AUTOS
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-Winning Best in Show at a vintage car show is not easy task, but to win Best in Show at the Pebble Beach Concours D’Élégance, where arguably the finest of the world’s finest cars are invited to park on a lawn together for a few hours every August, a car has to be superlative in a field literally stacked with wheeled superlatives. Yet one indeed is deemed the finest car of
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-It’s the gateway truck for a lifetime of truck addiction, the Americanized version of the world’s wheeled beast of burden, and precisely the right truck for carrying large dogs that shed. And the updated 2016 version of the Toyota Tacoma enters production hauling a birthright as the new small pickup that depreciates in value most slowly. READ MORE ›› –
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– Saturday’s sales in California resulted in a doubling of the number of eight-figure cars sold at auction during this year’s Monterey Car Week; six cars have now sold for more than $10 million. In its first day of sales, Gooding & Company contributed two of those, including the highest seller on the list below, which was compiled by Hagerty. Yet again, Ferrari dominates the list with six entries, although Porsche
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-At the 2014 L.A. auto show, Henrik Fisker made big news as he showed a sexy, carbon-fiber-bodied Ford Mustang–based concept called the Rocket, which became a production reality with the help of Galpin Auto Sports of Van Nuys, California. Now, roughly nine months later—surprising no one—Fisker and Galpin have announced that the Rocket coupe (which we drove already) will be joined by a rather more extroverted variant, the topless Rocket
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