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Best 15 Movie Cars Of All Time

From James Bond’s Aston Martin to Burt Reynolds’ Trans Am, these Hollywood legends prove that sometimes the car is the real star of the movie. Some of the most memorable stars in Hollywood history have four wheels, an engine, and…

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Goodguys 36th Fuel Curve Autumn Get-Together

14Nov8:00 AM4:00 PMGoodguys 36th Fuel Curve Autumn Get-Together America’s Favorite Car Show makes its final Bay Area pit stop featuring over 2,500 of northern California’s slickest American made and powered show cars and trucks of all years on display! Plus, don’t miss Goodguys’ Classic…

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For a great many people, a car is never just a way to get to work. It is a hobby, a tribe, a garage project, a weekend at the track, a trailer full of camping gear or a childhood poster made real. This section is about that side of the automobile, the obsession that fills grandstands, auction tents, parking-lot meets and YouTube channels, and keeps people up late arguing about horsepower, originality and whose era was better.

Car culture is nearly as old as the car. Racing began almost as soon as there were two automobiles to compare, and road races, hill climbs and the Indianapolis 500 were drawing crowds before the First World War. Postwar America gave the world hot rods, drag strips, drive-ins and, by the 1960s, the muscle car. Europe built its own traditions around Le Mans, rallying and grand touring, while Japan's tuning scene later influenced a generation of enthusiasts through magazines, video games and films.

That culture has changed form rather than faded. Formula 1 found a vast new audience through streaming documentaries, classic-car values became a financial story in their own right, restomod builders blend vintage looks with modern engineering, and online auctions turned car spotting into a national pastime. Off-roading and overlanding exploded in popularity, as did RV and camper-van travel. Electrification has added a new argument to every corner of the hobby, from silent drag racers to battery swaps in classic cars.

The pages below cover racing, shows and auctions, classics and collectors, muscle cars, tuning and restomods, culture and media, off-road and overlanding, and RVs and campers. Together they follow the people and machines who treat driving as something to celebrate. Whatever the flavor, the common thread is enthusiasm, the conviction that driving and the machines that make it possible are worth knowing deeply, arguing about passionately and preserving for the next generation of people who feel the same pull.

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Formula 1 to Friday-night drags, Pebble Beach to Barrett-Jackson, muscle cars, restomods, off-roaders and RVs: the car as passion, not just transport.

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Racing Formula 1, NASCAR, IndyCar, Le Mans, rally and drag racing: results, rule changes, team moves and the manufacturers chasing glory on track.
Shows and Auctions Detroit, SEMA, Goodwood and Monterey Car Week, plus Barrett-Jackson and Mecum: the reveals, record sales and gavel-drop drama of the car calendar.
Classics and Collectors Barn finds, concours winners, restoration stories and record auction prices: the world of classic cars and the collectors who keep them alive.
Muscle Cars GTOs, Hemis, Hellcats and Mustangs: America's loud, proud muscle cars, from 1960s legends to the electric and six-cylinder era now upending them.
Tuning and Restomods Turbo swaps, JDM builds, Singer-style restomods and SEMA showpieces: the aftermarket world of modified cars and the old bodies hiding new engineering.
Culture and Media Top Gear and its offspring, YouTube reviewers, car films, video games and Cars and Coffee meets: how the automobile lives in pop culture.
Off-Road and Overlanding Wranglers, Broncos, Land Cruisers and Defenders, rooftop tents and Moab trails: the off-road and overlanding boom, from weekend trails to the Outback.
RVs and Campers Motorhomes, travel trailers, Airstreams and van-life builds: the RV industry, its boom-and-bust cycles and the electric campers coming next.

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