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2027 Kawasaki ZX-6R Returns Unchanged — And That’s the Story
Kawasaki has quietly re-upped one of the last true 600-class inline-fours you can still buy with a license plate on…
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Hand-Built Widebody Ferrari F355 Rolls Into Las Vegas With No Reserve
A 1996 Ferrari F355 that turned heads at the 2019 SEMA Show is headed to the auction block in Las…
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Bugatti Destrier: The Bolide-Based One-Off Nobody Has Confirmed Is Road Legal
Molsheim has done a strange and rather brilliant thing. The third car out of Programme Solitaire, revealed August 6, takes…
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Ducati’s €121 Million R&D Programme: What Italy’s €33.5M Grant Really Funds
Borgo Panigale is getting help with its homework. Italy’s Ministry of Enterprises and Made in Italy has greenlit a Development…
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Someone Is Stripping VW Badges Off Cars in Under Five Seconds
Graham Dunn didn’t hear a thing. He only found out his Volkswagen Tiguan had been hit after he pulled his…
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Goodyear Lost $204 Million This Quarter On Purpose — Here’s the Math
Goodyear sold more tires in the second quarter than it did to start the year, and the free fall in…
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Trent Williams Is Being Sued Over a Porsche 911 Lease—And the Car Is Reportedly Missing
According to the lawsuit, Williams signed on for a 48-month lease on the 911 in 2021 and authorized the dealer…
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O’Reilly’s $18.8 Million Text Settlement Has a Ceiling, and Your $22 Check Has an Asterisk
Every car shopper learns the same lesson eventually: the number on the window sticker and the number on the check…
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A Popular Dealer-Installed Car Alarm Turned Out to Be a Universal Remote for Thieves
Somewhere under the dashboard of an estimated 2.2 million cars in the United States sits a small black box most…
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Bugatti’s New One-Off Destrier Strips a Bolide of Every Wing and Vent That Made It Fast
Bugatti spent years perfecting the Bolide as a downforce machine, a track-only weapon dressed in wings, dive planes, and vents…
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Ben Jones, ‘Dukes of Hazzard’ Star Who Turned Cooter’s Garage Into a Real-Life Car Museum, Dies at 84
Ben Jones spent six seasons playing the one guy in Hazzard County who actually understood why the General Lee kept…
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Kim Kardashian’s Hidden Hills Mansion Was Burglarized, and the Getaway Car Was Hers
Kim Kardashian wasn’t home Sunday afternoon when a stranger let himself into her Hidden Hills estate, helped himself to one…