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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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World’s Fastest Pit Stop

Max Verstappen is the young Formula 1 upstart who's kicking ass and taking names in the 2019 season, and he just took the podium at the Brazilian Grand Prix. But maybe we should pay as much attention to the team's lightning-fast pit crew who just broke a record by swapping…

By Amos Kwon
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Entertainment
SlotMods 1:32 Scale F1 Slot Car Racetrack

We love slot cars, and this huge F1 track is our holy grail. It was commissioned by Formula One World Championship Limited and hand built by famed SlotMods of Detroit. The giant F1 track is peppered with hand-painted buildings, myriad fans in the stands and paddocks, real lap timing and…

By Amos Kwon
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A Complete Guide to Deep-Frying Your First Turkey

Thanksgiving is that special time of year where families come together to smile and eat a lot and grow increasingly more agitated with one another as the evening presses onward. At the end of that dark and mildly prejudiced tunnel, there’s one thing we can all look forward to: The…

By Maxwell Barna
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Transportation
The Aspark Owl Hits 60 MPH in 1.69 Seconds

If the 0-60 time of 2.4 seconds by the 1,500-horsepower Bugatti Chiron or the 1,244-horsepower Hennessey Venom feels a bit tepid for your speed-hungry self, there's a new heavy-hitter in the form of the Japanese-made Aspark Owl. Though we're not sure why it's named after a sluggish nocturnal bird, the…

By Amos Kwon
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Ferrari Roma Coupe

The new Roma eschews the overly vented looks of its stablemates in favor of simple sexiness evocative of the La Dolce Vita period in Rome during the '50s and '60s. The new car is Ferrari's latest offering, and while it harkens back to iconic Ferraris like the 250GT Berlinetta Lusso,…

By Amos Kwon
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