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No Fooling About Trucks

There are many longstanding traditions in the automotive journalism business: heavy drinking, low respect, frequent layoffs. My favorite? The annual April Fools’ parody announcements sent by car companies to journalists. Yes, this is a real thing because, as you know, nothing can make a cynical, jaded editor laugh to the point of losing bladder control like a fake press release

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