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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…
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A Corvette GM Tried to Bury Just Matched a Factory Ferrari, Dollar for Dollar, at Pebble Beach
Two auctions, two nights apart, on the same stretch of California coastline, produced a coincidence no spreadsheet could have modeled.…
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Defender Dakar’s Big Number Is the Same One the OCTA Already Had
Land Rover brought a race truck, a decades-old NAS Defender, and a covered shape to a lawn in Monterey, and…
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Honda’s Award-Winning EV Outlier Hides a Two-Wheel-Drive Bet Worth Arguing About
Design awards are usually where concept bikes go to be politely applauded and then forgotten. Honda’s latest one is worth…
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What Gordon Murray’s Pebble Beach Honor Actually Recognizes, Engineering-Wise
Lifetime achievement awards are usually a polite way of saying someone’s best work is behind them. Gordon Murray got his…
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Hennessey Blackbird: All 71 Sold, But the Engine Target Is the Real Story
All 71 build slots for Hennessey’s new Blackbird are gone, and the company waited five days to say so.Hennessey Special…