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The genius of Detroit's Woodward Dream Cruise is that it's mostly free, excepting fuel costs and if one avoids entanglements with Royal Oak's finest. But it was an expensive trip for the owner of this 1970 Plymouth Superbird, who got sandwiched on the ride home. More »
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The Woodward Dream Cruise on Metro Detroit's historic Woodward Avenue is one of the top ten greatest car events in the world. Each year, Jalopnik picks a special car as its staff cruiser. More »
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The Vinsetta Garage, the historic neon landmark of Detroit's Woodward Avenue cruising scene and the oldest garage east of the Mississippi, has closed after 91 years in business, a victim of the tough choices facing its owner. More »
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A Ford Model T paces a Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG at the Woodward Dream Cruise. Considering a stretch of Woodward was amongst the first concrete-paved road in the world, a more perfect illustration of automotive progress couldn't be asked for. More »
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A Plum Crazy Purple Roadrunner looks on as a Plum Crazy Purple Challenger approaches. Somehow, we suspect the old-timer wishes its relative was a little more of a wild child. More »
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The three-wheeled Lomax has a top installed over roughly three days by trained engineers,so when it started raining heavily at the Dream Cruise, improvisation was necessary, like just opening an oversized umbrella. A VW Karmann Ghia copied the idea. More »
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Cruising Woodward in a Flxible or an Airstream? We say Flxible by a nose, given that nose is loaded with retro-futurist charm. Plus as a side benefit you get to constantly explain why there's a missing "e" in the name. More »
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The Corvair Turbo is a thing of beauty. 164 cubic-inches of pancake-engine glory spitting out 150-hp in one of the first regular production turbocharged cars in America. This one's clean enough you could eat off the turbo housing. More »
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You see a lot of weird stuff come out during the Woodward Dream Cruise, a pair of stuffed deer on the Roof of a GMC Yukon XL rates pretty high on the scale. More »
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The weather may be damping the Woodward Dream Cruise festivities, but it's amazing how much that doesn't matter when you've got the keys to a 505-hp 2011 Corvette Z06 fitted with the ZR1's carbon ceramic brakes. What rain? More »
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The weather at the 2010 Woodward Dream Cruise has turned out to be rainy and overcast, not the best of conditions and crowds had been low, but the die-hards are still out for a spin in some very nice machinery. More »
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There's a dealership along Woodward, halfway between 14 and 15 Mile roads, it's called Auto Europe and among their currently-offered nameplates: Noble, Austin Healey, Mini, Jaguar, Porsche, Lotus and Ferrari. It's like a candy store for car nuts. More »
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People complain about the Woodward Dream Cruise and its traffic, crowds, noise, litter and general chaos. But the worst part? Being trapped in traffic with no chance to run something awesome down, ike this snowmobile converted into a trike. More »
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The Mustang Boss 302 and Boss 302 Laguna Seca are the latest track-time toys in Ford's lineup and they've showed up to play at the Woodward Dream Cruise. Check out that rear-seat-delete option on the Laguna Seca. Sexy. More »
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Newbies to suburban Detroit's famous Woodward Dream Cruise may think the world's largest single day car event exists only within its officially-sanctioned 24-hour boundaries. Veterans know it's a week-long event and the best cruising days are happening now. More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5617207&view=rss&microfeed=true The Woodward Dream Cruise doesn't care about black Detroit people. [NYT] More »
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If you visit the 2010 Woodward Dream Cruise, keep your eyes peeled for 20 newly-installed historical markers scattered along the route pointing out old cruising hot spots from Woodward's cruising heyday. This one near 9 Mile, unfortunately, seems ill-worded. More »
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Google put a camera car into last years Woodward Dream Cruise and now the day's images are mixed in with the regular Street View scenery along Detroit's main drag. See if you can find the guy flipping off the camera. More »
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The Dream Cruise was astounding-not merely the cars, but because cars were celebrated during a time of economic instability, environmental worries, and changing definitions of personal mobility. So what's the future of the Dream Cruise-and auto enthusiasts in general? More »
