Toyota’s Paint-Warranty Program Got Robbed From the Inside. The Dealer Still Had to Pay Toyota Back $2.1 Million.
Somewhere in a Toyota service drive outside Boston, a claim gets typed into a warranty...
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Half a Million Ford Edges May Be Drowning Their Own Engines — And Technically, No One’s Investigating Yet
Ford’s Edge has been dead since 2024. No factory builds it, no dealer orders one,...
Volkswagen Is Killing Seat To Save Its Own Spinoff — and Just Admitted To 2,600 Different Car Seat Designs
Volkswagen's plan to halve its lineup by 2030 also kills the Seat brand — and reveals a stranger number buried…
Tesla’s Newest Recall Covers Just 19 Cars. It’s the Same Bolt That’s Failed Four Times Since 2021.
A Recall So Small It’s Almost the Point Nineteen cars. That’s the entire population of...
BYD Isn’t Really Betting On Robot Hands — It’s Cashing In On Something It Already Owned For Free
Every automaker eventually discovers it owns more than cars. BYD just discovered it owns something...
Apple’s New CEO Races Rare Porsches on Weekends. His Actual Job Title Explains Why the Apple Car Really Died
Every outlet covering John Ternus’s promotion to Apple CEO is leading with the same delightful...
The EPA Called a 17-Year-Old Rule ‘Brand New’ So Congress Could Fast-Track Killing It. A Judge Wasn’t Buying It.
A federal judge in Washington spent part of her ruling this week accusing the EPA...
A Brick Doesn’t Know Your Windshield Has A Camera Behind It. Richmond Just Found Out The Hard Way
Ninety-two people in Richmond, Virginia woke up this week to the same discovery: a windshield...
Ford Recalls 10,001 Vehicles Over Cracked Pistons in an Engine Shared By Five Very Different Cars. The Fix Isn’t Coming Until December.
Ford’s newest recall covers just 10,001 vehicles, a rounding error next to the 148,663 Mustangs...
A Banned Airbag Part Just Killed Its 11th Person — Because You Can’t Recall a Crime
Banning a part and recalling a part sound like the same government action wearing two...
Porsche Says It’ll Build You a Manual Panamera. That’s Not Generosity—It’s Marketing
Nobody is actually getting a manual Panamera. That’s the detail almost every outlet skipped on...
Ford Only Recalled Two Trucks For This Brake Failure. NHTSA Wants To Know About The Other 82,040.
Ford has already fixed this exact brake failure once. The fix covered two trucks. Now...
Canada Paid Stellantis $222 Million To Save A Jeep Plant. The Jeep Went To Illinois Anyway
When Unifor and Stellantis sat down in Toronto on September 1 to open contract talks...
Ford And Stellantis Sued The Same Dealer Over $18 Million. The Real Victim Just Traded In A Jeep
Ford Motor Credit and Stellantis Financial Services don’t agree on much. They compete for the...