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...
John Lloyd
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...
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...
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...
Audi’s Q5 Subframe Lawsuit Isn’t About Rust. It’s About Dodging a Recall.
A class action lawsuit over a rusted subframe sounds like the kind of story you...
Toyota’s $3.6 Billion San Antonio Bet Isn’t About Jobs. It’s About Which Trucks Are Worth Building in America.
Governor Greg Abbott just announced that Toyota is spending $3.6 billion to build a second...
Kia Barely Raised 2027 Carnival Prices, and That Restraint Is the Real Story
Kia raised 2027 Carnival prices by just $100, even while eating tariff costs on its only imported minivan. That restraint,…
The Cadillac Vistiq Seat Recall Is Really About the Safety Rule That Doesn’t Exist Yet
GM's fix for the Vistiq's trapped-seat defect requires new hardware, not a software patch like Hyundai used for a nearly…
Ford Recalls 66,000 Lincoln and Explorer Hybrids Because the First Fix Didn’t Fix It
A car that’s too quiet is, legally speaking, a defective car. That’s the part of...
The Monday Recall Report: A Million Jeeps, a Rollaway-Prone Ford, and NHTSA’s Worst Week Yet
NHTSA quietly logs dozens of new recall campaigns most weeks, and almost nobody notices until...
Thailand’s $4.1 Billion EV Push Isn’t About Electric Cars. It’s About Not Choosing Sides.
Thailand just put $4.1 billion behind electric vehicles. Read the fine print, though, and you’ll...
Polestar Just Got Banned From Selling New Cars in America — Cue the $25,000 Fire Sale
Polestar didn’t get recalled, didn’t get sued into oblivion, and hasn’t gone bankrupt. It just...
Tariffs Are Shrinking, Recalls Are Piling Up, and Uncle Sam Just Handed You Your Wrench Back
Ford’s most recent U.S. sales report, filed with the SEC on July 2, shows second-quarter...
The Toyota-Joby Deal Isn’t About Flying Cars — It’s About Who Can Actually Build Them
Ask anyone building an electric air taxi what actually keeps their program grounded, and the...
The Fine Print Behind ‘Certified Pre-Owned’ That Dealers Hope You Never Read
'Certified Pre-Owned' can be worth the money — or a badge slapped on a car that got a quick once-over…