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Inside Volkswagen’s Abandoned V.MO eVTOL: Why the Flying Car Program Died in China
Volkswagen built two full-size flying machines, won a design award for one of them, sat a Chinese premier in the…
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Also TM-B E-Bike Deliveries Begin: What Rivian Spinoff Buyers Should Know
Rivian’s e-bike offshoot has finally started putting hardware on trucks. The interesting part of this story isn’t the delay —…
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A BSA Bantam Once Owned by Ewan McGregor Is Up for Grabs
A small British motorcycle with a famous former owner is drawing attention at auction, where bidding on a 1952 BSA…
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Record-Setting AEM Honda Civic Drag Car Resurfaces at Auction After Years in Police Custody
The twin-turbocharged Honda Civic that rewrote the sport compact record books more than two decades ago is back on the…
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Honda’s Handlebar Bolt Recall Grows to 44,000 Motorcycles
Honda just told federal regulators that a recall it opened five months ago was too small. On July 30, American…
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Car Culture Isn’t Dead. It’s Being Priced Out of Its Own Garage.
Two Firebirds, eighteen years apart, and the receipt for everything the repair economy quietly took away.Something got repossessed in this…
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CBP’s Stolen-Car Export Numbers Reveal the Real Target Isn’t the $270,000 Lamborghini—It’s the Honda CR-V
A 2024 Lamborghini Urus worth $269,885 got stopped in Norfolk, Virginia last year before it could reach the United Arab…
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Two Porsches Got Beached in Canada for a Photoshoot, and Police Say Nobody’s Facing Charges
Toronto Police got the call just before 6 a.m. on Tuesday: two vehicles stuck in the sand at Woodbine Beach.…
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Kenya’s 60-Day Import Grace Period Won’t Become a Landing Pad for Stolen Car Exports
A Kenyan High Court ruling this week gave vehicle dealers a 60-day extension to register imported cars before enforcement resumes,…
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Ed Sheeran’s Aston Martin Hasn’t Moved Since 2021, and That’s Exactly Why He Just Got Convicted
Ed Sheeran’s 1966 Aston Martin hasn’t turned a wheel in five years. It’s been sitting inside a restoration workshop in…
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IndyCar’s Debut D.C. Street Race Just Got 22 Laps Longer, and Every Team’s Fuel Math Just Changed
INDYCAR just found a math problem baked into its own marketing. The Freedom 250 Grand Prix, the series’ first-ever race…
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No-Reserve Black Ferrari Enzo Heads to Carmel With an Eight-Figure Estimate
Broad Arrow has been feeding out its Quail Auction catalogue in pieces for weeks, and it saved the one that…