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Win a VIP Kindred Motorworks Experience in Napa Valley
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Over Tesla? Try These Model 3 Alternatives
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Over Tesla? Try These Model 3 Alternatives

There are several great options for those wanting to drive emission free—without baggage.

By Xavier Harding
The 6 Best Luxury Hybrid Vehicles for 2025
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The 6 Best Luxury Hybrid Vehicles for 2025

Premium automakers might be paring back their electric ambitions, but these top-tier hybrids and plug-ins have beauty and efficiency to spare. 

By Amos Kwon
The Volkswagen ID. Buzz Was Worth the Wait
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The Volkswagen ID. Buzz Was Worth the Wait

The modern reimagining of VW’s iconic microbus ranks among the best automotive releases in recent memory.

By Amos Kwon
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This Custom Porsche Carrera GT Was Rebuilt from the Ground Up

To this day, the Porsche Carrera GT remains one of our favorite cars to ever come out of Germany. The award-winning and downright gorgeous vehicle is getting a new lease on life more than fifteen years later with a Porsche Classic reconstruction for one very lucky (and presumably, absurdly rich)…

By Cooper Fleishman
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1956 Tony MV Go-Kart

We hope you didn’t bypass the part of childhood where you got to helm a zippy little go-kart on a track. The purity of tossing around a lightweight kart powered by a lawnmower engine is a fond memory and surely inspired the careers of many an auto racer back in…

By Amos Kwon
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This 1979 Mercedes-Benz 500 TE AMG Wagon Has a 5.0-Liter V8

Nowadays, everyone knows AMG as the performance arm of Mercedes-Benz that's responsible for their most wild and crazy ideas. But when they got their start more than fifty years ago, Aufrecht, Melcher and Großaspach (AMG) was basically three former Mercedes engineers souping up the German automobiles out of garage. This 1979…

By Cooper Fleishman
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JVLT 014 Motorbike By North East Custom

In a truly stunning example of art imitating life, Italy’s North East Custom bike shop has created a motorcycle that will never be ridden. Moreover, it can’t be since it’s purely an exercise in interior design. The JVLT 014 Motorbike take conventional motorcycle construction, deconstructs it, and then reinterprets it…

By Amos Kwon
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Cake Kalk& Electric Motorcycle

Cake's first two bikes, the sold out Kalk Limited Edition and the Kalk OR, are designed for off-road pleasures of the green kind, but aside from recreation and rural utility, they had to remain off pavement. The newly announced Kalk& is just that: knobby-tired off-road capability coupled with updated gearing…

By Amos Kwon
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