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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 black and grey vehicle during daytime

California’s ‘Leno’s Law’ Would Let More 1980s Classics Skip Smog Checks — If Sacramento Ever Lets It Out of Committee

John Lloyd September 7, 2026

Every legislative session, Sacramento produces one bill gearheads actually want to read past the headline. This time...

Tom Cruise Crashed a NASCAR Drivers Meeting to Announce ‘Days of Thunder 2,’ and the Garage Already Wants In black and yellow racing car

Tom Cruise Crashed a NASCAR Drivers Meeting to Announce ‘Days of Thunder 2,’ and the Garage Already Wants In

Shawn Henry September 7, 2026

Tom Cruise doesn’t do quiet entrances, and he wasn’t about to start one at Daytona. Before NASCAR’s...

VinFast Paused Three India-Built EVs, and North Carolina Already Wrote the Ending VinFast VF 6 electric SUV, the model at the center of India's paused local manufacturing plans

VinFast VF 6 electric SUV, the model at the center of India's paused local manufacturing plans

VinFast Paused Three India-Built EVs, and North Carolina Already Wrote the Ending

John Lloyd September 7, 2026

VinFast spent July quietly telling its Indian suppliers to put down their tools. By September, it was...

Travis Kelce’s Car Wash Investment Just Got Hit With a $2 Million Bonus Class Action a car is covered in snow in a garage

Travis Kelce’s Car Wash Investment Just Got Hit With a $2 Million Bonus Class Action

Shawn Henry September 6, 2026

Travis Kelce won’t be sitting through any depositions over this one. But the car wash chain he...

A Corvette Sat at the Bottom of Oregon’s Willamette River for Decades. Pulling It Out Is What Finally Destroyed It green trees beside river during daytime

A Corvette Sat at the Bottom of Oregon’s Willamette River for Decades. Pulling It Out Is What Finally Destroyed It

John Lloyd September 6, 2026

Water is supposed to be what kills an old car. Rust doesn’t need much encouragement, and a...

Pierre Gasly’s Monaco Podium Got Stripped Twice in Three Months, and the FIA’s Reasoning Is a Wake-Up Call for Every Team Formula 1 cars racing through the Monaco Grand Prix street circuit pit straight

Formula 1 cars racing through the Monaco Grand Prix street circuit pit straight

Pierre Gasly’s Monaco Podium Got Stripped Twice in Three Months, and the FIA’s Reasoning Is a Wake-Up Call for Every Team

Shawn Henry September 6, 2026

Pierre Gasly finished third at Monaco in June, lost the position to a pit lane penalty a...

A Federal Judge Just Saved California’s Emissions Waivers From an EPA Paperwork Trick Traffic backed up on a Los Angeles freeway under a hazy, smog-filled sky

Traffic backed up on a Los Angeles freeway under a hazy, smog-filled sky

A Federal Judge Just Saved California’s Emissions Waivers From an EPA Paperwork Trick

Shawn Henry September 6, 2026

A federal judge in Washington, D.C. just told the EPA that relabeling a law doesn’t repeal it,...

A Wrecked Jeep Grand Cherokee SRT Hid a Real Demon 170 Engine, a Kill Switch, and a Bent Steering Column 491211d696d1839f5c7b6436e32719d3

A Wrecked Jeep Grand Cherokee SRT Hid a Real Demon 170 Engine, a Kill Switch, and a Bent Steering Column

Shawn Henry September 6, 2026

Khal_SRT has crawled through enough wrecked Mopars to know a yellow engine block doesn’t belong under the...

Washington Killed the Truck Engine Fuel Rule. The Best Fleets Made It Irrelevant Years Ago Two semi-trucks driving on a highway

Washington Killed the Truck Engine Fuel Rule. The Best Fleets Made It Irrelevant Years Ago

EL Puckett September 6, 2026

Washington just performed one of its most predictable tricks: killing a regulation and calling it a bold...

Lewis Hamilton’s Restored Ferrari F40 Rolls Out of Maranello Wearing His Number Lewis Hamilton's red Ferrari F40 with smoke around its rear tires

Lewis Hamilton's red Ferrari F40 with smoke around its rear tires

Lewis Hamilton’s Restored Ferrari F40 Rolls Out of Maranello Wearing His Number

John Lloyd September 6, 2026

Lewis Hamilton’s Ferrari F40 has apparently graduated from restoration project to daily driver. A video shot outside...

