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Speeding driver who modified his car is jailed for nine years after killing his girlfriend in crash

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A ‘frightening’ driver who modified his car to ‘drift’ was today jailed for nine years after the ‘death trap’ BMW swerved into oncoming traffic and killed his girlfriend.

Liam Pusey, 23, was racing another car at speeds of up to 85mph in a 50mph zone on his way back from a ‘romantic date’ with his girlfriend Melissa Orsborn shortly before the accident on February 4, 2021.

Pusey had carried out ‘dangerous modifications’ to his grey 3 series including removing the anti roll bar and welding the differential to ‘deliberately’ reduce the vehicle’s traction, so that it would drift or slide

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3 Least Expensive Mazdas to Maintain After 10 Years

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Cars that are well taken care of are unlikely to break down when you need them, offer excellent service, and can be resold for higher. They even last longer, allowing you lots of preparation time before your next car purchase. Unfortunately, while maintenance saves you money in the long term, it’ll also cost you some in the short term and at different intervals of your car ownership journey. That said, how much you spend depends on the make and model, and for Mazda lovers, these three will cost you the least to maintain after 10 years.

1. Mazda MX-5 Miata

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Collector Selling His Beloved Classic Cars After 70 Years

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Boasting several classic Ford Mustangs, Lincolns, and several others, Jerry “Metal Man” Battaglia gets a tour of this impressive collection.


YouTube gets littered with videos of once-great classic cars left to rot, the result of collectors unable or unwilling to part with their automotive treasures. But, one enthusiast from Long Island, New York, is taking a more proactive approach. The channel Jerry “Metal Man” Battaglia highlights the many vehicles offered for sale by Emilio, a car aficionado who’s been acquiring vehicles since 1954.


While

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Sound of silence after 28 years

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Fred Kaerger with main fitter Glenn Reed. Glenn has worked at Rockhampton Car Sound for seven years and is the business’s longest serving continuous employee.

By Matthew Pearce

An iconic part of Central Queensland’s motoring scene, Rockhampton Car Sound is closing its doors.

Rocky’s only professional stereo, alarm, and navigation specialist, the Ford St business owned by Fred Kaerger has served the local community for almost three decades.

Fred opened Rockhampton Car Sound on 4 December 1994, branching out on his own after working for six years in a spare parts shop, which first sparked his interest in car audio

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Forty years of Honda’s trend-setting turbo bikes

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The Honda City wasn’t the only vehicle to which the Japanese automaker strapped a turbocharger in 1982 – that year, it also introduced the CX500 Turbo, and created the first turbocharged production motorcycle in the process.

Honda’s dalliance with turbocharged bikes was short-lived, and after following Honda into the fray, the industry as a whole soon returned to natural aspiration. But in a decade known for excess, the CX500 Turbo, and the CX650 Turbo that replaced it a year later, were remarkably restrained.

Perhaps surprisingly, this high-performance technology was employed not on a superbike, but a sports tourer. Nor did

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International Motorcycle Show Tour Calls It Quits After 40 Years

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Although the U.S. has no shortage of major car shows, there aren’t nearly as many industry-lead motorcycle ones. But there’s at least one: the International Motorcycle Show. It’s been touring the U.S. for over 40 years, letting people sit on brand-new bikes and ogle wild custom creations. However, that time is coming to an end.

The 2022 Progressive International Motorcycle Show Outdoors tour is officially canceled

The entrance to the 2021 Progressive International Motorcycle Show Outdoors Chicago event

2021 Progressive International Motorcycle Show Outdoors Chicago entrance | Matthew Skwarczek, MotorBiscuit

Throughout its history, the International Motorcycle Show mostly traveled to various convention centers in cities like Chicago and Atlanta. But it switched

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LeMond 8 Concept: New US-made road bike claims biggest development in carbon fibre in 30 years

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Greg LeMond and LeMond Cycles have unveiled their long-awaited return to performance road bikes with the release of the LeMond 8 Concept, a bike they are claiming has seen the ‘most transformative change to carbon fibre’ in 30 years.

The new bike will cost £11,400 / €13,900 / $12,500, and is made using a composite sandwich method, where the carbon fibre frame members are filled with an ultralight expanding foam called MatrixCore, which LeMond says it has co-developed with the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the US. 

LeMond says the foam replicates the compaction benefits of more conventional bladders during

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