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Zendaya beside a white Land Rover Range Rover SVAutobiography (photo illustration)

Zendaya Dodged Getting a Driver’s License for Years. Then There’s Rue’s Stranded Jeep and a Luxury Garage Nobody Can Prove

Pancho Villa's bullet-riddled 1919 Dodge touring car at the Museo Histórico de la Revolución

Pancho Villa Died in a Hail of Bullets in This 1919 Dodge. A Century Later, You Can Still Count the Holes

Michael Jackson at the White House in 1984 beside a black Rolls-Royce Silver Seraph

Michael Jackson’s Cars: The Mercedes He Actually Drove, a Gold-Trimmed Rolls, and Rumors That Just Won’t Beat It

Wimbledon White 1968 Ford Mustang 428 Cobra Jet fastback

Ford Quietly Built 50 Stripped-Down White Mustangs in December 1967. Seven Weeks Later, One Was Winning at Pomona

Jett Lawrence racing a motocross bike at Washougal in 2021

Honda HRC’s Brain Tumor Charity Auction Has 92 Bids on 39 Lots, but Jett Lawrence’s Kit Is Strictly for the Wall

Zendaya Dodged Getting a Driver’s License for Years. Then There’s Rue’s Stranded Jeep and a Luxury Garage Nobody Can Prove

Zendaya beside a white Land Rover Range Rover SVAutobiography (photo illustration)

Zendaya Dodged Getting a Driver’s License for Years. Then There’s Rue’s Stranded Jeep and a Luxury Garage Nobody Can Prove

October 9, 2026

Pancho Villa Died in a Hail of Bullets in This 1919 Dodge. A Century Later, You Can Still Count the Holes

Pancho Villa's bullet-riddled 1919 Dodge touring car at the Museo Histórico de la Revolución

Pancho Villa Died in a Hail of Bullets in This 1919 Dodge. A Century Later, You Can Still Count the Holes

October 9, 2026

Michael Jackson’s Cars: The Mercedes He Actually Drove, a Gold-Trimmed Rolls, and Rumors That Just Won’t Beat It

Michael Jackson at the White House in 1984 beside a black Rolls-Royce Silver Seraph

Michael Jackson’s Cars: The Mercedes He Actually Drove, a Gold-Trimmed Rolls, and Rumors That Just Won’t Beat It

October 9, 2026

Ford Quietly Built 50 Stripped-Down White Mustangs in December 1967. Seven Weeks Later, One Was Winning at Pomona

Wimbledon White 1968 Ford Mustang 428 Cobra Jet fastback

Ford Quietly Built 50 Stripped-Down White Mustangs in December 1967. Seven Weeks Later, One Was Winning at Pomona

October 9, 2026

Zendaya Dodged Getting a Driver’s License for Years. Then There’s Rue’s Stranded Jeep and a Luxury Garage Nobody Can Prove

Zendaya beside a white Land Rover Range Rover SVAutobiography (photo illustration)

Zendaya Dodged Getting a Driver’s License for Years. Then There’s Rue’s Stranded Jeep and a Luxury Garage Nobody Can Prove

October 9, 2026

Michael Jackson’s Cars: The Mercedes He Actually Drove, a Gold-Trimmed Rolls, and Rumors That Just Won’t Beat It

Michael Jackson at the White House in 1984 beside a black Rolls-Royce Silver Seraph

Michael Jackson’s Cars: The Mercedes He Actually Drove, a Gold-Trimmed Rolls, and Rumors That Just Won’t Beat It

October 9, 2026

Elvis Shot His Pantera Because It Wouldn’t Start, and the Bullet Holes Are Still There

A yellow early-1970s De Tomaso Pantera, the same model and color as Elvis Presley's car

Elvis Shot His Pantera Because It Wouldn’t Start, and the Bullet Holes Are Still There

October 7, 2026

Matchbox Began in 1953 as a Toy Sized to Fit a Match Box, Now the Brand Is a John Cena Apple TV Movie Premiering October 9

Lesney Matchbox Volkswagen Kombi bus die-cast toy

Matchbox Began in 1953 as a Toy Sized to Fit a Match Box, Now the Brand Is a John Cena Apple TV Movie Premiering October 9

October 7, 2026

An 11-Year-Old Pleaded Not Guilty in Seminole County Court Over His 4,500-Watt Electric Dirt Bike

Black electric dirt bike without pedals parked on a rocky trail

An 11-Year-Old Pleaded Not Guilty in Seminole County Court Over His 4,500-Watt Electric Dirt Bike

October 4, 2026

EPA Modeled Its Replacement for DEF Derates on a 90-Second Seatbelt Chime Study

Diesel exhaust fluid pumps under a canopy at a Buc-ee's travel center

EPA Modeled Its Replacement for DEF Derates on a 90-Second Seatbelt Chime Study

October 4, 2026

Watch: Semi Jackknifes Across I-80 in Omaha in a 4.71-Inch Storm

A semi-truck blurred by speed on a wet, overcast interstate beside a guardrail

Watch: Semi Jackknifes Across I-80 in Omaha in a 4.71-Inch Storm

October 3, 2026

Builders Said a Kentucky Battery Plant’s Owner Owed Them $138.4 Million, Got Accused of Overbilling, Then Bought the Plant in Bankruptcy

Construction site with a crane and formwork under a stormy sky

Builders Said a Kentucky Battery Plant’s Owner Owed Them $138.4 Million, Got Accused of Overbilling, Then Bought the Plant in Bankruptcy

October 1, 2026