That $19.99 Car Wash Membership Isn’t Selling You Clean Paint. It’s Selling Wall Street a Subscription.
A market research firm just published a report projecting that the global car wash industry...
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LAPD Quit Flock’s Camera Network Two Weeks Ago. Connecticut’s Smallest Towns Just Reached the Same Conclusion.
Somewhere in Killingworth, Connecticut, population barely 6,500, a handful of elected officials just made the...
Volkswagen Fought EU Tariffs On Chinese Cars In 2024. Now Its Own Best-Seller Got Smoked By A Brand Called Jaecoo, And VW Wants Tariffs Yesterday
Volkswagen wants Brussels to move fast on tariffs against Chinese plug-in hybrids. What the company...
Roger Penske Is Buying Back the Company That Bears His Name — and Wall Street Never Really Owned It Anyway
Roger Penske and Mitsui & Co. did not wake up this week and decide they...
Two VW Engineers Made $300K Insider Trading Rivian Stock. Their Google Searches Are the Real Story.
Two Volkswagen engineers didn’t get caught because federal investigators are brilliant at reading corporate calendars....
BMW’s Next Big EV Is Being Built in a ‘Free Trade’ Country That’s Still Taxed Worse Than Germany
BMW just confirmed that its next electric sedan and crossover will come off the line...
Your Headlights Aren’t Illegal. They’re Just Legally Blinding You.
Somewhere on a two-lane road tonight, a lifted pickup or a three-row SUV is going...
Volkswagen’s China Profit Machine Just Collapsed. Nobody Told the Balance Sheet.
Volkswagen wants you to look at one number from its half-year presentation: automotive net cash...
A Georgia Crime Center Supervisor Got Busted Using Flock to Track Her Partner’s Car. She’s Also the Least Interesting Part of This Story.
Paige Forte did not chase a stolen Charger across three counties, crack a gang case,...
Grupo Antolin Filed 36 Cases In A New York Bankruptcy Court This Week. None Of Them Are Actually Bankruptcies
This week, a Spanish restructuring executive walked into a federal courtroom in lower Manhattan and...
The Grappler Was Built To End Deadly Police Chases. Almost Nobody Actually Has One
Somewhere in Mesa, Arizona, in June of 2023, a fleeing driver who had just struck...
Mazda and Hyundai Just Turned China Into Their EV Shortcut
Singapore is about to get two electric cars that make the old phrase “Chinese car”...
Hyundai And Kia’s Self-Disinfecting Cars Aren’t Really About Germs. They’re About Cars No One’s Left To Clean.
Hyundai and Kia just told the world they’re building UV lights into car interiors to...
Jeep and Ram Just Got New CEOs Who’ve Never Built a Car. That’s the Whole Point.
Look at the résumés of the two men now running Jeep and Ram, and you’ll...
Powder Coatings Just Became a $3.6 Billion Industry. Your Car’s Paint Job Still Wasn’t Invited
A market research firm sent out a press release this week forecasting that the global...