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Consumer Guide Car Stuff Podcast Episode 323: Nissan Restructures, Hyundai Santa Fe Hybrid, Canadian Tesla Adventure Dave and Tom are joined by friend of the show Robert Colangelo. Robert shared the details--some horrifying--of his recent Model Y voyage from Northwest Indiana to Canada to catch a Guess Who concert. ...

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New episode is live now! #Tesla #Nissan #Ford #Eighties Take the Eighties Quiz!

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GuideAlong Audio Tours, Google's Android class action settlement, this week in hacks & lots more information is at your fingertips, just by clicking the link to our blog. @johnnieputman.bsky.social @beccathebreaker.bsky.social @bobfukuda.bsky.social @maryoctober.bsky.social @leeoversky.bsky.social

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Those are great wheels. Makes me wonder about the the millions of Berettas and Corsicas that once roamed the Midwest.

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The yellow car does not qualify as nondescript.

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The Saturday Collection! Name all four vehicle and earn 5 Car Stuff Podcast Esteem Points!* #CarStuffPodcast #Saturday #CarSpotter (* Esteem Points have no actual value.)

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2026 Chevrolet Traverse High Country in Lakeshore Blue. #Chevy #Traverse #CarPix #carpics

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But, it's happy!

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Hard to Park: The 5 Longest Sedans of 1973 As a follow up to our Hard to Park: The Longest Cars of 1975 blog post, we looked back two years further, to 1973. As it turns out, the average car on our 1973 list is almost an inch and a half shorte...

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If you had to park one...? #Long #Seventies #Autos #Design

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Chevrolet Bel Air Concept: Forgotten Concepts First seen at the 2002 Detroit Auto Show, the Chevrolet Bel Air Concept paid design homage to the brand’s popular cars of the Fifties, specifically the 1955-1957 models, often referred to as the “Tri-...

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Might have been nice. #ConceptCar #TriFive #Chevy #Convertible

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Thanks for sharing!

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2026 Ford Explorer Active Review: Steve and Johnnie Road Test Text by Steve King and Johnnie Putman 2026 Ford Explorer Active 100A Specs Class: Midsize Crossover Country of Manufacture: U.S. Color: Agate Black Metallic Miles driven: 750 (approx.) Observed fuel e...

Our review of the Ford Explorer Active has now been posted, with additional content, on Consumer Guide's website. blog.consumerguide.com/2026-ford-ex... @carguytom.bsky.social @jillciminillo.bsky.social

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I sort of hate Linkedin.

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Custom Roof Rails: The Bizarre Saturn Ion Feature that Time Forgot Introduced for 2003, the Saturn Ion was the long, long overdue replacement for the brand’s popular, but seriously dated, SL sedan and SC coupe. Saturn Ion Custom Roof Rails Though dynamically competen...

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Strangest car mod…ever? #Saturn #Mods

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Road Trip: Best Albums for a Night Drive The Florida spring-break road trip is cliché these days, but it was the thing to do when my college friends and I hit the interstate back in 1984. The trip from Chicago to Fort Lauderdale is roughly 1...

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What album would you go with? #Music #NightDriving #RoadTrip

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Enya music?

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If you've listened to this week's episode, you know what this is:
#CarStuffPodcast #TrailMix @jillciminillo.bsky.social #Gourmet

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This week’s donuts: #CarStuffPodcast #Donuts @jillciminillo.bsky.social

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Agree! Thanks for listening!

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Consumer Guide Car Stuff Podcast Episode 322: Chinese Cars in Austria, New Jeep Cherokee, Consumer Reports Top Picks Jill and Tom welcome Alex Knizek, Director of Auto Test Development at Consumer Reports, to the Car Stuff Podcast. Alex describes the process by which Consumer Reports evaluates new vehicles, and walk...

New episode is live now! #ConsumerReports #Jeep #Xpeng #CarStuffPodcast
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The Pontiacs of 2018 Illustrations by Frank Peiler Since the turn of the century, U.S. car sellers have been shedding brands faster than the cable TV networks have been creating reality shows. Plymouth was the first marqu...

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It could have gone this way... #Pontiac #Counterfactual #GeneralMotors #Maybe

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TACO

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The crummy rear axles were a quick economy fix for the U.S. makers. Smogged engines sounded sad.

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You can keep your Centurion Card, I impress the ladies with the Cruller Card. #dontleavehomewithoutit #Donuts #prestige #Influence #Clout

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Used 2017 Cadillac XTS Base For Sale $48,870 | Cars.com Used 2017 Cadillac XTS Base for sale at Zeigler Chevrolet in Schaumburg, IL for $48,870. View now on Cars.com

Base, my ass… www.cars.com/vehicledetai...

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1980 Dodge Aspen Special: Favorite Car Ads Dodge produced roughly 19,000 Aspen Special sedans for 1980, making it the second-most-popular vehicle in the lineup after the somewhat less depressing base sedan, which came in at 26,000 units. And w...

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Emphasis on the the "Special." #Value #Dodge #DodgeAspen
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It's the Saturday Collection! Including the Mystery Mitsubishi! #MysteryRide #CarSpotter #Saturday #Cube #Mitsubishi

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We've got Grand Canyon tales, The Empty Pockets band, @carguytom.bsky.social and a grab bag of surprises! @wgnradio.bsky.social @johnnieputman.bsky.social @bobfukuda.bsky.social @beccathebreaker.bsky.social

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2026 Nissan Armada PRO-4X in Deep Ocean Blue Pearl. #CarPix #CarPics #Armada #PRO4X #Nissan

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The 10 Cheapest Wagons of 1973 Even at the low end of the market, station wagons were treated by makers as premium models in most model lineups. The Plymouth Cricket above, for example, listed for a cool $404 more than the sedan on which it was based. That’s a substantial 20-percent bump. Sadly, it seems that every other generation turns its...

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If you had to pick a wee wagon...? #LongRoof #StationWagon #Seventies

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Cheap cars looking good. #CheapCarsLookingGood #Renault #LeCar

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