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FLEX Automotive Will Now Ship a Genuine JDM Land Cruiser Straight to Your Driveway
For years, getting a genuine Japanese-market Land Cruiser onto U.S. soil meant flying to Japan and hoping an export broker…
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Bugatti’s One-Off Veyron ‘Restoration’ Buries the Real Story: It Fixes the Car’s Worst Ownership Headache
Twenty years ago, Bugatti dropped a quad-turbo W16 into a carbon monocoque and built the Veyron, a car that grabbed…
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A Wrecked Chevelle SS Restomod Is Still Sitting on eBay, and the Price Barely Budged
A battered 1965 Chevrolet Chevelle Malibu SS restomod showed up on eBay a month ago with a crushed front clip…
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A Corvette GM Tried to Bury Just Matched a Factory Ferrari, Dollar for Dollar, at Pebble Beach
Two auctions, two nights apart, on the same stretch of California coastline, produced a coincidence no spreadsheet could have modeled.…
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Defender Dakar’s Big Number Is the Same One the OCTA Already Had
Land Rover brought a race truck, a decades-old NAS Defender, and a covered shape to a lawn in Monterey, and…
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Honda’s Award-Winning EV Outlier Hides a Two-Wheel-Drive Bet Worth Arguing About
Design awards are usually where concept bikes go to be politely applauded and then forgotten. Honda’s latest one is worth…
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What Gordon Murray’s Pebble Beach Honor Actually Recognizes, Engineering-Wise
Lifetime achievement awards are usually a polite way of saying someone’s best work is behind them. Gordon Murray got his…
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Hennessey Blackbird: All 71 Sold, But the Engine Target Is the Real Story
All 71 build slots for Hennessey’s new Blackbird are gone, and the company waited five days to say so.Hennessey Special…
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Seven Supercars Ran ‘Follow the Leader’ on a Colorado Highway. Deputies Were Already Waiting at the Finish Line
Highway 103 in Clear Creek County, Colorado isn’t a closed circuit, a canyon run with a scenic pull-off, or anyone’s…
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California County Will Pay You Up To $1,000 To Turn In An Illegal E-Bike Or E-Moto
Todd Spitzer has spent his career as Orange County’s top prosecutor locking people up, not running consumer trade-in events. But…
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Someone Firebombed A McLaren Outside A Birmingham Wedding, And The Getaway Car Was A Volkswagen Golf
Somewhere outside a banqueting hall in Sparkbrook, Birmingham, three men in hoods spent roughly ten seconds throwing homemade incendiary devices…
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Max Verstappen Will Wear This Suit One Last Time at Zandvoort, Then It’s Someone Else’s
Somewhere in a Red Bull Racing kit room this week sits a race suit that hadn’t been worn until this…