Video log: Truck races, Ferrari test drive, Meritor’s Italian axle plant

May 22, 2014

Overdrive Executive Editor Jack Roberts is in Milan, Italy, this week visiting a Meritor test lab. Below are some videos he’s shot on his trip, including some of checking out Ferraris and Lamborghinis at a nearby track and some footage from the European truck racing circuit:

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