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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…
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Detroit’s EV Cowardice: Automakers Don’t Believe In Electric Cars, They Believe In Whoever’s In The White House
Let’s cut through the press-release language. The American auto industry did not “transition” to electric vehicles because it fell in love with electrons. It got dragged there by regulators, bribed there with tax credits, and the second both of those crutches got kicked out from under it, it sprinted back to V8s so fast it…
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BMW’s Next Big EV Is Being Built in a ‘Free Trade’ Country That’s Still Taxed Worse Than Germany
BMW just confirmed that its next electric sedan and crossover will come off the line in San Luis Potosí, Mexico, starting in 2027, backed by a new battery hall built specifically for them. Read as a press release, that’s a groundbreaking story. Read as an industry story, it’s closer to an admission: a factory built…
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Ford Recalled Every Bronco Built Since 2021 Over Fire Risk — But It Only Suspects 1 in 100 Is Actually Broken
Ford is recalling 565,691 Broncos and Bronco Raptors this week over a wiring defect that can start an engine fire. Read that number twice, because it spans 2021 through 2026 model years. That isn’t a slice of Bronco production. That’s the entire Bronco production run since the nameplate came back from the dead. Buried a…
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2026 Dodge Durango R/T 392: What the Six-Hour Sellout Really Tells Buyers
Dodge Sold Out the 392 Durango Before Lunch. The Interesting Part Is Why. Dodge says the dealer order books for the 2026 Durango R/T 392 Launch Edition emptied in six hours. That’s the number the brand led with when it celebrated production at Detroit Assembly Complex–Jefferson on July 21. What Dodge conspicuously didn’t say is…
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Your Headlights Aren’t Illegal. They’re Just Legally Blinding You.
Somewhere on a two-lane road tonight, a lifted pickup or a three-row SUV is going to fill your mirrors with enough light to make your eyes water. You’ll flip the rearview to night mode, squint anyway, and mutter something about whoever engineered that thing. Here’s the part that should actually bother you: nothing about those…
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Alabama Wants Credit for $15.6 Billion in Car Plants. Congress Might Ban One of Them Anyway
Alabama spent this week celebrating a number: $15.6 billion. That’s the total two auto industry trade groups say international automakers have invested in the state since Mercedes-Benz opened its first U.S. plant near Tuscaloosa in 1997. It’s a genuinely impressive figure, and Alabama has earned the right to brag about it. It’s also, as of…
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Canada’s Chinese EV Quota Is 38% Full — And Tesla Took Most of It
Canada’s Chinese EV Quota Is Filling Up — Mostly With an American Car Ottawa’s quota for Chinese-built electric vehicles has passed a milestone nobody in Ottawa was aiming for. Global Affairs Canada’s utilization report now shows 9,235 vehicles cleared into the country under the 24,500-unit first window that runs March 1 to August 31 —…
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Volkswagen’s China Profit Machine Just Collapsed. Nobody Told the Balance Sheet.
Volkswagen wants you to look at one number from its half-year presentation: automotive net cash flow swung from a €1.4 billion outflow to a €3.2 billion inflow, a €4.5 billion turnaround in twelve months. It’s the kind of chart a CFO puts on slide one, in bright green, with an arrow pointing up. Buried much…
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Tesla FSD Probe: NHTSA Demands Internal “Radar Saves Us” File
NHTSA Goes Looking For The Radar Tesla Threw Away There’s a genre of internal engineering document that no company ever wants a federal investigator to see, and it’s the one with a blunt title. Somewhere inside Tesla is a file called “Radar Saves Us.” The Office of Defects Investigation knows it exists because Tesla handed…
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He Allegedly Stole and Torched a Chevy Suburban. His Loyalty Card Turned Him In First.
Phoenix police say a 31-year-old man stole a Chevrolet Suburban from behind a Safeway, drove it across town, and set it on fire in a quiet north Phoenix neighborhood. On its own, that’s a Tuesday-night crime blotter item. Stolen SUVs get torched in this country more often than most owners realize. What actually makes this…
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Pep Boys Sold to Mavis for $700M — But Icahn Kept the Real Estate
Icahn Kept the Dirt and Sold the Garages: Inside the $700 Million Pep Boys Handoff Carl Icahn is out of the repair-shop business, and the way he got out is more interesting than the price tag. Icahn Enterprises and Mavis Tire Express Services announced Tuesday that a Mavis subsidiary will buy Pep Boys from Icahn…
