Volvo Just Beamed Apple Music Into Two Million Cars Overnight. Last Year, the Same Pipeline Beamed In a Brake Problem.
Volvo wants you to notice the music. On July 7, the automaker started pushing a...
July 15, 2026
BMW Says 29,000 Hybrids Might Catch Fire — Good Luck Finding Out if Yours Is One Before Next Month
If you own a BMW 330e, 530e, or 740Le built sometime in the last decade,...
Mexico’s ‘Electrified’ Car Boom Is Mostly Just Hybrids, and It Picked the Worst Possible Week to Look Suspicious
Mexico’s auto distributors want you to know that electrified vehicle sales are up 44% this...
Uncle Sam Just Handed Bosch $225 Million To Make EV Chips – In The Same Business That Just Bankrupted America’s Last Champion
Bosch says it just reached “a milestone.” That part is true. It’s just not the...
Stellantis Is Bragging About a 38% Shipment Surge. Its Dealers Are the Ones Left Holding the Bag
Stellantis wants the headline to be simple: North American shipments jumped 38% in the second...
Your Neighborhood Garbage Truck Is About to Start Spying on You. Your Car Already Did, and Got Fined for It.
Cape Coral, Florida is looking at a proposal to strap AI-powered cameras onto its garbage...
EPA’s New Truck Rule Turns a Federal Felony Into a Factory Setting
Mac Spurlock ran a diesel repair shop in Wasilla, Alaska. In 2022, about thirty armed...
California Handed Oil Refineries a Bigger Break Than Its Own Regulators Recommended. Now It’s Getting Sued for It
California has one climate rule everyone already knows: every new car sold in the state...
Why Your Quick-Lube Guy Keeps “Finding” Problems Your Car Doesn’t Have
You went in to a quick-lube shop for an oil change. You’re leaving with a...
Used Car Prices Climbed Again in June. Turns Out the 2021 Chip Shortage Just Never Sent Its Final Bill
Cox Automotive has a word for what happened to used-car prices in June: “normalizing.” It’s...
Timing Belt or Timing Chain? Ignore the Wrong One and Watch a $2,000 Repair Bill Show Up
Ask ten drivers what a timing belt does. You’ll get eight shrugs, one “isn’t that...
Everyone’s Dad Was Wrong About Warming Up the Car. Here’s What Actually Happens to a Cold Engine
Ask anyone who learned to drive before the 2000s how they start a car on...