Around 300 turbocharged ponies. Four doors. All-wheel drive. A legacy of rally racing that can only be described as legendary. The 2015 Subaru WRX STI and 2015 Audi S3 are, at heart, remarkably similar cars.
Everybody loves wasting time over at Bring A Trailer, home to some of the finest used car classifieds on the entire Internet. Now the site is about to do more than just list used cars — they're going to host online auctions for them.
One of the biggest problems with rocket boosters is that you cram them full of amazing materials and engineering, and then ditch them after the first trip. It'd be like buying a Porsche 918, driving it to the coast, and then jumping out of it just before your let it drive off a pier. It's sort of crazy. SpaceX thinks…
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You nominated many dashboards full of smartphone car mounts, and we've dug through to come up with the five most popular. Now it's time to vote by starring your favorite.
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Recently I got to sample a BMW M4 Launch Edition. I thought it was a fine car, but despite my love for BMW's M models, if I had the cash I probably wouldn't get one. The editors over at Autocar came up with six alternatives to the M4. Now it is your turn, how would you spend 64k?
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Body-on-frame construction gives customizers free range to do all kinds of wacky things; like turn a truck "backwards" so the driver looks out across the bed and the rear wheels do the steering. Who would do something like that? Apparently, this guy named Roy.
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I recently paid $904.61 in order to spend a week behind the wheel of the worst car I've ever driven. It was a highly interesting experience, and I'd surely do it again, provided that my only alternate form of transportation involves getting dragged around for a while by an angry gorilla.
Back in October 2011, a few months after an explosive device ripped through his body and tore off his left leg, a physical therapist told Marine Staff Sgt. Liam Dwyer that he'd never drive a manual transmission car ever again.
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The Nissan GT-R Nismo. The Nissan Juke Nismo. The Nissan Sentra Nismo. Anything can be Nismo'd. Everything will be Nismo'd. Nissan will not stop until all things have been Nismo'd even the humble Versa Note.
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There's so much right about the Porsche 928 GTS. A big old front-mounted V8, bulbously-sleek styling of a greasy pig that's aged well while remaining quintessentially 90's. The only way to improve it would be to turn it into a pickup truck, of course. Which some dude in Denmark has done for us.
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The San Diego Comic-Con floor can be both a sensory delight and an overload of color, light, and swirling brand names. To help you cut through the pop culture fog, we've collected the sights you won't want to miss this week inside the exhibition hall.
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The folks at ThinkGeek put so much effort into their April Fool's Day prank products every year that often times they end up turning them into a reality. Remember the Star Wars Tauntan sleeping bag?, that started life as a prank. And of all the wonderful products ThinkGeek pretended to announce on April 1 this year,…
From Car Buying: Jalopnik superstar Mike Spinelli drove the 2015 BMW M3 and M4 in their natural habitat. I am not a Jalopnik superstar, but I did get a chance to take an M4 Launch Edition out for a spin. I did not actually "spin" it, however, I did learn some valuable consumer information.
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You can keep your Porsche 918 Spyder. The Carrera GT is just okay. You can even have the "widowmaker" original Porsche 911 Turbo. As far as badass Porsches go, in my book nothing beats the 959.
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This is a great price for 250 tools no matter how you slice it, but the three-drawer case seals the deal. [Craftsman 250 pc. Mechanics Tools Set with 3 Drawer Case, $140]
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In today's edition of "two wrongs don't make a right" a man in Queens, NY vandalized two cars Tuesday night because he allegedly didn't like their parking skills. I don't like bad parking as much as the next guy but this is a little bit ridiculous.
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Demolition derbies have always been one of those events I always associate with massive, Malaise-era Detroit land-yachts. And for good reason— they're great at them. Massive acreages of hood, huge battering-ram bumpers, overhangs the size of decks. Maybe that's why seeing tiny 2L and under Euro cars do it is so…
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Last week's downing of Malaysian Airlines Flight 17 over the disputed territory of Eastern Ukraine has set off worldwide outcries against the conflict, and calls to better defend commercial airlines from missile attack. But is it even possible to defend civilian jets against military-grade weapons?
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The 2015 Porsche Cayenne SUV now has a plug-in hybrid variant, borrows the Panamera's turbo V6 in "S" trim and gets a tweaked look, dominated by headlights that look like spider-eyes Porsche calls "floating LEDs."
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In 2016 the dream of V8-powered rear-wheel drive Australian Fords will die forever as local manufacturing there, as well as homegrown Aussie Fords specific to that market, comes to an end. This is the last hurrah of the Australian Ford. Meet the last Ford Falcon.
