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Riverti’s Retro M2: Can a Modern BMW Really Wear 3.0 CSL Clothes?
A small Italian outfit called Riverti Automobili is teasing a coachbuilt car based on the current G87 BMW M2, re-skinned…
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Nissan’s Z Kaze Concept Brings Back the T-Top, and the Hard Part Isn’t the Hole in the Roof
Nissan’s ZCON concept pulls the roof panels off the Z, bolts on restored NISMO LMGT2 wheels and GReddy parts, and…
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Saudi Arabia’s First Car Has Falcon Doors and 1,111 HP, But the Real Engineering Is in the Air Conditioning
CEER staged the debut of Saudi Arabia’s first homegrown car inside its own factory, which is either supreme confidence or…
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Brabus AB110: The Tuner’s First Yacht Packs 7,800 HP and a Carbon Spoiler
Brabus has spent nearly five decades making Mercedes-Benzes louder, faster and harder to miss in a parking lot. Its newest…
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Barrett-Jackson’s Founders Just Made the Automotive Hall of Fame, 63 Years After a Cadillac Ad Introduced Them
The biggest trophy in this business went out on Wednesday night to a friendship that began with a Cadillac that…
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Your Puma Defender Can Now Get a Factory V8: What It Costs, What Changes
For most of the last decade, the only way to get a factory-sanctioned V8 in a Defender built before the…
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Renault’s 270-HP R8 Gordini Concept Keeps the Motor Where the Original Had It: Out Back
Renault’s R8 Gordini Concept is a two-door, 270-hp electric coupe that keeps the rear-drive soul of the 1964 original.
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BMW Built Nine Nürburgring Tribute Models, and Only Three of Them Are Actually Rare
BMW M GmbH and BMW Motorrad have gone in together on a birthday present for a racetrack. The Edition 100…
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Have This With Your Coffee: Your Backfire News Round-Up for September 25
ThrustSSC’s 714-mph warm-up, Bentley’s drum-soundtrack EV, the Partridge Family bus, the Nissan Skyline V38 and more from yesterday on Backfire…
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Bentley Mulliner’s Copernicus Trio: Three One-Off Continentals Themed on Sun, Earth, Moon
Bentley’s latest Mulliner project starts with a small astronomy mistake. Its press release introduces three cars themed on the Sun,…
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Jamie Chadwick Just Did Williams’ Homework for Portimão, in a Car F1 Already Retired
Jamie Chadwick ran 32 laps in the Williams FW47 at Portimão. Here’s what the TPC test tells Williams, and what…
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Subaru’s Boxerfest Teaser Shows a Winged WRX tS, and the Wing Is the Real News
Subaru of America issued a press release on September 22 that is barely a press release. Strip out the boilerplate…
