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One Lap of the Web: Le Mans souvenirs, F1 in 360, and a BMW fit for a biker

-- Collin Woodard was "that weird friend who was strangely committed to riding a motorcycle." Being the weird motorcycle-owning friend, however, can only get you so far until you start an influential motorcycle blog or start making sepia-toned hipster videos on expensive Canon 5Ds and wildly unreliable CB550Fs. Woodward needed a car, and boy did his friends have something to say about that! He looked at a Camry.

Going, Going, XC90 Gone

THE First Edition of Volvo’s all-new XC90 – 1,927 individually numbered cars only available for sale online – sold out in 47 hours. Most of the cars were reserved within one hour from when the sale started. At its peak, seven cars were sold every minute.

GM recalls 1.5 million vehicles for oil leak

General Motors is recalling nearly 1.5 million Buick, Chevrolet, Oldsmobile and Pontiac mid-sized cars equipped with a 3.8-liter engine because an oil leak could start an engine fire. Under hard braking, engine oil could leak past a heat shield and drip on the exhaust manifold. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration says that could start a small fire that could spread to a plastic spark plug wire guide and beyond.