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Stories By Rory Carroll

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    2025 Honda Odyssey Is The Superior Road Trip Solution

    A couple of weeks ago, I trucked the whole family up to Michigan’s weird-ass Upper Peninsula so they could goof around in the woods while I helped crew for an ARA Rally Team, Blind Deer Rally Sport. (Crewing is mostly sitting around waiting, punctuated with some driving and a couple of hours of wrenching over the course of the weekend for anyone who’s interested.) Because charging infrastructure in the Upper Peninsula is somewhat lacking, I left my Rivian at home in favor of the Odyssey that Hon

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    A Pink Cadillac Won Petit-LeMans In The Dark With No Headlights And That Wasn't Even The Best Thing About It

    A pink Cadillac going 170 mph in the dark with no headlights won Petit Le Mans this past weekend. I was lucky enough to be staring out of a suite overlooking the front straight at Road Atlanta in the race’s closing minutes when it came rocketing down the hill through turn 12, invisible in the darkness but for its rooftop sentinel light, and in the time it took to articulate the thought, “Who the—?” it became apparent that the car with no lights was indeed the race-leading 01 Chip Ganassi Racing

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  • Technology
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    Honda's 0 Series EV Looks Like An Ambitious Entry Into A Frosty EV Market

    Just when Honda’s restrained approach to the EV rush of the early 2020s was more or less vindicated, the company showed a wild looking pair of EV concepts at last year’s CES. The company said at the time that the 0 Series cars represented a rebirth, or a fresh start for the company; a Honda 2.0, shall we say. Last week in Japan, I saw that Honda intends more than just concept car fluff for the Saloon and Space-Hub — it is actually on track to build at least one of them. I spent hours with engine

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  • Culture
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    Speed Kills Was A Car Zine For Fugazi Listeners

    Making his case for national 55 mph speed limits in the summer of 1988, Senator Frank Lautenberg brought out a well-worn highway safety slogan: “The statistics show that speed kills.” Many of his colleagues, still working in the long shadow of the sixties counterculture, could have situated that grave warning in congressional testimony about flower-children in Haight warning each other off amphetamines: “Speed Kills!” And if you wandered into the right record store in Chicago in the early 90's,

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  • Wrenching
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    Here's How My Honda-Powered Lada With A BRZ Chassis Made It To The Empire Hill Climb

    According to Peter’s text records, the call to pull the engine was made at 2AM on race day. I’d slept a few hours on Wednesday, one hour on Thursday and was about to get a nice round zero before piloting a car that had never been driven —by anyone — up a narrow road course in the woods. We’d been talking about Steve Albini, so we put Terraform on the shop stereo.

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  • Culture
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    I've Spent Every Spare Hour On This Lada Project But I Still Think I'm Screwed

    Haha, well it looks like the last time I updated you on the K-swapped, chassis swapped Lada build it was October. That can’t be right, can it? The good news is that I’ve been working on it. The bad news is that somehow over the last ten months I went from confidently checking things off my list to panicked thrash ahead of a rapidly approaching deadline. This is of course, entirely predictable and entirely my fault.

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    The Acura Integra Type-S HRC Prototype Looks So Good

    We’ve been pretty clear about our love for the Integra Type-S. It’s an incredible car that really strikes a perfect balance between daily usability and pure driving experience. The prototype shown above is meant to demonstrate what would happen if that balance was shifted—heavily—toward performance.

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    We Don't Need Fake EV Engine Noises

    Dodge is out this week with a clip of the new Charger making some kind of noise, Hyundai was pretty widely praised for adding a selection of synthesized engine noises to the Ioniq 5 N’s list of beloved attributes and automakers the world over are trying to work out just what an electric car should sound like, emotionally. It’s all deeply embarrassing. They should just sound like electric cars.

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  • Buying
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    Here's Everything I Already Own From Amazon's Prime Day Automotive Section

    I generally try to buy tools and car supplies locally rather than wait 5 days for shipping, but I live in a small town and that’s not always practical/possible. So there are some things in my collection that I got on Amazon. Perusing the Prime Day deals today, I actually spotted a few of them. I’d feel bad offering my thoughts on I haven’t tried out myself and I’m going to give you my real unvarnished thoughts about these items.

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  • Wrenching
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    Swim In The Pain Of Retrieving A Lost Drive Bit From Deep Inside A Mini

    You probably know this feeling. You drop something, a fastener, a socket, a shotgun shell into your engine bay. First you look. Can you see it? No. Then you stick one of those little magnet retriever things down where you think the object may have gone. It sticks to everything else, but you can’t pull your object back out. Shit. You look under the car. Did it bounce out? It did not. At this point, you have to ask,“Is it near anything that would be damaged by it? Can I just...Leave it in there?”

