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Vanderhall’s 50-Unit Santarosa Special: What The $54,950 Price Actually Gets You
Vanderhall’s 50-car Santarosa Launch Edition is mostly carbon trim, and the fine print matters moreProvo’s three-wheel specialists rolled into Concours…
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Porsche Built 100 Nürburgring Tribute GT3s, And Americans Can’t Legally Own One Until 2052
Porsche just pulled the covers off a 911 GT3 built to mark 100 years of the Nürburgring, and the most…
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Someone Restored the Tupac BMW. That’s Exactly Why $1.75 Million Is a Hard Sell
The 1996 BMW 750iL from the night Tupac Shakur was shot is listed at $1.75 million. Its restoration is the…
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Porsche Driver Allegedly Backs Into CHP Cruiser During Traffic Stop, Blows Four Times the Legal Limit
California Highway Patrol’s Monterey office says a Porsche driver managed to get pulled over for triple-digit speed, then made the…
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Cadillac’s V-ONE Concept Proves Its Le Mans Race Car Has Been Sandbagging All Along
Every race car sold to the public through homologation rules is, by design, less than it could be. Regulators cap…
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The Met Took 90 Supercars in Three Days — and a £3.7M Ferrari Is Sitting in a Pound Charging £20 a Day
London police seized 90 cars worth over £8 million in three days, almost entirely on paperwork. Here is the legal…
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Aston Martin’s New DB12 S One-Offs Dig Up 1951 Le Mans History for Pebble Beach’s 75th
Aston Martin did not bring one special car to Monterey Car Week this year. It brought three, and the detail…
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Uber Is Now Financing Motorcycles in Latin America — Here’s What Riders Should Know
Uber has spent a decade insisting it doesn’t own the cars. This week it took an equity position in the…
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McLaren’s Manual Supercar: What the Teaser Actually Reveals About the Gearbox
McLaren spent fifteen years telling anyone who would listen that paddles are quicker, that a dual-clutch is the only honest…
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Ferrari Registers “LC67” Name — And 1967 May Be the Clue
Ferrari’s legal department has been busy again, and this time it left behind a four-character breadcrumb that has the Ferrari-literate…
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Nissan GT-R50 by Italdesign: Only 18 of 50 Were Actually Built
Nissan opened the order book on the GT-R50 by Italdesign in December 2018 with a number that sounded deliberately mythic:…
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Report of Porsche Acquiring RUF Was False, Company Says
Correction (August 15, 2026): This article previously reported claims of a potential Porsche acquisition of RUF Automobile. RUF has stated…