Volvo Just Beamed Apple Music Into Two Million Cars Overnight. Last Year, the Same Pipeline Beamed In a Brake Problem.
Volvo wants you to notice the music. On July 7, the automaker started pushing a...
Shawn Henry
BMW Says 29,000 Hybrids Might Catch Fire — Good Luck Finding Out if Yours Is One Before Next Month
If you own a BMW 330e, 530e, or 740Le built sometime in the last decade,...
Uncle Sam Just Handed Bosch $225 Million To Make EV Chips – In The Same Business That Just Bankrupted America’s Last Champion
Bosch says it just reached “a milestone.” That part is true. It’s just not the...
Stellantis Is Bragging About a 38% Shipment Surge. Its Dealers Are the Ones Left Holding the Bag
Stellantis wants the headline to be simple: North American shipments jumped 38% in the second...
EPA’s New Truck Rule Turns a Federal Felony Into a Factory Setting
Mac Spurlock ran a diesel repair shop in Wasilla, Alaska. In 2022, about thirty armed...
California Handed Oil Refineries a Bigger Break Than Its Own Regulators Recommended. Now It’s Getting Sued for It
California has one climate rule everyone already knows: every new car sold in the state...
Used Car Prices Climbed Again in June. Turns Out the 2021 Chip Shortage Just Never Sent Its Final Bill
Cox Automotive has a word for what happened to used-car prices in June: “normalizing.” It’s...
Everything You Think You Know About Ethanol Gas Wrecking Your Engine Is Probably Wrong
Somewhere along the way, “don’t use that gas, it’s got ethanol in it” became one...
Extended Car Warranties: Sometimes a Lifesaver, Usually Just Fear Dressed Up as a Sales Pitch
The pitch always lands at the worst possible moment. You’ve just agreed to a price,...
Toyota Blamed “Final Adjustments” for Delaying the Electric Highlander. Translation: Three Brands Are Riding on One Untested Factory
Buried a few paragraphs into Toyota’s own press materials, though, is the reason this delay...
IIHS and Consumer Reports’ New Teen Car List Isn’t Really About Price. It’s About Which Cars Are Too Light to Survive a Crash
Every year, IIHS and Consumer Reports publish a list of used and new vehicles that...
Detroit Is Panicking That Teens Won’t Get Their License. Maybe Check the Sticker Price First
The decline in teenage driving didn’t start with the smartphone. It started in 1983, when...
Denver Cab Companies Say Waymo Found A Loophole In Colorado’s Taxi Law — And They’re Not Wrong
Two Colorado transportation companies filed paperwork this month arguing that Waymo doesn’t belong in the...
Your Mercedes Speedometer Can Just Go Dark While You’re Driving. Regulators Finally Made It a Recall
Here’s a fun trait of modern luxury cars: when the speedometer is just pixels on...
A $105K Corvette Blew Up a $1.3 Million Supercar Theft Ring. The Getaway Kit Cost Almost Nothing
Two men are sitting in a Ventura County jail cell on $250,000 bail apiece, accused...