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...
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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...
Belvidere’s Jeep Cherokee Delayed to 2029 as Stellantis Bets on STLA One
There are two ways to read what Stellantis said about Belvidere on August 14. One...
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,...
Lexus Australia Boss Wants Car Data Rules as Strict as Safety Standards
Car executives asking to be regulated is not a common sound in nature. It sits...
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...
Quebec Spent 64 Pages Proving Your Car Doesn’t Respect You. Detroit Already Ran the Experiment.
A government ethics panel in Quebec just spent the better part of a year producing...
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…
Watch: A La Puente Body Shop Lost an $80K Impala to a Tow Dolly — and the Keys Were Never the Point
Somebody wanted this 1965 Chevrolet Impala badly enough to case a body shop, cut a...