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Dodge’s 1,348% Charger Sixpack Jump Started From 238 Leftover Cars
Stellantis’s Q3 chart shows gas Charger sales up 1,348%, measured against 238 old-generation cars. Counted whole, the Charger rose 22% to 3,679, and Dodge now runs on the Durango.
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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 no title and a punched ignition. The buyer faces charges too.
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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 only covers a car’s first three months.
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Dayton Detectives Recover One-Owner ’70 GTO Judge After Rig Theft
If you’ve towed a show car more than a few hours from home, you know the bad night of sleep. The trailer is in a hotel lot, the truck is hitched to it, and you’re upstairs telling yourself nobody is going to take all three. In Dayton, Ohio, a North Carolina family found out the…
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Spotter Lawsuit Verdict: Jennifer Jo Cobb Faces $850,002 Under NC Heart-Balm Law
Jennifer Jo Cobb spent most of two decades doing one of the hardest jobs in NASCAR: keeping an underfunded team on track mostly through stubbornness. A Davidson County jury has now handed her a bill roughly six times what her trucks earned in posted winnings in 2013. On Sept. 24, after a three-day trial in…
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CarMax Now Makes $111 Less on Each Car and $116 More on Everything Sold With It
CarMax cut its per-car margin to revive sales, then earned it back on extended service plans and the shop while its lender moved deeper into Tier 2 credit.
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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 used is still on the books.
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GM Lost 41,028 EV Sales After the $7,500 Credit Died. Its Entire U.S. Drop Was 39,373.
GM’s EV deliveries fell by 41,028 in the third quarter, more than its total U.S. sales decline, a year after the federal $7,500 credit ended.
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Connected Car Apps Are Leaking VINs to Big Tech Ad Networks
Nobody cross-shops crossovers by their ad-tech stack. But a new study shows that whatever you drive home, a few of Silicon Valley’s biggest ad businesses probably came along for the ride. The peer-reviewed paper, titled “Automatic Transmission,” comes from Northeastern University’s Khoury College and will be presented at the ACM Internet Measurement Conference in Karlsruhe,…
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Customs Officials in Elizabeth, N.J., Report a Record 603 Stolen Vehicles Stopped Before Export, Then Say Most Go Back to Insurers, Not Owners
U.S. Customs and Border Protection stopped a record 603 stolen vehicles at the ports of New York and New Jersey over the past year, News 12 New Jersey reported, and at a news conference Thursday at the Elizabeth Seaport in New Jersey, the port director said where those vehicles go next: most of the time,…
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Audi’s EV Patent Calls for Real Motor Noise, Fake Gearshifts and Sparks Ground Off the Pavement
Audi’s German patent application would hard-mount an EV’s motor, strip its soundproofing, simulate gearshifts and turbo lag, and grind a sacrificial metal part on the road for sparks.
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Police Say a Driver Stopped for High Beams on Florida’s Longboat Key Climbed Into the Back Seat, Then Refused Sobriety Tests
Longboat Key police say a driver stopped for high beams moved to the back seat as his passenger claimed the wheel. Florida made a first breath-test refusal a crime in 2025.
