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It’s easy to love your car when you first get it. There’s a sense of newness and buzzy excitement around a new car. Presumably you spent a lot of money on it, and you want to justify it to yourself and others how great an idea it was and worth every penny to boot. But…

Hey fellow Millennial, when you reenacted the iconic scene from “Free Willy” when Willy (the orca whale) jumps over the rocky barrier and his friend Jesse to the ocean, did you picture yourself as Jesse, or Willy? For those of us who prefer the chaotic freedom of an airborne 8,000-pound aquatic mammal, a Northern California company has…

A tractor-trailer barreling down the highway is a rolling wall of steel and rubber that isn’t able to stop as quickly as a standard passenger car. When things go wrong with a machine of this scale, the results are catastrophic. While heavy commercial vehicles constitute about 5% of all vehicles on American roadways in recent years, they…

Sensational English drummer Peter Edward “Ginger” Baker, of supergroup Cream fame, was known for his psychedelic styling, aggressive mannerisms, and African-influenced percussive timing. The band burned hot and fast, making four iconic albums in under three years before breaking up in 1968. After bouncing around in a few other bands, including Blind Faith, Baker decided to…

One of the Slate Truck’s main selling points, besides its low price, is its enormous customization potential, with options, features, and particularly wraps limited only by the owner’s imagination. It’s kind of like giving owners the classic Crayola 64-pack of crayons and telling them to go to town. That may be why Slate and Crayola…

Due to the United States’ Christian religious origins, there are a number of what are known as blue laws on the books to prohibit or limit the sale of certain products — or limit certain activities — on Sunday. They range from alcohol to horse racing, and even clothing in some instances. Back in 1961,…

There’s something mesmerizing about watching a car succumb to extreme physics. It’s why rubber-necking a crash is such a thing. It’s just disgustingly thrilling to watch chaos happen in person (and of course one hopes no one gets seriously hurt). So this safety video shared by the Studebaker National Museum is natural catnip to fervent watchers of…

On July 10, China achieved a huge milestone as a space power by successfully recovering the first stage of the Long March 10B rocket on its very first flight. This makes it only the second nation and only the third entity to do so with an orbit-worthy rocket, behind America’s SpaceX and Blue Origin. This…

We’ve talked a lot about Flock cameras and the dangers they can pose to your privacy, but as one fellow automotive journalist recently found out, they can actually pose a physical danger as well. The Drive’s Director of Content and Product (and one of my dear friends), Joel Feder, and his wife found themselves on…

The Dodge Tomahawk always rubbed me the wrong way. It’s not the idea of a motorcycle wrapped around an enormous car engine that bothered me, but the fact that it has four wheels. Allen Millyard agreed with that assessment and built a proper two-wheeled, Viper-powered motorcycle of his own. And now, it can be yours,…