Volkswagen Wanted Tariffs to Keep Out Cheap Chinese EVs. The Cheapest One in Germany Showed Up Wearing Four Rings.
Somewhere inside Volkswagen Group’s tariff lobbying operation, someone owes a colleague an apology. For two...
Six Defendants Allegedly Stole $4 Million in Rental Cars. The Going Rate Was $2,000 Each.
Six defendants are accused of taking about 150 rental cars worth more than $4 million with forged licenses and stolen…
A $5,295 Fee to ‘Certify’ a Car That Was Already Certified. The Rule Meant to Stop It Died Six Months Ago.
Manchester City Nissan will pay $4 million over alleged junk fees. The bigger story is that a CPO badge is…
A Georgia Sheriff’s Office Fired Its Fourth Employee for Flock Camera Misuse This Year. Somehow, That’s the Good News.
Cherokee County, Georgia, wants you to read Wednesday’s arrest as proof its license plate camera...
The EPA Calls This a Gas Price ‘Emergency.’ It’s Been One Since May.
Gas is about to get a little cheaper for the last stretch of summer. That’s...
GEICO’s $1.65 Million Settlement Isn’t About the $150 Checks — It’s About the File That Sets Your Rate
A federal judge in Maryland is scheduled to sign off in January on a settlement...
Stellantis Patented Emergency Lights for Cars That Have Already Rolled Over
Every taillight ever engineered assumes the car will stay right-side up. Stellantis just filed a...
Toyota Owes 48,280 Tacoma Owners New Shocks. Somebody Has To Build 193,120 Of Them First
The corrosion fix is the easy part of Toyota’s Tacoma shock absorber recall. Building 193,120 remote-reservoir Bilstein dampers is not,…
Stellantis Filed Three Backup-Camera Recalls in Three Months. The First Two Covered Only 75 Cars.
Stellantis didn’t tell federal safety regulators about a blank backup camera once this summer. It...
Wall Street Cheered a Bronco Pickup That Doesn’t Exist. It Ignored 565,691 Real Ones With a Fire Risk.
On Wednesday, Ford stock jumped 4% on a rumor about a truck that does not...
Record $2.1M Ford GT Sale: The Mileage Cliff Explained
Eight Miles, Two Million Dollars, and the Number Nobody Is Talking About The headline figure...
Tesla’s Recalling Nearly 5 Million Cars In China Over Door Handles It Still Won’t Redesign
Tesla just told Chinese regulators it will fix nearly five million cars without a single...
Fatal Crashes Climb 15% When a Blockbuster Album Drops, Harvard Data Shows
Somebody finally found a way to measure distracted driving without asking drivers to admit they...
EPA Killed Vehicle Carbon Rules — Now a Supreme Court Case Complicates the Next Move
Here’s a regulatory knot worth untangling, because the same statutory argument that erased every federal...
A Free, Harmless Recall Just Cost Stellantis 6% of Its Stock in a Day. The Camera Was Never the Charge.
Nobody got hurt. Nobody has to visit a dealer. The fix downloads overnight, the same...