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Toyota Marketing Material From the Year 2000 Will Transport You to the Land of Low-Rise Jeans and Baby Spice | Autance
YearsAgo Update: YearsAgo You remember the Toyota Echo, right? What about Toyota’s Flaming Lips music collab? Isthisatoyota.com?The Second-Gen Honda Insight Might Have Looked a Lot Cooler if It Skipped Late-Stage Design Tweaks | Autance
YearsAgo Update: YearsAgo We dug up some interesting docs on the second-gen Insight’s development.
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Appalachia’s Roads Are Under-Appreciated Driving Goodness | Autance
YearsAgo Update: YearsAgo Maybe I’ve been deft of good driving roads, but West Virginia, Southwest Pennsylvania, and even Pittsburgh have great driving roads. Am I crazy?
Wrenching
A Junkyard’s Price List Can Let You Know if a Car Is Reliable | Autance
YearsAgo Update: YearsAgo While I’m doing the math to see if a car’s worth restoring and re-selling, I use Car-Part’s national database of junkyards to see what parts cost.
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Why Are So Many Car Touchscreens Still So Slow? | Autance
YearsAgo Update: YearsAgo It seems like in-car connectivity is still surprisingly far behind phone tech.Attention Nerds: SEAT Is Just Spanish Pontiac | Autance
YearsAgo Update: YearsAgo Isn’t SEAT a bit redundant?My First Trip in the $800 Daewoo Involved Building a Makeshift Power Steering Line on the Side of the Road | Autance
YearsAgo Update: YearsAgo Despite some hardships this cheap orphan car did make it home. And soon, it will be racing.
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The Buick Regal’s TPMS Was the Bane of My Teenage Existence | Autance
YearsAgo Update: YearsAgo Older people were not fond of this newfangled technology and the little light that went with it.
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I Finished My Daewoo ‘Race Car’ Just in Time for This Weekend’s Rainbow Road Rallycross | Autance
YearsAgo Update: YearsAgo I found plenty of rust to fight, had to re-do some of my own work, and scramble for parts nobody had in stock, but we’re ready now.