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  • Boatlopnik
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    Dang, Listen To This VR6-Powered Boat

    It’s probably pretty miserable outside where you are. If you’re smart, you’re online, looking to purchase a cheap boat to have trouble free fun with this summer. Powerboats are fun, but we all know the addition of an engine makes everything a little more complicated and potentially stressful. Luckily, we all know engine problems are easy to fix with a quick engine swap. Our friend Reed here knows, which is why he found a way to mount a mighty and mighty wonderful sounding VR6 in his old ass boat

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    What's The Most Dad-Coded Car?

    It should be understood that anyone can be a Dad. It’s a state of mind thing, sometimes you’re a Dad just for a few minutes while you’re using a pocket knife, saying “I’m going to count to three and...” or digging through the trash looking for your keys. Cars are like this, too. Some cars are just for Dads, for Dad activities.

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  • News
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    Future Swiss Army Knives Won't Have Blades, Maker Victorinox Says

    The Swiss Army Knife has become such a shorthand for multifunctionality that companies producing does-a-lot-of-stuff wares will often say that their goods are the “Swiss Army Knife” of whatever category they’re a part of. You can use the tool to cut stuff, snip stuff, uncork stuff, file stuff, in some cases download stuff.

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    The 2024 Ford Ranger Raptor Is Exactly What You Want It To Be

    Two, maybe three times in the lead up to driving the new Ford Ranger Raptor, I heard it compared to a rally car. This something that car companies have been increasingly eager to say about their cars in the last few years, and it’s also something that trips the old switch in my brain marked “skepticism.” As I approached the end of my day driving the Ranger Raptor, my I was feeling pretty good about my skepticism and kind of weirdly bummed, or at least undecided about the truck which, as I was ab

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    The 2024 Ford Ranger Is More American Than Ever

    First things first, I’m a Ford Ranger guy. I’ve never owned one, and I can’t really point to what it is about the Ranger, maybe just the idea of a Ranger that I love, but I will admit I had high hopes for this one and for the Ranger Raptor, which I will tell you about later this week.

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    Dirtfish Rally School Was The Most Fun I've Ever Had Driving

    I’ve wanted to get out to the Dirtfish rally school in Snoqualmie, WA for probably a decade. For about as long, I’ve been listening to my degenerate amateur rally driver and co-driver friends warning me that rally school would punch a little hole in my heart that could only be filled with more time in a rally car. Earlier this week, I finally made it happen and now there is a hole in my heart that can only be filled with more time in a rally car.

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  • Events
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    Even The Geneva Auto Show Was Kind Of A Bummer

    Last week the 2024 edition of the Geneva International Motor Show took place in the halls of Palexpo, like it has for a 120 year-plus history. Except this time the show was fundamentally different. 200,000 visitors were expected over the course of the 2024 show. A few short years ago in 2019 roughly 600,000 visitors passed through its hallowed halls. COVID-19 forced the cancellation of the 2020-2022 shows, and everyone thought it was over. Rumors of the show’s death swirled around online but the

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  • Culture
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    Let's Spend Some Time With Park City's Fleet Of Unimogs

    Park City, Utah welcomes roughly 4 million tourists a year, who spend over half a billion dollars in “the best resort town in America.” During the ski season, the economy depends on roadways being cleared to get skiers to the resorts, not to mention the Hollywood crowd during the yearly Sundance Film Festival held in January. There’s just one problem: Park City’s roads are very steep and narrow, and were developed during the mining boom in the late 1800s. At 15 feet wide, they’re difficult for m

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    The F.A.T. Ice Race Will Head To Aspen For The First Time This Week

    You’ve heard the narrative time and time again: Car culture is doomed and young enthusiasts have been robbed of the opportunity to engage in any sort of meaningful way. Mass electrification, unfavorable legislation, inflation, and price surges brought upon by the auction sites are going to kill automotive enthusiast culture as we know it.

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    The 2024 Honda Ridgeline Trailsport Can Go Up A Hill - Even In The Snow

    A few weeks ago, I learned that most trucks get hopelessly stuck when they encounter snow, especially if they aren’t equipped with dedicated snow tires. As someone who has driven all kinds of cars, equipped with all kinds of tires in some pretty serious snow for decades, this came as something of a surprise. But, I am always open to learning from my betters in the automotive media business, and from the smartest people in history, guys who pay money to use X, The Everything App.

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