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Direct Connection’s $10,995 Rumble Bee Blower Kits: The Warranty Fine Print Owners Should Read First
The horsepower number is the headline, and it’s the least interesting part of what Ram announced this week.Direct Connection rolled…
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Hennessey Blackbird: The Engineering Reality Behind An 850-HP Naturally Aspirated V8 And A Stick
Hennessey has spent fifteen years building cars whose entire personality was a number. The Venom GT chased 270 mph. The…
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BMW M4 Ute Sells For $93,000 — The Engineering And Legal Reality Behind The Chop
A 2022 BMW M4 Competition xDrive with a cargo bed where its back seats used to be crossed the block…
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Yamaha Ends Georgia Side-by-Side Assembly as Record Profits Mask a $76M Loss
Yamaha spent the morning of August 4 doing two things that don’t normally happen in the same news cycle: reporting…
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Meadow Walker Didn’t Sell Paul Walker’s Furious 7 Supra — It’s Sitting in a Museum
A car doesn’t have to change hands for the internet to decide it did. This week’s target was a piece…
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Cape Coral Scrapped Its AI Garbage Truck Cameras Over Cost. GM’s OnStar Data Deal Already Cost Drivers Real Money
Cape Coral, Florida spent five months as the most-cited example of a city planning robot garbage trucks that read your…
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Mark Ruffalo Says His Kia Beats His Tesla, and NHTSA Just Opened a Suspension Investigation to Back Him Up
Mark Ruffalo picked a fight with his own garage on August 5, and the loser wasn’t close. Quote-tweeting a story…
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JCB’s Hydromax Hit 368 MPH on Two Modified Digger Engines, and the Real Record Attempt Hasn’t Happened Yet
JCB builds backhoes, wheel loaders, and the yellow diggers you’ve probably been stuck behind on a single-lane road at some…
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California Banned Driverless Trucks for a Decade. Now the Teamsters Say the State Lowballed the Comeback
A driverless truck operating under California’s new autonomous vehicle rules won’t just be missing a person behind the wheel. It…
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Inside Volkswagen’s Abandoned V.MO eVTOL: Why the Flying Car Program Died in China
Volkswagen built two full-size flying machines, won a design award for one of them, sat a Chinese premier in the…
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Also TM-B E-Bike Deliveries Begin: What Rivian Spinoff Buyers Should Know
Rivian’s e-bike offshoot has finally started putting hardware on trucks. The interesting part of this story isn’t the delay —…
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A BSA Bantam Once Owned by Ewan McGregor Is Up for Grabs
A small British motorcycle with a famous former owner is drawing attention at auction, where bidding on a 1952 BSA…