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The US Banned Chinese Connected-Car Tech. The Company Racing to Replace It Started With a Chinese License
Forget the model years for a second. The number that actually matters in America’s ban on Chinese connected-car technology isn’t 2027 or 2030. It’s 1,000. Garage Deals: Nowell Leather’s Hand-Stitched EDC Gear Belongs in Every Gearhead’s Glovebox That’s how many employees a small Ohio electronics maker called Eagle Wireless expects to have within three years,…
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The Grappler Was Built To End Deadly Police Chases. Almost Nobody Actually Has One
Somewhere in Mesa, Arizona, in June of 2023, a fleeing driver who had just struck a pedestrian at an intersection takeover got run down not by a spike strip, not by a PIT maneuver, but by a net. An Arizona Department of Public Safety sergeant fired a device called the Grappler Police Bumper, wrapped the…
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Carvana Didn’t Beat the Franchise Dealers. It Just Became One — And Stellantis Is Footing the Bill
A Chrysler Dodge Jeep Ram store in Casa Grande, Arizona used to sell thirty to fifty new vehicles a month. That’s a normal number for a rural CDJR store. Last May, it sold more than seven hundred. The cars didn’t change. The brand didn’t change. The zip code didn’t change. What changed is who signs…
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The 10 Most Insanely Expensive Headlights on Sale Today (One Pair Costs More Than a New Porsche)
Car people love to talk about horsepower and 0-60 times. But nobody warns you about the parts bill lurking in the shadows — literally. Some of the world’s most exclusive cars are hiding headlight assemblies so absurdly engineered, so drenched in jewels and lasers and hand-fitted glass, that a single fender-bender can cost more than…
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Mazda and Hyundai Just Turned China Into Their EV Shortcut
Singapore is about to get two electric cars that make the old phrase “Chinese car” nearly useless. One wears a Hyundai badge. The other says Mazda. Both are built in China, but the more revealing detail is not where workers tighten the bolts. It is where the engineering decisions were made. Garage Deals: Nowell Leather’s…
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Vietnam’s Auto Boom Looks Bigger On Paper Than In The Parts Bin
There is a version of the Vietnam story where global automakers are stampeding into Southeast Asia’s next great manufacturing base, and it’s mostly true. There’s a second version buried inside the automakers’ own year-end reports, and it’s the more useful one for anyone trying to figure out what “made in Vietnam” is actually going to…
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Mexico’s 50% Tariff Isn’t Stopping Chinese Cars — But It Is Quietly Killing Some Of Them
Mexico’s 50% tariff wall went up on January 1. Six months later, Chinese brands are selling more cars than ever. Both of those things are true, and the gap between them is where the actual story lives. Start with the legal instrument, because most people arguing about this haven’t read it. On December 29, 2025,…
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Congress’s New Bill Would Ban Every Chinese-Made Car in America — Including the One Waymo Swears Isn’t Spying On You
Somewhere in Waymo’s Arizona manufacturing facility, a new robotaxi called the Ojai is getting fitted out for San Francisco streets. Strip away the sensors and the badge, and it’s a Zeekr minivan underneath, built on a platform from Geely, the Chinese industrial group that also owns Volvo. Waymo says that pedigree doesn’t matter, because the…
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The Kill Switch Already in Millions of Financed Cars
Ask any repo agent how the job used to work, and you’ll hear the same story: a truck, a slim jim, a 2 a.m. tow, and a homeowner yelling from a window. That version of repossession is already fading in one fast-growing pocket of the auto market. Increasingly, the repo doesn’t need a truck at…
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Your Dealer’s ‘Anti-Theft’ Upsell Turned Out to Be a Skeleton Key for 2.2 Million Cars
Somewhere in Southern California, a Honda, Toyota, Mazda, Ford, or Jeep dealership sold you a box bolted under your dashboard and called it protection. It came with a sticker for your window, a smartphone app, and a straight-faced pitch about stopping thieves. Nobody in that finance office mentioned that the box uses the exact same…
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Trump’s Auto Tariffs Flopped in Canada — So Washington Is Taxing Their Wine, Cheese, and Hockey Sticks Instead
Somewhere in a Hyundai dealership in Mississauga, someone is having a very good eighteen months. The tariff Washington built to force more American-made cars onto Canadian lots did the opposite. It handed a slice of Canada’s new-car market to automakers who never got hit with a single tariff, and now the White House is trying…
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NamX HUV Hydrogen SUV: What Its Own Spec Sheet Actually Says
There’s a number bouncing around about the NamX HUV: 932 miles of range, five seconds to refuel. It’s a great number. It’s also not one the company has ever published. Go to NamX’s own pre-order page and the figure sitting next to both trim levels is 800 kilometers — 497 miles. Not 1,500 km. The…
