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Ready to feel the Testarossa thrill on your wrist? 🏁 The @depancel Série-R 80s is now available for pre-order! 🔥 Get that 80s automotive rebellion vibe with every glance at your wrist. ◾️#drivingwords

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True or False: The Ford Mustang was first introduced in 1964.

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#CarTriviaTuesday: Which car manufacturer created the first mass-produced car in the world?

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🚗 Take a ride back to the era of power suits and neon lights with the R-Series 80s watch by @depancel It's a square-edged, orange-dialed tribute to the 80s automotive rebellion. Buckle up! 🏁 #80sStyle #TimeTravel #WatchLovers

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Alpine−Renault M64

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Juan Manuel Fangio (start number 658) just after the start of the 1955 Mille Miglia in Brescia in a Mercedes-Benz 300 SLR racing sports car (W 196 S). He finished the race in second place, behind Stirling Moss and Denis Jenkinson, also in a 300 SLR racing sports car.

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Sauber-Mercedes C 9 Group C racing sports car, 1989 This model achieved a spectacular double victory at the Le Mans 24-hour race. Photo from Le Mans Classic 2022.

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BMW M1 Procar at Nürnberg 1980. International drivers on the Norisring. The Austrian Dieter Quester (77) in front of the Dutch Jan Lammers (left) and the Italian Merzario (70). (04/2019)

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Rumpler “teardrop” car with Benz signet. Photo from the front left from 1921.

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The 1930s Type 57 SC Atlantic is a true iconic masterpiece of Ettore's son, Jean Bugatti. Jean was a respected leader of the Molsheim equipe and an individual of style and elegance. His cars fascinated in proportion and aerodynamic performance. Bugatti ‘Unseen’ - study of 2015

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Two-seater BMW 3/15 PS vehicles lined up outside the BMW plant in Eisenach in the early 1930s.

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BMW Plant Rosslyn

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Italian Grand Prix 1955 in Monza. In the steep curve, the eventual winner Juan Manuel Fangio leads Stirling Moss, both in a Mercedes-Benz W 196 R with a streamlined body, followed by Karl Kling on a Mercedes-Benz W 196 R with free-standing wheels.

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In 1937, Jean-Pierre Wimille and Robert Benoist drove a Bugatti Type 57G to the long-awaited first victory for Bugatti in the 24 Hours of Le Mans.

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Looking for a Father's Day gift? — Cement your status as the favourite this Father's Day by gifting dad a 12 month subscription to Retromotive magazine!⁠ ⁠ Every three months for the next year they will be reminded just how awesome you are when a new issue arrives in the mail.

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Camille Jenatzy, former Mercedes racing driver, born 4 November 1868. Photo from 1904 of the 5th Gordon Bennett Race.

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1988 FIA GT Championship. Klaus Ludwig and Ricardo Zonta won the drivers’ championship with the Mercedes CLK-GTR and the Mercedes CLK-LM. Photo from the season finale at Laguna Seca (California) on 25 October 1998. In this race, Ludwig and Zonta clinched the championship.

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Semmering race on 17 September 1903. Winner Hermann Braun in the Mercedes-Simplex 60 hp racing car shortly after crossing the finish line.

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World record drives by Lydston Granville Hornsted on 22 December 1913 with the Benz 200 hp racing car. Hornsted sets two new standing start world records over half a mile (804.67 metres) and one kilometre.