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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,…

Chinese cars may not be universally dirt cheap anymore in the sense that they’re not all $10,000 subcompacts, but they’re still arguably unbeatable when it comes to value for money. This apparently applies to its supercars as well, because debuting at the Goodwood Festival of Speed is the Denza Z, a 1,580-horsepower electric two-door from…

Republicans starting yet another war in the Middle East was always destined to make oil, and therefore gas, more expensive. Especially once Iran took control of the Strait of Hormuz. But with a temporary deal in place to negotiate an end to the war, the International Energy Agency actually predicted we’d see a global oil surplus…

With all apologies to the extended Mercedes-Benz family — which claims to have invented both the car and the truck — we’re not going to rehash the ultimate origins of self-propelled vehicles today. But we’re on firmer ground talking about the first modern mass-produced truck and the person who came up with the term “pickup.” In…

You’d be hard-pressed to find someone who really, really likes the Ferrari Luce. Sure, the storied Italian automaker has built controversial cars in the past (the Purosangue, FF and F50 spring to mind), but none of them have garnered the same sort of hate that the company’s first pure-electric vehicle, first sedan and first five-seater…