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Five Officers Got Caught Misusing Flock Cameras in Georgia. The Real Story Is How Rare That Is.
Somewhere in Albany, Georgia, a license plate reader’s own paperwork just did something eighteen other police departments couldn’t manage: it caught an officer misusing the system before a victim had to. On July 6, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation announced the arrests of five former Albany Police Department officers, Tytianna Davis, Jade Jackson, Nicholas Richardson,…
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Porsche Just Killed Its Battery Factory, Its E-Bike Brand, and a Chunk of Bugatti. The Sales Numbers Are the Boring Part.
Porsche delivered 122,306 cars worldwide in the first half of 2026, a 16 percent drop from the same period last year. China fell 32 percent. North America fell 13 percent. Those numbers are real, and they’re the reason this week’s headlines are calling it a crisis. But the delivery count isn’t the story. The story…
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What to Know for Your Morning: A Supreme Court Bombshell, Polestar’s Fire Sale, and NHTSA’s Worst Week Yet
Grab your coffee and get caught up. Four stories from the last few days are worth knowing before you start your morning: a Supreme Court ruling that just complicated the legal defense of license-plate camera networks, Polestar getting shown the door by the federal government, the truth about how often your car actually needs an…
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Georgia Made Odometer Fraud a Felony. The Bill That Did It Started Out Being About Veterans’ License Plates
A Gwinnett County car broker is accused of rolling back odometers on vehicles he resold to unsuspecting buyers. When a detective finally caught up with him, the charge on the warrant was a misdemeanor. Until a few weeks ago, lying about how far a car had driven carried roughly the same legal weight in Georgia…
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Ford Recalls 110,000 Mustangs and Mach-Es Over Wipers and a Cracked Axle. The Real Problem Is Ford’s Rollaway Year
Ford filed two new recalls with federal safety regulators this week covering 110,626 Mustangs, and on paper they read like an odd couple: a wiper motor that gets stuck on high speed in cold weather, and a rear axle shaft on the electric Mustang Mach-E that can crack in half. Different cars, different parts, different…
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Rolls-Royce Just Expanded a Factory in Minnesota. It’s Not the Rolls-Royce You’re Picturing, and the Mix-Up Is the Real Story.
Skim the headline and you’ll picture Goodwood: a clean room in the English countryside where craftsmen hand-stitch leather into a Phantom. That is not what opened this week in Mankato, Minnesota, a city of roughly 44,000 people ninety minutes south of Minneapolis. There isn’t a single car anywhere in this story. Rolls-Royce officially opened a…
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China’s EV Industry Just Culled 27 of Its Own Brands. The 3 Survivors Are Coming for Your Dealership.
Everyone is reading China’s EV market numbers as a story about slowing demand. It isn’t. It’s a story about a cull that has already picked its winners, and the brands still standing are about to export the exact strategy that let them win, straight to dealerships in markets that have never seen a Chinese badge…
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GM Just Spent $275 Million to Put a Gas Engine Back Into Its Cadillac EV Plant
Spring Hill, Tennessee, doesn’t get much attention outside of GM’s investor calls, but for the past several years it’s been ground zero for one of the more expensive bets in the modern auto industry: Cadillac’s push to become an electric-first brand. LYRIQ. LYRIQ-V. VISTIQ. A $2.3 billion battery joint venture with LG Energy Solution. This…
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Gas Is Creeping Back Toward $4 a Gallon Because of Iran, and Cancelling Netflix Won’t Fix What’s Actually Broken
President Trump said on July 8 that the ceasefire with Iran is over, and warned that more strikes could follow. Within hours, AAA’s national average ticked to $3.796 a gallon, and GasBuddy’s head of petroleum analysis was already warning the number could push toward $4 in the days ahead. Right on schedule, the personal finance…
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ENDS NOW: The Auto Wire Readers Get More Entries to Win Two of the Rarest Mopars Ever Built
Some giveaways offer a nice classic car. Others offer a modern performance machine. This one gives you both. But not just any two Mopars. The Dream Giveaway Mopar Dream Machines Sweepstakes is offering one winner the chance to own a 1-of-1 1970 Plymouth Cuda 340 Convertible and an incredibly rare 2023 Dodge Challenger SRT Demon…
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Honda’s Odyssey Backup Camera Keeps Losing to Water — and the Fix Is Another Camera
If you own a late-2010s Odyssey and feel like you’ve read this recall notice before, your memory is fine. Honda is calling back 325,588 minivans from the 2018 through 2020 model years because water can work its way into the rearview camera, corrode the electronics, and leave you staring at a black screen the moment…
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Kia ‘Fixed’ the Telluride’s Fire-Prone Seats in 2024. Now It’s Recalling the Fix.
Kia just told the owners of nearly half a million Tellurides to park outside, away from their homes and other vehicles, because the front seats might catch fire. Park-outside recalls aren’t shocking anymore. What’s easy to miss in Kia’s announcement is this: these are the same 462,869 vehicles the company already recalled for this exact…
