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Justin Marks Says Max Verstappen’s NASCAR Path Runs Straight Into a Ford Badge
Trackhouse Racing has made a habit of putting outsiders behind the wheel of a stock car just to see what…
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Florida Is Making an Example Out of Supercars, and This 137 MPH Lamborghini Just Became Exhibit A
A Lamborghini doesn’t need help getting noticed, but the Orange County Sheriff’s Office in Florida found a way to make…
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Ford’s 1.0L EcoBoost Timing Belt Can Kill an Engine at 70,000 Miles. NHTSA Just Escalated Its Investigation.
A dashboard warning light doesn’t usually earn its own paragraph in a federal case file, but that’s exactly what’s happening…
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IHRA’s Owner Claims Elon Musk’s SpaceXAI Owes Him $570 Million — Racers Say He Still Owes Them, Too
Drag racing sanctioning bodies do not typically show up in nine-figure billing disputes involving Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence supercomputers. Then…
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Portland’s Freightliner Plant Is Closing — And Daimler Filed This Plan Once Before
There is a document sitting on the SEC’s servers, filed in October 2008, in which Daimler AG tells investors it…
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BMW Restructuring: What The Munich Cost Cuts Mean For Buyers And Enthusiasts
Munich spent the last two years as the German industry’s designated adult. While rivals reversed course on electrification and wrote…
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Ninth Circuit Tosses Suzuki Front Brake Master Cylinder Class Action — And Explains Why
There’s a difference between describing chemistry and identifying a defect, and a group of Suzuki owners just spent three years…
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Bronco RTR ROVR: What RTR’s $26,595 Overland Package Actually Buys
Most “overland packages” are a purchase order with a badge on it. Somebody buys a lift, a rack, a set…
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I Told Atlanta to Give the Red Bull Showrun a Chance. Then It Blew Me Away.
A few weeks ago, I made what felt like a fairly straightforward argument.Atlanta had just hosted one of the biggest…
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Watch: A Detached Wheel Turned I-76 Into a Missile Range, and a Tesla’s Cameras Caught the Whole Thing
Last Wednesday afternoon on the westbound Schuylkill Expressway near the Girard Avenue exit in Philadelphia, a wheel that had no…
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A $100K Chevelle Vanished From a Centereach Driveway, and So Did Two Minutes of Ring Footage
At 11:47 p.m. on July 1, a Ring camera mounted above a garage in Centereach, New York was still watching…
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Ducati Just Filed the New Monster’s Design in India, and the Bigger Story Is Hiding in the Engine Case
Paperwork rarely makes headlines, but when a manufacturer registers a motorcycle’s design with a country’s patent office, it is usually…