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Musk: Tesla Roadster Will Use SpaceX Tech and Have Rocket Boosters

The Truth About Cars

Tesla presented the “new” Roadster back in 2017, but the car isn’t expected to officially launch until next year. CEO Elon Musk has made some big promises about the car, including that it could break the one-second 0-60 mph time barrier. It’s going to be really cool. It’s going to have some rocket technology in it.”

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The 2025 Infiniti QX80 Ditches V8 and Picks Up Concept Styling

The Truth About Cars

It gets neat features like a new biometric cooling system that can detect when second-row passengers are feeling hot and direct air toward them. Stepping up to the Sensory trim brings the price tag to $102,640, and the range-topping Autograph trim costs $112,590. Optional air suspension can raise and lower the SUV by 1.2

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Junkyard Find: Gray-Market 1981 Mercedes-Benz 380 SEL

The Truth About Cars

Of all the European-market new cars that flooded into the United States during the wild gray-market years of the early and middle 1980s , the Mercedes-Benz W126 S-Class appears to have been the most popular. Today's Junkyard Find is one of those cars, found in a self-service boneyard near Denver, Colorado. This car has one.

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King of Cool: Electric Meyers Manx beach buggy confirmed for 2023

EV Central

Freedom, fun, sexiness – the Meyers Manx beach buggy is the car you wish you were cool (and young) enough to own. Electric is the brand’s first all-new vehicle in six decades, and good grief it looks cool as all hell. A bit more sophisticated than a donor air-cooled VW Beetle then. The rear-drive Meyers Manx 2.0

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2020's Top Ten Best EVs!

EVolution

We will be ranking vehicles on three factors, their real-world range, their price, and quite frankly, how cool they are! Tesla is arguably the most prestigious brand in the EV sector and it’s no lie to say they have been innovators in the field, but do their cars still hold up to 2020 standards? Cool: 2nd MG ZS EV. Range: 8th.

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Junkyard Find: 1959 Renault Dauphine

The Truth About Cars

French cars have been junkyard rarities in North America for decades now, which is an ongoing disappointment for those of us who enjoy poring over machinery that ranges from fascinating to baffling in our local Ewe Pullets. If you wanted a new four-door car with a real heater that year, though, the Dauphine was by far your cheapest option.

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2023 Toyota Prius Limited Review – Finally a Worthy Choice

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To be sure, the Prius is no sports car. liter four-cylinder/electric motor pairing – 194 horsepower now for front-wheel drive models like my test car, and 139 lb-ft of torque for all models – erases the pokiness of the past and brings the car up to date. mpg -- and the computer wasn't reset when I picked up the car.

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