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The Worst Place to Stand During a Parking Lesson? Right Where King Harris Was Standing.
A viral parking lesson gone wrong is also the most statistically predictable crash a new driver will ever have. The…
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Honda Philippines Just Rolled Out Its 10-Millionth Motorcycle, and the Timeline Behind It Is the Real Story
Honda Philippines, Inc. rolled a Click125 Smart Edition scooter finished in Pearl Arctic White off its assembly line in Batangas…
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McLaren’s Next Era Finally Has a Price Tag: An 810-HP Hybrid, a 2+2 GT, and an SUV
McLaren spent 2026 dropping hints that something bigger was coming, and a private meeting with its own dealers just put…
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Porsche Licensed an 80-Percent 550 Spyder That Runs on 48 Volts — and Can’t Legally Touch a Road
Porsche signed off on a 250-unit, carbon-bodied, 48-volt 550 Spyder at 80 percent scale. The engineering, the legal status and…
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Tom Cruise Patted Kyle Busch’s Empty Chair at Daytona — and NASCAR Had More Tributes Where That Came From
Tom Cruise flew into Daytona International Speedway on August 29 to sell a movie. What actually stuck from that trip…
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The Freeway Revolts of the 1960s Still Dictate How America Builds Roads Today
Every driver who has watched a promising highway project stall for years under “further environmental review” owes a strange debt…
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BRM’s One-of-One Le Mans Prototype Just Got Its Roof and V12 Back After 30 Years
For the better part of three decades, the only BRM P351 ever built didn’t have a roof. It didn’t have…
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The 2026 Tesla Model 3 Just Swept NHTSA’s Five Stars — Here’s Every Test That Rating Skips
Every NHTSA subscore came back five stars. The IIHS results, the carryover testing and the delayed NCAP upgrade tell a…
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JOP Brought Two Ferrari Enzos Back to His Childhood Home in San Bernardino, and the Real Story Is Under the Hood
On a residential block in San Bernardino, California, there’s a modest single-story house behind a wrought-iron fence with a driveway…
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The Smartest Buy of NASCAR’s Vegas Playoff Weekend Is a $25 Friday Ticket at The Bullring
The inaugural Kyle Busch Classic runs six divisions on October 2, from sealed-engine Bandoleros to ARCA Menards Series West. Here’s…
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Dubai Police Put a Mansory Ferrari 812 on Tourist Patrol, and the 800-HP Claim Doesn’t Add Up
Dubai Police unveiled a fifth Mansory-built patrol car. The quoted 800 horsepower is Ferrari’s factory rating in different units.
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A Gold-Plated One-Off Cadillac Beat a Duesenberg at Auburn — and That Designer Credit Is Doing Less Work Than You’d Think
The one-off 1953 Cadillac Elegante brought $1.4 million at Kruse’s Auburn sale. The Albrecht von Goertz attribution everyone is repeating…
