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Video catches dogs ripping cars to shreds at Houston dealership
Time to call Sherlock Bones. A pack of what appear to be stray dogs has been hounding a Houston-area car dealership and causing as much as $350,000 worth of damage. The owners of G Motors in Harris County, Texas, caught the doggone canines…
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Mitsuoka M55 Concept is a Honda Civic turned into a Dodge Challenger
As the current-generation Dodge Challenger prepares to retire, Japanese coachbuilder Mitsuoka has previewed how it could keep the big coupe alive — with a twist. It unveiled a concept called M55 that puts a Challenger-inspired body on the…
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Junkyard Gem: 1987 Honda Prelude Si
When Honda introduced the original Prelude as a 1979 model, it was a sporty-looking machine with plenty of Accord components, a generous helping of luxury and convenience features, a curb weight just a bit over a ton … and not much power…
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In these states, Cash for Clunkers is back
Colorado drivers bought 9,446 electric vehicles in the most recent quarter, but Carrie Atiyeh is particularly psyched about 45 of them. Atiyeh, associate director of transportation fuels and technology at the Colorado Energy Office, is one…
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Junkyard Gem: 1986 Buick Riviera
The Buick Riviera personal luxury coupe attained monstrous proportions by the middle 1970s, scaling in at well over 4,500 pounds by 1976. After spending 1977 and 1978 as sibling to the Chevy Caprice, the Riviera then moved to the…
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PaxPower Power turns a Regular Cab F-150 XLT into a Raptor replica
The market for tuned vehicles is so large and varied that Texas-based PaxPower, at just five years old, is already a name in the pickup truck world here and abroad. One of its outlets, a Saudi Arabian Ford dealer, asked if the builder could…
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Junkyard Gem: 1970 Lincoln Continental Mark III
The story of the Continental features plenty of fascinating plot twists during its off-and-on 1940-2020 history, and one of the most interesting is the car that resulted from the decisions of the Ford Motor Company's mighty warlord during…
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Is horn honking protected free speech? The Supreme Court to decide
Did you know that in some states a friendly tap on the car horn celebrating a sports team or just for saying "I'm here" or "goodbye", can be illegal? The U.S. Supreme Court will soon decide on an odd car-related case: whether honking a car…
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Junkyard Gem: 1973 Volvo 1800ES
Volvo began selling cars in the United States with the 1956 PV444, a sturdy unibody machine that looked quite a bit like the 1946 Ford from some angles. Reliable, sensible — maybe stodgy is a better word — PV544s, Amazons and 140s…
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185,000 AutoZone customers’ personal information breached
Nearly 185,000 AutoZone customers are getting a lot more than they bargained for. The car parts retailer recently notified authorities that it had been the victim of a ransomware attack earlier this year, in which the hackers accessed the…
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