A Month After the Fatal Irvine Crash, the Wrecked McLaren Reignited on Its Own in a Tow Yard With Nobody Around
The McLaren that crashed in Irvine, killing car-show owner James Wehr and model Lexi Kramer, reignited on its own in…
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Lawsuit: The Search Reason Was ‘Info.’ The Driver Being Searched Was Suing the Sheriff.
A federal suit says Coweta County deputies searched more than 6,000 Flock camera networks for a man suing their sheriff,…
Houston Police Say a Theft Ring Had $3 Million in Luxury Cars Delivered to It. Some Turned Up in New Jersey Labeled as Rebar
Houston police say a ring rerouted luxury cars already on car carriers, then shipped some out of New Jersey in…
Stellantis Says the Charger SRT and the HEMI V-8 Are Coming Back. It Won’t Say They’re Coming Back Together
A slide in Stellantis’s May 21 Investor Day presentation lists a Charger SRT as a...
An Oviedo 11-Year-Old Pleaded Not Guilty Over a 4,500-Watt Electric Dirt Bike. Florida Law Calls It a Motorcycle
An Oviedo sixth-grader pleaded not guilty to a misdemeanor registration charge after police classified his pedal-less 4,500-watt electric dirt bike…
Tempe Grappled a 140-MPH Corvette and Booked Its Driver. A Year Later, No Felony Case Shows Up in Superior Court
A year after Tempe police used a Grappler to stop a 140-mph Corvette and booked the driver on a felony,…
Watch: A Missing License Plate Turned Into a Chase to Flint. Police Say the Plate Was the Least of That Car’s Problems
A Grand Blanc Township stop for a missing license plate became a felony chase into Flint. Police say the car…
IIHS Tested 11 Work Vans and Pickups for Crash Avoidance. Seven Flunked, and the Only Van With No Weak Spot Is One GM Already Killed
In IIHS's first crash avoidance ratings for cargo vans and Class 3 pickups, seven of 11 rated poor with a…
Flock Cameras Logged Her Rivian 20 Times Over a $25 Porch Theft. Her Lawsuit Asks Why Nobody Got a Warrant
A Colorado woman wrongly cited on the strength of 20 Flock plate reads is suing the camera company, two towns…
Argentina Signed Off on Toyota’s $1.3 Billion ‘Electrified’ Plant. Toyota Still Hasn’t Said What Goes in It.
Argentina granted Toyota 30 years of tax and customs stability for an unnamed electrified vehicle at Zárate. Toyota's final approval,…
Georgia’s Lift-Kit Law Exempts Basically Every Pickup Since 2011. A Wrongful-Death Suit Wants a Jury to Draw the Line.
Georgia's 2024 suspension law exempts any truck with federally compliant stability control. A Gwinnett wrongful-death suit over a lifted F-150…
Mercedes Trips the China Car Bill’s 15% Wire. Volvo, Nearly 79% Geely-Owned, Already Has a Hall Pass.
Commerce cleared majority Geely-owned Volvo and refused Polestar under a control test. The Senate bill's 15% ownership line would instead…
Eight Cars, Including Three Camaros and a Trans Am, Fell Off the Feds’ List in a Texas Insurance Fraud Case
DOJ said in July it had seized 22 vehicles from Texas insurance broker Clayton Iley. The October forfeiture order covers…
Hyundai Hides Its Hybrid Motors Inside the Transmission. Georgia’s Getting $560 Million to Build More of Them.
Hyundai Transys will spend nearly $560 million in West Point, Georgia, to build more hybrid transmissions, the part that holds…
ZF Is Ending 120 Years of Steering Production in Lafayette. The Engineers Get to Stick Around.
ZF's WARN notice counts 133 jobs at its Lafayette steering plant, down from about 200 a year earlier, while the…