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A Silverado Went Under a Flatbed on I-40. The Rescue Is a Physics Lesson in Underride.
There’s a particular kind of wreck that makes crumple zones, airbags, and five-star ratings almost irrelevant, and a fleeing driver in Smith County, Tennessee found it early Friday morning. According to the volunteer rescue squad that pulled him out, the crew had to strip a Chevrolet Silverado down to free the man trapped inside —…
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Stolen 2013 Honda Accord Pursuit Ends at a Visalia Orchard Fence
Here’s a tidy little Central Valley crime story that doubles as a lesson in why your decade-old Honda is more desirable to a thief than you’d think, and why running from the cops in a low-slung sedan across farm country is a plan with a short shelf life. According to the Visalia Police Department, it…
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A 167-MPH BMW, a Lamppost, and a Suspended Sentence: What Actually Happened on the A55
Here’s a number worth sitting with: 167 mph. That’s the speed a black BMW hit on the A55 in North Wales late on the night of February 23, with two passengers along for the ride and a driver who, it turned out, was over the legal limit for cannabis. The whole pursuit lasted about five…
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Chicago Carjackers Tried to Sell Stolen Car Back to Its Owner
There’s a particular breed of criminal decision-making on display in Humboldt Park, and it belongs to two men who allegedly stole a car at gunpoint and then concluded that the natural next step was to sell it back to the person they stole it from — in the same alley, a few hours later, in…
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Toyota’s $3.6 Billion San Antonio Bet Isn’t About Jobs. It’s About Which Trucks Are Worth Building in America.
Governor Greg Abbott just announced that Toyota is spending $3.6 billion to build a second assembly line in San Antonio. The press release runs through all the numbers you’d expect: 2,000 new jobs, a $20 million state grant, a $50,000 bonus for hiring veterans. It reads like a ribbon-cutting speech, because that’s exactly what it…
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Kia Barely Raised 2027 Carnival Prices, and That Restraint Is the Real Story
Kia raised 2027 Carnival prices by just $100, even while eating tariff costs on its only imported minivan. That restraint, not the new captain’s chairs, is the real story of where the minivan segment is headed.
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Ford’s CEO Doesn’t Want You Wrenching on Your New Bronco — Washington Just Torched That Excuse
Jim Farley has a favorite prop when he explains why Ford doesn’t want you popping the hood on your own Bronco: his own garage. In a June 10 interview with the Detroit Free Press, Ford’s CEO said he’s perfectly comfortable wrenching on a 1973 Bronco but wouldn’t dare touch a new one himself. “I have…
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The Cadillac Vistiq Seat Recall Is Really About the Safety Rule That Doesn’t Exist Yet
GM’s fix for the Vistiq’s trapped-seat defect requires new hardware, not a software patch like Hyundai used for a nearly identical problem. That gap says more about the industry’s safety blind spots than either recall notice does.
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Ford Recalls 66,000 Lincoln and Explorer Hybrids Because the First Fix Didn’t Fix It
A car that’s too quiet is, legally speaking, a defective car. That’s the part of this story Ford isn’t saying out loud. Ford has expanded a recall covering roughly 66,000 Lincoln Nautilus Hybrid and Ford Explorer Hybrid models because, under certain conditions, they fail to make noise. Specifically, a software error can silence the pedestrian…
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The Monday Recall Report: A Million Jeeps, a Rollaway-Prone Ford, and NHTSA’s Worst Week Yet
NHTSA quietly logs dozens of new recall campaigns most weeks, and almost nobody notices until a service advisor mentions one during an oil change. This week’s batch is heavier than usual: a fire risk serious enough that owners are being told to park outside their own garages, a transmission defect that has ballooned past 741,000…
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Thailand’s $4.1 Billion EV Push Isn’t About Electric Cars. It’s About Not Choosing Sides.
Thailand just put $4.1 billion behind electric vehicles. Read the fine print, though, and you’ll find something odd: nearly a third of that money is going toward technology that isn’t electric at all. That’s not a contradiction. It’s the whole strategy. The Thailand Board of Investment says it has locked in more than $4.1 billion…
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Hyundai’s World Cup Robot Halftime Show Was Really a $1.1 Billion Stress Test
A dancing robot delivering a soccer ball to a referee is the kind of story that writes itself as a novelty. Boston Dynamics’ Atlas took the field at halftime of a FIFA World Cup Round of 16 match, threw a few goal celebrations, and handed off the match ball. Cute. Shareable. Forgettable by Monday. Except…
