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She Did It

In November of 2021, I covered a story about a 65-year-old Coloradan and her team who intended to complete a 356-mile journey across Antarctica in a 1956 Porsche 356 sports car in early December. The lady in question; Renee Brinkerhoff of Valkyrie Racing The Porsche 365 A had previously competed in rallies on every other

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Six Wheels on My Wagon

Hennessy has developed the Venom and Venom F5 hypercars that sold in minimal numbers. Now Hennessey wants to seriously branch out its road car development with three brand-new cars over the next ten years.  The first will be a fully electric hypercar that Hennessey is dubbing Project Deep Space. Hennessy is planning to build the

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The Bugatti Tank

Bugatti introduced the legendary Type 57 in 1934, not to be confused with the last Tank, the 1923 Bugatti Type 32, commonly called the Tank de Tours, which competed in the French Grand Prix. The car’s nickname comes from its particular shape, which resembles battle tanks of its era, and the location of the Grand

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The Jaguar XJR-15

Inspired by the outright victory in the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1988, Jaguar and TWR (Tom Walkinshaw Racing) formed a joint-venture, JaguarSport, decided to develop a racing car for the road. It was derived directly from the successful XJR-9 and XJR-12 racers. The XJR-15, the nomenclature, XJR, related the car to Jaguar’s Group

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When Maserati was a Maserati

When Citroën took over Maserati in 1968, plans for the launch of the Indy (a high-performance tourer car that featured a V8 engine, four seats, and rear-wheel drive) were so far advanced that Citroen rightly decided to leave ‘well alone’. There were 1,104 Maserati Indy’s produced during the six-year manufacturing run. Subsequent models like the

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The Porsche Tapiro

In the late 60s and early 70s, it was usual to see concept cars shown worldwide at the various premier motor shows. At the end of the ‘season,’ these glamorous concepts were sold off, and the money raised funded the following years’ concept tour’. One business that led the car design was ItalDesign Giugiaro, run

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Oh to blow up a Tesla

Following the active promotion of the apparent benefits of electric cars in adverse weather conditions in Northern Europe, it seems that one particular owner in Finland, Tuomas Katainen, is less than convinced. He owned a 2013 Tesla Model S for the first 1,000 miles, and then error codes started to appear. He arranged for the

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First Lamborghini EV will arrive in 2027 or 2028

According to Stephan Winkelmann, CEO of Automobili Lamborghini, the first pure electric Lamborghini will be seen in 2027 or 2028, with the possibility of other models using synthetic fuel. The attached picture of the Lamborghini Terzo Millennio (Italian for Third Millennium) was a futuristic electric concept introduced by Lamborghini and developed in collaboration with the

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