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It’s Time to Upgrade Your Gas Station Lighter
Lifestyle
It’s Time to Upgrade Your Gas Station Lighter
By Beau Hayhoe
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Lifestyle
Puerto Vallarta Beyond the Beach: A Journey Through Art & Culture

A guide to the galleries, murals, sculptures, and musical performances worth seeking out between beach days.

By Cool Material
This 114-Mile Bike Route Is One of the Best Ways to See Washington This 114-Mile Bike Route Is One of the Best Ways to See Washington
Lifestyle
This 114-Mile Bike Route Is One of the Best Ways to See Washington

A three-day ride along former railways takes you through the Cascades and all the way into Seattle.

By Brandon Withrow
The World’s Highest Distillery Just Made the Perfect End-of-Summer Whiskey The World’s Highest Distillery Just Made the Perfect End-of-Summer Whiskey
Lifestyle
The World’s Highest Distillery Just Made the Perfect End-of-Summer Whiskey

Breckenridge Distillery’s newest bottle starts with some of the most coveted peaches in America.

By Beau Hayhoe
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Ultima Sports Ultima RS Supercar

For decades, Ultima Sports Ltd of Hinckley, Leicestershire, England has been creating unique, iconic, high performance supercars for those discerning individuals with pocketbooks large enough to foot the bill. The Ultima GT-R was a good enough base to form one of the 8 coolest cars from the Gumball 3000, but…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Ferrari Diecast Racing League Tournament

In what was most certainly news to us, there's an entire racing league and tournament not only dedicated to Ferrari, but dedicated to tiny, scale-model Ferraris specifically dedicated to slot-car style racing. Ultimately, that pseudo-Ferrari Fiero, along with a few others like the--the Ferrari 348, Ferrari 458 Italia, and Ferrari…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Joseph Robinson Z Electric Motorcycle Concept

From large, household brand names to small upstarts, electric motorcycles are all the rage these days, and for good reason. Sooner or later, we're going to run out of fossil fuels and, even if that weren't on the horizon, there's something to be said for instant power and torque delivered…

By Cooper Fleishman
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This 2013 Shelby Cobra Daytona Coupe is Going to Auction

Carroll Shelby is, without a doubt, one of the most prolific and influential car designers that ever lived. While he's certainly best known for his work on the Ford GT, Mustangs and Cobras, the Shelby Cobra Dayona is one of our personal favorite works of his because, in addition to…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Food
IKEA Made a Full-Sized Version of the Pizza Table with Pizza Hut

We could spend more time than we'd like to admit discussing details about everyone's favorite budget Swedish furniture manufacturer from the things you never knew about IKEA to the most iconic IKEA products ever produced. But at the end of the day, as much we love Billy bookcases for tomes…

By Cooper Fleishman
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