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California County Will Pay You Up To $1,000 To Turn In An Illegal E-Bike Or E-Moto
Todd Spitzer has spent his career as Orange County’s top prosecutor locking people up, not running consumer trade-in events. But…
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Someone Firebombed A McLaren Outside A Birmingham Wedding, And The Getaway Car Was A Volkswagen Golf
Somewhere outside a banqueting hall in Sparkbrook, Birmingham, three men in hoods spent roughly ten seconds throwing homemade incendiary devices…
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Max Verstappen Will Wear This Suit One Last Time at Zandvoort, Then It’s Someone Else’s
Somewhere in a Red Bull Racing kit room this week sits a race suit that hadn’t been worn until this…
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KTM Recalls 6,257 Husqvarna and GasGas Dirt Bikes Over Rear Brake Calipers That Can Crack Mid-Ride
KTM North America filed a new federal recall on August 7, 2026, admitting that the rear brake caliper on a…
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Cédric Sbirrazzuoli, the Ferrari Racer Conquest Only Needed Four Times a Year, Dies at 39 After Cancer Battle
With 30 minutes left on the clock at Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta last October, Albert Costa Balboa found more grip…
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California’s Replacement Tire Rules Explained: Dates, Exemptions and What Enthusiasts Keep Getting Wrong
California just did something no state or the federal government has managed in more than two decades: it put a…
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The Bonneville Octavia at 15: The Record Škoda Doesn’t Mention Losing
Fifteen years ago this week, a press-fleet Škoda Octavia that had been quietly stolen from the loan pool went 227.080…
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Why Tennessee’s Drag Racing Law Charges the Blocker Cars Too
A Tennessee Highway Patrol trooper on Interstate 140 just after midnight Sunday found himself behind a slow-moving wall of cars…
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2027 Kawasaki Ninja e-1 ABS: Price, Real Specs and True Ownership Costs
Kawasaki has put its electric Ninja back on the order sheet for 2027, and if you want one, the clock…
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The SEC Says Tricolor Pledged the Same Car Loans Twice — and $800 Million of Collateral Never Existed
A retail auto loan is really just a promise stapled to a VIN. One vehicle, one lien, one lender standing…
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Monterey’s Record $755.6 Million Was Built by 10 Cars. The Other 843 Got a Reality Check
Monterey Car Week 2026 set a $755.6 million record, but ten cars produced nearly 30 percent of it while 1950s…
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Leno’s Law Cleared the Committee That Killed It Last Year. Here’s the Math.
SB 1392 cleared Assembly Appropriations 15-0 and is on the Assembly floor. What Leno’s Law actually exempts, which cars qualify,…