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• Texas unveils new vanity plates to raise money for state

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  Filed under: Government/Legal, Humor

  Texas' new vanity license plates - Click above for high-res image gallery
  
  Every state in the union is facing huge budget deficits and a number have turned to license plates as a way to raise some fast cash. First was' [...]

  Posted: November 26, 2009, 9:00am EST
  by John Neff

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• Funny Car Commercial of the Day: Politically Correct Edition

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  Filed under: Marketing/Advertising, Videos, Volkswagen, Humor

  Volkswagen loves everyone - Click above to watch the video after the break
  Nowadays, being politically correct is of the utmost importance to companies the world over, and that includes automakers. Especially Volkswagen, apparently. Judging from [...]

  Posted: November 11, 2009, 4:56pm EST
  by Jeremy Korzeniewski

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• VIDEO: Drag racing Chevy C6 Corvette owner shoulda bought a ZR1

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  Filed under: Motorsports, Coupe, Performance, Videos, Chevrolet, Humor

  
  Corvette C6 w/Nitrous Oxide - Click image to watch the video
  Or at least a Z06. Now, we're all for drag racing - it's one of the purest forms of sport [...]

  Posted: November 11, 2009, 12:29pm EST
  by Jonny Lieberman

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• Funny Car Commercial of the Day: Serious automotive testing

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  Filed under: Marketing/Advertising, Videos, Humor

  Serious automotive testing - Click above to watch the video after the break
  These days, cars and trucks need to pass a slew of strict testing procedures before they can be certified for sale. Included among these procedures [...]

  Posted: November 10, 2009, 4:29pm EST
  by Jeremy Korzeniewski

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• Total Croc: Porsche suing popular shoe company over naming rights?

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  Filed under: Etc., Europe, Government/Legal, Porsche, Humor

  Porsche AG is known for vigorously defending its intellectual property. It's understandable, as the company has spent more than half a century building its performance-oriented automotive brand around design patents, logos, and the company's' [...]

  Posted: November 10, 2009, 3:33pm EST
  by Michael Harley

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• VIDEO: Top Gear Season 14 returns this Sunday

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  Filed under: Europe, Videos, Celebrities, Humor

  Jeremy Clarkson returns for Top Gear Season 14 - Click above to watch video after the jump
  Guess what boys and girls? Everyone's favorite car-related show is coming back for a fourteenth season! That's fantastic news [...]

  Posted: November 10, 2009, 1:58pm EST
  by Jonny Lieberman

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• Turn the Dodge Viper logo upside down and guess who appears...

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  Filed under: Convertible, Coupe, Performance, Etc., Dodge, Humor

  
  
  Stonehenge, Rosebud, The Wizard of Oz and Pink Floyd - all have confounded us with their hidden meanings. And to that list we now add the logo for the [...]

  Posted: November 09, 2009, 6:38pm EST
  by Jonathon Ramsey

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• VIDEO: Bacardi, Maserati, and Michael Schumacher get shaken, not stirred

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  Filed under: Etc., Marketing/Advertising, Videos, Maserati, Humor

  
  Click above to watch the video after the jump
  After seven Formula One World Championships and more records than your local second-hand vinyl shop, Michael Schumacher has proven incredibly adept at driving a [...]

  Posted: November 09, 2009, 12:31pm EST
  by Noah Joseph

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• For an Imperfect World: The Official Rules of Shotgun

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  Filed under: Humor

  
  
  In a perfect world, we'd all have our own wheels. But as we all discovered in our childhood years, we don't live in a perfect world. That's where the time-honored tradition of the Shotgun comes in.
  
  Calling Shotgun is a [...]

  Posted: November 08, 2009, 3:46pm EST
  by Noah Joseph

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• Jay Leno And Csaba Csere Roast Bob Lutz

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  Jay Leno wasn’t present for the roast of Bob Lutz, but he did check in via video with a few jokes about Bob’s age. Luckily, former Car and Driver editor Csaba Csere decided to mine a richer vein of humor, digging into Lutz for his Merkur branding debacle and his [...]

