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The Motorcycle Industry Just Found a $3.3 Billion Business That Isn’t Selling Motorcycles
The motorcycle you buy in a few years may have less to tell you about horsepower and more to tell your insurer, your dealer, and the manufacturer’s server farm. That’s the real story tucked inside a new market forecast that, on its face, is just a growth number. According to a new report from MarketsandMarkets,…
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Volvo Crammed an EV-Sized Battery Into the XC60 Plug-In Hybrid — Brussels Did the Math First
Volvo says its new long-range XC60 and XC90 plug-in hybrids are about electric range. The European Commission’s rewritten utility factors say they are about something else entirely.
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Watch: A GT-R Ran From a Georgia Trooper at 170 MPH. Federal Tire Rules Stop Testing at 99.
The Georgia State Patrol dashcam clip going around again this week is short, dark and entirely familiar: a cruiser, an interstate at night, and a Nissan GT-R at 170 mph that simply stops being there. We covered the footage when it first surfaced, when the number attached to it was 175. The version making the…
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Toyota Found a Power-Loss Bug in 21,000 EVs by Accident — While Testing a Totally Different Car
Toyota did not catch the defect behind its newest electric vehicle recall because an owner complained. It found it because engineers testing an unrelated plug-in hybrid noticed something strange in the data, then spent the better part of a year deciding whether it mattered to cars already on the road. On June 18, 2026, Toyota…
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Europe Just Made Every New Car Watch Your Eyes. America Gets the Camera, Not the Rules.
Since 7 July 2026, every new car registered in the EU must carry a driver monitoring camera — and the data rules that come with it. The hardware is crossing the Atlantic. The rulebook is staying home.
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America Is Making More Diesel Than It Has Since 2019. It Still Costs a Record $6.29.
The most useful number inside this week’s record diesel prices is not $6.29. It is $1.97 — the gap between a gallon of on-highway diesel and a gallon of regular gasoline. Sit with that one, because it is the whole story. Diesel holds roughly 14% more energy per gallon than gasoline — 137,381 Btu against…
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A Federal Court Just Decided Kia and Hyundai Can’t Hide Behind Seoul Anymore
A 9th Circuit ruling clears the way for insurers to sue Kia and Hyundai’s Korean parent companies directly over $1 billion in theft claims — and a new UCLA study explains why the theft wave isn’t going away anytime soon.
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Michigan Tested Every Cop Car Sold in America. None of Them Can Catch a Base Corvette.
Michigan State Police publish the performance numbers for every police pursuit vehicle sold in America. The 2026 results contain no sedans, a 148 mph ceiling, and a quiet admission about why the helicopter now ends the chase.
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GM’s Newest Software Just Launched in a V8 Pickup, Not a Cadillac. Follow the Volume.
General Motors introduced a new cabin interface today, and the spec sheet is the least interesting thing about it. The GM new user interface does not debut in a Cadillac. It does not debut in an EV. It debuts in the 2027 Chevrolet Silverado and the 2027 GMC Sierra: gas and diesel pickups, one of…
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Glendale’s Preteen Car Thieves Didn’t Beat Kia’s Security. They Beat Washington’s.
In September 2005, Canada’s federal transport ministry pointed to a grim statistic — stolen-vehicle crashes were killing an average of 27 people a year, with youth offenders behind an outsized share of them — and did something the United States still hasn’t done two decades later: it made engine immobilizers mandatory on every new car…
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The WRC Is Scouting America — But Rally Has a Spectator Problem
Formula 1 proved that motorsport can break into the American mainstream. Rally may be next, but only if fans can actually follow it.
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Geely Built Its First American Car in a Factory It Didn’t Have to Build
Geely just built its first car in the Western Hemisphere, and it didn’t spend a dollar breaking ground on a new factory to do it. The Geely EX5 EM-i, a plug-in hybrid SUV, has started rolling off the line at the Ayrton Senna Industrial Complex in São José dos Pinhais, Brazil — a plant Renault…
