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Julien’s Is Selling the Batman Returns Batmobile, and the Chassis Is Two Chevy Impalas
Tim Burton’s Batman Returns gave audiences a Batmobile with a pointed prow, a spine of black lacquer, and a profile…
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FREELANDER’s International Comeback Kicks Off in Abu Dhabi, Not Britain or Beijing
FREELANDER, the Chery-JLR joint venture reviving Land Rover’s old nameplate as a China-built EV brand, holds its international debut in…
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Savic Opens the Door to Buyers: What It Means for Owners
Australia’s only home-grown performance electric motorcycle maker has put up a sign that, stripped of corporate phrasing, reads “open to…
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McLaren Revealed a New Wordmark Today, and the Real Story Is an Org Chart From August
McLaren pulled the cover off a new wordmark this morning, and if you’ve scrolled past the reveal on social media,…
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Maserati’s Survival Plan: Two Partners, Heavy Losses and a U.S. Roadblock
Maserati’s biggest problem isn’t a missing V8 or a weak Folgore lineup. It’s arithmetic. In 2025, the Trident shipped 7,900…
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The ‘Batman Returns’ Hero Batmobile Is Headed to Auction, and $5 Million Is Just the Opening Argument
Julien’s Auctions and TCM are selling the screen-used hero Batmobile from 1992’s Batman Returns on November 23, with a $5…
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Old Biker Dude Went Viral With About 100 Subscribers in 2023, and His Channel Now Sits at 315,000
Covering the internet’s car and bike corner for a living means spending a lot of the workday inside other people’s…
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Europe Gets Another Shot at the Mustang GTD — but Applications Close October 16
Ford doesn’t sell the Mustang GTD. It curates who gets to own one, and starting today, that curation process is…
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Watch: A Toledo Shop Worker Took a Sheriff’s SUV in for Service and Allegedly Turned It Into a Drag Race
Every shop that works on someone else’s fleet operates on one unwritten rule: keep the joyriding to a minimum. In…
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Toyota Put the Street-Legal GR GT Next to Its GR GT3 Racer at Laguna Seca, and That Was the Whole Point
Toyota Gazoo Racing’s Spanish arm posted the proof itself on September 3: the GR GT and GR GT3 running side…
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A Diesel Pickup Answered a Corvette’s Middle Finger With a Soot Bomb, and Nobody Won
A Tacoma merge standoff ended with a diesel pickup burying a C4 Corvette in soot. Here’s who was actually wrong,…
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Bugatti’s New One-Off Program Debuted With a Car Named After a Horse — and It’s Already Sold
Ettore Bugatti loved plenty of things that moved faster than a horse, but not much more than the horse itself.…
