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He Went Hunting For His Friend’s Stolen Silverado, Then Cops Turned It Into A Trap
A stolen truck usually stays stolen. That is what makes this one out of Santa Fe, New Mexico worth your time. A man refused to write off his friend’s missing Chevy Silverado. He went looking for the truck himself. His hunch kicked off a stolen Silverado police chase that dragged in three separate agencies. The…
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California Redesigned Its License Plates. The Math Didn’t Change At All.
California is switching to a three-numbers-three-letters-one-number plate sequence. The math is identical to the old format, which tells you the real problem was never capacity.
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Toyota’s Hydrogen Hilux Finally Shows Up In 2028, Six Years After It Started Testing
Toyota just confirmed that a hydrogen fuel cell version of its new Hilux pickup will reach customers in 2028. Read only the headline, and it sounds like routine automaker futurism: a nice round year, a truck climbing a gravel quarry in the press photo, a line about “the future of mobility.” The real story isn’t…
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Somebody Took Apart A Flock Camera And Found 1.6 Million Photos, Including One Of A Flag Patch
A hacked Flock camera’s own logs show 28 photos per passing car and 50,200 vehicles in 21 days. The plate was never the valuable part of the record.
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Volkswagen Is Europe’s Biggest Company By Revenue Now. That’s Not The Same As Winning.
Volkswagen just became the largest company in Europe, measured by revenue. It’s also in the middle of cutting 100,000 jobs, the biggest workforce reduction in automotive history. Both of those things are true at the same time, and neither one is the exception to the other. Fortune’s 2026 Fortune 500 Europe list, published Wednesday, ranks…
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Your Paid-Off Car Can Still Be Seized Over a Debt That Has Nothing to Do With Cars
Massachusetts just permanently banned a debt collector accused of taking people’s cars to squeeze payment on debts that had nothing to do with those cars. The bigger lesson is what happens to your vehicle’s legal status the day you make the final payment.
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Nobody Can Build A Refinery In 90 Days, So The Feds Just Let Fuel Truckers Drive 16-Hour Shifts
FMCSA just handed gasoline and diesel haulers a 90-day pass to run 16-hour days. The ceiling isn’t new, the justification is, and a clean safety rating suddenly has a dollar value.
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The Feds Quietly Closed Their Honda Ridgeline Backup Camera Case Without Ordering A Single Repair
Federal regulators just closed the book on the Honda Ridgeline backup camera problem, and the paperwork matters more than it sounds. On Tuesday, September 22, 2026, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration ended its engineering analysis into rear-view camera failures on 129,092 Ridgeline pickups that Honda had already recalled back in 2022, and it closed…
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Detroit’s Chinese-Assembly Ban Push, 4,100 More Porsche Cuts, and What Else Moved
Four separate alerts landed on the same argument today, which usually means a policy fight has stopped being theoretical. The rest of the wire was job cuts, recalls that all require a service bay, and one settlement large enough to rewrite how subprime lenders paper a car loan. This is our automotive news roundup for…
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Nissan Says The Rogue Hybrid Starts At $37,065. Good Luck Finding One That Cheap.
Nissan put numbers on the 2027 Rogue Hybrid this week, and the one it wants shoppers to remember is $37,065. That Nissan Rogue Hybrid price buys an SV all-wheel-drive with the $1,575 destination charge included, and it drops the company’s first American e-Power model straight into the middle of the compact crossover market. The number…
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A Stolen Mercedes Hit 100 MPH With a Passenger Inside — the Fuel Gauge Was the Only Anti-Theft Tech That Worked
A black Mercedes was taken outside a Portland bar with a woman still in it and ran past 100 mph until the tank went dry. The car’s own security tech never entered the chase — and the reasons are procedural, regulatory and physical, not technical.
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Today in Automotive History: September 22, 1985 – The Plaza Accord That Moved Japan’s Car Plants to America
On September 22, 1985, five finance ministers walked into New York’s Plaza Hotel and agreed to make the U.S. dollar cheaper. No car launched that day. No safety rule changed. Even so, the Plaza Accord reshaped what Americans drive, and where those cars get built, more thoroughly than any product decision of the decade. Within…
