New 50% Vehicle Levy Part Of Escalating Trade War Between U.S. And Canada Sparked By Old Auto Tariff Holdups - Jalopnik

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Late Car Payments Are High, But Lenders Are Still Lending - Jalopnik

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The Highest Posted Speed Limit In The World Might Not Be Where You Think It Is - Jalopnik

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As much as we are fans of speed and power, the system has checks and balances just so things don't get out of hand. Sure, going fast is fun and everything, but going fast can come with consequences when it all goes wrong. While authorities set the legal limits on public roads, it's worth noting that speed limits can vary depending on where you are in the world or even within the country.

Is There An Ideal PSI When Pressure Washing Your Car? - Jalopnik

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Washing a car is a considerably quicker task with a pressure washer than by hand. However, using a pressure washer haphazardly can turn a routine cleaning job into an expensive repair, as the concentrated jet of water can damage paint, clear coat, rubber seals, and exterior trim, particularly when the nozzle is held too close or if the pressure is dialed in too high.

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The 2027 Ford F-150 Raptor Costs $4010 Less Than Last Year, but There’s a Catch

• Ford has reduced the F-150 Raptor’s starting price by $4010 for the 2027 model year.
• The change means the Raptor now starts $295 lower than the Ram 1500 RHO, but Ford removed standard equipment to achieve the price cut.
• You can add back in things like the head-up display and 14-speaker Bang & Olufsen sound system via the $4120 Equipment Group 801A option.

The war of the supertrucks is heating up. Ram has reintroduced the fire-breathing TRX SRT for the 2027 model year to battle the V-8-powered Ford’s F-150 Raptor R, but both brands also still offer less powerful, albeit still ridiculously capable, six-cylinder off-roaders. Now, in a bid to steal sales from Ram’s 1500 RHO, Ford has slashed $4010 from the starting price of the regular Raptor.

2027 Nissan Murano Drops the Base SV Trim, but the SL Trim Gets a Price Cut

• Nissan is reworking the Murano lineup for 2027, dropping the base SV trim and adding a new Dark Armor variant (shown here).
• With the SV gone, the price required to get a Murano has climbed by $2320 to $45,535.
• The Murano SL is now $2770 less than last year, but it loses its panoramic sunroof, 10-speaker Bose stereo system, and in-dash navigation for 2027.

Before Nissan overhauled the Murano for the 2025 model year, the mid-size two-row SUV had mostly been forgotten, with sales dwindling to just 19,316 units in 2024. But the redesign, which brought a bold, luxurious look, saw sales skyrocket to 42,747 units in 2025. Now, for the 2027 model year, Nissan is reworking the Murano lineup, dropping the base SV trim and slashing the price of the SL trim.

Your LED Light Bar Is Ugly, Get Vintage Halogen Fog Lamps Instead - Jalopnik

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LED light bars look terrible. That's not to say they don't have their place, because they definitely do. I've worked on Baja 1000 crews, and I've seen first hand how a good light bar can illuminate the night desert like it's noon time. If you're entered in off-road competition and it takes place at night, you'd be silly to use anything else. For the rest of us, who mostly drive our off-road vehicles on paved roads to get groceries, and do most of our dirt driving in the middle of the day, light bars are overkill. 

What Car Needs To Gain Another Axle? - Jalopnik

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For the most part, vehicles on the road have just two axles and four wheels in total. Sure, there are things like semi trucks, cargo vans and buses that have three or more axles, but in terms of the cars, trucks, SUVs and everything in between that regular consumers are out here buying, you're almost always stuck with only two axles. And that's a shame, because vehicles with more than two axles are just plain cool. Case in point, the Mercedes-Benz G63 AMG 6x6 you see above, which I recently spotted in Beverly Hills and then saw driving around Monterey Car Week.