It’s Monday, and that means it’s time to present this week’s shifter. You’ll have until mid-day Wednesday to identify the make and model of the vehicle from whence this shifter came. The first person to respond correctly in the Backfires section below will win a Save the Manuals button and sticker. Good luck!

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Props to the owner of this evergreen Ford Mustang SVT Cobra for not editing this video to make it seem like he did the perfect burnout. He kept the camera rolling to demonstrate that a burnout is basically just a controlled loss of traction that can quickly turn into an out-of-control skid into the trees and almost did. More »

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Hyundai may have solved the mystery of the rattle-free steering wheel adjustment with it’s new i30, but apparently there are still some details to work out with the model. Like, what grille to give it? Do you go with the standard, stripped-down look (left), or do you spring for the gilled, bottom-feeder, Mazda-reject look (right)? [...]

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Details on mid-cycle updates for the revamped Audi A5/S5 lines were released back in July, but the hottest version of the family waited until Frankfurt to show its more intensive face.

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Fiat North America is rolling out a special 500 Pink Ribbon edition this October; it’s being done for Breast Cancer Awareness month, and Fiat will make a $1000 donation to the Breast Cancer Research Foundation for each car sold. Fiat has committed to a $50,000 donation at the minimum, a goal it should easily exceed [...]

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Fiat North America is rolling out a special 500 Pink Ribbon edition this October; it’s being done for Breast Cancer Awareness month, and Fiat will make a $1000 donation to the Breast Cancer Research Foundation for each car sold. Fiat has committed to a $50,000 donation at the minimum, a goal it should easily exceed [...]

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Telsa has used a special event to show off the Beta version of its Model S luxury electric high performance sedan.

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We published our full rundown on the 2012 Ferrari 458 Spider and show-floor photos from its Frankfurt auto show debut a couple of weeks ago, but now Ferrari has released a passel of new studio shots of the sultry droptop and its small flip-back roof. We’ve slapped a few of Ferrari’s latest images in this [...]

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Aside from being a dirty, tiring and often thankless job, trash collectors have one of the deadliest jobs in America. In fact, solid-waste collection employees have the fifth highest fatality rate of any occupation in the United States, due largely to impatient and distracted drivers. A newly energized campaign from the National Solid Waste...

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I just did some quick math, and realized that in the last ten days, I've traveled over 20,000 miles.

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