BYD Tried Twice to Buy Its Way Into Renault. Renault Said No Twice, and Money Had Nothing to Do With It
For most of the last two decades, if a Western automaker wanted to sell cars...
July 2026
Toyota Just Pulled the Tacoma Out of Mexico, and It Buried the Real Reason in One Sentence
Toyota’s $3.6 billion press release out of San Antonio arrived with a governor, two U.S....
BMW’s Brake Defect Has Survived Three Recalls in a Row. Yes, That Includes a Rolls-Royce.
Three times since February 2024, BMW has told a group of owners the same thing:...
Five Officers Got Caught Misusing Flock Cameras in Georgia. The Real Story Is How Rare That Is.
Somewhere in Albany, Georgia, a license plate reader’s own paperwork just did something eighteen other...
Porsche Just Killed Its Battery Factory, Its E-Bike Brand, and a Chunk of Bugatti. The Sales Numbers Are the Boring Part.
Porsche delivered 122,306 cars worldwide in the first half of 2026, a 16 percent drop...
What to Know for Your Morning: A Supreme Court Bombshell, Polestar’s Fire Sale, and NHTSA’s Worst Week Yet
Grab your coffee and get caught up. Four stories from the last few days are...
Georgia Made Odometer Fraud a Felony. The Bill That Did It Started Out Being About Veterans’ License Plates
A Gwinnett County car broker is accused of rolling back odometers on vehicles he resold...
Rolls-Royce Just Expanded a Factory in Minnesota. It’s Not the Rolls-Royce You’re Picturing, and the Mix-Up Is the Real Story.
Skim the headline and you’ll picture Goodwood: a clean room in the English countryside where...
Ford Recalls 110,000 Mustangs and Mach-Es Over Wipers and a Cracked Axle. The Real Problem Is Ford’s Rollaway Year
Ford filed two new recalls with federal safety regulators this week covering 110,626 Mustangs, and...
China’s EV Industry Just Culled 27 of Its Own Brands. The 3 Survivors Are Coming for Your Dealership.
Everyone is reading China’s EV market numbers as a story about slowing demand. It isn’t....
GM Just Spent $275 Million to Put a Gas Engine Back Into Its Cadillac EV Plant
Spring Hill, Tennessee, doesn’t get much attention outside of GM’s investor calls, but for the...
Gas Is Creeping Back Toward $4 a Gallon Because of Iran, and Cancelling Netflix Won’t Fix What’s Actually Broken
President Trump said on July 8 that the ceasefire with Iran is over, and warned...
ENDS NOW: The Auto Wire Readers Get More Entries to Win Two of the Rarest Mopars Ever Built
Some giveaways offer a nice classic car. Others offer a modern performance machine. This one...
Honda’s Odyssey Backup Camera Keeps Losing to Water — and the Fix Is Another Camera
If you own a late-2010s Odyssey and feel like you’ve read this recall notice before,...
Kia ‘Fixed’ the Telluride’s Fire-Prone Seats in 2024. Now It’s Recalling the Fix.
Kia just told the owners of nearly half a million Tellurides to park outside, away...