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...
John Lloyd
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...
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...
Ford Wanted to Patent a Car That Locks You Out and Drives Itself to the Junkyard. The Government Said No.
A Ford Bronco did not get bricked in traffic on a Michigan expressway last week....
BMW’s New Mexican-Built EVs Arrive In 2027 — Their Batteries Are Still Just Visiting
BMW says its new Mexican EV plant proves it's serious about the country. But the batteries inside those cars are…
Ford’s Explorer and Aviator Can Now Recline Their Own Driver’s Seat, No Passenger Required
Ford just filed a new Explorer and Aviator seat recall, and the defect description alone...
Tesla’s ‘Free Supercharging For Life’ Promise Just Triggered A Class Action Payout — And The Loophole That Caused It Is Still Legal
Tesla just agreed to hand back years of parking fees to a sliver of its...
Ford’s Latest Recall Letter For Almost 400,000 SUVs Is Basically Just An IOU
The defect itself already got the deep dive it deserves. The Auto Wire covered how...
Waymo’s Robotaxis Are Racking Up Austin Parking Tickets Because Free Curb Space Beats a Real Garage
Waymo's Austin robotaxis have picked up 83 parking tickets worth $9,325. The fines aren't the story. The business decision behind…
A Rental Car Theft Ring Shipped Stolen SUVs to Ghana for a Year. The Weak Link Wasn’t the Car.
Amadou Diol just got five years in federal prison for stealing more than 20 rental...
Tesla Just Admitted Its Cars Aren’t All Equal Anymore, and the Proof Is Buried in a Chatbot Update
Tesla’s 2026 Summer Update lets Grok answer phone calls, queue a playlist, adjust the cabin...
Rivian Just Posted a ‘Profit.’ The Cars Themselves Are Still Losing Money.
Rivian wants investors to notice one number from its first-quarter 2026 report, filed the same...
Genesis Just Recalled 94,760 Cars Over a Fuel Leak It Already “Fixed” Once Before
Genesis is telling nearly 95,000 U.S. owners that fuel can leak out of the connection...
Ford Gave This Windshield Plant a Crisis-Management Award. Weeks Later, It Had One of Its Own.
In June, Ford handed a Tennessee glass plant a trophy for handling crises well. In...