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How a Colorado Panhandling Call Unraveled a Stolen Sports Car and Drug Case
What started as a routine disturbance call at a small-town grocery store spiraled into something that reads more like a crime thriller than a typical police report. In Craig, Colorado, deputies responding to a complaint about a woman asking customers for money uncovered a suspected cross-country crime spree involving a stolen luxury sports car, drugs,…
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Stellantis Wants 25% More Sales From Dealers After Seven Years of Losses
Stellantis just made one thing crystal clear to its U.S. dealers: the excuses are over. After years of declining market share and sluggish performance across its key brands, the automaker is demanding a 25% sales increase in a single year, a target that reads less like a strategy and more like an ultimatum. That demand…
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Porsche’s Profit Crash Is Forcing Layoffs and an EV Strategy U-Turn
Porsche is working through one of the most dramatic financial reversals in its modern history, and the fallout is already reaching its workforce, its product strategy, and its long-term identity. The iconic German automaker saw profits collapse by more than 90% in 2025, a hit severe enough to trigger fresh job cuts and force a…
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Musk and a Cybertruck Owner Are Fighting Over Crash Data in a $1M Lawsuit
A Tesla Cybertruck owner from Houston, Texas is suing the automaker for $1 million over what she describes as a near-fatal failure that put both her and her infant in immediate danger, and the case now hinges on a data dispute playing out partly in public. According to the lawsuit, the all-electric pickup was operating…
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An LA News Chopper Ditched a Police Chase to Report on Two Chickens
Los Angeles police chases are usually intense, chaotic, and nearly impossible to look away from. In one bizarre moment caught live from above, though, a news helicopter broadcast veered completely off course, and into something nobody expected. Instead of the high-speed pursuit that usually defines LA traffic coverage, a reporter got fixated on a pair…
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Auto Tariffs Have Cost Automakers $35 Billion, and Buyers Are Footing the Bill
If buying a new car already feels expensive, there’s a concrete reason, and it isn’t going away soon. U.S. auto tariffs introduced last year have already cost automakers more than $35 billion, and that fallout is landing squarely on drivers in the place it hurts most: the price tag. This isn’t an abstract trade policy…
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A Phone Call, Not a Hack, Exposed 12.4 Million CarGurus User Records
A massive data breach tied to automotive marketplace CarGurus has exposed roughly 12.4 million user records, and new details point to a targeted social engineering attack rather than a conventional system hack. The incident, which surfaced in February 2026, has been linked to the hacking group ShinyHunters, a name that keeps showing up in high-profile…
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10 Vehicles That Become a Financial Nightmare When Gas Prices Spike
Gas crises don’t just change how much you pay at the pump, they change which vehicles actually make sense to own. History bears this out repeatedly, from the oil shocks of the 1970s to more recent price spikes tied to global instability. When fuel gets scarce or expensive, certain vehicles go from desirable to genuinely…
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How 400 Stolen Vehicles Vanished From Detroit and Turned Up Overseas
What happened in Dearborn isn’t just another theft story, it’s a wake-up call for anyone who owns a vehicle. Authorities have dismantled a sprawling international operation responsible for stealing and exporting roughly 400 high-end vehicles worth more than $40 million, turning Metro Detroit into a pipeline for global auto crime. This wasn’t smash-and-grab theft. It…
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$5 Gas and a Federal Lawsuit Are Colliding Over California’s Car Rules
The fight over what Americans are allowed to drive just escalated again. The Trump administration has launched a direct legal challenge against California’s vehicle-emission rules, setting up a high-stakes clash that could ripple into gas prices and the future of the internal combustion engine alike. At the center of it is California’s long-running push to…
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How France’s Privatized Car Registration System Let a Million Cars Slip Through
France is dealing with a massive automotive scandal that could touch nearly one million vehicles, and the root cause traces back to a controversial decision to partially privatize the country’s vehicle registration system. A move meant to make registration faster and more efficient instead opened the door to large-scale fraud, letting fake companies register vehicles…
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Neo Gabrielsen, Fallon Frederick Charged After Diary Ties Them to Stolen Sports Car
A routine call about a panhandler outside a Colorado grocery store led to two arrests, a stolen sports car recovery, and a personal diary that investigators are calling one of the more unusual pieces of evidence they’ve come across. Here’s how the case against Neo Gabrielsen and Fallon Frederick, both 21, actually came together. It…
