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Insane Collection of White Porsches Sells for $30 Million

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This happens a lot with auctions, as it’s a clever way of building interest. Tony DeFeo, former editor of Mopar Action, also called the car questionable after examining it personally. My theory is that this is just something that happens to people with a surplus of wealth but no real personality of their own.

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Eni subsidiary Versalis and Elevance partner to develop new metathesis technology for bio-chemicals from veg oils

Green Car Congress

This partnership with Versalis is a natural next step building on the commercially competitive demonstrations of molybdenum-catalyzed metathesis of natural oils that we have achieved in our partnership with XIMO. —Daniele Ferrari, Versalis CEO. Versalis, the chemical subsidiary of Eni, and Elevance Renewable Sciences, Inc.,

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Shell, Gordon Murray and Osamu Goto to develop new ultra-compact ICE city car

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Many people may assume that oil, greases and fuels are simply added at the end of a concept-car build project such as this, but the Shell car aims to show what can be achieved when its products are integrated into the design from the start. City car Fuel Efficiency Personal Transit' —Project M website.

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Road Test: 2022 Maserati Ghibli Trofeo

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Ferrari Power. The Maserati Ghibli Trofeo has a Ferrari-designed and built 3.8-liter The base Ghibli engine is a Ferrari-based 3.0-liter Acceleration is strong and builds as you glide through the gears. Built on the cool factor. The EPA estimates fuel economy to be 13 mpg city/20 highway/16 combined running on 91 octane.

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Tesla Model 3 gets high praises from Chris Harris’ Top Gear EV buying guide

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Fans of the Top Gear presenter know that it takes a lot for Harris to be impressed, so much so that he ended up being banned by both Ferrari and Lamborghini from reviewing their vehicles in the past due to his critical stance on the automakers’ supercars. . Harris, however, did not have such reservations about the Tesla Model 3.

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A New Olympics Event: Algorithmic Video Surveillance

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Not everyone is against surveillance,” says anthropology graduate student Matheus Viegas Ferrari of the Universidade Federal da Bahia, in Brazil, and the Université Paris 8: Saint-Denis, in Paris, who attended the community meeting in Seine-Saint-Denis and published a study of surveillance at the 2024 Olympics.

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Formula One Rejects Andretti-Cadillac Bid

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While Ferrari remains competitive, it hasn’t actually won the World Constructors' Championship since 2008. “We We do not believe that there is a basis for any new applicant to be admitted in 2025 given that this would involve a novice entrant building two completely different cars in its first two years of existence,” F1 explained.