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Buying a car with a salvage title can lead to a lot heartaches. But there are a number of reasons from crashes to vandalism that can brand a car with the DMV equivalent of caution tape. Investing in a car with a checkered past can also allow you to lead a champagne lifestyle on a Coors Light budget by scoring an incredible deal. The hard part is finding the right car, but that’s the kind of hard work that the Window Shop crew likes to do.Not convinced that buying a salvage car is a good idea, deputy testing director K.C. Colwell decides to minimize his outlay by buying a Chevrolet Caprice that led a former life as a police car. According to the listing, a front-end collision caused the tainted title, but the repair appears good in photos.Contributor Jonathon Ramsey isn’t fazed by spending more to get more, so he presents an E60-gen BMW M5, a car that once wore a near-$100,000 window sticker. The crew points out the many problems that plague that generation M5, but Ramsey is unmoved. A second BMW follow’s Ramsey’s. Senior editor Joey Capparella selects the rare and controversial Z3 coupe. Ones with clean titles trade for over $25,000, so Capparella’s seems like a relative deal. R&T editor John Pearley Huffman goes for a salvage-title 1965 Chevy that he thinks would make a great project. And deputy editor Tony Quiroga presents his ridiculous Maserati Biturbo with an electric drivetrain that no one can get behind. As usual, there are plenty of laughs. You might even learn something, but we make no guarantees.

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Located in Scottsdale, Arizona, a mansion currently listed for sale sits on 4.8 acres of land, providing room for five guest houses, stables, a spa, and a pool and pool house.The property has expansive garages that can house 100 vehicles, proportioned to accommodate RV or boat storage, and there are several lifts, a paint booth, a detailing room, and a dedicated washing station.The house is listed at $6.3 million by Keller Williams Realty and has been on the market for more than half a year.If you happen to have 100 cars sitting around with nowhere to store them and a few truckloads of spare cash, you should check out this 8,735-square-foot mansion in Scottsdale, Arizona. Sitting on a 4.8-acre lot, the expansive compound features a main home with four bedrooms and five bathrooms and several additional structures including garage space for 100 vehicles, making it the ideal pad for any gearhead who has trouble parting with their beloved cars.

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Located at 11350 East Arabian Park Drive in Scottsdale, the colossal compound is situated on a private street and was built in 2006, according to the listing on Zillow listing. The extensive terracotta and wood detailing gives the mansion a certain rustic, desert charm, and the property also includes five guest houses, a separate pool house and kitchen to complement the heated pool and spa, and facilities for keeping horses, all situated around an wide, open courtyard. But the real attraction is the massive amount of automotive storage space. The garage buildings include multiple lifts if you want to get your hands greasy, as well as a paint booth and detailing room so you can prep your vehicles for the next concours d’elegance event. There is also a charging port, a wash station with water-ionizing capability, and space to store bulkier vehicles like an RV or boat. Between all of the garages combined there are 18 single doors and 13 double doors.

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The photos provided with the listing show the garages being put to good use. There is an interesting mix of cars—some photos depict chrome-tipped 1950s Americana, including a C1 Corvette, in front of the garages, while others show row upon row of classic Mercedes-Benzes and several old-school Ford hot rods. The seller also provides an image of two MGs parked near the lifts and a photo showing an early 2000s Ford Thunderbird and an Aston Martin DB9 parked in one of the garages reveals just how spacious they are.

11350 East Arabian Park Drive is listed for $6.3 million and has been on sale for over half a year. The price dropped by $200,000 in May, and although it still costs a ton of money, the property seems like a relative steal compared to some of the other mansions we’ve featured before, such as this $62 million house in Los Angeles that we covered last year.
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Audi is withdrawing from Formula E and DTM to focus on Le Mans and Dakar, with the RS Q e-tron set to enter the 2022 Dakar Rally early next year.The RS Q e-tron borrows two electric motors from Audi’s Formula E program with one on each axle, good for a combined 671 horsepower.The 50.0-kWh battery will be charged by a range-extender gasoline engine, the turbocharged 2.0-liter inline-four found in Audi’s DTM racer from the 2020 season.Audi was a dominant force in Group B rally in the mid-1980s, earning two manufacturers’ championships with the revolutionary all-wheel-drive Quattro before switching its attention to the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 2000, winning 13 times in the next 15 years and becoming the first winner with a hybrid powertrain. Audi aims to check another item off of its motorsports bucket list by conquering the grueling Dakar Rally with this hybridized off-road beast called the RS Q e-tron.

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The RS Q e-tron, which will compete in the 2022 Dakar Rally in January, uses a range-extender setup that borrows bits and pieces from Audi’s other motorsports programs. If you own an EV in the U.S., you’ll know that it can be pretty hard to find chargers, and unsurprisingly it’s even trickier to spot one in the middle of the desert. As a result, the vehicle’s 50.0-kWh battery is charged instead by a gasoline engine that acts as a generator. But it’s not just any gas engine, it’s the turbocharged 2.0-liter inline-four from the Audi RS5 Turbo DTM, Audi’s last entry into DTM before exiting the series after the 2020 season.

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Power from the battery is then sent to two electric motors, with one on each axle, taken from Audi’s Formula E program. Only minor changes differentiate the motors from the units in Audi’s e-tron FE07 car, which propelled Lucas di Grassi to a Formula E win in Puebla, Mexico earlier this year. According to Audi, the total system output is 671 horsepower, although that could end up being restricted by regulations.

The RS Q e-tron is a key part of Audi’s new motorsports direction, announced last year, which sees it leave Formula E after seven seasons to concentrate on returning to Le Mans and contesting the Dakar Rally. Three RS Q e-trons will compete in the demanding event in January, and Audi has enlisted drivers including Stéphane Peterhansel, the most successful Dakar driver ever with 14 victories, Carlos Sainz, two-time rally champ and three-time Dakar winner, and Mattias Ekström, who holds two DTM titles and one World Rallycross championship. The Dakar Rally will last two weeks, with daily stages that can be nearly 500 miles long, and will serve as a major test of the durability of Audi’s electrified drivetrain.
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GM is rolling out a new version of Super Cruise that supports towing a trailer.It also has a new feature called automatic lane change that can overtake a slower vehicle without any input from the driver.This new Super Cruise will be available on several GMC, Chevy, and Cadillac models later this year as 2022 models arrive.GM is installing its Super Cruise hands-free highway driving technology in several new models for 2022, and the system will be upgraded to support several new features. The biggest upgrade, which will matter most for GMC Sierra and Chevy Silverado customers, is that this new version of Super Cruise can now operate with a trailer attached.

When you’re pulling a trailer, Super Cruise adjusts its tuning to compensate for the estimate gross vehicle weight rating (GVWR) of the truck and the trailer combined. It otherwise works exactly the same as normal Super Cruise, with the vehicle operating the steering and speed of the vehicle and allowing the driver to keep their hands off the wheel so long as the vehicle verifies that you continue to keep your eyes on the road via an eye-tracking system.This new Super Cruise can also now execute lane changes on its own. While it previously offered on-demand lane changes if you pressed the turn signal, the system can now make those decisions without driver input. If the vehicle senses that you’re approaching a slower car, it checks if there’s enough room to pass—either in the lane to the right or the lane to the left—and overtakes. The only caveat is that auto lane change isn’t active with a trailer attached.GM says the new Super Cruise will be offered on 2022 GMC Sierra, Chevy Silverado, GMC Hummer EV, Cadillac Escalade, Cadillac CT4, and Cadillac CT5 models later this year. We expect to hear more about the other updates in store for the 2022 Sierra and Silverado within the next few months.
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