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1. Article · Sep 21, 2026 · Matthew Brown

   The great American road trip, fueled by — and undercut by — the automobile that created it (opens the original)

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   NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — There’s something about the American road trip. It brings to mind visions of cars the size of boats, the glory days before seat-belt laws and pit stops at the world’s largest fill-in-the-blank. It has been memorialized in books like Jack Kerouac’s “On the Road” and satirized in movies like “National Lampoon’s Vacation.” It primarily consists of hours upon hours of driving that should be boring — but somehow isn’t? Maybe it’s the anticipation of get

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