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BRM’s One-of-One Le Mans Prototype Just Got Its Roof and V12 Back After 30 Years
For the better part of three decades, the only BRM P351 ever built didn’t have a roof. It didn’t have…
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The 2026 Tesla Model 3 Just Swept NHTSA’s Five Stars — Here’s Every Test That Rating Skips
Every NHTSA subscore came back five stars. The IIHS results, the carryover testing and the delayed NCAP upgrade tell a…
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JOP Brought Two Ferrari Enzos Back to His Childhood Home in San Bernardino, and the Real Story Is Under the Hood
On a residential block in San Bernardino, California, there’s a modest single-story house behind a wrought-iron fence with a driveway…
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The Smartest Buy of NASCAR’s Vegas Playoff Weekend Is a $25 Friday Ticket at The Bullring
The inaugural Kyle Busch Classic runs six divisions on October 2, from sealed-engine Bandoleros to ARCA Menards Series West. Here’s…
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Dubai Police Put a Mansory Ferrari 812 on Tourist Patrol, and the 800-HP Claim Doesn’t Add Up
Dubai Police unveiled a fifth Mansory-built patrol car. The quoted 800 horsepower is Ferrari’s factory rating in different units.
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A Gold-Plated One-Off Cadillac Beat a Duesenberg at Auburn — and That Designer Credit Is Doing Less Work Than You’d Think
The one-off 1953 Cadillac Elegante brought $1.4 million at Kruse’s Auburn sale. The Albrecht von Goertz attribution everyone is repeating…
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A Former F1 World Champion Sank £55 Million Into an Organic Buffalo Farm, and a UK Tax Tribunal Just Explained Exactly Why It Failed
Jody Scheckter won the 1979 Formula 1 World Championship in a Ferrari, and he’s still the last Ferrari driver to…
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Vanilla Ice Put His Original 5.0 Back on Camera, and the Build Says More Than the Caption Does
Vanilla Ice posted his original Ice Ice Baby 5.0 again. The Fox-body build, the market math and the airbag nobody…
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It Took Rolls-Royce Six Attempts and Nine Months to Stop a Seashell From Cracking Inside a Phantom
Rolls-Royce built its first abalone shell marquetry into the one-off Phantom Hummingbird. The hard part wasn’t the bird – it…
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COTA’s $450 Grounds Pass Is Sold Out — Costco Still Has Them for $359.99
Circuit of the Americas is sold out of three-day general admission for the 2026 US Grand Prix. Costco is still…
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Defender’s Showroom-Based Race Truck Heads to Morocco, Where Stock Parts Usually Give Up
Defender Rally enters three D7X-Rs at Rallye du Maroc, defending its Stock class championship lead in Morocco’s dunes.
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Robert Pattinson Bought a Shelby Mustang and Can’t Remember Which One — But He Remembers the Part That Matters
Pattinson bought a Shelby during Twilight and spent the next stretch pushing it around corners. Every failure he describes has…
