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This Week’s Auto Industry Recap: Dealer Revolts, EV Strategy Shifts, and Safety Fights (March 2–7, 2026)
Automakers and their own dealer networks spent this week on opposite sides of the table, while the industry’s broader retreat from an all-electric future kept accelerating and safety disputes stayed firmly in the headlines. Below is a rundown of the stories that mattered most between March 2 and March 7 — from a nationwide dealer…
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Dozens of Break-Ins at Ford’s F-150 Plant Might Be Linked to a Second Heist 30 Miles Away
Police initially counted around 20 damaged vehicles in the parking lots outside Ford’s Kansas City Assembly Plant in Claycomo, Missouri. Employees who work there say the real number could be double that — as high as 40 to 50 — and investigators now believe the break-ins may be tied to a second theft operation happening…
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Gas Prices Jumped 9% in a Week — Here’s the Attack on Shipping That Triggered It
A 9 percent jump in a single week is the kind of move that gets noticed at the pump immediately, and this one traces back to attacks on vessels near one of the world’s most critical oil chokepoints. The Numbers at the Pump Gas prices across the United States have climbed to $3.25 per gallon…
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Gas Cans, a Stolen Ambulance, and a DHS Building: How Idaho Investigators Pieced Together an Alleged Arson Plot
Hours before a stolen ambulance was driven into a federal building in Meridian, Idaho, surveillance cameras at a nearby Walmart allegedly captured the woman accused of the crash buying the gasoline cans investigators say she later used in an attempt to set the building on fire. A Night Documented Almost Entirely on Camera Authorities say…
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VW’s Own Dealers Are Suing to Stop Scout From Selling Cars the Tesla Way
Volkswagen’s answer to Tesla-style direct sales is running straight into resistance from the one group it needs on its side: its own dealer network. Who Filed the Suit and Why It Covers Every VW Dealer Two East Coast dealerships — Sunrise Imports, which operates Volkswagen of West Islip in New York, and Curran Volkswagen in…
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Inside the 4-Year Scheme That Used a Virginia Dealership’s Name to Fake $2 Million in Car Loans
None of the cars ever existed in the dealership’s inventory. That didn’t stop banks from wiring the money anyway — and it took federal investigators tracking losses across two dozen financial institutions to unwind exactly how. A Dealership Used as Paper, Not a Sales Floor Adrian Knight, 41, of Virginia Beach, owned Ace Auto Sales…
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A Trooper PIT’d a Parent Rushing a Sick Child to the Hospital. Now Arkansas Is Reviewing What Went Wrong.
A state trooper trying to stop what looked like a fleeing vehicle on I-630 in Little Rock instead ended up disabling a car carrying a parent racing a child in medical crisis to the hospital. Charges against the driver have now been dropped, but the more consequential question — whether the trooper’s use of a…
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E-Bike Accidents Jumped 18.6x in Five Years. California’s Answer: License Plates.
184 incidents in 2018. 3,429 by 2023. That 18.6-fold jump in reported e-bike accidents, according to data from the American College of Surgeons, is the number driving California lawmakers toward a solution that sounds more like something you’d expect for a motorcycle than a bicycle. From Speed Limits to License Plates California already passed SB-1271…
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44 Handguns, 79 Magazines, One C8 Corvette: Inside a Failed Border Gun-Smuggling Attempt
A mid-engine Corvette built to hit nearly 200 mph on a track met its match at a border checkpoint that doesn’t care how fast a car can go. According to federal authorities, what agents found stashed inside wasn’t luggage — it was 44 handguns and 79 magazines. An Outbound Stop That Looked Routine — At…
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Beyond the Crash: The Legal Theory Behind This $1M Cybertruck Autopilot Lawsuit
A Texas woman’s Cybertruck lawsuit isn’t just a story about one crash on a Houston overpass — it’s built on a legal argument that Tesla’s entire approach to driver-assistance technology is fundamentally flawed, and it’s landing in a courtroom environment that’s grown considerably less friendly to Tesla’s marketing claims. What the Complaint Actually Argues According…
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Aston Martin’s Second Round of Layoffs This Year Is Betting Everything on One Car
Aston Martin is cutting 20% of its 3,000-person workforce — its second round of job cuts this year — after a £493 million loss in 2025 that’s forcing the British supercar maker to lean almost entirely on a single new model to turn things around. The Financial Picture Behind the Cuts The numbers explain the…
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A Chrysler 300 Outran Georgia State Patrol’s Mustangs for 7 Minutes. Here’s How.
A white Chrysler 300 that looked like nothing special turned a routine traffic stop into a seven-minute pursuit that ended with troopers losing the car entirely — Mustangs included. A Routine Stop That Went Sideways in Seconds Dashcam footage that recently surfaced through a records request shows a Georgia State Patrol trooper, identified as Trooper…
