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From the Delorean to the Batmobile, these are the cars that shaped film history

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Aurich Lawson | Petersen) Cars and Hollywood go together like chocolate and peanut butter (or mashed potatoes and gravy—choose your favorite pairing). The Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles pays tribute to that legacy with its new exhibit, the “Cars of Film and Television.” Founded in 1994 by the magazine […]

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When is a Porsche 911 not a Porsche 911? When it’s a Ruf

This looks like a collection of Porsche 911s but if you checked each car’s VIN you’d find they were officially recognized as being made by Ruf. [credit: Ian Wood ] The Porsche 911 is one of the most instantly recognizable cars in the world. For decades and across multiple generations, Porsche has kept the same […]

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Weekend eye candy: the Newest supercar Display in the Petersen Museum

Supercars: A Century of Spectacle and Speed is a brand new exhibition at the Petersen Museum in Los Angeles. [charge: The Petersen Museum ] Identifying the planet’s first supercar is more challenging than it seems. The difficulty –to me –is that there is no universally accepted definition of exactly what a supercar really is. If […]