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"Vision" Is The New "Concept" Except We Still Call Them "Vision Concepts"

Kevin Barrett
10/02/15 2:08am
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Remember when car companies would show you an outlandish car with outrageous styling, fantastic technologies, and almost zero production potential, and they called them “concepts?” The word “concept” used to be enough. It told you not to expect to see in a show room what you were seeing on the show floor, but that the…

Washington Mazda Dealer Can't Move This Launch Edition 2016 MX-5

Kevin Barrett
8/04/15 4:00pm
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Here we have a brand new 2016 Mazda MX-5 “Launch Edition,” one example of the just 1,000 copies made for the first year of the most hotly anticipated car of the last ten years. Can you guess why it isn’t sold?

What Is The Best/Worst "Ran When Parked" Listing In Your Area?

Kevin Barrett
7/30/15 4:37am
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Late night Craigslist crawling led me to search the terms “ran when parked.” Then I found this 1951 tandem axle GMC which was honest-to-god running fine immediately before three trees grew up through its frame. What can you find in your area?

Any Seattle Area Jalops Looking For A Project?

Kevin Barrett
7/26/15 4:07am
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Here we have a rare 1980 Toyota Cressida “Woody” Wagon, located in North Bend, Washington. It is lowered, discretely caged, and carries a 4.0L 32-Valve V8 under its long hearing-aid beige hood.

To Straight Pipe Or Not To Straight Pipe

Kevin Barrett
7/26/15 12:20am
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Looking for Miata vines, I found Nick, in Texas, who is one move ahead of me in the Loud Miata game. I see what looks like a Borla Sport dual exhaust, and Nick is claiming a straight pipe as well. Of those, I lack the straight pipe, but I’ve found a Racing Beat race connecting pipe for $100...

What Would You Drive In Mad Max's World?

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5/28/15 2:07am
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Now that we’ve all had a couple of weeks to revel in George Miller’s latest vision of post-apocalyptic car culture, what would you drive in the world of Mad Max? It’s easy to get carried away with the possibilities, so let me lay down some ground rules:

Can You Draw Your Car's Face With A Single Line Of Text?

Kevin Barrett
3/16/15 8:17pm
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I've been seeing obscure one-line ASCII drawings in some of the signatures here on Oppo, and it took me a while to guess that people were drawing their cars' faces. I thought I'd give it a try with my 2001 Miata.

'84 Ford Tempo Diesel?  '84 Ford Tempo Diesel!

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3/11/15 4:08pm
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A friend of mine linked me to this oddball Craigslist find: a time capsule 1984 Ford Tempo GLX 5-Speed for the slightly bonkers price of $4,000. Obviously they're counting on the collectibility of this specimen to ask four figures for a 30 year old Tempo with 104,700 miles, especially when the tachometer and…

I Just Gave An Aircraft Engine A Makeover

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3/07/15 2:32am
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In my fourth quarter at South Seattle's Aerospace Maintenance Technology school, I just finished giving an ancient motor a makeover, rebuilding everything around the engine except the engine itself, and I learned quite a bit.

Trooper Shoots Medical Courier For Seatbelt Violation

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9/25/14 3:53pm
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In a disturbing trend of unwarranted police violence, a South Carolina officer fired four rounds at a medical courier after tricking him into fumbling for his license and registration.

Grandma's Pignose 240SX FOR $9,550.00

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7/29/14 5:39am
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It's time to sell your trombone from high school band, and check the prices on the Star Wars figurines your roommate didn't open, because on eBay right now is one twenty-four year-old Nissan 240SX with almost 44,000 miles on the clock. It's all original, and it's clean:

Gawker Wants You To Read SPLOID's Terrible Articles

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2/12/14 3:13am
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Ever notice lately how the quality of Gizmodo articles have been edging upward? Perhaps you read io9 or Jalopnik? If you pay attention to who writes the articles you enjoy so much, you'll notice all the authors that pissed you off with sensationalized headlines, sloppy editing, and poor interpretation of statistics,…

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