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From Fighter Jets to Fastbacks: A Carbon-Fiber Eleanor Takes Flight
The material that once belonged to aircraft engineers and Formula 1 teams has landed on one of Hollywood’s most famous…
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Dave Marcis Burglary Arrest Came Down to a Facebook Tip and a Flea Market Booth
Someone is finally facing charges over the break-in at Dave Marcis’ Arden, North Carolina home, and the way investigators got…
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An Unmarked Tow Truck, a Scanner, and an 11-Year-Dead Registration: Inside LA’s Bandit Towing Crackdown
West Hollywood sheriff’s deputies flagged a tow truck near La Brea Avenue and Fountain Avenue last week for details that…
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Inside Isuzu’s Driverless Truck Plan: Real Freight, Real Deadline, One Big Catch
Isuzu is now running second-generation autonomous heavy trucks on a real commercial freight route in Japan, and the freight in…
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Waterproof 2.0-Liter Hybrid Engine Rated for 43 Inches of Water Fording
Off-road wading specs are usually a suspension and packaging story. Raise the intake, seal the doors, run the axle breathers…
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Ducati Sale Talk Returns as VW Reviews 600 Businesses: What Owners Should Know
Audi CEO Gernot Döllner confirmed in a Bloomberg interview that Ducati is one of roughly 600 businesses Volkswagen Group is…
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Alpine Let Lacoste Design Its Wildest Electric Hot Hatch, and It’s Headed for a Concours Lawn, Not a Racetrack
Alpine just built a one-off version of its hottest electric hatchback, dressed it in the exact shade of red that…
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Porsche Cashes Out of Bugatti Rimac for $1.2 Billion, and Most of It Isn’t Going Where You’d Guess
Porsche just got paid to let go of Bugatti. On September 9, the German sports car maker confirmed it has…
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Clark County Wants to Name a Street After Kyle Busch. Nevada Already Has One Called Rowdy.
Somewhere inside the fenced-off guts of Las Vegas Motor Speedway sits a private, L-shaped service road that almost nobody outside…
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Racing’s Safety Net Failed in Shanghai — So a Rival Driver Pulled Ollie Millroy Out of a Burning Ferrari Himself
A GT3 Ferrari doesn’t catch fire because engineers did a bad job. These cars run FIA-spec safety cells, quick-drain fuel…
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The Only Camaro Z28 Convertible Chevy Ever Built Was a Company Car for Its Own General Manager
Corporate executives don’t usually get to raid their own factory for a one-off toy. Pete Estes did, and Chevrolet shut…
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Section 59 Explained: Why 17 MPH Cost Six Supercar Drivers Their Cars
Greater Manchester Police pulled five Lamborghinis and a Mercedes G-Wagon off the road last week, and the detail worth chewing…