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Uber’s $10 Billion Self-Driving Gamble Hits a Wall: Europe’s 250-Car-Per-Country Limit
Uber spent its second-quarter call telling investors it wants to be the app layer for everyone else’s self-driving cars. The…
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The Camaro Restoration Disaster That Proves an Empty Gas Tank Is More Dangerous Than a Full One
A 61-year-old man in Chesapeake, Virginia is home from the emergency room with what firefighters described as non-life-threatening injuries after…
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Kia and Hyundai Mobis Just Paid $11.5 Million to Settle a Georgia Visa Scandal — Here’s What the Filing Reveals
Eleven and a half million dollars is roughly what Kia Georgia’s West Point plant produces in vehicle value on a…
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Koenigsegg’s 1,600-HP CCGT1 Is the Le Mans Monster the FIA Never Let Race
Koenigsegg spent Monterey week doing something it has never really done before: apologizing to itself for a decision the FIA…
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Stolen in 1993, Found Decades Later: How a Routine CHP VIN Check Cracked This Chevelle Cold Case
There is a photograph circulating out of the California Highway Patrol’s Auburn Area office: three men, arms around each other,…
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NASCAR Turns 8/18 Into Kyle Busch Day—and the Numbers Tell the Story
Race-car numbers are usually rented real estate. A driver leaves, a sponsor changes, and the vinyl gets peeled away before…
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Suspect Charged After Greg Biffle’s NASCAR Rings Surface in Georgia
Some stolen property is built to disappear. Cash changes hands, bags get dumped, and a common handgun can move through…
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California Just Set Efficiency Rules For Replacement Tires — And Your Track Rubber Is Exempt
Every tire you’ve ever bolted onto a car after the factory set wore out has been quietly costing you money,…
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Fernando Alonso Designed His Own Aston Martin — And Insisted It Keep a Manual Gearbox
Fernando Alonso spent part of Formula 1’s summer shutdown the way most gearheads only fantasize about: rowing through gears in…
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Xiaomi Just Delivered Its 500,000th SU7 in 28.5 Months, and the Real Story Isn’t the Car
Lei Jun spent more than a decade building phones, routers, and rice cookers before he built a car. On August…
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This Bare-Carbon Bugatti EB110 Bid to $5.5 Million at Mecum — and Still Didn’t Sell
Mecum’s Monterey sale wrapped up with the usual parade of seven-figure metal, but the lot that had the room leaning…
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Kawasaki’s Patents Show How CORLEO’s Robot Horse Actually Thinks, and It’s Unnervingly Smart
Kawasaki did something more revealing than another slick CORLEO video this year: it kept filing paperwork. A stack of Japanese…