259 Plate Searches, Zero Warrants: A Cop Turned Traffic Cameras Into Her Personal Stalking Tool
There’s a dropdown menu inside the New Bedford Police Department’s Flock cameras terminal that asks...
August 2026
Ford 1.0L EcoBoost Timing Belt Failures Trigger NHTSA Engineering Analysis
Ford’s little 1.0-liter three-cylinder has two rubber belts spinning around inside the crankcase, bathed in...
A Mavis Manager Allegedly Helped Steal 438 Tires From His Own Store — and Somebody Else’s Security Cameras Ratted Him Out
Nobody broke into the Mavis Tires and Brakes on Chastain Meadows Parkway. Nobody had to....
Hyundai’s First Full Strike in 10 Years Isn’t About Pay. It’s About a Law That Made Walking Out Basically Free.
Hyundai Motor’s assembly lines in Ulsan will sit completely still for eight hours this Friday....
Used Cars Just Hit a Record $32,461 — and Your ‘Buy a Toyota, It Holds Value’ Advice Just Backfired
Buy a Toyota, the old advice goes. It holds its value. Three generations of car...
Tricolor Raised $1.9 Billion on Subprime Car Loans. The SEC Says Its Execs Pledged the Same Ones Twice
The SEC says Tricolor's top executives pledged the same subprime car loans to more than one Wall Street bond deal.…
America Didn’t Ban Polestar’s Factory. It Banned Its Owner.
Prestige Imports wants $25 million from Polestar, and its lawsuit reads like a straightforward betrayal...
31 Felony Charges Later, Georgia’s Tag Office Has One Very Awkward Question: Who Else Has Her Login?
Every title-fraud story The Auto Wire has covered shares one plot point: someone had to...
Blame Yourself: America Lets the Fastest Drivers Write the Speed Limits
AAA says speeding is the new normal. The deeper story is that America sets speed limits from how fast drivers…
Florida’s Flashy New ‘Super Speeder’ Law Grabbed the Headlines — a Forgotten 1971 Statute Grabbed the License
Quashay Frazier Jr. lost a drag race on the Buckman Bridge in Jacksonville on a...
McLaren Wants More US Dealerships. State Franchise Law Says Not So Fast
McLaren Wants More U.S. Stores. Franchise Law Is About to Get a Vote. Speaking at...
One Rivian Hire Reveals the Company’s Real Plan for Commercial Vans
Rivian Just Hired a Fleet Sales Director. That Tells You More Than the Press Releases...
A DUI Camaro Crash Ended Inside a Bedroom — the Insurance Gap Is the Real Story
A Camaro Ended Up In a Hesperia Bedroom. The Charge Sheet Is the Interesting Part....
California Just Handed Waymo Its Biggest Robotaxi Expansion Yet — 18 Counties, No Driver
Waymo Just Got the Keys to Most of California — Here’s What the Paperwork Actually...
Washington Dusted Off a 96-Year-Old Tariff Law Nobody Had Ever Used — and Detroit Is the Guinea Pig
Forget the 50 percent. Forget the wine, the dairy, and the hockey sticks that made...