It was the crash heard around the world: Dale Earnhardt, inarguably NASCAR’s biggest star, was killed on the last lap of the Daytona 500 on February 18, 2001. You already know that. What you may not know is how his death affected one of his best friends: Michael Waltrip, until then a journeyman driver who,
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Bill Murray, Punxsutawney Phil, and the Jeep Gladiator pickup truck took the top billings in Jeep’s Groundhog Day-inspired Super Bowl LIV commercial, but there was still plenty of room in the 60-second spot for some solid supporting roles from Stephen Tobolowsky, Brian Doyle-Murray, and … the Jeep E-Bike? Yes, right at the ad’s 38-second mark,
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After just three years on the market, Mercedes-Benz’s X-Class pickup is being discontinued. Production will cease at its assembly plant in Spain by June. If you’re unfamiliar with the X-Class, it is a midsize pickup truck that is pretty much a badge-engineered version of the Nissan Navara, the global-market version of the lowly Frontier. That little factoid
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This just in from Frankfurt: BMW is hitting the brakes on the next-generation Mini Cooper because of a small British economic snafu, Brexit. That is not, of course, the absconding of Meghan Markle and Prince Harry to Canada, but rather Britain’s exit from the European Union. As reported by Reuters, BMW claims that the current
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One of the hardest tasks the judges face every year at Best Driver’s Car is ranking the contenders—not just naming the winner, but determining the rest of the finishing order from second- to last-place. With so many worthy contenders, the 2019 Best Driver’s Car field was one of the toughest we’ve had to rank yet.
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