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0Happy 311th birthday, Detroit! 1343170740
Detroit's significance to the history of the automobile is inarguable, and that makes it the only metropolis in America that we care to note when another candle is added to its cake. Today, the town that's known as both the Motor City and Motown celebrates its 311th birthday. It was founded on ...
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Video: Bugatti says "Happy Birthday" with unique Veyron Super Sport Edition Merveilleux 1324060200
It's not every day that a unique Bugatti debuts. But it sure seems that way. The ultra-high-end automaker cranks out unique one-off versions of the Veyron for discerning and well-heeled customers around the world, and this is their latest. Called the Edition Merveilleux (from the French for ...
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Video: Happy 100th Birthday, Chevrolet! 1320351000
One hundred years is a long time. But over the past couple, several automakers have marked their centenaries, among them Ford, Alfa Romeo, Audi, Bugatti... and Chevrolet. The Bowtie brand has been marking its milestone birthday with a number of celebrations throughout the year, and doesn't ... -
Video: 100-year-old NASCAR fan tackles the track, lives to see 101 1304107200
We're not the biggest NASCAR fans in the world, but we can't think of a much better way to celebrate a 100th birthday than with a few laps around New Hampshire Motor Speedway. Rachel Gilbert, a NASCAR follower since the 1960s, took five live laps around the speedway in a Toyota Camry pace car. ...
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50 Candles and a big fat Czech: Skoda Octavia celebrates the half-century 1234477980
Click on the images above to view the old and new Skoda Octavia in high resolutionSkoda's mainstay model has hit the half-century mark, celebrating its fiftieth anniversary this year. The original 1959 Skoda Octavia was so named because it was the eighth model produced by the Czech automaker, at ... -
Happy 30th, 7-Series! 1185740100
It's been thirty years since BMW introduced the first incarnation of its flagship luxury sedan. The original 7-Series (codenamed E23) made its market debut in 1977 to replace the four-door version of the smaller 6-Series and to compete with offerings from competitors, chief among them ...
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Sixty years of Volkswagen's Beetle 1153938840
The Volkswagen Company turned sixty years old last week. In July 1946, German dealerships Gottfried Schultz in Essen and Raffay & Co. in Hamburg, Germany received their first Beetle sedans (saloons). The Beetle's history reaches as far back as the 1930s. However, the first one built under the ...
