustang turns 60 years old today and wanted to wish all Ford Mustang enthusiasts a happy birthday from one automotive icon to another!

Continue reading From One Icon to Another: Happy 60th Birthday to the Ford Mustang at Corvette: Sales, News & Lifestyle.

Do you know what your alternator pulley ratio is? The pulley ratio is important because it controls how fast your alternator spins.

Chevrolet Corvette chief engineer Tadge Juechter is retiring, effective later this summer, General Motors announced Wednesday, ending a 47-year career with the company. A replacement will be announced at a later date, GM said in a press release. Juechter began his career with GM in 1977, working at the automaker's Lordstown, Ohio, assembly plant...

When Ford unveiled the hardcore Mustang GTD at Monterey Car Week last year, its aggressive face was plastered all across the internet, and as of Wednesday, Americans and Canadians can apply to potentially buy one.The application opens today, April 17, 2024, exactly 60 years after the first Mustang debuted at the 1964…

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After the MV Dali brought down the Franklin Key Bridge in Baltimore, folks wondered how this could happen, and could it happen again? As if to answer this unspoken question, it almost immediately happened again: the APL Qingdao lost power near the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge in New York Harbor earlier this month.

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Last we heard from former North Carolina representative Madison Cawthorn, he had just been caught driving on a revoked license for a second time. He’d been pulled over three times in five months. The credibly accused sex pest who also had a habit of trying to take guns through airport security apparently hasn’t…

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Dennis Collins is back on the hunt and this time it's a Daytona Yellow 1970 Corvette LT1 that is being offered, but without paperwork. Watch as he goes over the car to see if all the numbers add up.

Continue reading [VIDEO] Dennis Collins Checks the Numbers on a 1970 Corvette LT-1 Before Taking It Home at Corvette: Sales, News & Lifestyle.

The Ford Mustang has just turned 60 and Ford is celebrating with a 60th Anniversary Package that will be available for the 2025 Mustang's GT Premium grade. Just 1,965 examples will be available, the number representing the first model year for the Mustang. California's Rezvani has established a new division catering to fans of modern cars with...

BMW is rumored to be planning a second facelift for its current 3-Series to extend the car's life until a successor, still with gas engines, is launched around 2027. That will give the current 3-Series a lifespan of nine years, which is about two years longer than the typical BMW product cycle. An electric sedan in the 3-Series segment based on...

The Lucid Air Grand Touring has the highest EPA range estimate of any electric vehicle on sale today, an incredible 516 miles. For 2024, the electric luxury sedan receives a round of updates, some aimed at further improving efficiency. Key among the updates is the addition of a heat pump, which Lucid said helps the Air Grand Touring deliver more...

The Mustang nameplate has turned 60 and Ford is celebrating with the launch of a 60th Anniversary Package for the current seventh-generation car. The reveal took place at a special gathering at Charlotte Motor Speedway on Wednesday, 60 years after Ford unveiled the original Mustang at the New York World's Fair. Just 1,965 examples will be...

California's Rezvani this week revealed the RR1 sports car, the first creation from its new Rezvani Retro division. It's based on the current-generation 992 Porsche 911, and takes inspiration from the wild road and race cars built by Germany's Kremer Racing in the 1970s, most notably the slant-nose Porsche 935 K series. Rezvani may be best known...

Tesla may have told its staff it was laying off over 10 percent of its workforce over the weekend, but apparently, not everyone got the memo. Some workers didn’t realize they were laid off until they showed up at the automaker’s facilities and found their key cards didn’t work anymore.

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For more than 75 years, Maserati has been designing stunning road cars at its base in Italy, with a team of highly skilled designers and engineers working to create icons like the 3500GT and the MC12. As technology has progressed, the company has moved away from pens and paper, and now uses programming and prompts to…

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Everyone knows that, generally speaking, concept cars are meant to be just that — a concept. Odds are, they’ll never make it into production, and that’s OK. Maybe they’ll end up influencing a future production vehicle, but maybe not. Of course, some end up being a barely disguised version of a car that’s already coming

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Planes are good. Flying on them is often deeply, deeply bad. This sort of contrast, the Hegelian dialectic, speaks to the duality at the heart of all humans. There is, however, a synthesis to be found from these two opposing views: Bad airplane experiences that make for good stories. Earlier this week, we asked you…

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