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USAC stock car legend Don White passes
Don White (L) with USAC’s Dick Jordan. Photo courtesy USAC. Beginning in the 1950s, the Mississippi River city of Keokuk, Iowa, arguably produced more top-level dirt-track racers than another town in the United States. The last of the Big Four Read more
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How Electric Cars Could Induce The Inevitable Oil Collapse Sooner Than You Think
The oil economy will come to an end at some point. This, we know. We don’t know too much about the details of that inevitability, such as when it could happen, or what would cause it. Up until now, most Read more
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Comment Of The Day: Fiat Chrysler Wants You To Make Babies Edition
Today was a big day. Fiat Chrysler and Google announced they’d be working together on autonomous minivans. Fiat Chrysler says its doing this to learn more about autonomous tech, but maybe, just maybe, its real reason for the partnership is Read more
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Volkswagen Golf GTI Clubsport S Debuts, Sets Nürburgring Lap Record
The Volkswagen Golf GTI Clubsport S made its official debut at Wörthersee this week. The new hot hatch also just broke the record for front-wheel-drive production cars on the Nürburgring Nordschleife with a lap time of 7 minutes, 49.21 seconds. Read more
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Volkswagen GTI Clubsport S is a record-breaker that we can’t have
Filed under: Volkswagen,Hatchback,Performance Volkswagen will build just 400 of these high-performance GTIs, with 100 limited to the German market. The rest will be spread everywhere not called America. Continue reading Volkswagen GTI Clubsport S is a record-breaker that we can’t Read more
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Google, FCA make partnership official
Google and Fiat Chrysler Automobiles have made it official: they will form a partnership to further develop autonomous vehicle technology using the 2017 Chrysler Pacifica hybrid minivan. The collaboration will expand the Google Self-Driving Car Project while FCA gets a Read more
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Google and FCA will build autonomous minivans together [UPDATED]
Filed under: Green,Chrysler,Autonomous,Hybrid Google and Fiat Chrysler Automobiles confirmed a partnership Tuesday in which the two companies will collaborate on creating autonomous minivans. Continue reading Google and FCA will build autonomous minivans together [UPDATED] Google and FCA will build autonomous Read more
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Porsche Museum honors four decades of transaxle models
The Transaxle Era exhibit. Photos courtesy of Porsche AG. From Porsche’s earliest days, its road-going models used air-cooled engines mounted behind or just in front of the rear wheels. In 1976, the Stuttgart automaker deviated from this formula, introducing a Read more
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Salem, New Hampshire, 1950s
The Old Motor recently dug up this Leslie Jones/Boston Public Library photo of the Rockingham Park parking lot, so no fair peeking at their comments before looking through the cars parked here to try to identify them all, a task Read more