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Motorcycles

Royal Enfield: The oldest motorcycle brand still in production

There is a factory in Chennai, India, which produces about one million motorcycles per year. The bikes from that line trace their DNA back 124 years to a small engineering factory in Redditch, England, where two businessmen had recently purchased a needle manufacturer and had no particular plans to remain in the needle business. That

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Fitness

A production Chevy Corvette breaks records in America’s most dangerous race

Driven by IndyCar and Pikes Peak veteran JR Hildebrand, the new Chevrolet Corvette ZR1X has blown the production car record at Pikes Peak out of the water. A few minutes after Hildebrand’s run to the top, the record had been broken “with confidence,” Chevrolet told me at the base of the mountain. The climb is

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Cars

Porsche clarifies Taycan wagon will remain in production

Porsche is retiring the Taycan Sport Turismo and Cross Turismo from the United States. Both wagons will continue to be launched in other markets. A company spokesperson confirmed that both will be based out of the US. The demise of the long-roof Taycan model has been greatly exaggerated. While Porsche is indeed phasing out the

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Cars

Burning gas causes so much pollution that the production of a dirty EV battery takes about 2 years.

Mario Tama/Getty Images Bad-faith actors spend a lot of energy maintaining the illusion that electric vehicle technology is more immature than it actually is. Combine anti-EV propaganda with the relative rarity of EVs in the US, and even well-intentioned people may believe long-discredited myths that still refuse

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