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A Dealership Handed Out A Salesman’s Number. Federal Threat Charges Followed
A dealership’s phone system is supposed to protect employees as much as it routes sales leads. In one Utah case,…
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Lamborghini’s Revuelto SV Starts At $741,172, And Leaked Order Sheets Show How Fast That Climbs
Lamborghini spent Monterey Car Week teasing the Revuelto SV’s Hockenheim lap record and its 1,065-metric-horsepower flex. What it didn’t do…
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Ayrton Senna’s Personal Honda NSX Heads to Auction, and Its Backstory Runs Deeper Than the Hosepipe Photo
Chassis JHMNA11500T000233 doesn’t look like much on a title certificate, but this is the actual red Honda NSX that Ayrton…
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Some Rivian R2s Have a Fast-Charging Connector That Can Cook Itself, and Rivian Is Calling Owners One by One
On August 5, an R2 owner plugged into a Rivian Adventure Network fast charger, watched the session start normally, and…
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Street Outlaws Star Chris ‘Block’ Gordon Dies in Crash at Ohio’s ‘The Hill’ Drag Strip
Chris “Block” Gordon spent almost two decades building a name as one of the toughest small-tire racers to come out…
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Stellantis Is Already Building the Next Jeep Cherokee, and This One Barely Has Floor Mats Yet
Jeep dealers are still sorting out allocations for the revived 2026 Cherokee, and Stellantis has already told investors and the…
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Ford’s Bronco Family Is About to Get a Truck Bed, and the Timing Is No Accident
Ford has spent the better part of six years teasing a pickup version of the Bronco, and industry sourcing now…
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Rivian’s E-Bike Spinout Just Raised $150 Million to Chase Driverless Delivery
Seventeen months ago, Also, Inc. was a stealth skunkworks project inside Rivian, building electric bikes nobody outside the company had…
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Polestar Hand-Built 34 Prototypes Just to Learn How to Build One Car
Before Polestar sold a single Polestar 1 to a customer, it built 34 of them to be crashed, frozen, baked,…
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FLEX Automotive Will Now Ship a Genuine JDM Land Cruiser Straight to Your Driveway
For years, getting a genuine Japanese-market Land Cruiser onto U.S. soil meant flying to Japan and hoping an export broker…
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Bugatti’s One-Off Veyron ‘Restoration’ Buries the Real Story: It Fixes the Car’s Worst Ownership Headache
Twenty years ago, Bugatti dropped a quad-turbo W16 into a carbon monocoque and built the Veyron, a car that grabbed…
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A Wrecked Chevelle SS Restomod Is Still Sitting on eBay, and the Price Barely Budged
A battered 1965 Chevrolet Chevelle Malibu SS restomod showed up on eBay a month ago with a crushed front clip…