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Stories By Adam Ismail

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    The 2023 Nissan Z Reminds Us That Cheap Thrills Are Timeless

    First things first: This is a review of the Nissan Z. It is not a review of any of the sports cars one might cross-shop with a Nissan Z. In this realm, the Z is no hatchet to anyone’s scalpel; no flip phone, no fullback. This is a story about the Z, and how I felt driving it. To my friend’s house in North Jersey. To urgent care. To the lookout on the other side of the lake — the side I’ve somehow never seen before, even though I’ve lived here for years. The sort of things perhaps you’d do with a

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    The Chrysler Airflow Isn't Dead — It Just Won't Look Like This

    About two months ago, we overheard that Chrysler was “evolving” its Airflow electric crossover concept “in a new direction,” according to Stellantis global design chief Ralph Gilles. This evolution seemed to be pretty drastic though, which painted an impression that Chrysler was in effect killing the Airflow in favor of a vehicle perhaps designed for the same segment, but with a radically different look. Gilles wants you to know, however, that the Airflow very much isn’t dead. It’s just changing

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    Where Are The Racing Games That Let You Build Your Own Cars?

    In a few months, The Crew: Motorfest will be releasing to current- and last-gen consoles, as well as PC. It seems like it’s going to be good, if you enjoy open-world racing games that don’t take themselves too seriously. Which you probably do, because on the non-sim side of the spectrum, that’s kind of all the big publishers make anymore. But what if it wasn’t?

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    Seven Automakers Just United To Fix The EV Charging Hell That Is North America

    If seven automakers decide to join forces on something, you’d figure it’s got to be for a good reason. Today, it’s the need for a functional, accessible electric vehicle charging network that has united BMW, General Motors, Honda, Hyundai, Kia, Mercedes-Benz and Stellantis. On Wednesday, the manufacturers announced a public charging joint venture that aims to pepper North America with 30,000 new chargers, fitted with both CCS and NACS plugs, in the coming years.

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    Mazda Made A Roof-Less RX-8 For Its Hometown Baseball Heroes

    The Mazda RX-8 is weird, as far as cars go. It has an engine that spins and also is likely to slowly dismantle itself if you don’t watch it carefully; rear half-doors that are also rear-hinged; and well, have you seen it? It’s just a strangely proportioned car: long and narrow and bulbous, and certainly not helped by late-aughts/early 2010s Mazda Maw following its mid-cycle refresh. Unfortunately, those latter examples also happen to be the most reliable ones. You can’t have it all.

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    Those Two Lancia Delta EV Rallycross Cars Have Burned Away, Like All Beautiful Things

    It’s only Monday, which is much too soon for sad news. Unfortunately, that’s what we have to share today from the world of World Rallycross, as Special One Racing — the team that campaigned a pair of fully-electric Lancia Delta Evo-e machines, one of which was driven by Sébastien Loeb — has announced that both of its chassis went up in smoke during a fire at the Lydden Hill circuit in England on Friday.

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    Your iPhone Will Soon Be Able To Tell You That Your Check Engine Light Means 'Check Engine'

    The next update to iPhones everywhere that you’ll put off installing forever is called iOS 17, and it’s coming this fall. But the public beta for us poor saps early adopters (right here, hi) is out, and that means some devices can already sample the operating system’s new features. One of them is called Visual Look Up, and it’s simple in practice, allowing the device to identify and explain symbols in photos. Even the very symbols that tell you something is wrong with your car.

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    There's Never Been A Cheaper Time To Build A Fanatec Direct Drive Sim Racing Rig

    In this fast-paced online economy, deals are a dime a dozen. I typically don’t pay attention to them. I just don’t have enough money for all the deals, all right? But every so often, there’s a deal that’s too good not to share, that even I consider for myself. Today, that deal is everything you need to go sim racing with a direct drive kit from Fanatec for $150 off.

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    Stellantis' Lifetime Warranty Holders Were Kept Waiting Weeks For Simple Repairs

    If you happen to be a customer of Stellantis’ Lifetime Maximum Care warranty and you’ve found service to be painfully slow since the spring, you’re not alone. A common story has been making the rounds across enthusiast forums going back to April: an owner brings their lifetime-covered Chrysler, Dodge, Jeep, or Ram in for an ordinary repair, only to spend a week or more waiting for the work to start — typically without their car. The delay isn’t due to staffing or parts shortages, but rather clai

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    These 10 Cars Had The Most Surprising Redesigns

    Sometimes a new generation of a long-running model comes out and shatters expectations — and not always for positive reasons. With the new Hyundai Santa Fe fresh in mind, we asked you earlier this week which cars’ redesigns caught you off guard. You responded with a range of answers, from ‘90s American luxo-barges to econoboxes to big and tough SUVs. Let’s get the show on the road.

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    Porsche's Iconic Crest Almost Took A Wild Turn In The 1960s

    The things we regard as ubiquitous and timeless today once upon a time very much weren’t. Take the familiar Porsche crest, for instance. Sure, it’s undergone a slight freshening up as of late, but at its core it’s never really changed conceptually: a gold shield, with the rearing horse of Stuttgart’s city seal overlaid on the crest of the West German state Württemberg-Hohenzollern. This has been Porsche as far back as anyone can remember. But in the ’60s, it almost wasn’t.

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    The Crew Motorfest Yearns For A Familiar Horizon

    Credit where it’s due, Ubisoft’s Ivory Tower never let off the gas with The Crew 2, a game that’s been out for five years at this point. Regular quality-of-life updates, new cars and story-based events have dropped consistently since the title’s 2018 release, and will continue to all the way up until The Crew Motorfest comes out September 14. But the upcoming third act will bring a major change for the franchise — albeit one that leaves it feeling a little familiar.

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    What Car's Redesign Surprised You The Most?

    By now you’ve probably seen images of the 2024 Hyundai Santa Fe, the latest and perhaps most strongly-worded reminder to date that Hyundai’s design department has long since run out of fucks. Try to recall to memory every Santa Fe before this. As of 24 hours ago, you can’t anymore. Nobody can; you have to go to Wikipedia to remind yourself. It’s an astonishing phenomenon. But it got us thinking about other radical redesigns of cars from generation to generation that blew our socks clean off. T

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    The 10 Best Racing Games For The Nintendo Switch

    The Nintendo Switch likely isn’t the first piece of video game hardware that comes to mind when you think of a great place to play racing games. However, the console’s still got more than a few worthy options, between remastered retro racers to franchises like Need For Speed, Burnout and Grid, to the obvious Mario Kart. And of course the magic of the Switch is that these games don’t have to stay home — you can take them with you. Next time you’re on the move and fancy some virtual driving, thes

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    Crisis Averted As Carcinogen-Carrying Freight Train Derails But Doesn't Leak

    Residences along a Norfolk Southern rail line in Whitemarsh Township outside Philadelphia were ordered to evacuate as a precautionary measure after 16 CSX freight train cars — one of them carrying a hazardous chemical — derailed early Monday morning. Thankfully in this case, it seems nothing aside from plastic beads spilled out of the wreck, and nobody was injured.

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    Test Drive Unlimited: Solar Crown Definitely Looks Like A Game In Which You Drive Expensive Cars In An Open World

    Test Drive Unlimited: Solar Crown sure has taken quite a while to get here, from the earliest rumblings of the game’s development way back in 2016 to the initial tease in 2020 and a string of missed release targets since. All that time, we hadn’t seen actual gameplay footage — until this week. Publisher Nacon and developer KT Racing unveiled the game in motion in a 35-minute pre-recorded video Wednesday, and it certainly does exist.

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