car culture
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Facebook Works For Once
While the internet may just be one of the biggest mistakes humanity ever made, it has its occasional benefits—sort of like how two people in a Facebook truck group managed to swap hoods so that their Silverados finally matched. This might just be one of the best star-crossed stories I’ve ever heard.
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Why The Loudest And Coolest Buses In The World Are In Nairobi
You can’t think of Nairobi, the capital of Kenya, without thinking of Matatus—colourful, privately-owned buses that about 70 per cent of Nairobi citizens rely on to get around, as their speakers blast music so loud you can feel it in your stomach.
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Welcome To The Wild World Of Tokyo’s Underground Lowrider Culture
“No Music, No Life.” In the heart of Shibuya, home of Tokyo’s youth culture, there’s a massive multi-story Tower Records shop with that sign hung in the middle of it. Much like that outdated shop standing tall in Tokyo’s hip district, Tokyo’s lowriders have resisted fading away. The record shop is where they have their…
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How LA’s Underground Street Racing Scene and The Fast And The Furious Grew Up
Before the Dodge Chargers were dragging safes through Rio in improbable bank heists, before the orange Toyota Supra, before living your life a quarter-mile at a time, before Dom and Letty and Brian, there was just Stephan Papadakis, his friends, and Los Angeles.