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Win a VIP Kindred Motorworks Experience in Napa Valley
By Cool Material
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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Perch

Putting your bike on a kickstand in the middle of your bedroom isn't exactly the ideal storage location, what with getting around and all. Sure if you have a garage you're all set, but for the city folk and apartment dwellers there are far better places to store your fixed gear. One…

By Mike Newman
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Inner City Bikes

At first glance you may think these are some new kind of rides for Batman. Like the Dark Knight jumped on the eco-friendly bandwagon but still needed something totally different to ride around than the average city dweller—a Bat-Bike.  Inner City Bikes look radically different than what you'd think of when…

By Mike Newman
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Hamboards

We have serious envy of Hawaiian residents who work at small shops to make just enough money for a place and spend the rest of their days surfing. Paradise (except we'd miss our gadgets). However, even those who live on the beach can't be riding waves all day, there's that in-between…

By Mike Newman
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Cool Material Test Drives Scion iQ

The first time I saw a Scion cruising down the road about 5 or 6 years ago, I thought “What is that?” It didn’t really impress me or impact me much at all, but I remembered the name Scion and I began to see the Toyota owned company grow. Unbeknownst…

By Kevin Jacobsen
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The Flying Pigeon Traditional Complete Bike

People much smarter than us have been saying for ages that history repeats itself. That's true in some sort of big picture sense, but we're more interested in the here and now which means reinvention instead of repetition. Here's the thing: more than 60 years ago, an iconic bicycle called…

By Cooper Fleishman
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