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The Woodward Dream Cruise attracted over one million cruisers and car-obsessed nuts. That's a lot of eyes for advertisers to drool over. While some pitches were good, many were not. Here's some of the worst. We call it "Badvertising." More »
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The Segway was the high-water mark of nerd-tastic transportation until the T3 Motion three-wheeled chariot came along. The local police had 'em to patrol this weekend's Woodward Dream Cruise. And believe us, nobody respected their authority. Gallery below. More »
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Easily one of the oddest and most time-consuming art cars we've seen at the Woodward Dream Cruise is "THIS IS CARPUTER," a Ford Escort with thousands of square inches of silicon circuit boards glued to it. More »
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Despite being as European as an American car can get, our Euro car boy has never seen a DeLorean before. His first impressions follow. More »
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While the Smart is a road car, the Woodward Dream Cruise is definitely not where it was designed to travel. There is, however, a way to pull off the most unlikely trick of cruising in one here. More »
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Despite 1.1 million attendees and 250,000 classic cars along 14 miles of metro Detroit roadway, the Woodward Dream Cruise rarely makes top lists of major world-wide auto events. A helicopter's necessary to reveal the massiveness. Luckily, we've got one. More »
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Hundreds of thousands of metro Detroiters came out today with their muscle cars to the Woodward Dream Cruise, misinterpreting today's "ozone action day" declaration by the Southeast Michigan Council of Governments (SEMCOG), believing ozone must be destroyed. [DetroitNews] More »
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We’ve already shown you the general pace of the cruise, it's comparable to a person walking. Click through for a video of what happens when a gap opens up on Woodward Avenue. More »
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It's both massively cool and somewhat disconcerting to see a seemingly military-spec truck filling up at a public gas station in a region that’s not occupied by an army... yet. More »
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The Guinness Book of World Records just delivered the award for the world's largest baked cupcake here at the Woodward Dream Cruise. The confection tipped the scales at 1500lb and had to be carried by forklift. More »
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Apparently hippies-on-bikes in Ferndale are looking to screw with the Woodward Dream Cruise by massing at 9 Mile and Woodward. As you can see, all eight of them will likely be easily dispatched of by one Mustang's open-ended burnout. More »
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“Phyllis,” our Transformers Camaro, is equipped with a sunroof. Here’s what the view is like cruising down Woodward. Click through for video. More »
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It’s always good to see a Maserati GranTurismo and this gray one we found on Woodward was no exception. More »
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Sometimes, a single Mustang just won’t cut it—but driving two is far beyond the reach of human anatomy. Click through to see a gallery for a solution to this maddening problem: a Mustang and a half. More »
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Ford's Woodward Dream Cruise presence each year is called "Mustang Alley" and it's found in downtown Ferndale. This year they're showing different ways to aftermarket accessorize your FoMoCo Mustang. They've labeled 15 of them on two new GT500s. Gallery below. More »
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Awesome as the Woodward Dream Cruise is, many businesses on Woodward Avenue harbor a Biblical hate for it in their hearts. The marquee of the Magic Bag theater in fabulous Ferndale is going all Old Testament on us. [DetroitNews] More »
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We've shown you what we're cruising in at this year's Woodward Dream Cruise, but now it's time for you to show us yours. Add a shot of your cruiser in the comments below or alternately, use Twitter! More »
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Jalopnik’s Euro-flavored team is already here on Woodward. Keeping with our theme of driving a movie car at the Woodward Dream Cruise, we’ll be cruising in a Transformers logo-emblazoned Camaro after driving Knight Rider's KITT last year. More »
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If you're here in Metro Detroit and weren't on Woodward, then you, our friend, missed out. We were there and so was Detroit's ABC affiliate. Here's their video of what Woodward looked like. My god, it's full of cars! [WXYZ] More »
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Care for lots of sirens? Ford Mustang police cars? Half-tracks on a public road not in Croatia? John has a long mustache? Hit the jump for five minutes of emergency vehicles cruising the pre-Woodward Dream Cruise. More »
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