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CarTrek Season 8 is the nightmare of EVs and a brilliant ode to the internal combustion engine

Fuel economy. Who needs it?! Sane people, maybe, but CarTrek does not star the kind of people that would value 30 miles per gallon or 132 hp 4-cylinder engines in a 2013 Toyota Corolla LE. CarTrek stars a trio of YouTubers, Ed Bolian, Tyler Hoovie, and Freddy Hernandez, who value cars that go fast, guzzle

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CarTrek is back for Season 7 with some hot and broken imports!

It’s always a good day when a new season of CarTrek rolls into town and lucky for us Top Gear and Grand Tour Fans, Ed, Freddy, and Tyler have delivered once more! Following in the footsteps of the previous six seasons, the gang has procured terrible examples of some stunning automobiles with one catch: they

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The Shmeemobiles Collection has officially been appraised and I can’t even count that high!

They’ve done Hoovie’s Garage, they’ve done Stradman, and the VINWiki appraisal team is still at it! And this week’s collection is a real doozy. You might be familiar with the “Shmeemobiles“, Tim “Shmee” Burton’s eye-popping collection of some of the world’s most incredible cars. Nestled between his more “sensible” Ford Focus RS Heritage and Renault

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I spent an afternoon at Super Sunday, Sacramento’s personal Monterey Car Week

You all know about Monterey Car Week. That little car show that’s considered the automotive enthusiast’s Mecca and attracts thousands upon thousands of people from all over the world? Yeah, that one. Having experienced it for the first time last year, I can attest that the green fields of The Quail and Pebble Beach mixed

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How much is Stradman’s incredible 15 car collection worth? VINWiki has the answers

The VINWiki appraisal train continues! After thoroughly dissecting Hoovie’s Hooptie Fleet a couple of weeks ago, Ed Bolian, John Temerian, and John Ficarra are back together for another round of financial fun featuring a well-known YouTuber’s cars. This time on the table is TheStradman, YouTuber extraordinaire and owner of some of the most eye-popping cars

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Pulling back the curtain on the magical world of automotive prints

Prints and paintings are cool. Having a physical interpretation of what you or someone else and hanging it up for display somewhere in your abode serves both as a way of showing off the skills of the photographer as well as whatever unimaginable beauty the scene portrays. Not only can they encapsulate the beauty of

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Just how much is Tyler Hoover’s hooptie fleet worth?

Have you ever looked at a YouTuber’s car collection and wondered just what kind of value that garage is holding? Perhaps you have, but the thought of scouring the internet for values and narrowing them down to that specific example was just too much effort. Perhaps you haven’t at all, in which case this post

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Route | Mill Valley is Northern California’s first communal garage and it’s much cooler than you think

Any group, regardless of hobby, needs some sort of gathering place. A clubhouse, if you will. Having a spot where you and your like-minded peers can get together and partake in whatever makes your heart skip a beat sounds like a home away from home. For automotive enthusiasts, that kind of place usually takes the

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Patrick Adair’s Taco Bell-wrapped 720S is a bold take on exotic liveries

Owning an exotic car makes you stand out, there are no ifs or buts about that. It’s a showpiece that leads people to assume any number of things, whether true or otherwise, about your personality even before they’ve met you. That’s the power of an exotic car. For some though, purely owning one is just

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This guy makes authentic JDM merchandise based on everyday life

If you’ve spent any amount of time around the JDM merchandise “scene”, you’re doubtlessly aware of the designs that are popular on stickers, banners, shirts, and the like. More often than not, they’ll be some kind of combination between sakura flowers, a ludicrous amount of Kanji, and probably Hokusai’s “The Great Wave off Kanagawa” somewhere

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This man owns a one of 1,163 Fiat Dino and is not afraid to drive it

In the mid-1960s, Ferrari was in a pinch. The FIA had just created new rules that said any engines used in F2 cars needed to have at most six cylinders, be derived from a production engine, and be homologated in the GT class by having at least 500 examples of road-going cars equipped with the

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The real story of the almost mythological Porsche 959

Fast, futuristic, and legendary. The Porsche 959. Once a Group B Rally Car and homologated production vehicle, the 959 was Porsche’s first supercar and was able to reach a top speed of 197 mph. Unfortunately, due to Porsche’s unwillingness to provide the Department of Transportation with the four cars require for crash testing, the 959

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I bought a Nissan 300ZX as my first project car and it’s slower than my Corolla

Ladies and gentlemen, inline 4s and V8s, the day has finally come. I have acquired my very own project car. Now it’s not a project car in the sense that every panel is full of nature’s weight reduction and the dash resembles Death Valley. It’s a project car more so in the way that it

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I hated lowriders. Then I got to work with them and I was wrong

I never got lowriders. Why would you ruin a car by putting comically small wheels on it and pointless bouncy suspension? Is this a classic car or one of Dumbo’s clown partners? Needless to say, I did my best to avoid them and stuck to my comfort zone of Japanese cars and exotics. Then the

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Tales from Eastern Europe: The Trabant

Being born in Romania meant that I was pretty familiar with a good number of Eastern European cars both from that time and from the Communist era. I had seen everything from Dacias to Wartburgs, Moskvitches, Ladas, and everything in between. There was one car, however, that I was even more familiar with than the

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Tales from Eastern Europe: The Dacia of my Childhood

If you ask most car enthusiasts about their childhood car(s), they’ll likely say something along the lines of “Oh yeah that was the car that got me into cars!” That’s because childhood cars, alongside Hot Wheels or Matchboxes, are the catalysts for a lifelong hobby. Not only that but they become more than just cars,

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The Magic of Driving a Slow Car Fast

I’ve often heard the saying that “driving a slow car fast is more fun than driving a fast car fast.” While I, unfortunately, have yet to experience the latter, I have spent plenty of time doing the former. Gather around the fire and let me spin you the tale of my slow car. When I

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