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Philly Recovered 30 Stolen Hondas In A Month. The Arrest Count Is Still Zero, And That’s The Real Story
A stolen car turning up isn’t the same as a case getting solved. Philadelphia just spent a month proving that, thirty times over. Over the past month, Philadelphia police have recovered roughly 30 stolen Honda vehicles scattered across the city, most of them already stripped down to the frame by the time anyone found them.…
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Trump Got a Drag Race and Signed a Corvette. GM Got Something Way More Valuable.
Presidents don’t typically get invited past the guard shack. Milford Proving Ground has spent a full century keeping outsiders away from General Motors’ most sensitive engineering work, and in all that time, no sitting president had ever set foot inside. On July 27, Donald Trump did. He watched a drag race, climbed into a six-figure…
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Waymo’s Robotaxis Are Racking Up Austin Parking Tickets Because Free Curb Space Beats a Real Garage
Waymo’s Austin robotaxis have picked up 83 parking tickets worth $9,325. The fines aren’t the story. The business decision behind where these cars idle is.
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A Rental Car Theft Ring Shipped Stolen SUVs to Ghana for a Year. The Weak Link Wasn’t the Car.
Amadou Diol just got five years in federal prison for stealing more than 20 rental cars. That’s the headline. It’s also the least interesting part of this story. Because somewhere overseas right now, likely in Ghana, Nigeria, or the UAE going by federal export data, there’s a decent chance a Honda CR-V or a Dodge…
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Volkswagen Quietly Recalled 57,851 Atlas SUVs Over Vanishing Backup Cameras While Loudly Selling You the Next One
Volkswagen told federal safety regulators that 57,851 examples of the 2024-2026 Atlas and Atlas Cross Sport can lose their backup camera image because of a low-voltage electrical glitch. That’s the recall. It is not the interesting part. The interesting part is what Volkswagen didn’t publish about it. The same stretch of weeks this recall was…
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Trump’s ‘More Than Your Parents’ Line Was The Least Interesting Thing Said At GM This Week
President Trump stood at GM’s Milford Proving Ground on July 27 and told a crowd of autoworkers, “I’ve done more for you than your parents, OK?” It’s a memorable line. It is also the least important thing that happened in the auto industry that week. The real story was sitting in General Motors’ own numbers,…
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Tesla Says a Supplier Held Its Cybertruck Tooling for Ransom. Owning the Dies Was Never the Same as Controlling Them.
This Cybertruck tooling lawsuit started on July 21st, when a team of Tesla employees drove to a die-casting plant in Troy, Texas, a small town near Waco, to collect equipment Tesla had already paid for. They brought local law enforcement with them. They were turned away at the door anyway. Two days later, Tesla’s lawyers…
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Car Dealers Keep Falling Into The Same PPP Trap, And One Whistleblower Won’t Stop Collecting
Two auto dealer groups just wrote the federal government a combined check for $3.6 million over loans they took out six years ago, in the panicked spring of 2020. That’s not really the story. The story is that both companies got caught by the identical legal trap, filed by the identical whistleblower, using the identical…
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10 Best Cargo Rack & Roof Rack Deals on Amazon Right Now
Every road trip eventually runs into the same problem: the trunk fills up before the packing list does. Roof baskets, cargo bags, hardshell boxes, and hitch-mount carriers all solve that in different ways and at very different price points. We looked through Amazon’s current lineup and picked ten of the best deals available right now,…
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Tesla Just Admitted Its Cars Aren’t All Equal Anymore, and the Proof Is Buried in a Chatbot Update
Tesla’s 2026 Summer Update lets Grok answer phone calls, queue a playlist, adjust the cabin temperature, and pop the glovebox open with a voice command. That’s the part getting attention this week. It is also, by a wide margin, the least interesting thing to happen in software version 2026.26. The update that actually matters is…
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This Crew Stole Two Dozen Muscle Cars Each for Street Takeover Clout. The Law That Caught Them Predates the Muscle Car Itself.
Nigel Criss and Rafael Otero Nieves weren’t sentenced to federal prison this month because they stole cars. Plenty of people steal cars and end up in county court, not federal court. Criss and Otero Nieves got 54 and 84 months, respectively, because after stealing those cars, they drove them across a state line. That single…
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GM Built 250,000 EVs That Could Power the Grid. The Hard Part Was Never the Technology
Somewhere in Michigan and Northern California, a handful of GM electric vehicles are already sending electricity backward, out of the battery and into the grid. That is not really the news this week. The news is that GM has built more than 250,000 vehicles capable of doing exactly that, and almost none of them ever…
