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6 days ago | 
roadandtrack.com | Fred Smith
Tariffs imposed on automotive imports by the Trump Administration have already led to increased prices on full-sized cars, but the pain may not end there. A new quip from President Donald Trump suggests that 1:64th scale cars from Hot Wheels may receive a specific tariff next.
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1 week ago | 
roadandtrack.com | Fred Smith
The Land Rover Defender is getting serious about high-speed off-roading. Land Rover has already unveiled the Defender Octa, a rally-esque production variant of the boxy SUV; next up is a version designed for racing in rally raid championships, the Defender Dakar D7X-R. Land Rover will enter two of the Dakar-spec Defenders in the 2026 World Rally Raid Championship. That means the model will compete in its namesake Dakar Rally in 2026, fulfilling a promise that the brand made last year.
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1 week ago | 
roadandtrack.com | Fred Smith
Base price: $101,100It may not quite be as extreme as the V-10–powered LFA supercar, but the current halo car of the Lexus lineup is special in its own right. The LC, an ultra-stylish grand tourer powered by the V-8 first used in the IS F, is still a star eight years after its debut. The LC is most desirable as a convertible, an option that arrived for 2021.
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1 week ago | 
flipboard.com | Fred Smith
Varroooom! It's back on the bikes for Ewan and Charley for Europe trek in 'Long Way Home.'NEW YORK (AP) — The last time Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman went on a motorcycle adventure, they rode cutting-edge, electric Harley-Davidsons. For their latest trip, they took a trip back in time. The British best friends and actors chose to use vintage bikes this time as they ride through 17 …
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1 week ago | 
flipboard.com | Fred Smith
1 hour agoThe 2025 Met Gala is billed as fashion’s biggest night, with invitations going to A-listers in business, politics, entertainment and sports. Each year, the mega-watt guest list features pro athletes, including a few glam GOATS. This year, Serena Williams, Angel Reese, Simone Biles and Lewis Hamilton …
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1 week ago | 
roadandtrack.com | Fred Smith
Alpine Formula 1 may drop rookie driver Jack Doohan for reserve driver Franco Colapinto by the next round of the series at Imola, reports released on Monday suggest. The move comes just seven races into Doohan's F1 career. A report from outlet The Race suggests that Doohan has already been informed of the impending move.
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1 week ago | 
roadandtrack.com | Fred Smith
Formula 1 announced a long-term extension with the Miami Grand Prix on Friday. The new agreement keeps the track on the F1 schedule through 2041, ensuring that the event will continue through the entire next decade and into the decade after that. From a business standpoint, the extension is a major win for the series. F1 may not be an explosive growth property in the U.S. anymore, but the brand has still built a solid foothold in the country over the past seven years.
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2 weeks ago | 
roadandtrack.com | Fred Smith
Note: The parking structure pictured above is an unrelated lot meant to illustrate mechanical parking systems in general, rather than the specific system that caused this problem. A van used by a furniture store in the United Kingdom has finally been freed after more than two years stuck in a mechanical parking structure. The van was reportedly one of more than 40 vehicles stuck while the cars' owners waited on repairs to the parking mechanism.
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2 weeks ago | 
ca.finance.yahoo.com | Fred Smith
The Cadillac Formula 1 team is revealing something on May 3rd, the Saturday of the Miami Grand Prix weekend. If reports are to be believed, the team may be ready to reveal its livery and other key branding elements ahead of a race car launch early next year. A teaser shared by the team on Instagram only shows the brand's logo, but GM Authority reports that the event will be a livery reveal.
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2 weeks ago | 
roadandtrack.com | Fred Smith
The Volkswagen Polo turns 50 this year, marking a half-century of being slightly smaller than the Golf ... and unavailable in the United States. Nevertheless, Volkswagen has chosen to celebrate the occasion by applying one of its most iconic looks to the Polo's short-lived WRC variant. Volkswagen offered production models of both the Polo and Golf in the famous mismatched panel look known as "Harlequin" back in the 1990s, with the look inspired by a 1960s Beetle ad.
