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Honda WN7 Electric Motorcycle: The Frameless Design and Charging Trick Explained
Honda’s had electric two-wheelers on sale for a while now, but they’ve all been scooters wearing e-bike ambitions. The WN7…
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Toyota’s 2027 Dakar Hilux Skips Combustion Entirely for a Hydrogen Fuel Cell
Toyota’s motorsport arm just quietly broke an assumption a lot of us have carried around about hydrogen racing: that it’s…
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BREAKING: IHRA Cancels Rest of 2026 Nitro Season, Says It’s Rebuilding From the Ground Up
IHRA has officially shut down what’s left of its 2026 Nitro Drag Racing Series. Every date still standing on the…
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George Russell Won His Home Podium and Looked Like He’d Rather Be Anywhere Else
There’s a particular flavor of awkward that only Formula 1 produces: a driver standing on his home podium, trophy in…
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One Stolen Corvette Just Cracked Open a $1.3 Million Theft Ring
A C8 Corvette walking off a dealer lot is the kind of thing that makes for a good “cars got…
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A Small Town Just Tore Down Its License Plate Cameras — Drivers Should Pay Attention
Small-town South Carolina isn’t the setting you’d pencil in for a surveillance-tech showdown, but Pageland—a Chesterfield County town of roughly…
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Zane Smith’s Payback Against Carson Hocevar Cost Him Twice at Chicagoland — And NASCAR Isn’t Stepping In
Chicagoland Speedway got its first NASCAR Cup Series race in seven years this month, and the track that used to…
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John Deere Just Lost Its Repair Monopoly, and Every Software-Locked Vehicle Owner Should Be Paying Attention
Deere & Company builds equipment that costs more than most houses, and for years it also decided who was allowed…
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ENDS NOW: Win Two Ultra-Rare Mopar Dream Machines — Backfire News Readers Get More Entries!
If you’ve ever dreamed of owning a legendary Mopar, this is your last chance.The Dream Giveaway Mopar Dream Machines Sweepstakes…
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Forget the Guest List – A 1970 Chevelle Was the Real Star of Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s Wedding
Paul McCartney and Stevie Nicks played the reception. Adam Sandler officiated. Tom Hanks and Jennifer Lopez watched from the crowd.…
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This Machine Could Pull $6 Million in Bids — and It Might Be a Bargain
Winning Best of Show at Pebble Beach is about as close as the car world gets to canonization, and like…
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A Rare 1985 Ferrari 288 GTO Just Became Bring a Trailer’s 250,000th Auction Lot
When a website that began life cataloguing other people’s classified ads picks a car to mark a round-number milestone, the…