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Going Wide Open on the Autoweek America Adventure

I'm here to report that on Sunday, Team Honey Badger went rogue. Yep, we missed the starting time out of Santa Rosa, Calif., and had to play catch-up with the rest of the Autoweek America Adventure teams. That was the bad news.

Ford Edge, Ram 1500 lead list of month's best deals

Going to a dealership and paying below the sticker price of the car you're looking to take home always elicits a good feeling. TrueCar's monthly “Steals on Wheels” list details the best deals on vehicles currently on the market to make your bargain shopping dreams come true. Leading the pack so far this month are the 2013 Ford Edge SE and the 2013 Ram 1500 Outdoorsman.

Rockin' Supercar: The Rebirth, Short Life, and Death of a Shark-Fin-Equipped '85 Toyota Tercel Wagon

Sometimes a very ordinary car becomes something special, maybe even loved, but that's not always enough to keep it out of the jaws of the crusher. This is the story of a second-gen Toyota Tercel wagon (known in Japan as the Sprinter Carib) and its journey from auction to lumber-hauler to kid transportation to a Chinese steel factory. Around the turn of the century, while I was working at a doomed dot-com in San Francisco's South of Market neighborhood, I discovered that the city auctioned off all the unclaimed tow-away cars every week at nearby Pier 70.