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How to Buy Your First Project Car Without Torching Your Bank Account and Your Driveway
Every gearhead dreams of it: dragging home a scruffy classic, wrenching on it in the garage, and rolling out in…
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Winterize Your Car Now, or Old Man Winter Will Leave You Stranded on the Shoulder
Winter is the great equalizer. It doesn’t care how much horsepower you have or how new your car is –…
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The EPA Just Blessed SEMA’s Emissions Program, but That Word ‘Certified’ Is Doing Some Heavy Lifting
Here’s the thing about the news that SEMA “earned EPA emissions certification”: SEMA didn’t get certified. Its program got recognized.…
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California Just Told Robotaxi Companies: Break the Law, Pay Up
For years, one of the strangest gaps in California traffic law was that a car with no human behind the…
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Jeff Gordon Just Made NASCAR History Like No Driver Ever Has
The Indianapolis Motor Speedway Museum has done something it has never done before, and it took a four-time Cup Series…
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What ‘Restomod’ Really Means, and Why the Purists Need to Chill Out
Say the word “restomod” in the wrong crowd and someone will accuse you of ruining a classic. Say it in…
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Arizona Woman Floored It to 108 MPH for a ‘Love Island’ Deadline, and State Law Turned That Into a Crime
There are dumb reasons to bury the throttle, and then there’s rushing home to, according to wthrcom on Instagram, catch…
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Your First Track Day Survival Guide: Don’t Be the Rookie Who Wrecks the Car
There is no legal, safer, or more addictive way to actually find out what your car can do than a…
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Manual vs. Automatic: The Fight That Refuses to Die, Finally Settled
There is no argument in car culture more tired, more emotional, or more gloriously unwinnable than manual vs. automatic. Bring…
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This Week at Backfire: Everything You Missed From June 29 to July 3
It was a packed week at Backfire News, with 32 stories spanning eye-watering auction cars, wild theft capers, motorsport drama,…
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Your Car Starts Bleeding Cash the Second You Drive It Off the Lot, Here’s How to Slow the Bleeding
Depreciation is the most expensive part of owning a car, and it’s the one nobody at the dealership wants to…
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Decoding Your Tire Sidewall: The Secret Language Stamped Right on Your Rubber
Your tires are covered in a cryptic string of numbers and letters that looks like a password, and most drivers…