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Range Rover Finally Builds an EV, and It’s Launching Straight Into the Company’s Worst Financial Year on Record
Range Rover just opened order books for its first fully electric SUV, and the timing is almost comically bad. Fifty-six…
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T-Pain’s $3 Million Koenigsegg Regera Got Pulled Over Leading a Convoy of Hypercars to Monterey
For about ten minutes on a stretch of Nevada two-lane highway, a state trooper had more combined horsepower parked behind…
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Callaway and Waldoch Just Built a 602-HP Silverado That Won’t Void Your Warranty
Every year at SEMA, some shop bolts a supercharger onto a half-ton pickup, lowers it three inches, and calls it…
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California’s ‘Leno’s Law’ Would Let More 1980s Classics Skip Smog Checks — If Sacramento Ever Lets It Out of Committee
Every legislative session, Sacramento produces one bill gearheads actually want to read past the headline. This time it’s Senate Bill…
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Tom Cruise Crashed a NASCAR Drivers Meeting to Announce ‘Days of Thunder 2,’ and the Garage Already Wants In
Tom Cruise doesn’t do quiet entrances, and he wasn’t about to start one at Daytona. Before NASCAR’s Cup Series regular-season…
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VinFast Paused Three India-Built EVs, and North Carolina Already Wrote the Ending
VinFast spent July quietly telling its Indian suppliers to put down their tools. By September, it was telling reporters something…
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Travis Kelce’s Car Wash Investment Just Got Hit With a $2 Million Bonus Class Action
Travis Kelce won’t be sitting through any depositions over this one. But the car wash chain he quietly bought into…
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A Corvette Sat at the Bottom of Oregon’s Willamette River for Decades. Pulling It Out Is What Finally Destroyed It
Water is supposed to be what kills an old car. Rust doesn’t need much encouragement, and a few decades fully…
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Pierre Gasly’s Monaco Podium Got Stripped Twice in Three Months, and the FIA’s Reasoning Is a Wake-Up Call for Every Team
Pierre Gasly finished third at Monaco in June, lost the position to a pit lane penalty a few hours later,…
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A Federal Judge Just Saved California’s Emissions Waivers From an EPA Paperwork Trick
A federal judge in Washington, D.C. just told the EPA that relabeling a law doesn’t repeal it, and the ruling…
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A Wrecked Jeep Grand Cherokee SRT Hid a Real Demon 170 Engine, a Kill Switch, and a Bent Steering Column
Khal_SRT has crawled through enough wrecked Mopars to know a yellow engine block doesn’t belong under the hood of a…
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Washington Killed the Truck Engine Fuel Rule. The Best Fleets Made It Irrelevant Years Ago
Washington just performed one of its most predictable tricks: killing a regulation and calling it a bold stroke of innovation,…