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The title of this YouTube video is "There's Some Big Competition In Racing These Days." You'll get it.
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OH, CANADA?
The Biggest Car Importers To The US By Country, Visualized
The majority of cars sold in the US are imported from foreign countries, but which countries do we buy from the most?
You've Found A Mysterious Race Car Lost To History. Now What?
On the track, it racked up wins. Off the track, it racked up rumor. Its speed was a dream come true. Its handling could be a nightmare. And when the race car vanished, it became the stuff of legend and lore.
KEEP UP THE MOMENTUM
How To Stay Safe And Keep In Control While Snow Driving
An engineer explains the science of stopping distances and winter tires.
SKELETONS IN THE TRUNK
This Is Probably The Grossest Car Wash Ever
When you're washing a car that's been left in the woods to basically rot for 10 years, things aren't going to be too pretty.
GOING IN CIRICLES
The Culture Wars Of Car Racing
Grimy, daring and deadly, dirt-track racing has become a magnet for fans — and a threat to the Nascar status quo.
BIKE LANES ARE FOR BIKES
Look At This Idiot Driver
Cyclists in downtown Chicago encountered an unexpected obstacle on Wednesday: a car that had somehow driven into a dedicated bike lane.
IT'S NOT AUTOPILOT
Drivers Wildly Overestimate What 'Semi-Autonomous' Cars Can Do
A new study out of Europe shows drivers think too much of semi-autonomous systems now being sold by Mercedes, Audi, BMW, Tesla and others.
A CRASH COURSE
Why People Keep Rear-Ending Self-Driving Cars
Most crashes are minor, few are newsworthy. But taken together, they present a picture of how these tests are progressing, and how well robots are sharing the road.
HISS, HISS, BOOM
Guy Learns The Hard Way What Happens When You Overfill Your Car Tire
As it turns out, you can't just keep pumping air into your tire!
'RULES NEED NOT APPLY'
The BMW M3 GTR Bent The Rules To Beat Everyone
BMW was tired of Porsche winning everything. This car changed that. Nearly 20 years later, we get behind the wheel of the GTR to see just how it works.
THE DEBT COLLECTORS
How A Subprime Auto Lender Consumed Detroit
The extent of Credit Acceptance’s well-oiled debt collection machine is perhaps best illustrated in the company’s backyard: Detroit.
THANK GOD HE WAS OKAY
This Drag Car Race Gone Wrong Is Exactly Why A Racer's Parachute Is So Important
Because if your parachutes don't work, you're unlikely to end up as lucky as Pro Mod racer Mike Bowman does here.
BURNING MAD MAX
The Strangest Desert Festival In The World
The post-apocalypse is a nice place to spend the weekend. This year, some 4,100 people trekked out to an enormous, dusty patch of rocks, scrub, and dirt near Edwards, California to do just that.
HOLD ON TIGHT
Who Needs The 'Fast And Furious' Movies When You Can Have Insane Drone Footage Of A Rally Car Racing Through A Mountain
We don't know which is more impressive — the rally car drifting on a torturous mountain road or the drone that's capturing all this glorious footage.
THE HUMAN COST OF 'DRIVING WHILE BLACK'
How 20 Years Of Stop And Search Has Widened America's Racial Divide
A police push to seize guns from cars ended in disproportionate numbers of black people getting arrested for minor crimes.
MODEL BEHAVIOR
Tesla Model 3 Achieves Lowest Probability Of Injury Of Any Vehicle Ever Tested
NHTSA has released its probability of injury stats for the Tesla Model 3 and it achieved the lowest probabilities of any vehicle ever tested by the agency — arguably making the electric car the safest based on the standard.
MOTHER EARTH IS ANGRY
Unbelievable Flood Waters Cover California Roads
We bring you a scene from Kettleman City, California, which, according to Wikipedia, averages about 7.12 inches of precipitation per year. This looks like it might be more than that.
A ROUGH DRIVE AHEAD
The Future Of Electric Car Design Has Yet To Be Written
At its heart, the car industry remains a deeply conservative one.
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