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The Golf GTI’s Famous Plaid Seats Came From a Former Chocolate-Box Designer

The Golf GTI’s plaid upholstery was created by Volkswagen designer Gunhild Liljequist, who drew inspiration from checked fabrics she admired in Britain. She also suggested the golf-ball gear kno

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Mercedes Put the Driver in the Middle of This Family Car for a Surprisingly Sensible Reason

The Golf GTI’s plaid upholstery was created by Volkswagen designer Gunhild Liljequist, who drew inspiration from checked fabrics she admired in Britain. She also suggested the golf-ball gear kno

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Michelotto Built a Modern Ferrari 308 Rally Tribute With a V8 and Five-Speed Manual

Ferrari and rally racing might not seem like an obvious match today, but the Italian brand has some history in the dirt. The 308 GTB proved that back in 1982, finishing second at the Tour de Corse and

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Mercedes-AMG Builds A 1,153-HP Electric SUV That Pretends To Have A V8

Mercedes-AMG has built its reputation on loud V8 engines, but its next big performance machine doesn’t need one. Meet the new electric GT SUV, a high-powered family hauler that packs up to 1,153

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The Rearview Mirror’s Origin Story Begins Before the First Indy 500

The usual history of the rearview mirror is wonderfully neat. Ray Harroun entered the first Indianapolis 500 in 1911 with a mirror attached to his Marmon Wasp. He drove alone while his competitors

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Porsche’s Left-Side Ignition Has a Perfect Racing Story. The Evidence Makes It Messier

Climb into a traditional Porsche and the ignition appears on the left side of the steering wheel. Most cars place it on the right, close to the driver’s dominant hand and safely within the

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The 5 Quickest Cars of the 1970s Were Fast Enough to Be Frightening

Speed has become ridiculously easy to buy. A modern electric crossover can pin its passengers to the seats while carrying three children, a week’s shopping and a suspicious amount of sports equi

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Hyundai Turned Its Family SUV Into the Ultimate Race Weekend Workhorse

Most race teams rely on performance SUVs or cargo vans to keep things running behind the scenes. Hyundai had a different idea. Instead of building a track-focused support vehicle, it transformed the r

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McLaren Finally Built the Road Car Bruce McLaren Always Wanted

Bruce McLaren never got to see his road car dream reach production. More than half a century later, McLaren has gone back to his unfinished project and completed it. The result is a newly built M6GT,

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The 2,031-HP Hennessey Venom F5-M Is A Manual Hypercar Monster

Two thousand horsepower and a gated manual gearbox sounds like the kind of idea that should have been rejected in the first meeting. Hennessey went ahead and built it anyway. The first customer-spec V

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