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First Rumble Bee SRT And A Viper-Powered Ram Head To Vegas
Charity lots at Barrett-Jackson usually follow a script: a nice car, a good cause, a celebrity on the block, everyone…
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Hyundai Patent Shows Braced Swing-Out Truck Tailgate That Carries Real Weight
Truck tailgates stopped being simple around 2019, and the arms race has been mostly about counting positions rather than solving…
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Why Tariff Math Decides Whether Volkswagen Builds An American Pickup
Nobody at Volkswagen has announced an American pickup truck. There’s no press release, no plant allocation, no name, no date.…
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Stellantis Patent Adds Crash-Triggered Bumper Beacons For Rolled-Over Cars
Every lighting system on your car is built around an assumption nobody writes down: that the car will still be…
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Stone Cold Steve Austin Rolled His Race Rig in the Nevada Desert, and the Supercharged Engine Underneath Is the Real Story
Steve Austin spent the better part of two decades convincing wrestling fans that the guy taking the beating always gets…
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Tim Curry’s Car Collection Remains a Mystery, but Rocky Horror Had a Strange Little Garage
As news of Tim Curry’s death breaks, we’re revisiting the automotive trail around one of cinema’s most unforgettable performers.We were…
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Dolly Parton’s Most Meaningful Vehicles Weren’t About Flash
The truck, Cadillac, and stock car in Dolly Parton’s story reveal a life rooted in family, hometown memory, and East…
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Ferrari Patents a Taillight That Doubles as a Spoiler
Ferrari’s engineers spend plenty of time solving problems nobody outside Maranello asked them to solve, and a patent application the…
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Rivian Is Baking Waze’s Cop and Speed Camera Alerts Straight Into the Dashboard
Rivian’s software chief just previewed a feature that says less about Waze and more about how Rivian wants to win…
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Yamaha’s 155cc Retro Standard Is Headed to American Dealers
Yamaha’s US lineup has a hole at the bottom that’s been getting more embarrassing every year, and it looks like…
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The MotoGP Movie Faces Problems No Racing Film Has Solved
Hollywood has decided motorcycle racing is the next thing to monetize, and the first swing at it is not the…
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Inside the 427 Cobra From The Gumball Rally Now Crossing the Block
The 427 Cobra has been the loudest thing in any parking lot for sixty years, but only one of them…