Your Car’s Phone App Roughly Doubled Its Ad-Tracker Exposure. Owners Can Switch Off Some of It
Northeastern researchers found that pairing a companion app roughly doubled a car's exposure to advertising and tracking companies. Phone settings…
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A Stolen $50,000 Chevelle Allegedly Went for $9,500 Cash and No Title. The Buyer Is Charged Too.
A federal indictment says a 1972 Chevelle SS taken from a St. Louis collection was sold for $9,500 cash with…
Stellantis Is Grading Its Quality Fix on Three-Month-Old Cars. The €4.1 Billion Bill Is for Older Ones.
Stellantis booked €4.1 billion in 2025 for defects in vehicles it had already shipped. The quality metric it now reports…
Iowa Lawyer Gets Prison for Telling Medicaid the Rolls-Royce He’d Crashed Was Worth $194,000
Timothy Anderson valued his crashed 1961 Rolls-Royce Phantom V at $194,000 on a client's Medicaid application. The car exemption he…
An AI Avatar Spoke for a Road-Rage Victim at Sentencing. Arizona Just Threw Out the 10.5-Year Term.
Arizona’s appeals court kept Gabriel Horcasitas’s manslaughter conviction but vacated his sentence because the judge relied on an AI rendering…
A Trademark Complaint Filed for Flock Wants This 335,701-Record Camera Map Gone
A researcher mapped 335,701 Flock device records pulled from the company's own systems. A brand-protection firm that says it acts…
Two Drivers Stopped in the Middle of I-70 in Wheat Ridge, Colorado, and One Grabbed a Tire Iron — Then Both Got the Same Summons
Two drivers stopped in live I-70 lanes in Wheat Ridge, Colorado, and one pulled out what appeared to be a…
The Corvette Outran the Trooper at 156 MPH. It Couldn’t Outrun the Radio Call to Missouri.
A red C8 Corvette ran from an Arkansas trooper at 156 mph on I-55. It lost anyway, to spike strips…
Watch a Missouri YouTuber Tear Down a 2022 F-150 EcoBoost That Hit 180,000 Miles in Four Years, Then Find a Piston Burned Straight Through
A 2022 Ford F-150 Lariat that rolled out of the factory in May 2022 had...
Tesla Owes NHTSA 21 Cybercab Answers Today. Zoox’s Version Took Three Years.
NHTSA's Special Order asks how a car with no wheel, pedals or mirrors meets driver-era safety rules, and whether removable…
Hyundai Outsold Ford on Hybrids by 10,000 in August. Now Cox Forecasts Hyundai Takes Ford’s No. 3 Spot in U.S. Sales This Quarter.
Cox Automotive forecasts Hyundai Motor Group will outsell Ford in the third quarter. Hyundai's hybrid lineup, and Ford's lack of…
NHTSA Closed Its Jeep Fire Probe. A Million Wranglers and Gladiators Still Can’t Park in the Garage.
NHTSA closed its fire probe into 1.08 million Jeep Wranglers and Gladiators. FCA's own recall filing shows why owners still…
Ford’s Wet Timing Belt Case Went From 44 Complaints to 1,299. The Part That Clogs Can’t Be Reached Without Pulling the Engine.
NHTSA's probe into Ford's 1.0-liter EcoBoost grew from 10,473 cars to 135,551. Two months later there's still no recall. Here's…
The New Fuel Economy Rules Carry a $0 Fine. The Part That Actually Matters Is Buried 700 Pages Deep.
The fine for missing the new Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards is zero dollars....
Florida Kicked the Plate Cameras Off Its Highways. The Ones That Mail You Tickets Keep Spreading.
Florida pulled license plate readers off state highways. Red-light, school-zone and school bus cameras that mail tickets are still spreading,…