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A Diesel Pickup Answered a Corvette’s Middle Finger With a Soot Bomb, and Nobody Won
A Tacoma merge standoff ended with a diesel pickup burying a C4 Corvette in soot. Here’s who was actually wrong,…
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Bugatti’s New One-Off Program Debuted With a Car Named After a Horse — and It’s Already Sold
Ettore Bugatti loved plenty of things that moved faster than a horse, but not much more than the horse itself.…
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The 22:38 Coast-To-Coast Cadillac Finally Showed Its Cockpit, And It Explains The Whole Run
Five months after a Cadillac CT4-V Blackwing crossed the bottom of the United States in 22 hours and 38 minutes,…
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Crash Kills Racer at Riverside International Speedway
The first confirmation that a racer had died at Riverside International Speedway did not arrive as an agency press release…
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Ducati Let California’s Paperwork Leak a New 2027 Diavel V4 Trim Before It Was Ready To
Ducati hasn’t teased it. There’s no shadow-camo photo, no silhouette countdown page, no cryptic Instagram post. Instead, the newest addition…
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Today in Automotive History: BMW’s 507 Debuted in Frankfurt in 1955 — and Nearly Took the Company Down With It
On September 22, 1955, BMW unveiled the 507 at the Frankfurt Motor Show — a roadster so expensive to build…
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Ott Tänak Just Won an American Rally in a Factory Toyota GR Corolla — and the Real Story Is 2027
A 2019 world rally champion just showed up in Tennessee, climbed into a factory Toyota, and won an American rally…
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F1 and NASCAR Are Set to Clash Twice on the 2026 US Racing Calendar
F1 and NASCAR are about to share the spotlight the hard way. Formula 1’s push into the American market is…
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Analogue Automotive Rebuilt the Lotus Elise Around a Center Seat, and It’ll Run You $472,500
The first customer car is finished, and only 35 will ever exist. That’s a serious number to put next to…
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The Palou vs. Verstappen GT3 Showdown Isn’t Happening in 2026, and the Calendar Isn’t Why
Portimao closes the GT World Challenge Europe season on an F1 off weekend, with both drivers free. The real obstacles…
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Robert Wolk Spent 30 Years Racing at the Limit. Parking Lot Road Rage Killed Him.
Robert Wolk built a three-decade career out of deliberately running out of grip in controlled conditions, and he survived all…
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Ferrari’s 296 GT Modificata Proves Exactly How Much Horsepower the GT3 Rulebook Was Hiding
Every GT3 car on the planet is holding back. Balance of Performance rules exist to keep grids close, which means…