  Posted: November 08, 2009, 2:22pm EST
  by Edward Niedermeyer

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• VIDEO: Mind the pole, please

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  Filed under: Etc., Safety, Videos, Humor

  Spectacular pole mishap - Click above to watch video
  Spending all day blogging from the comfort of our mothers' basements and/or top-secret Dr. No-style lairs, we sometimes forget that there's a world out there filled with' [...]

  Posted: November 07, 2009, 8:00pm EST
  by Jonathon Ramsey

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• Laptop steering wheel desk is real. And real funny.

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  Filed under: Aftermarket, Etc., Humor

  You know, when we're driving along, eating buffalo wings and trying to manage a Super Slurpee while playing Cooking Dash on the iPhone, it sure would be helpful to have a place to keep all that stuff organized.' [...]

  Posted: November 07, 2009, 9:01am EST
  by Alex Nunez

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• SEMA 2009: What we didn't get to cover

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  Filed under: Concept Cars, Motorsports, SEMA Show, Classics, Performance, Etc., Motorcycle, Humor, Specialty, Design/Style, Off-Road

  
  2009 SEMA Show Las Vegas - Click above for high-res image gallery
  Every year at SEMA, we [...]

  Posted: November 06, 2009, 7:30pm EST
  by Frank Filipponio

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• Funny Car Commercial of the Day: Ready for winter?

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  Filed under: Marketing/Advertising, Videos, Humor

  Ready for Winter? Click above to watch the video after the break
  As someone who happened to have grown up in snowy climes of the Great Lakes States for the first 25 years of life, this author knows [...]

  Posted: November 06, 2009, 6:01pm EST
  by Jeremy Korzeniewski

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• VIDEO: Ford press conference yields surprise $650 car announcement

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  Filed under: Videos, Ford, Humor

  Ford makes surprise $650 car announcement - click above image to watch the video
  Between the hysteria of this week's SEMA Show and Chrysler's never-ending (and partially baffling) revelations yesterday, a shocking announcement by Ford' [...]

  Posted: November 06, 2009, 12:20pm EST
  by Jonny Lieberman

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• VIDEO: Dogs like trucks. Leopards apparently prefer Audis.

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  Filed under: Coupe, Etc., Videos, Audi, Humor

  A leopard chills in his Audi TT - Click above to watch the video
  You've pretty much achieved Tony Montana status when you can keep a big cat as a pet. But how do' [...]

  Posted: November 01, 2009, 4:32pm EST
  by Alex Nunez

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• Make it stop: Bad landau tops

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  Filed under: Sedan, Buick, Ford, Humor, Design/Style

  
  Silly landau tops - Click above image for high-res image gallery
  Landau tops. Frankly, some are fine. Show us, say, a mid-to-late '70s Olds Cutlass or Lincoln Town Coupe gussied up accordingly' [...]

  Posted: November 01, 2009, 1:51pm EST
  by Alex Nunez

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• How to Almost Die While Waiting for AAA

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  A sense of humor will get you through anything . . . [...]

  Posted: November 01, 2009, 9:46am EST
  by Robert Farago

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• Happy Halloween from Autoblog

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  Filed under: Motorsports, Truck, Videos, Chevrolet, Humor, Off-Road

  Smashing a giant pumpkin with Grave Digger - Click above to watch the video
  Those punk kids who TP your neighborhoods and smash pumpkins on mischief night? Rank amateurs. If you [...]

  Posted: October 31, 2009, 10:13am EDT
  by Alex Nunez

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• Funny Car Commercial of the Day: Never judge a book mascot by its cover

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  Filed under: Marketing/Advertising, Videos, Ford, Humor

  Never judge a book mascot by its cover - Click above to watch the video after the break
  Ever see those poor men and women out on a hot and sunny summer day dressed up in [...]

  Posted: October 30, 2009, 7:00pm EDT
  by Jeremy Korzeniewski

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• VIDEO: SHO vs. SHO on The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien

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  Filed under: Sedan, Performance, Videos, Ford, Humor

  
  SHO vs. SHO - Click above to watch video after the jump
  As we reported yesterday, the 2010 Ford Taurus SHO made a guest appearance on The Tonight Show with Conan [...]

  Posted: October 30, 2009, 1:57pm EDT
  by John Neff

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