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153 Million Driver’s Licenses Leaked in a Breach Tied to the Company That Scans IDs at Hertz Counters
Handing your license across a rental counter is such a routine part of picking up a car that nobody stops…
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A Wichita Dealer Billed a Customer to Fix a Transmission It Never Touched and Sat on His Title for 500 Days. Now It’s Closed.
In September of 2024, a man walked into Sunset Auto Sales on South Broadway in Wichita and bought a 2006…
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Durango Police Are Dropping Flock’s License Plate Cameras for Axon – And Tightening the Leash on Your Data
Durango’s police department is done cutting checks to Flock Safety. Chief Brice Current told the city council on September 1…
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This Wedge-Shaped Aston Martin Estate Goes To Zürich, And It Isn’t The Only One
The “Only” Lagonda Shooting Brake Isn’t, But The Real Claim Is Better AnywayBroad Arrow is bringing a wedge-shaped Aston Martin…
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Michael Jordan’s Ferrari 550 And A 92-Kilometre LaFerrari: What Bidders Are Really Paying For
Two Ferraris, Two Different Bets, And Only One Of Them Is About The CarThere are two Ferraris worth paying attention…
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Lewis Hamilton’s Barn-Find Ferrari F40 And The Real Cost Of Waking One Up
Lewis Hamilton Woke Up A Sleeping F40, And That’s A Far Bigger Job Than The Photos SuggestHamilton announced it himself…
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Brabus Bodo Cabriolet: The 1,000 HP Carbon V12 Convertible, Explained
Brabus Just Chopped The Roof Off An Aston Martin V12, And The Paperwork Is The Best PartBrabus published the Bodo…
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Monza’s Heat Hazard Call Boils Down to One Number: 5 Kilograms
The FIA didn’t need a press conference to make Sunday’s race interesting before a single lap gets run. A one-line…
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Monza’s Friday Practice Runs Into a Heat Wave, and That’s an Engineering Problem Too
Monza doesn’t do subtlety, and neither does this week’s forecast. AccuWeather has issued a Yellow Warning for Extreme High Temperature…
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The Supercharged Defender 110 Nobody Talks About Is The One Worth Buying
The badge says P425 and the spec sheet says 5.0 litres, eight cylinders and a supercharger, which in 2026 makes…
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The DEF Derate Rollback Explained, Including Why It Won’t Help Your Current Diesel
If you have ever watched a truck’s dash light up over a diesel exhaust fluid fault that turned out to…
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Why Four Wedding Supercars Were Seized On Sight Under Britain’s New Police Powers
Somewhere in North Somerset there is a wedding album with a gap in it. Four cars that were supposed to…