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Honda CR-Vs Are Getting Gutted in 20 Minutes Flat, and the Real Culprit Is Bolted Under the Dash
This isn’t really a story about stolen Honda CR-Vs. It’s a story about a thirty-year-old emissions regulation that accidentally became a master key. Action News Philadelphia has been tracking the wave for weeks. Police say thieves are working in small caravans, hitting parked CR-Vs at night, and vanishing before an owner even hears the glass…
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A Tesla Driver Blamed a Blackout for a Fatal Crash. His Car Was Still Taking Notes.
Every state in the country lets people with seizure disorders keep driving. That is not an oversight. It is policy. And it is the detail nobody is examining after a Tesla plowed through three cars near Orland Square Mall in Orland Park, Illinois, last month, killing a 66-year-old bystander named Antoni Luczynski. According to an…
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EPA’s 2027 Diesel Rewrite Cuts Truck Prices and Shifts Repair Costs to Owners
Buried on page 17 of EPA’s new heavy-duty proposal is a table that tells the whole story better than any press release. Under the agency’s own accounting, the rule change saves truck buyers $37 billion in warranty costs — and hands them back $25 billion in higher operating costs. Net savings: $12 billion. That $12…
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Florida Motorcyclist Fled Troopers Twice, Then His Own Bike Ratted Him Out By Catching Fire
The most important decision in this story doesn’t belong to the guy on the motorcycle. It belongs to the trooper who chose not to chase him. Early Sunday morning on Interstate 75 near Bradenton, a Florida Highway Patrol trooper rolled up on a crash involving two motorcycles. One rider was hurt. The other, 20-year-old Jason…
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How a Charlotte Crew Stole 100 Luxury Cars Using Nothing but Key Fobs
Five people are now serving federal time for a car theft operation that ran from 2021 to 2023 and hit dealership lots in fifteen states, and the thing worth sitting with is how little technology was involved. Nobody cracked an immobilizer. Nobody built a CAN injection tool. They walked in the front door, shook hands,…
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Tesla Said FSD Can Handle Whiteouts. Now Federal Regulators Want Receipts.
NHTSA didn’t ask Tesla to fix a sensor this month. It didn’t ask for a recall, a software patch, or a single physical change to any vehicle. It asked Tesla to defend its own FSD marketing, line by line. That’s a different kind of federal letter than automakers are used to getting, and it says…
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Jimmie Johnson’s Brother Took $140,000 for a Chevelle Restoration. Five Years Later, There’s Still No Car.
A famous surname isn’t a business license. It isn’t a bond, an escrow account, or a receipt for the parts you paid for but never got. In the classic car restoration world, though, a well-known name can function as all three – right up until it doesn’t. That’s the real subject of a lawsuit filed…
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Mercedes Dealer Loses $20,270 Over Tech’s “Extended Test Drive” to a Bar
A Shelby County judge has attached a dollar figure to one of the more creative defenses in recent memory: that a five-hour bar crawl in a customer’s Mercedes was an “extended test drive.” Judge Lynn Cobb of Shelby County General Sessions Court ruled this week that Mercedes-Benz of Collierville and service technician Derrick Nguyen owe…
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Fort Wayne Deficiency Suit Exposes the Cosigner Trap Every Car Buyer Should Know
A 91-year-old Fort Wayne man is on the wrong end of a deficiency lawsuit over a car he says he never meant to buy, and the paperwork at the center of the fight is a credit application with an income figure his lawyer says was invented at the dealership. Mercedes-Benz Financial Services USA LLC filed…
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Rev Racing Turned Kids Into NASCAR Champions. It Still Can’t Pay for Their Training Wheels.
NASCAR’s most productive driver factory can turn an anonymous teenager into a Cup Series champion inside a decade. Getting that same factory to pay an invoice on time, apparently, is the harder trick. Kannapolis-based AK Performance, Inc. filed a verified complaint against Rev Racing LLC on June 25 in Cabarrus County Superior Court, case number…
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GM Names Former Nissan Marketing Executive Allyson Witherspoon CMO Of Buick And GMC
General Motors has named Allyson Witherspoon as chief marketing officer for Buick and GMC, filling a leadership position that has been vacant since Suzanne Guzzo departed the automaker earlier this year. Witherspoon confirmed the move in a LinkedIn post following initial reporting by Ad Age. “I’m thrilled to share that I will be joining General…
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Two VW Engineers Made $300K Insider Trading Rivian Stock. Their Google Searches Are the Real Story.
Two Volkswagen engineers didn’t get caught because federal investigators are brilliant at reading corporate calendars. They got caught, in part, because one of them searched for the statute of limitations on insider trading eight days before the rest of the world found out what he already knew. That detail, buried in an indictment unsealed Friday…
