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Top 10 Used Exotic Cars: Get that Aston Martin for the Price of a Honda
You may have less money these days, but you can feel free to spend it on something that brings you joy. So here are 10 ways to stick your thumb in the eye of Old Man Economy with some bargain-priced automotive decadence.Previous Reader Rides, Collector & Project Cars Stories
| Top 10 Turbocharged Cars of All Time (With Video!) The first turbocharged cars led to few sales and no significant production legacy. But since the mid-1970s certain turbo cars have pushed the art forward significantly. Here are ten of the most important and prominent.
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| 10 Cars That Damaged GM's Reputation (With Video) It's ironic that right now, just as it teeters near bankruptcy, GM has never had a stronger lineup of cars and trucks. But each of those cars is weighed down by the legacy of cars like the ten listed here.
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| Rat Rod Revolution: Is Rust the new Red on Hot Rods? As rat rods—radically raw and unpolished takes on classic hot rods—become more popular and more successful, the culture around them is changing. Check out our gallery from the Kustom Kills & Hot Rod Thrills show. (Published in the December 2008 issue)
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| The 10 Ugliest Cars in Las Vegas at SEMA 2008 There are plenty of ugly, goofy or just plain poorly-engineered cars, trucks and SUVs at SEMA. A day's worth of walking around the parking lot unearthed these gems. They are triumphs of bad taste or bad judgment.
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| Top 12 Coolest Cars at the 2008 SEMA Show One of the most interesting parts of the annual SEMA show is the sheer diversity of the cars and trucks built to either showcase specific products or just express an individual's personal taste. Here are some of the coolest cars we saw at SEMA this year.
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| 5 Top Retro Eco-Supercars: Best Fuel Sippers of the Past 34 Years Following twin energy crises in the 1970s, a new breed of cars began to appear. They were small, streamlined and, by today's standards, underpowered. But they scored big at the fuel pump.
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| Top 10 Ford Model T Tech Innovations That Matter 100 Years Later The Model T was full of clever design and engineering features, many of them quite ambitious for a low-priced vehicle. Here are the 10 most significant keys to the T's success.
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| Top 10 Weekend Wagons for $5000 on (Cheap!) Used SUV Market Here are our favorite trucks, based on an arbitrary price cap of $5000 (so you've got some cash to trick it out), plus off-road capability, interior volume, available engines, and, of course, that battle-hardened look.
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| 10 Rare Pictures From Nissan's Secret Zama Operations Center There's not much activity at Nissan's old Zama assembly plant these days, but there's more here than meets the eye. The facility is home to one of the most extensive and exclusive brand-specific car collections in the world.
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