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A Kia Dealer Got Caught Cannibalizing One Customer’s SUV to Fix Someone Else’s. Firing the Manager Doesn’t Fix What’s Actually Broken
The Lake Charles, Louisiana woman dropped her Kia SUV off at Kia of Lake Charles on June 17 for a blown tire. It sat there for more than a month with almost no communication from the service department. When she finally drove over to check on it in person, she found the hood propped open…
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GM’s Next Camaro Reportedly Gets Four Doors and a Manual. It’s Secretly Been a Cadillac This Whole Time
Chevrolet fans are melting down over a rumor that the next Camaro might show up with four doors and a manual gearbox. They are arguing about the wrong thing. The transmission and the extra doors are not the real story here. What is underneath them has been hiding in plain sight since 2015. According to…
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Cadillac Teases a Motorsport-Derived Reveal for Monterey — Here’s What It Can Legally Be
Cadillac spent the weekend winning a six-hour endurance race and then spent Monday posting a moody black-and-white teaser. The two things are related, and the brand isn’t being subtle about it. The company says it’s heading to The Quail on August 14 with, in its own words, “a showcase of what happens when track-proven engineering…
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Cadillac’s 2028 Eyes-Off System: The Hardware, Repair Costs, and Legal Gray Zone
Those camera-encrusted Escalades and Yukons you’ve been passing on the interstate are not one thing. They’re two, and the difference matters more than the roof racks suggest. General Motors confirmed in March that it had begun supervised testing of its next-generation automated system on limited-access highways in California and Michigan, with more than 200 manual…
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DoorDash Will Deliver Your Car Battery in Under an Hour — And AutoZone Wasn’t Invited
Somewhere in a strip-mall parts store that isn’t an AutoZone, isn’t an O’Reilly, and isn’t an Advance Auto, a Dasher is about to load a car battery into the trunk of a Honda Civic. That sentence sounds like a punchline. It’s actually the most interesting part of DoorDash’s new auto parts business, and almost nobody…
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Rivian Kills Alexa: What R1 Owners Lose and What Connect+ Really Costs
Rivian owners who spent the last four years yelling “Alexa” at their dashboards got a firm answer on August 4: don’t bother. Amazon’s assistant has been switched off across the R1 fleet, and the only voice control left with any real capability now sits behind a paywall. The replacement is Rivian Assistant, and it’s a…
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ZT Automotive Buys Charlotte McLaren and Rolls-Royce Stores: What Owners Need to Know
Houston’s ZT Automotive just did something most dealer groups spend a decade angling for: it bought its way into the ultra-luxury franchise club in a single stroke. The Badar Family Office, which owns the Houston-based group, announced on July 21 that it had acquired McLaren Charlotte and Rolls-Royce Motor Cars Charlotte, folding both into a…
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Rivian’s R2 Launch Quarter Looks Great Until You Read The Segments
Rivian’s second quarter looks like a turning point if you read the top line and a warning if you read the middle. The top line is genuinely good. Revenue of $1.658 billion, up 27 percent. Consolidated gross profit of $179 million against a $206 million gross loss in the same quarter a year earlier —…
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Tesla Takes Its Self-Driving Patent Fight To The Supreme Court
Somewhere in a filing cabinet at IBM in August 2015, five researchers wrote down an idea: put a number on how well the car’s computer is driving, put a number on how well the human is driving, compare the two, and hand the wheel to whichever one is winning. That idea is now three U.S.…
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Ford Killed 10% of Its Own Sales Last Month, and Called It a Good Month, Actually
Ford Motor Company sold 169,951 vehicles in the United States last month. That’s roughly 19,000 fewer than a year earlier — a 10.2% year-over-year drop the automaker announced without a hint of embarrassment. Executives went further. They called it a good month. They meant it, and the numbers back them up in a way that…
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Double Your Entries Before August 9th: Win This 1967 Corvette Convertible Plus $10,000 Cash
A stunning 1967 Chevrolet Corvette Convertible could be sitting in your driveway, and right now you can double your entries for a chance to win it. This Rally Red convertible comes loaded with a 327 V8 and a four-speed manual, plus it has already claimed back-to-back NCRS Top Flight Award wins in 2023 and 2024.…
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JLR Cuts 300 Office Jobs As Breakeven Math Turns Brutal
Three hundred jobs out of roughly 30,000 is a rounding error. What matters is which 300. JLR has opened what it calls a limited redeployment and displacement programme, aimed at salaried and management staff across its West Midlands offices. Production line workers aren’t in scope. A company spokesperson said impacted colleagues would be “supported to…
