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2026 F1 Season: Five Scenarios for How the Title Fight Finishes
Formula 1’s new regulatory era has produced one of the most lopsided first halves in years, but also one of…
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Group 1 Automotive Buys Atlanta Lexus, Porsche, and Jaguar Land Rover Dealerships for $1.3 Billion
Group 1 Automotive has signed a definitive agreement to buy the dealership assets and real estate of Hennessy Automobile Companies,…
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Joe Gibbs Racing Backs Off Its Boldest Claim Against Chris Gabehart and Spire — Because It Couldn’t Prove It
On July 29, inside a federal courthouse in Charlotte, Joe Gibbs Racing’s own attorneys asked a judge to strike one…
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A Nissan Dealership’s General Manager Allegedly Went To War With A Customer’s Small Business Over One Bad Review
Selling cars for a living means dealing with unhappy customers occasionally. That’s the job. What you don’t do is turn…
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Lamborghini Just Posted Record Revenue and Still Watched Profit Shrink — Tariffs Are Why
Lamborghini just told the world it made more money than it ever has in company history. In the same breath,…
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Pilot’s Widow Sues Greg Biffle’s Aviation Company Directly, Alleging the Crashed Jet Was Never Airworthy
The wrongful death case tied to the December 18 crash that killed Greg Biffle, his wife, both of their kids,…
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Richard Hammond’s £1,771 Speeding Fine Shows How Quiet Luxury Cars Mask Real Speed
Richard Hammond spent fifteen years on Top Gear treating speed as entertainment. Last winter, a police officer with a handheld…
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What Detroit’s Street Racing Bust Really Costs Drivers and Spectators
Detroit Wrote 53 Tickets in a Parking Lot. The Tickets Are the Cheapest Part.Detroit police broke up a car gathering…
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LG Energy Solution Sues EVE Energy Over Cylindrical Battery Patents – And the Tech at Stake Looks a Lot Like Tesla’s 4680 Cells
Slice open a modern cordless drill battery and a Tesla battery pack side by side, and you’ll find the two…
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How One Crew Drove Eight Cars Off A Dealer Lot In A Single Night
Rafael Otero Nieves got 84 months. Nigel Criss got 54. Both were sentenced on July 21 by Chief U.S. District…
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Inside Conner Center: The 400-Car Mopar Collection Detroit Can’t Visit
Eight years ago, Chrysler’s parent company told the world it was going to fill an old spark-plug-plant-turned-supercar-shop on Detroit’s east…
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Cummins Slows Its 2027 Engine Rollout as EPA Rewrites the Rulebook
Cummins Is Starting 2027 Engine Production in January. That Doesn’t Mean You Can Buy One.Cummins spent four years telling the…