Jeff Glucker, Contributor
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The idea of owning a tank is both endlessly appealing and incredibly daunting. You have images of a massive beast rolling on tracks; a vehicle that requires all hands on deck to operate in a safe...
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Ultra low-mileage Mercedes 190E Evo II heads to auctionGroup A officially ran from 1982 up through 1994, with respect to touring cars. It was a glorious form of motorsport filled with modified production cars. These were machines that saw road-going versions sold to eager customers. Homologation rules are a wonderful thing, aren't they? Well, for the...
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Don't do these 5 things in a vehicle with a CVTJason, the host of Engineering Explained, gets the first point that we were going to make right out of the way. His latest video tackles things you should or should not be doing in a vehicle equipped with a CVT. We'd say that step one is to avoid these vehicles, but as Jason points out, that is the...
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Ford shows how it boosts off-road performance of the new RaptorThe 2017 Ford Motor Company [NYSE:F] F-150 Raptor is nearly here. Ford has been teasing us with stories of it blasting around Baja, tearing up random off-road trails, and causing the general sort of vehicular mayhem we're hoping to see. Now comes a video from Ford showcasing some of the ways in...
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Chip Foose preps a classic Cadillac stunner in the Madam X CoupeChip Foose is known for his Overhaulin' efforts and the amazing custom builds that nets countless awards. The Huntington Beach, California-based builder is turning his styling and the fabricating efforts of his team onto a new project that should set Cadillac lovers' tongues wagging. It's a 1939...
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Koenigsegg burns serious amounts of tires with new RegeraThe Koenigsegg Regera should be an absolutely stunning machine. How do we know? It's a limited-production hybrid hypercar from the Swedish skunk works. The powertrain is comprised of a twin-turbocharged 5.0-liter V-8 engine that's paired with a trio of high-output electric motors. And all told, the...
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An ambitious group of like-minded folks aim to produce a track-day special that should set your senses tingling.
Called Project 917, the team is looking to produce a real, track day-oriented Porsche...
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What's the best all-wheel-drive system?All-wheel-drive systems are numerous, and some of them work in different ways. A Subaru, an Audi, and a pickup truck all have different needs to meet in powering all their wheels. They use systems that employ various different technologies, and once more our friend at Engineering Explained is here...
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Lane splitting inches closer to actual legality in CaliforniaI bet you thought lane splitting was fully legal in California. You are sort of right... and sort of wrong. The legal ability for the two-wheeled riders of California's roads to split lanes has been a gray area. You could say the right to do so was splitting the lanes of legality. There wasn't a...
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Are you game to drive through an underwater floating tunnel?If you are a resident of Norway, underwater floating tunnels might be in your future. We already have tunnels that go under water, but they don't float and that means they don't deal with changing tidal conditions and the rather potentially violent forces at play under water. Still, it seems that...
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Ford offering Power Packs to make your Mustang GT closer to a Shelby GT350You bought the Ford Mustang GT. Fun car, that one. When you go to sleep at night, though, your dreams are filled with visions of snake badging, noises from a flat-plane crank V-8, and a desire to hit the racetrack. You're not a crazy person, you just wish you could afford the Shelby GT350. We all...
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Shopping for a new Corvette? Here's why you should get the Grand SportAre you shopping for a new seventh-generation Chevrolet Corvette? If you are, good for you, because that means you have some money to spend and you've chosen the best performing generation of 'Vette ever built. The base Corvette Stingray is relatively affordable compared to the competition and can...
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When you're looking for a good work vehicle, you have many things to consider. Interior comfort is on the list, but towing and hauling capabilities are certainly more important. This is why folks buy...
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NASCAR's Brad Keselowski loses his brakes at 165 mphLosing your brakes while driving is a terrifying feeling. There's nothing but the sense of impending doom since you're no longer in complete control of your two-ton metal machine. Imagine if you were out on a race track when you lost your brakes? Now imagine you were doing 165 mph when they went...
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Polaris Slingshot gets SLR trim and new roof shade for 2017Polaris made a bit of a splash recently when it introduced the Slingshot. Back in 2014, Polaris had fully revealed its three-wheeled sporting machine that sought to blend the excitement of a motorcycle with the comfort and convenience of a car. Since then the Slingshot has been a polarizing machine...
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Porsche sent a good luck note to Honda by way of 911 GT3When an automaker is developing a new vehicle, it will often seek out examples of the competition to use in creating benchmarks to meet or beat. In the sports car universe, the go-to benchmark is quite often the Porsche 911. So when Acura was prepping its latest NSX, it looked to the 911 GT3 to...
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What the heck does an oil catch can do?Your engine is a violent place. It's filled with moving metal, hot oil and fuel, and a mass of moving air. All of that combines to create combustion, which is basically a series of continual explosions—and it's all happening right in front of you. During the combustion process, some of the...
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13-year-old breaks 200 mph on an airstrip with Bugatti VeyronWhat did you do for Father's Day this year? A young man named Steven Aghakhani took his father's Bugatti Veyron out for a blast down an airport runway. It unfolded at a Shift-Sector event in Colorado, where Steven's father Armik was hoping the boy would blow past the 200 mile per hour mark. He did...
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The answer to the question posed in the title is "yes, you do." The problem here is that it's seemingly impossible to find one of the rarest versions of the Ford Mustang ever built. Until today that...
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Skateboarder-smashing McLaren video was a hoaxRemember this video from a few days ago which appeared to show a disgruntled skateboarder smash the windshield of a McLaren 12C? In the clip, you can see the British supercar cruise through a stop sign and nearly hit a street-crossing skater. The driver then proceeds to honk at the skater which...
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Is that a jet-powered Charger on set of 'Fast 8' movie?Fast 8 can't get here fast enough, as far as we're concerned. The franchise has become a turn-your-brain off action fest with cars serving as stars shining as brightly as the rest of the cast. It's always fun finding out which vehicles are going to get the bright-lights treatment. It's usually a...
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Morgan EV3 whirs to life with initial limited-edition runAt the 2016 Geneva Motor Show, Morgan unveiled a glimpse into its future. It's the EV3, and it's an all-electric version of the company's beloved 3 Wheeler. A 62-horsepower electric motor pairs with a set of lithium-ion batteries to give the electron swilling EV3 a reported range of 150 miles. It...
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A modern McLaren F1? Not so fast, supercar boss saysRumors have been swirling that McLaren engineers and designers are hard at work on successor to the near-mythical F1. Reports from Autocar talk about a hyper-focused machine that slots below the performance arch created by the P1, but above the rest of the lineup. It almost sounds like a variant of...
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Learn what makes BMW's throttle system differentYou're an under-hood expert by now, aren't you? We've been sharing a whole lot of information thanks to Engineering Explained and that means you should be fluent now in "gearhead." Still, there's always more to learn and today we're taking on a subject that's a bit more complicated, which must mean...
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