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UK’s Driving Test Is So Brutal, Learners Are Hiring Body Doubles To Pass

UK test backlog pushes learners toward fraud and risky workarounds. Cheating spans Bluetooth help to paid impersonators earning thousands. Officials warn unqualified drivers n...

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Ford Held The Best-Seller Crown, But GM Outsold It On A Technicality

Ford F-Series leads US sales again with 801,525 trucks sold total. Chevy Silverado and Toyota RAV4 round out the sales top three. Only four sedans and two Teslas manage to rea...

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P24 RS is Donkervoort's most extreme model ever with 600bhp V6

Two-seat sports car's powerplant can be set in three varying tunes – and this can uniquely be altered on the fly The stripped-back, aero-focused P24 RS is the latest creation from Dutch make...

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Is there a future for contract manufacturing in Europe?

The now unused Jaguar production line at Magna Steyr, Austria Likes of Valmet and Magna Steyr have declined from making some 500,000 cars pre-Covid to 100,000 now The European car indus...

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Travis Pastrana’s Bentley Drift Film Hides A Few Surprises You Probably Missed

Travis Pastrana drifts sold-out Supersports to show RWD agility. Video car adds hydraulic handbrake to help Pastrana swing it. Heritage Bentleys appear as future EV SUV and EX...

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AutoHunter Spotlight: 2018 Chevrolet Corvette Grand Sport Coupe

Chevrolet’s marketing slogan in 2018 was “Find New Roads.” The idea behind it was to shift perceptions away from nostalgia and toward forward-thinking. The motto was launched when many of the model...

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Car Connections: Spyker, Nash, and Toyota

I’ve been incredibly busy all week, but I made time to come up with another installment of Car Connections for you. I had the Random Word Generator do what it does best, then took the three words i...

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BMW Isn’t Killing V8s, And Its Coupes Aren’t Going Away

BMW could offer EV and gas versions of the next 4-Series. Shared 3-Series development keeps cost and risk lower. New V8 and V12 engines meet Euro 7 with minor updates. ...

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What's The Future Of Auto Shows?

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Alfa Romeo Scraps New Giulia And Stelvio Plans To Start Fresh

Alfa Romeo has reportedly delayed the next-gen Giulia and Stelvio. Redesigned sedan and crossover aren’t slated to arrive until 2028. They’ll ride on the STLA Large platform a...

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Tesla Quietly Kills Standard Autopilot, Now Wants $99 A Month To Give It Back

Tesla removed base Autopilot from new Model 3 and Model Y. Lane keeping now requires a $99-per-month FSD subscription. Rivals still include lane assist as standard safety equi...

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Chicago’s Auto Show Starts Soon, And It Might Already Be Over

Chicago Auto Show returns February 6. So far, no debuts have been announced. A family visit could cost nearly $100. The Detroit Auto Show was another snooze fest ...

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Californians Keep Paying Camera Tickets, But Some Say They Might Not Have To

Red light camera fines still confuse California drivers. Experts say many of these fines lack legal strength. A new law may help cities enforce red light tickets. ...

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Shelby’s New GT350/TA Makes The ZR1X Look Like A Bargain

Shelby has introduced the 2026 Mustang GT350/TA. The muscle car celebrates 60 years of Trans Am racing. It features 830+ hp and an aggressive aero package. Shelby...

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They Spent Nearly $400,000 On A Classic Defender, And Didn’t Even Swap The Engine

Helderburg spent 3,000 hours upgrading this Land Rover. The 2.8 diesel keeps its block but gets cooling upgrades. A modern display with CarPlay replaces the stock system. ...

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Driving Dystopia: Congress Still Wants To Mandate In-Car Monitoring

On Thursday, the United States House of Representatives voted to block an amendment that would have curtailed funding for federal requirements to have some form of i...

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QOTD: When Is Tech Too Invasive?

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How the Defender became a rally-raid winner

After five decades, the Dakar Rally has finally attracted a works Land Rover entry The Dakar Rally bivouac is a vast, sprawling, transient community, a ragtag collection of vans, trucks and ...

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When Autocar took a factory Range Rover to the ‘demonic’ Dakar

JLR claims a works debut for the new Defender - but Autocar raced a factory-owned Range Rover to Dakar in 1981 The three Defenders that tackled this year's Dakar Rally represented the first ...

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Pick of the Day: 1972 Buick GS Stage 1 Convertible

It’s common to see people post things in social media like, “Rare doesn’t necessarily mean desirable!” and “It’s rare because no one wanted one!” However, these proclamations fail to consider the i...

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Volkswagen Expands Circular Economy With Vehicle Recycling in Zwickau

The Volkswagen Group’s circular economy strategy follows the principle of ‘REDUCE & GROW’: the use of primary raw materials and emissions are consistently reduced, while at the same time new va...

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