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A 50-Foot Turbine Catamaran Hit 157 MPH at a Charity Poker Run, and Nobody Agrees on Who Got Arrested
The St. Lawrence River near Clayton, New York isn’t short on open water, but somewhere close to the Thousand Islands…
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Nissan Just Recalled 168,149 Full-Size SUVs Because a Sticker Has the Wrong Number on It
Nissan North America is recalling 168,149 of its biggest three-row SUVs, and nobody’s chasing a cracked bracket or a leaking…
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Kyle Busch’s Son Walked Away From a Vicious Charlotte Wreck, and the Cage Around Him Explains Why
Grief has a strange way of intersecting with a race track, and it did exactly that on July 21 at…
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The Company That Tunes Your Mustang Is Now Building 1,000 Driverless Semis a Year
Roush has spent the better part of four decades building its name on things with a steering wheel involved —…
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Tom Cruise’s ‘Days of Thunder’ Sequel is Officially Moving Forward
Paramount hasn’t confirmed a single frame of a “Days of Thunder” sequel exists, but as of July 22, the project…
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This Hall of Fame Sold Its Own Pace Car ‘As Is,’ Then Spent $23K Restoring It for the Boss
An Alabama nonprofit put a 1968 Camaro SS convertible up for public bid using a classified ad that gave away…
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Former FIA Formula 3 Driver Zdeněk Chovanec Dead at 22, Cause Undisclosed
The FIA doesn’t usually announce a driver’s death with a black-and-white graphic and nothing else, but that’s how the racing…
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Denver And Douglas County Fired Flock Over Spying Concerns—Then Hired Axon To Do The Same Job
Denver spent over a year fighting with Flock Safety about what the company was doing with footage of every car…
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Range Rover Sport Electric Confirmed for Late 2026 With No Specs at All
Read Land Rover’s Sport Electric announcement all the way through and try to find a number. Any number. Battery capacity,…
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Triumph Speed Twin 1200 TFC: What the $4,800 Premium Over the RS Actually Buys
Limited editions usually work like this: same bike, different paint, wildly different invoice. So when Triumph announced the Speed Twin…
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Inside Shaquille O’Neal’s One-Off 1964 Impala Boat and the Rules That Govern It
Somewhere on Lake Ray Hubbard, northeast of Dallas, boaters spent a July afternoon watching what appeared to be a 1964…
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More Powerful Sixpack Charger Coming August 8 — What Dodge’s Wording Rules Out
Buried at the bottom of a bullet list about car shows and cruise nights, Dodge slipped in the only line…