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The Audi Guy Drives a BYD
A honeymooning couple from Hamburg, a 2007 Audi with 200,000 km on it, and their friend at Audi who drives a BYD.
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The Screen Door
Bugatti hides its touchscreen in the dashboard. Slate deletes it to save money. Everyone in the middle still gets the glass.
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Fathom That
Slate cut the tech. Ford just retired the assembly line it invented. Two kinds of cheap truck, one affordability war.
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The 5 A.M. Auto Show
Where it all started: Cobo Hall in January, a grandfather who taught, a brother who shared the driver's seat, and the city that made cars matter.
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A Month With a Mustang
Through work, I got a 2024 Mustang EcoBoost for the month of April. White knuckles on I-94, a pony on the pavement, and the best startup sound in the business.
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Judging Every Car on the Way to Traverse City
Four hours up I-75 with my dad, judging every new car we passed. Kia and Hyundai are building spaceships. Jeep finally stuck the landing.
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From the Mailbag: The $10,500 Truck
A reader sent the story of a base-model 1993 Ranger, bought fresh out of college for $10.5K. Turns out the affordable-truck moment has happened before.
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I Ordered an Audi and Got a BMW X5
Hertz promised "an Audi Q5 or something similar." Something similar turned out to have a steering wheel like butter and way too many screens.
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Living With the 2024 Ford Edge ST-Line
A year in the Edge ST-Line: the good, the annoying, and what we lose now that the Edge is gone.
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Is the Future Minimalistic?
Slate built a $25,000 truck with no touchscreen and no paint, and a generation raised on tweeting refrigerators might be exactly who it's for.
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