Mark Phelan
@mark_phelan
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Auto columnist for the Detroit Free Press. MSU Spartan. I own two dogs, love music and grew up in the American South, Ireland and Michigan.
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Joined February 2009
5 tips to follow EV charging station etiquette https://t.co/RBjAdnVzDa via @freep
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Driving an EV? Here's how you should behave at public chargers. And this might save you some money.
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2026 Honda Prelude made me wonder: Why is this car called a Prelude? https://t.co/Xe6NeWqTgt via @freep
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Honda uses electronics to simulate the sound and feel of a free-revving engine and eagerly shifted manual transmission. I found both underwhelming.
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Tim Kuniskis has reasons to be confident about Ram's future https://t.co/Ib73YYEkxR via @freep
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Stellantis' North American brand chief is back from retirement, wooing buyers with more Hemis, a new Dakota midsize truck and a Suburban-fighting SUV.
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New M1E3 Abrams First Impressions: We Just Visited the U.S. Army’s New Tank at the Detroit Auto Show -
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M1E3: 19FortyFive Saw This Tank Upclose (Summary and Key Points) -A prototype of the U.S. Army’s next-generation main battle tank, the M1E3 Abrams, appeared publicly at the 2026 Detroit Auto Show,...
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See Freep auto critic Mark Phelan's tour of 2026 Detroit Auto Show https://t.co/By0GNujlpq via @freep
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See Mark Phelan tour the 2026 Detroit Auto Show and give the insider scoop on some of the vehicles and displays.
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North American Car, Truck and Utility Vehicle of the Year winners for 2026 https://t.co/fec8G3BlQY via @freep
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The 2026 NACTOY winners have been announced at the Detroit Auto Show.
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Donations for suspended Ford worker who heckled Trump near $800,000 https://t.co/CmkQXGvuEh via @freep
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Friends of TJ Sabula started GoFundMe pages after Sabula was suspended for comments made to the president during a Ford factory tour.
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In Detroit speech, Trump touts an economic boom invisible to many https://t.co/4WCHbbKz5i via @freep
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Business leaders at the Detroit Economic Club, meeting at the MotorCity Casino Hotel, responded to Trump's address with tepid applause.
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Red, white and awesome: Ford van celebrated America's Bicentennial https://t.co/KnHzzhC8b8 via @freep
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The Denimachine was a marketing project that highlighted some iconic brands — Coca-Cola, Levi’s, Ford and Hot Rod magazine.
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Taxpayers could hit a dead end with car loan interest deduction https://t.co/MX1bE1HQT0 via @freep
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Drivers are looking at a long list of rules if they're hoping to claim a new tax deduction for car loan interest on 2025 federal income tax returns.
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Meet 'Bak2Bak': This Franken-ride turns heads all through Detroit https://t.co/dC3wdQecyj via @freep
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The "Bak2Bak" is just one car, but it has two front ends, two steering wheels, two grills and countless photos of it circulating on social media.
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Must-see vehicles in 2026 include a secretive car from Sony and Honda https://t.co/VWPymm66WO via @freep
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The Afeela, set to debut in January at the CES electronics show, is just one of the dozen or so vehicles to watch out for in 2026.
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In 1995, Joni painted “40 Below 0,” a picturesque encapsulation of winter, after witnessing “a rush of color” during a drive through the Canadian prairies.
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On December 14, 1972, the Apollo 17 lunar module "Challenger" departed the Moon with Harrison Schmitt and Gene Cernan, the last astronauts to walk on the Moon. LM liftoff was captured by a camera on the LRV that was left behind. More on how it was done: https://t.co/bjvXDMayPj
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Over lunch today at @americamag we were reminiscing about the remarkable career of Rob Reiner, from "All in the Family" through movies like "When Harry Met Sally" to his many wonderful performances and cameos. What moved me was that our lunch table ranged in age from our
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New Kia Seltos gets bigger, adds features, aims to stay affordable https://t.co/PGWQpK3d9e via @freep
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Kia adds hybrid power and advanced features to its popular Seltos subcompact SUV.
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The 2026 Mercedes-Benz CLA is now the cheapest EV that can go more than 400 miles on a single charge
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Voyager 1 is the loneliest pioneer humanity has ever launched, and it is still flying perfectly, forty-eight years later, on a course set in 1977 that has never needed a single correction.Imagine that: on September 5, 1977, a 825-kilogram golden spacecraft lifted off from Cape
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