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Win Two All-American Corvettes—and Get 5X Entries With Our Link
One winner. Two wildly different Corvettes. A garage lift. And $76,000 toward the federal prize taxes. The latest Corvette Dream Giveaway is the kind of prize package that can make any American-car fan stop scrolling—and The Auto Wire readers can use our link to unlock 5X entries at eligible donation levels. We would love nothing…
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Europe Wants Satellites To Choke Your Throttle By 2030 — Its Own Safety Lab Says The Tech Still Can’t Read A Sign
Nobody at the European Commission is going to volunteer this part, so here it is: the same regulatory push to let satellites cut your engine power when you speed just ran headlong into real-world test data showing the underlying tech isn’t accurate enough for that job yet. That’s not speculation. That’s a finding from the…
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Hyundai Just Turned On a Georgia Battery Plant. The One Down the Coast Is Still Recovering From an ICE Raid
Bartow County, Georgia doesn’t get much attention, and for a few weeks this summer that was exactly the point. A joint venture between Hyundai and SK On quietly pushed its battery plant into full production, loaded cells onto trucks, and started shipping them off to build electric Hyundais, Kias, and Genesis models. No ribbon-cutting fanfare,…
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Ford Already ‘Fixed’ the Explorer’s Flying Roof Rails Once. Guess How That Turned Out.
Ford is recalling more than 288,000 Explorer SUVs because the covers over the roof rails can loosen and separate from the vehicle at speed. If that sentence gives you deja vu, your memory isn’t broken. Ford ran almost this exact recall in 2021, told federal regulators and owners it was handled, and moved on. Now…
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People Keep Destroying Flock Cameras Across America. The Paperwork Already Saw It Coming.
Somewhere in Ashland, Ohio, a city employee is filling out a purchase order this week for a new camera pole, a new solar panel, and probably a new wiring harness. That paperwork has become awfully familiar in a growing list of towns, from Georgia to Idaho, where someone with bolt cutters, a hacksaw, or a…
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Cadillac’s Brand-New CT5 Just Failed Crash Testing, and Whoever’s in the Back Seat Should Know Why
Cadillac’s newest CT5 just posted “Poor” ratings in two of the toughest crash tests the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety runs. Assume that means the car is simply built badly, and you’d be missing the actual story. Look at where the injuries landed instead. In the frontal test, the driver dummy came through clean: good…
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Hyundai, Kia, and GM Korea Are Barreling Toward a Strike Over Jobs the Robots Haven’t Even Taken Yet
Every summer, Hyundai and Kia’s unions sit down with management, argue about bonuses, and usually sign something before the leaves change. This year, the talks are stalling over a question the assembly line has never had to negotiate before: whether a robot gets to stand where a person used to. Garage-worthy EDC gear, on sale…
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Tracking the Flock: A Running Record of Reported License Plate Camera Misuse
Flock Safety’s automated license plate readers are now installed in thousands of U.S. towns, marketed to police departments, homeowners associations, and school districts as a low-cost way to solve crimes and find missing people. But the same feature that makes the system powerful — a searchable, cross-jurisdictional record of where a car has been —…
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Garage Deals: Nowell Leather’s Hand-Stitched EDC Gear Belongs in Every Gearhead’s Glovebox
Garage Deals is our recurring roundup of gear worth your attention. This post is done in partnership with Nowell Leather. A well-built car and a well-built wallet have more in common than you’d think. Both start with good raw material, both reward patience in the build, and both only get better with miles and years…
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Hyundai Now Owns All of Boston Dynamics, and the Robots Still Can’t Build a Car
Read Hyundai’s official statement on its new, complete ownership of Boston Dynamics closely enough, and something odd turns up near the bottom: a two-line glossary. The company felt the need to explain, for the benefit of reporters, what a “put option” is and what a “call option” is. That’s not the kind of detail a…
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Lucid Says Bankruptcy Rumors Are ‘Completely False.’ The Real Twist Is Who’s Actually Paying Its Bills
Last Tuesday, Lucid Group’s stock did something great companies aren’t supposed to do: it lost more than half its value before lunch. Shares fell as much as 57% intraday, the worst single-day drop in the company’s history as a public company, and trading was halted multiple times just to let the panic catch its breath.…
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Hyundai’s Cameras Are Seeing Ghosts, and the Recall Just Went Global
Somewhere in Ninh Binh province, Vietnam, a technician is plugging a laptop into a Hyundai Tucson and telling its front camera to stop being so jumpy. Thousands of miles away, in Fountain Valley, California, a very similar instruction is being mailed out to owners this week. Same defect. Same fix. Two different regulators, two different…
