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Top Gear Is Coming Back. The Lawsuit From the Crash That Nearly Killed Freddie Flintoff Isn’t Over
BBC director of entertainment Ed Havard didn’t bury the lede at this year’s Edinburgh TV Festival. Asked about the show’s…
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Lando Norris Just Got His Own Prime Video Documentary — Produced by the Studio Behind Drive to Survive
Lando Norris is getting the solo documentary treatment, and Prime Video wants viewers to see it as more than another…
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Fernando Alonso’s Headset Isn’t a Fashion Statement — It’s Basically Ear Protection From His Own Engine
The clip going around this week shows Fernando Alonso threading his Aston Martin Valkyrie through Monaco, into the tunnel, and…
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Callaway Just Supercharged the Exact Chevy Engine the Feds Are Investigating for Blowing Up
Callaway Cars and Waldoch Crafts picked an interesting week to announce a supercharged Silverado.The two shops went public on August…
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Porsche’s New Track-Only 911 Costs More Than the Street Car It’s Built From — And You Still Can’t Drive It Home
Porsche’s New Entry-Level Race Car Costs More Than the Road Car It’s Built FromPorsche Motorsport North America has put a…
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Porsche Just Outsourced Its Own Brain to an Indian IT Giant. Here’s Why That’s Actually Smart
Porsche has spent decades cultivating a reputation for fussing over things like crankshaft counterweights and the exact resonance of a…
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That Viral Bugatti Police Parade Wasn’t a Flex — It Was a Legal Loophole
A Bugatti Convoy With a Police Escort Is Really a Paperwork StoryFootage of a line of Bugattis rolling through the…
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Audi’s New 1,001-HP Supercar Debuted on a Golf Course Instead of a Racetrack — On Purpose
Monterey Car Week attracts a specific kind of car person: the one who already owns the vintage Alfa and the…
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Dunlop Waited Until It Was Too Late to Complain About California’s New Tire Rule
Dunlop Warned California About Its Tire Rule. The Comment Window Had Been Shut for 16 Days.California’s Energy Commission adopted the…
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Devin Booker Turned His Own Vintage Impala Collection Into an Actual Sneaker Line
The photo Chevrolet handed out to announce this collab says more than the press release does: a pair of sneakers…
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New Details Emerge on Street Outlaws Chris ‘Block’ Gordon’s Fatal Crash at ‘The Hill’
New details have surfaced in the days since Chris “Block” Gordon’s death at KD Motorsports Park’s “The Hill” drag strip…
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VW’s CEO Just Told the Plant Building Half Its EVs: Still Not Cheap Enough
Oliver Blume did not travel to Emden and Zwickau this week to hand out gold stars. Volkswagen’s CEO toured both…