Lando Norris Just Bought His Way Onto the F3 Grid, and the Deal Explains How Junior Racing Really Works LN4 Fusion race car in the team's dark navy and neon green livery, rear three-quarter studio shot

LN4 Fusion race car in the team's dark navy and neon green livery, rear three-quarter studio shot

Lando Norris Just Bought His Way Onto the F3 Grid, and the Deal Explains How Junior Racing Really Works

John Lloyd September 5, 2026

Every driver on the current Formula 1 grid loves to talk about giving back to the next...

A New Mexico Security Guard’s Fake Traffic Stop Was Illegal Twice Over — Before Police Ever Showed Up Long-exposure highway light trails at night, evoking red and blue emergency lighting

Long-exposure highway light trails at night, evoking red and blue emergency lighting

A New Mexico Security Guard’s Fake Traffic Stop Was Illegal Twice Over — Before Police Ever Showed Up

Shawn Henry September 5, 2026

Picture merging onto Interstate 40 outside Albuquerque and catching lights in your mirror, blue up front, red...

Harley-Davidson’s Q3 Dividend Is Technically a Pay Cut — and Motorcycles Have Nothing to D grey and black cafe racer motorcycle

Harley-Davidson’s Q3 Dividend Is Technically a Pay Cut — and Motorcycles Have Nothing to D

John Lloyd September 5, 2026

Harley-Davidson’s board approved a third-quarter cash dividend of $0.1875 per share on September 3, payable September 29...

Brad Jones Racing’s Third Supra Build Is a Race Against the Bathurst Clock Bare race car chassis under construction in a race shop, similar to the build stages for a Gen3 Supercars tub

Bare race car chassis under construction in a race shop, similar to the build stages for a Gen3 Supercars tub

Brad Jones Racing’s Third Supra Build Is a Race Against the Bathurst Clock

John Lloyd September 5, 2026

BJR opened 2026 with brand-new Gen3 Supras under Andre Heimgartner and recruit Cameron Hill, while Macauley Jones...

A 1966 Corvette’s Brakes Quit Mid-Showoff, Leaving Its Owner a Choice Between a Fence, a Lake, or His Own House Screenshot 2026-09-02 at 4.22.37 PM

A 1966 Corvette’s Brakes Quit Mid-Showoff, Leaving Its Owner a Choice Between a Fence, a Lake, or His Own House

John Lloyd September 5, 2026

The car was a 1966 Chevrolet Corvette convertible, pulled out of a basement garage after sitting untouched...

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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

Tom Cruise Crashed a NASCAR Drivers Meeting to Announce ‘Days of Thunder 2,’ and the Garage Already Wants In

VinFast Paused Three India-Built EVs, and North Carolina Already Wrote the Ending

Travis Kelce’s Car Wash Investment Just Got Hit With a $2 Million Bonus Class Action

A Corvette Sat at the Bottom of Oregon’s Willamette River for Decades. Pulling It Out Is What Finally Destroyed It

Pierre Gasly’s Monaco Podium Got Stripped Twice in Three Months, and the FIA’s Reasoning Is a Wake-Up Call for Every Team

A Federal Judge Just Saved California’s Emissions Waivers From an EPA Paperwork Trick

A Wrecked Jeep Grand Cherokee SRT Hid a Real Demon 170 Engine, a Kill Switch, and a Bent Steering Column

Washington Killed the Truck Engine Fuel Rule. The Best Fleets Made It Irrelevant Years Ago

Lewis Hamilton’s Restored Ferrari F40 Rolls Out of Maranello Wearing His Number

Lando Norris Just Bought His Way Onto the F3 Grid, and the Deal Explains How Junior Racing Really Works

A New Mexico Security Guard’s Fake Traffic Stop Was Illegal Twice Over — Before Police Ever Showed Up

Harley-Davidson’s Q3 Dividend Is Technically a Pay Cut — and Motorcycles Have Nothing to D

Brad Jones Racing’s Third Supra Build Is a Race Against the Bathurst Clock

A 1966 Corvette’s Brakes Quit Mid-Showoff, Leaving Its Owner a Choice Between a Fence, a Lake, or His Own House

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