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Your Car Starts Bleeding Cash the Second You Drive It Off the Lot, Here’s How to Slow the Bleeding
Depreciation is the most expensive part of owning a car, and it’s the one nobody at the dealership wants to…
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Decoding Your Tire Sidewall: The Secret Language Stamped Right on Your Rubber
Your tires are covered in a cryptic string of numbers and letters that looks like a password, and most drivers…
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Ford Fired an 11-Year Worker Over a $1.95 Cookie, Then Found Out He Actually Paid for It
Imagine surviving 11 years at a company that once paid an 800-pound bear to maul an F-150 for marketing, only…
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‘Big Kenzo’s’ Road Rage Arrest Just Got a Lot More Expensive: The Felony and Insurance Fallout
A local jewelry-ad celebrity, a handgun waved out a car window, a chase that ended with a passenger leaping from…
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Kids Turned a $530K Ferrari Into a Backyard Slide, Now the Owner Is Suing
Somewhere in Kunming there’s a Ferrari owner who now knows, down to the yuan, what it costs when four neighborhood…
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This Off-Road Camper Van Costs $1.1 Million, Here’s What That Insane Price Tag Actually Buys
The Germans have a particular talent for building things that make you tilt your head and ask “who exactly is…
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Cops Say This PA Man Disguised a Retired NASCAR Truck as a Street-Legal Chevy S10
Pennsylvania State Police say a Williamsport man tried to launder a retired NASCAR Truck Series racer into a titled, street-legal…
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What It Really Costs F1 Teams to Ship Their Cars Between Races in 2026
Nobody at Ferrari, Mercedes or McLaren will hand you an invoice for what it costs to move a Formula 1…
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Lewis Hamilton’s Lego Standoff: Why F1’s Silverstone King Might Sit Out Sunday’s Brick-Built Kart Race
Formula 1 rolled back into Silverstone this week with a second helping of its Lego publicity stunt, and one of…
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Leclerc Says Ferrari’s Whole Weekend Formula Just Flipped in Austria
Charles Leclerc walked into his Silverstone press conference this week and said the quiet part out loud: Ferrari’s entire weekend…
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Porsche’s Sonderwunsch Turns Three Toy Story 911s Into a $3 Million Charity Play
Porsche has done a lot of strange and wonderful things with its Sonderwunsch division over the years, but building a…
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Racing Weekend Preview: F1 Roars Into Silverstone as NASCAR and IndyCar Battle Stateside
Motorsport fans have plenty to celebrate this weekend as three of the biggest championships in the world converge on the…