Jeff Glucker, Contributor
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Do you think your Porsche 911 is a little, well, over fed these days? If only there was a way to shed some of that weight without altering the lines of your precious super Beetle. Maybe you could...
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Harman investing in Navdy aftermarket head-up displayHarman recently became a part of the Samsung family, and the purveyor of strong car tech is looking to add to its roster of automotive offerings. According to Motor1, that means throwing a ton of cash at a product called Navdy. It's the aftermarket solution for anyone looking to add a head-up...
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After defeating an Aventador, Acura NSX faces off against the GT-RThe current Acura NSX is an interesting vehicle. It's a sort of budget hypercar in that its not wearing an ungodly price tag (relatively speaking) yet it packs the combination of electric motors, batteries, and a gasoline engine that you'll find in some of the world's highest performing vehicles...
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Thieves could use 'mystery device' to steal cars with push-button startCar thieves want your wheels, and they will find a way to take them away from you. Automakers attempt to combat them in a number of ways but the car thieves are crafty and they evolve alongside the vehicles. It seems there's a new means for the baddies to pinch your ride if it's one that's equipped...
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What engine blow-by looks likeEarlier in the year, our friend Jason Fenske from Engineering Explained taught us all about engine blow-by. Today we're getting to see what it looks like with a real world example. A 2016 Chevrolet Malibu with the turbocharged 1.5-liter 4-cylinder and just under 20,000 miles on its odometer is...
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Porsche-powered Volkswagen Bus 'Race Taxi' hits the trackThe Volkswagen Microbus is a beloved motoring icon that has fans all over the globe. It's a classic machine with a dash of perennial cool attached. It's also incredibly slow. You're never in a rush when you're driving a VW Bus. Unless, of course you're talking about the T1 Race Taxi created by a...
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The Polaris Slingshot is a fun idea in a mediocre package.
Styling is certainly subjective but the Slingshot brings the ugly. And in terms of performance the standard four-cylinder makes do with 173...
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Toyota 86 successor confirmedThe Scion FR-S is dead. In its place we get the Toyota 86, which is basically the same car minus some snazzy new badges. For those of you interested in buying the affordable rear driver, perhaps you should hold off for a while as it seems a successor is in the works. Toyota Europe boss Karl...
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Dodge eyes potential return to NASCARDodge departed from the NASCAR circuit back in 2012, but it is apparently eyeing a return to the left-turn loving motorsport. At the time, Dodge was coming out of bankruptcy and decided to cut its NASCAR program in an effort to focus its expenditures where they were most needed. Now it's a...
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How engine oil systems workBesides fuel, oil is the lifeblood of your vehicle. It keeps your engine rotating smoothly. This is accomplished by the properties of oil that allow it to lubricate moving parts and reduce heat generated by friction. If the moving parts in your engine weren't lubricated, you'd hear a lot of...
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Automoji brings Corvette greatness to your iPhoneThe man who brought you the Porsche emojis is back, and this time he comes bearing gifts for fans of the Chevrolet Corvette. Allow us to introduce you to Kevin McCauley's latest phone and tablet-scaled masterpiece. This is the Automoji: Bowling Green set, and it's packed with American sports car...
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McLaren lets owners extend warranties to 12 yearsBreathe easy, elite members of society. McLaren is here to make sure you don't have to spend too much money fixing your supercars. How? McLaren is going to let buyers extend their warranty plans up to 12 years. The McLaren warranty is of the extended variety and is a nice jump over the standard...
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The 2017 Chevy Camaro ZL1 is a monster. It's already proven itself by setting a sub 7:30 lap time on the Nürburgring. That was achieved in part due to the supercharged 6.2-liter V-8 under the...
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Jay Leno takes control of 20,000 horsepowerJay Leno has driven more combined horsepower than most people on this planet. Heck, his own Blastolene Special is a hand-built "thing of awesome" powered by a tank engine that produces 810 horsepower. That's nothing anymore for Leno. He recently had the opportunity to jump into the driver's seat of...
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Supercar-inspired sculptures to mark home of LamborghiniThe home of Lamborghini lies in the town of Sant'Agata Bolognese, in northern Italy. Along with sharing the name of a delicious type of sauce, the city is where the big bag bullish supercars are researched, developed, and built. Lamborghini recently held a competition to help it establish a greater...
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How to safely lift your car off the ground with jack standsIf you're going to do work on your own vehicle, you'll most likely need to get underneath it at some point. Unless you own a monster truck, this means that you're going to have to lift your car in the air. This is intimidating for many, but there's a way to make it less so and Engineering Explained...
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Stolen 1964 Chevrolet Corvette recovered 40 years laterIf you've ever had a stolen car then you know well the Boy Scout principal: Hope for the best, plan for the worst. If the car in question was 40 years ago, chances are that you haven't given up hope as much as you've completely forgotten about the hope whatsoever. But, perhaps if that stolen car...
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Jeff Gordon unretiring to pilot Cadillac's Daytona PrototypeAfter a long career of left turns, Jeff Gordon's retirement just took a hard right back into the driver's seat. According to Road & Track, Gordon is putting down the Werther's Original to jump behind the wheel of a new racing machine from Cadillac. The car in question is Cadillac's all-new...
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Comma.ai is an electronic driving aid developed by computer programmer George Hotz. It's a partial self-driving solution that can be retrofitted into virtually modern car, and Hotz's plan was to sell...
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Volkswagen 'Korama' concept hides a production truck secretVolkswagen's Australian division is gearing up for the local launch of an updated version of the Amarok pickup truck. Because it's Australia, which is the home of Mad Max, the local team decided to get creative with the launch of the refreshed ute. Taking the Mad Max theme quite seriously, VW...
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Volvo Trucks latest stunt combines a mountain pass and a crazy paragliderIf you don't know by now, we're big fans of Volvo Trucks, not so much for the trucks themselves, as we have never driven one. Instead, we love the way the company goes about its marketing. First, we saw Jean-Claude Van Damme in the best ad ever. Next, Volvo decided to put a poor young valet worker...
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The science behind the record-breaking Dodge Viper ACRWhen Dodge brought its Viper ACR to the production car party back in 2015, the automaker also brought a long a sheet filled with brand new track records. The ACR broke production-car lap records at 13 different tracks. These weren't rinky-dink little local circuits that you've never heard of...
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Tax cheat's collection takes in $55 million at auctionThe taxman taketh and sometimes the taxman taketh more. Luigi Compiano found out just how much the taxman can take. You see, Compiano took over his family's private security firm, and stopped paying the Italian government the many millions of Euros it was owed. Compiano and the family instead spent...
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Ford GT and GT40 immortalized as Lego modelsLego designers are quite good at getting us to part with our hard-earned dollars in exchange for a set of plastic bricks. That's because those bricks come in kits like the Speed Champions sets. The newest Speed Champions? A pair of iconic Ford race cars, the GT and GT40, for your scaled-down...
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