New York City Fixed Its Illegal Car-Crushing Program. It Left One Loophole Big Enough For A Mercedes-Benz.
Buried inside New York City’s sanitation code is a clause that reads like a guest...
August 1, 2026
BYD Patented A Car That Won’t Start If Something’s Alive Underneath It. That’s Not Even The Real Story
Picture a cold morning outside Shenzhen. A BYD hatchback sits in a driveway, and a...
Kia Just Spent $649 Million To Build an EV It Has No Intention of Selling You
This week, welding robots inside a Kia plant in Nuevo León, Mexico, started getting reprogrammed....
Stolen American Cars Disappear by the Thousands Every Year. Kenya’s Steering Wheel Law Is Why None of Them Show Up There
Somewhere along the Eastern Seaboard tonight, a shipping container is being sealed with paperwork describing...
Motive Sold Truckers an AI Camera to Keep Them Out of Court. Now the Camera Is the One Being Sued
For the better part of a decade, the sales pitch behind putting an AI camera...
Ford Fixed The F-150’s Oil-Burning V8, Then Quietly Un-Fixed It To Protect Its MPG Numbers
Somewhere in a Ford engineering file is a piston ring. It isn’t exotic, and it...
This Week at The Auto Wire: Full Recap (July 27–31, 2026)
Here’s a full recap of everything The Auto Wire published this week, Monday July 27...
California Is Bragging About Falling Car Theft Numbers. It’s Suspiciously Quiet About Why
The California Highway Patrol wants you to know that vehicle theft fell 25 percent last...
A Private Surveillance Network Built on Tow Trucks Has Scanned 9 Billion License Plates. California Courts Just Said That’s Fine
Somewhere in California right now, a tow truck is rolling down a residential street, and...