Martin Padgett

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      • Object Permanence (Gravy, Fall 2025)
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      • How I learned to love Formula 1 at the Miami Grand Prix
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      • What it’s like to win a new car during “The Price Is Right” Dream Car Week
      • How Motown, Martha and the Vandellas, and the Ford Mustang wrote music history
      • The Nine Cars You’ll Drive In Hell
      • The first electric-car president? Ike Eisenhower liked them
      • Recycling Your Car? Try Recycling a Whole Airport
      • Touring: Chasing the Targa Florio’s ghost in the Subaru WRX TR and BRZ tS
      • 15 Car Color Names That Are Just Keeping It Real (Or Are Maybe A Little Too Honest)
      • Spun off, spun out, spun and done: The 19 worst spin-off car models ever
      • Changing Car Names: Smudging The Past, Blurring The Future?
      • The 9 Cars (And Drivers) Guaranteed To Piss You Off
      • The Mercedes-Benz GLC Coupe is not a coupe, and neither are these other things either
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      • Separate (W.W. Norton, 2019)

Cars

15 Car Color Names That Are Just Keeping It Real (Or Are Maybe A Little Too Honest)

Cars

Sliding Down The Socioeconomic Scale Orange

Chevy SSR

Grimace

McLaren P1 at Bahrain International Circuit

Red Mist

FAB1 pink Rolls-Royce Ghost Extended Wheelbase

Patina Fey

2012 Ford Harley-Davidson F-150

Whiter Shade of Sarah Palin

Burt Sienna Pontiac Firebird Trans-Am for sale

Burt Sienna (buy this car!)

tesla model s prototype 004

Self Whiteousness

Mow Smart's Smart ForTwo Passion at Denver Green Car Parade

Conscientious Objector Green

2006 Pontiac Solstice

Kind Of Blew

2008 mitsubishi evolution x rally motorauthority 005

Red Herring

2006 Dodge Ram 2500 Mega Cab

Brick Shithouse

2013 Lotus Elan

Canary In a Coalmine

Pink Pagani Zonda C12 Roadster

Salmon P. Chase

Triumph TR6 russet brown, TR-Register.co.uk

Seepia

2006 Ford Econoline Wagon XL

Amber Alert

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November 28, 2025 Marty

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