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Formula 1’s team principals and championship organizers voted unanimously on numerous rule revisions during a meeting on Monday. The slate of tweaks aims to reduce closing speeds between cars during races and promote flat-out driving in qualifying. The discontent over this season’s new technical regulations reached a tipping point after Oliver Bearman’s 50G crash during…

The three guys behind the Gears and Gasoline channel on YouTube (Ben, Ben, and Mark pictured above, left to right) are proper old-school car builders. They’ve got a lot of money wrapped up in their esoteric collection of automobiles, but they’re building stuff they like rather than whatever suits the YouTube algorithm. With the number…

The long-defunct Toyota Pro/Celebrity Races used to be my favorite part of the Long Beach race weekend. The annual ten-lap race was held from 1977 to 2016, raising money for area children’s hospitals, and it pitted some of the best racing drivers of all time against some of Hollywood’s best (and worst). While each racer in…

The Chevrolet Trax has earned several bragging rights since the second generation was launched in 2024. Not only is the Trax Chevy’s second-best-selling SUV, it also sits atop the entire subcompact category, outselling rivals like the Kia Seltos and Honda HR-V. Last year, the Bowtie brand sold over 200,000 examples, according to GM Authority. For…

When the fifth-generation Ram HD pickup debuted for the 2019 model year, it brought with it a raft of updates, including a revamped Cummins 6.7-liter inline-six diesel engine offering the Ram a massive 1,000 pound-feet of torque in high-output guise. The engine itself featured plenty of new parts, among them a compacted graphite iron (CGI)…

Spirit Airlines wasn’t the kind of institution that “too big to fail” was coined to describe. However, the beleaguered low-cost airline is considering offering an equity stake to the federal government in exchange for a cash injection to avoid potential liquidation. Executives from Spirit and other low-cost carriers are set to meet with Transportation Secretary…

There are a lot of reasons to be ashamed of the United States right now, but one of my favorite things about this country also happens to be one of the funniest stereotypes: we have drive-through versions of pretty much every kind of establishment you can think of. What other country makes it possible to…

Long before the automobile, Congregation Shaarey Zedek purchased land for a cemetery far outside Detroit city limits. However, thanks to urban sprawl and industrial expansion, this sleepy little cemetery is now entirely surrounded by the General Motors Factory Zero facility. It’s closed to the public except for just three hours on the Sunday before Rosh Hashanah and…

It’s never a good idea to exceed your pickup’s payload capacity, but some people don’t realize they’re doing it. A recently published patent application by General Motors describes a system that could solve that problem by detecting when a truck is overloaded and notifying the driver. It would even detect uneven loads that could cause a hazard…

This won’t be a surprise to anyone whose Instagram Reels algorithm is just those videos of dealership employees rattling off what they drive and what their monthly payment is, but the amount the average person pays to finance a car has never been higher. According to Edmunds, the average monthly payment of newly financed new…