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Jalopnik is not hip to the jive of the Honda Civic Tour's sweet, sweet jams; maybe somebody over there really doesn't like New Found Glory. We reckon that compared to, say, Ozzfest and Bonnaroo, something called the "Honda Civic Tour" is just a few notches of youthful appeal above, say, the "Kenmore Elite Front-Load Washer Tour." But in the decade-long history of the Civic Tour, every group has left its mark on a custom Civic, and the three separate tours this year mean there will be more strange Civics rolling around. Full disclosure: I once saw Incubus and Linkin Park (playing above, for way too long) at the Honda Civic Tour in Carson, Calif. The friend who I went with asked, "are we seeing them ironically?" Hell no. It ended up being one of the best concerts I ever attended. It was like the portable CD player of my youth came to life.

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Every car customized by every musician on the Honda Civic Tour. Blink 182 really phoned it in.

-- BimmerWorld Racing tackled the Grand Prix of Kansas this past weekend, and photographer Josh Tons followed them with some great photos of the action. It's tough for even a professional race team to race for a weekend, on the road away from families and friends—and coordinating 21 teammates and four cars isn't easy. Here's how they do it.

-- Meet the 1969 Fiat Abarth 2000 Scorpio, the raddest concept car you've never heard of. It's the future by way of a sharp red knife and a throbbing megaphone exhaust that sounds like a weed whacker, a combination resembling a stiletto, a "Star Wars" lightsaber handle and Don Draper's Freudian secrets. It's the year 2014—aren't all our cars supposed to look like this by now? Big, impossible wedges, hidden everything, louvers? Color us disappointed that theAlfa Romeo 4C doesn't have one-piece center-mounted pop-up headlights.

-- Lastly, Elon Musk made full use of his nerd cachet when he announced the Tesla patent opening under the headline, "All Our Patent Are Belong To You." For the oldsters who hate Dashboard Confessional and believe Musk inhaled so much rocket fuel that he forgot how to grammar, it's a reference to one of the first memes on the horrible, stinking Internet. (It's so old, it predates the existence of Guy Fawkes masks or cats.) The confusion can be alleviated with this helpful informational video, delivered from the historical archives of my middle school computer lab, circa 2001. Musk was bombarded with plenty of questions (from "old media!") about what the hell Tesla was collectively smoking, to which he (and Tesla) simply responded, "Look, we just to make sure they don't set us up [sic] the bomb."