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Polestar Just Stopped Fighting Its US Ban. Its 32 Dealers Didn’t Get A Vote
Polestar didn’t lose its fight to stay in America this week. It lost that fight back in June, when the Commerce Department decided the company’s cars were no longer welcome past the 2027 model year. What happened this week is quieter, and in some ways more revealing. Polestar confirmed it isn’t going to spend another…
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How Fake Bills of Sale Sank a $539K Mercedes and Corvette Export Deal in Tampa
Five cars, one paperwork problem: what CBP’s Tampa seizure actually tells you about the export gray market Nobody drives a 2025 G-Class onto a ship because they’ve fallen out of love with it. Vehicles that new, that expensive, and that in-demand leave the country for one of two reasons — a legitimate buyer overseas paid…
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Honda Odyssey Airbag Petition: NHTSA Eyes 807,000 Older Minivans
Honda’s minivan is having a rough year in the airbag department, and the newest chapter is the one worth paying attention to — because it reaches back into a generation of Odyssey that Honda has, so far, said nothing about. NHTSA’s Office of Defects Investigation has opened a defect petition covering roughly 807,000 model year…
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Why Waymo’s Robotaxis Died in the Presidio — And What California Might Do About It
Daniel Lurie spent his first year in office as one of the friendlier big-city mayors an autonomous vehicle company could ask for. He handed Waymo access to Market Street, a corridor closed to private cars since 2020, and framed driverless cars as part of downtown’s revitalization plan. Then came the Fourth of July, and the…
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This Lamborghini SVJ Roadster’s Bring a Trailer Auction Got Pulled Mid-Bid, and the Comments Section Deserves the Credit
A Lamborghini Aventador SVJ Roadster listed for sale on Bring a Trailer this week racked up nearly 10,000 views and more than 800 watchers before the auction simply disappeared. No winning bid. No reserve-not-met notice. Just a quiet “withdrawn” tag and a 45-comment thread that reads like an open case file. The car itself isn’t…
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Tesla FSD Red-Light Probe: What NHTSA’s 2.88 Million-Car File Actually Says
A dashcam clip out of San Diego has been doing laps around the internet this week: a white Model 3 sails into an intersection near the I-5 Genesee exit, catches a C7 Corvette on the driver’s-side rear quarter, and sends the Chevy through a 180 while a wheel departs the car entirely. The clip runs…
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Powder Coatings Just Became a $3.6 Billion Industry. Your Car’s Paint Job Still Wasn’t Invited
A market research firm sent out a press release this week forecasting that the global automotive powder coatings market will climb from $2.78 billion in 2026 to $3.59 billion by 2031. Read that number again. It sounds like a paint story. It isn’t. Garage Deals: Nowell Leather’s Hand-Stitched EDC Gear Belongs in Every Gearhead’s Glovebox…
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America’s Car-Mart Has Plenty Of Customers. It’s Running Out Of Money To Sell Them Cars
America’s Car-Mart still has customers. What it lacks is the short-term financing needed to buy their cars and make their loans—and the lender clock is already ticking.
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California Thinks a Wedding Ring Makes You a Safer Driver
A California driver can wake up with the same car, the same commute, the same clean record and the same number of miles on the odometer—and become a more expensive insurance customer because a marriage ended. That is the part of California’s latest auto-insurance ruling worth remembering. The court fight is dressed in the language…
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California’s New Insurance Bill Will Let Your Car Snitch on You — This Time With Paperwork
For twenty years, California has been the one state in the country where your auto insurer wasn’t legally allowed to care how you actually drive. Not the smooth highway merges. Not the death-grip braking in stop-and-go traffic. None of it. Garage-worthy EDC gear, on sale this week. That was never a technology problem. What AB…
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4Knines Camo Rear Seat Cover & Cargo Liner Review: A Golden Retriever’s Verdict After the Smoky Mountains
When you share your home with a six-month-old Golden Retriever who insists on joining every single outing, dog-proofing your vehicle stops being optional. Our puppy rides along everywhere: pool days, lake afternoons, creek adventures, and most recently a full week exploring the Great Smoky Mountains. Until recently, our Toyota 4Runner’s interior was taking the brunt…
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A West Virginia Man Now Faces Felony Charges for Destroying License Plate Cameras. The County May Not Even Own Them
A man in West Virginia is accused of ripping license plate reader cameras off their poles and destroying them. On its face, that’s a small, straightforward vandalism story. It isn’t. Deal Alert: Nowell Leather’s Hand-Stitched Wallets and EDC Gear Are Built Like a Well-Kept Ride Wesley N. Jackson isn’t just facing vandalism charges. He’s facing…
