Alleged Cartel Car Pipeline: 13 Charged in El Paso, and 11 Are U.S. Citizens
Federal prosecutors charged 13 people in El Paso with moving stolen vehicles to Mexico. Eleven are U.S. citizens, and every…
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VW Didn’t Give a Deputy a Carjacked Atlas’s Location Because a Free Trial Expired, Mother Alleges, and Now a Chicago Judge Has Let Her Suit Proceed
A federal judge in Chicago denied motions to dismiss a suit alleging Volkswagen withheld a carjacked Atlas’s location from a…
Deputies Hadn’t Yet Spoken to the 16-Year-Old in an Everett, Washington, E-Scooter Crash That Left a 5-Year-Old With Life-Threatening Injuries
Snohomish County deputies are investigating a Center Road crash that hurt two children on one e-scooter. Washington law sorts scooters…
Audi’s $4 Billion Georgia Plant Is Sized for 200,000 Cars. Audi Sold 164,942 in America Last Year
Audi’s planned Georgia plant is built for up to 200,000 vehicles a year, more than its entire 2025 U.S. volume,…
Its Box Stayed on I-5. Its Cab Hung Off the Side and Caught Fire. Neither Man Inside Went to the Hospital
A crash left a San Diego moving truck folded over I-5's center divide, its cab burning above the lanes below.…
Hughes FCU Repo Settlement Pays About $1,067 a Check and Settles $25.6 Million in Disputed Car Debt
Arizona borrowers repossessed by Hughes Federal Credit Union from May 2019 to August 2023 get paid automatically. The bigger benefit…
A Texas Family Says Their Dad’s F-250 Moved on Its Own in Park. Ford Settled Before a Jury Could Hear Why
Ford and a New Braunfels dealer settled a wrongful-death suit over a 2023 F-250 that allegedly moved in Park. A…
Kenosha Dropped Flock for a $14.6 Million Axon Deal. Now Four Wisconsin Cities Face a Warrant Fight at the State Supreme Court
A church council asks Wisconsin’s Supreme Court to rule that searching plate-reader data is a search under the state constitution,…
City in Georgia Is Losing Its Entire Full-Time Police Force, and the Mayor Has “No Comment” on the Chief’s Truck Tracker
Milner, Georgia, will have no full-time police officers after Oct. 28. The chief says a tracker was put on his…
The Average New-Car Buyer Isn’t 61. A $47,800 V8 Mustang Explains Why It Feels That Way
A podcast guest put the average new-car buyer at 61. Federal and industry data say younger, but the price of…
Truist’s $5.5 Billion Near-Prime Auto Book Was Breaking Even, So the Bank Sold It and Is Shutting the Lender Down
Truist sold $5.5 billion of near-prime car loans from Regional Acceptance, a unit it says broke even, and is closing…
Wow, That Happened? A Ford Worker Allegedly Walked Millions in Parts Off the Line
Most people take home a lunchbox from work. Police say one Ford worker in Michigan...
From 35 Cars to Nearly 1,000 a Month: How Carvana Turned a Sleepy Arizona Dodge Store Into Stellantis’s No. 1 Dealer
Carvana bought a small Arizona Chrysler-Dodge-Jeep-Ram store that sold 30-50 new cars a month. It now sells close to 1,000,…
New Jersey Says GEICO ‘Forgave’ Accidents by Moving 4,662 Drivers to a Pricier Company. The Refunds Top $10.5 Million
State examiners found GEICO wrongly moved thousands of New Jersey policies into a costlier company, including 4,662 tied to accident…
Porsche’s Mission S Previews a Supercar Above the 911 With No Center Screen. Your Phone Snaps Into the Dash Instead
Porsche's Mission S previews a permanent mid-engine supercar above the 911. Its dash has no center screen, just a MagSafe…