Advance Auto Parts’ Profit More Than Tripled. Its Actual Business Barely Grew At All.
Advance Auto Parts wants you to believe it turned a corner last quarter. Net income...
Shawn Henry
Right to Repair Just Won in Congress. Don’t Celebrate Yet.
On May 21, the House Energy and Commerce Committee voted 48 to 1 to advance...
Mazda Patented a Fix for the Rotary Engine’s Dirtiest Secret. The RX-7 Crowd Should Pump the Brakes
Every time Mazda files a patent with the word “rotary” anywhere near it, the same...
Flock’s CEO Compared Banning His Cameras to Banning Cars. His Own Website Proves the Analogy Backwards
Garrett Langley, the CEO of Flock Safety, picked an odd hill to defend this week....
BMW Patented a Trunk Lid That Swallows Your Charging Cable — And That’s Not Even the Interesting Part
Somewhere in Munich, a BMW engineer just solved a problem that has nothing to do...
Black Hat Just Proved Your EV Charger Can Infect Your Car—And Everything Else Nearby
Forget air-gapped security discussions. Forget the naive assumption that physical charging hardware couldn’t be turned...
Waymo Told NHTSA How It Decides School-Zone Speeds. Then It Blacked Out the Answer.
A nine-year-old girl in Santa Monica is fine. She stood up, walked to the curb,...
Dunlop Is Warning California About Its New Tire Rule. The Vote Already Happened.
A public comment is supposed to arrive before a vote, not after one. On August...
Volkswagen’s CEO Called It a ‘Mega-Crisis.’ His Own Numbers Say the Real Enemy Is the Org Chart
Oliver Blume did not have to reach for the words “mega-crisis.” Volkswagen already had perfectly...
Flock Safety Claims an 11% Drop in Car Theft. Here’s What It Left Out
Flock Safety, the license-plate-reader company, published a blog post on August 24, 2026 headlined “Independent...
Honda’s Entire Safety Suite Runs Through One Camera. Guess What Keeps Failing.
Beverly Mason didn’t get a recall notice. She got a $2,933 repair bill. That gap...
Her Nissan Rogue Passed a Clean Carfax Check. It Still Had Three VINs, and It Belonged to Enterprise the Whole Time
Amber Wolnomiejski did the things a careful car buyer is told to do. She pulled...
This Stolen Infiniti Had A VIN That Checked Out. That Was The Problem
CHP recovered a stolen Infiniti wearing a switched VIN. The case exposes why a clean history report can still lead…
Santander Says a Ventura Jeep Dealer Sold It Fraudulent Loans. Its Own Contract Made Sure the Fight Happens in Texas
Crown Dodge-Chrysler-Jeep-Ram sits on Auto Center Drive in Ventura, California. Whatever happens to it next...
Trump Threatens 50% Tariffs on All Cars in 2027, But His Post Never Actually Says Canada
Read Donald Trump’s Monday morning tariff threat closely, and something is missing. He posted that...