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Nashville Can Vote Racing Out of the Fairgrounds. The Track Rebuild Is Still Only a Plan.
A petition with nearly 75,000 signatures could remove racing from Nashville Fairgrounds Speedway, but Metro’s 30-year bond payments on the $116 million rebuild don’t go away.
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NASCAR Driver Hit With $850,002 Verdict in ‘Criminal Conversation’ Affair Lawsuit — Including $1 in Punitive Damages
A North Carolina jury found the former NASCAR truck racer liable under two centuries-old “heart balm” laws, then set punitive damages at $1 per claim.
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Your ‘Full Synthetic’ Oil Usually Starts at a Refinery. That’s Why the Hormuz Mess Is Hitting Your Oil Change.
Most drivers picture synthetic oil as something cooked up in a lab, safely walled off from the crude market. It’s an easy assumption to make, and it’s mostly wrong. The stuff in a jug labeled “full synthetic” usually starts life in a refinery, and a big share of the refineries that make it for the…
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Forget the Bizarre Court Video. Someone Drove a Marked Cop Car Right Out of the Sheriff’s Own HQ.
A marked Broward Sheriff’s Charger ended up abandoned 100 miles up I-95. The viral court clip is a sideshow. The real issue is how patrol cars are built to be left running.
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Florida Kicked the Plate Cameras Off Its Highways. The Ones That Mail You Tickets Keep Spreading.
Florida pulled license plate readers off state highways. Red-light, school-zone and school bus cameras that mail tickets are still spreading, and state law keeps those tickets away from your insurer.
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Watch: A Semi’s Brakes Went Up in Smoke on I-70. Colorado Built a Pile of Gravel for Exactly This Moment.
A semi with smoking brakes bailed into a runaway truck ramp on Colorado’s I-70. Here’s how the ramps work, why Colorado’s are the busiest in the country, and what to do if a runaway truck is behind you.
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The Repo Man Can Take Your Car. He Can’t Take Your Subprime Loan With It.
Subprime car loan delinquencies are climbing again after a record January. The bigger story is what happens after repossession: lenders recover about 38 cents on the dollar, and borrowers usually owe the rest.
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Norway Sealed a Chinese Bus Inside a Mountain to Find Its Kill Switch. A Romanian SIM Card Was Holding It.
Oslo’s transit agency sealed a Yutong electric bus inside a mountain and found its maker could reach the power system through a Romanian SIM card. Here is what the test proved, why the fleet stayed on the road, and the weight limit the Senate just wrote into its Chinese car ban.
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Watch: A Plate Camera Snitched on a Stolen Honda in Miami-Dade. The Chase Ended With It on Its Roof.
A Flock plate camera led Florida troopers to a stolen Honda in seconds. Stopping it took two PIT attempts and a rollover. Here’s why that gap matters.
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Pirelli Is Dropping $1.2 Billion in Georgia on Robot-Built Tires That Talk to Your Car
For more than twenty years, Pirelli’s plant in northwest Georgia has been the kind of factory most enthusiasts never think about, even while running its product on their cars. That’s about to change. Governor Brian Kemp’s office announced that Pirelli will add 1,000 jobs through a multi-year, $1.2 billion expansion of its existing Rome facility,…
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Your EV Accidentally Jams AM Radio. The House Just Voted to Make Automakers Keep It Anyway.
The House passed the AM Radio for Every Vehicle Act. The real target is the electrical noise EVs make, and the law comes with an eight-year expiration date.
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Stellantis Lined Up an Armored-Vehicle Builder for Brampton. Now It Needs the Union to Sign.
Stellantis has an armoured-vehicle maker lined up for its idle Brampton plant. The harder sell is Unifor, and the reason says a lot about what Canada’s auto subsidies were really worth.
