Have you ever wondered what types of vehicles are street-legal in your state or in neighboring states? Or maybe you’re wondering how your state’s vehicle laws stack up against the other states? In the infographic below, we’ve gathered data on the state laws that define what you’re legally
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Which Movies Had the Biggest Car Heists?
February 25, 2018The best part about a heist film is the fast getaway or chase scene that follows the robbery. Whether it’s zipping through city streets or pedal-to-the-metal on a highway, getaway cars have played a large role in many movie characters’ ability to escape capture. But you may be surprised that
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New Tesla Roadster
December 25, 20172020 Tesla Roadster – Can It Be That Good? The old Tesla Roadster was the first production car ever made by Tesla. This happened back in 2008 and at the time, it was pretty awesome. The official range figure was at 244 miles, the top power was 248 hp and torque 200 lb-ft. At the time people wer
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Drifting Guide for Beginners
August 9, 2018Before anyone goes into the whole argument about what drifting and powersliding are and if there is any difference, let me just say — who cares! We’re talking about creating oversteer and controlling it and we’ll assume you have a reasonably common car to do it with. Also, we’ll as
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Why Do Engines Lose Power
July 25, 2018If you have ever dyno-tested or tuned your used car (PLEASE INTERLINK THE TUNING ARTICLE ONCE IT IS PUBLISHED), you probably noticed that the initial dyno run results differ from what the manufacturer claims. In most cases the manufacturer did not lie, but your car actually lost some of it
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Engine Downsizing: The Good and the Bad
June 19, 2018This topic has been all the rage in the industry for a while now. There’s been a lot of talk about its onset, complaints, benefits, screams of helpless rage for the V12s, tests, questioning and now some vague claims that downsizing is dead. It can’t all be true, right? Surprisingly,
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Ferrari GTC4 Lusso tuned by Novitec
May 10, 2018For those of you not familiar with Novitec, it’s a German tuning company specialized in tuning cars that are already among the leaders of the industry. Currently they offer tuning programs for Ferrari, Lamborghini, Maserati, McLaren, Rolls-Royce and, most recently, Tesla. Basically, they take the
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Legends you can now import in the US
April 18, 2018These Cars Survived the 25-Year Ban First of all, once again we have to say just how stupid, pointless, limiting, deceptive and filled with false claims the NHTSA’s 25-year ban is. For those of you not familiar with it, it is a ban that states that a foreign car can be imported in the U.S. only w
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What is Chip Tuning
March 8, 2018If you have ever googled anything about chip tuning, ECU tuning, ECU flashing or similar, chances are you’ve seen everything from “wow, the best thing I’ve ever done” to absolute horror stories. You know what? They are both true! Just not at the same time, because the first person has
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Top 10 Mean Street-Legal Diesel Cars
February 20, 2018Long gone are the days when diesels were coughing out loads of black smoke, going marginally faster than an old lady cycling uphill and needing joint efforts of prayers, threats and tears to start on a cold winter morning. Common rail technology made them even more fuel-efficient than they used to b