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This Fatal McLaren Crash Isn’t Really About Speed. It’s About Who’s Buying Supercars Now.
Irvine police say speed was a factor in the fatal McLaren crash that killed James Wehr and Lexi Kramer. The bigger story is who’s buying supercars now — and why the old rules for getting behind 600 horsepower no longer apply.
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A Teen Hit 123 MPH in a Corvette. Chevrolet Already Built the Fix — and Buried It in a Menu.
CHP says a teen hit 123 mph in a Corvette. The overlooked story is that Chevrolet already ships a factory 85-mph cap, Europe made speed assistance mandatory, and America left it as a menu item.
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A $245 Million Crypto Thief Bought 28 Supercars, and Car Dealer Money-Laundering Rules Never Applied
Malone Lam pleaded guilty to stealing $245 million in crypto and spent it on at least 28 exotic cars titled to shell companies. The real story is the car dealer money laundering exemption Treasury called temporary in 2002 and never closed.
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Tesla Signed Its Own Permission Slip for the Pedal-Free Cybercab. Regulators Just Asked to See It.
A driverless Tesla Cybercab with no steering wheel and no brake pedal has been picking up paying passengers in Austin for weeks. Nobody in Washington approved that design before it happened. In the United States, nobody has to. On September 4, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration opened what it calls an Audit Query into…
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Porsche Blamed Your Charging Habits for Killing the Taycan’s Battery. Ten Months Later, It Blamed a Supplier Instead.
A judge refused to send the Taycan battery case to arbitration. The more revealing record is Porsche’s own recall filings, where the root cause changed and the recall grew 134-fold.
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Capital Automotive Just Bought Back 49 Dealership Lots. Here’s Who Actually Owns the Ground Under Your Local Dealer.
Drive past a dealership and it’s natural to assume the name on the sign owns everything below it — the showroom, the service bays, the acres of asphalt holding this week’s inventory. For a large and growing share of America’s franchised dealerships, that assumption is wrong. The ground belongs to somebody else, and increasingly that…
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Nissan Says It Wants a Million Cars a Year From Japan. It Said That in 2015, Too.
Nissan’s Japanese reorganisation revives a one-million-unit target it first announced in 2015, at the same plant, on the same export programme — from a base of 557,576 vehicles.
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Hyundai Is Adding a Remote Kill Switch to Your Car. It Just Paid 36 States for Skipping Basic Theft Protection First.
Hyundai is pushing a remote immobiliser to the Venue over the air. It acts at the thief’s first stop, not during the theft — and the regulator lists remote immobiliser manipulation as a threat of its own.
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This GM Dealer Lawsuit Has Two Defendants. Only One of Them Sells Cars.
A family-owned Chevrolet-GMC store on the Arizona-Mexico border just sued General Motors for fraud. That much made a few headlines. What didn’t get much attention is who else got named alongside GM in the complaint: AmeriCredit Financial Services, doing business as GM Financial, the automaker’s own captive lender. That detail is the real story. What…
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Gas Prices Jumped 31.8%. The Electric Sedan Still Lost the Math by $3,080.
AAA put the cost to own a new car at $12,863 a year. The category tables say fuel efficiency is not what decides the bill.
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There’s a Wedge of Plastic in Your Windshield Whose Entire Job Is to Fool Your Eyes
A modern windshield is a restraint component, an optical instrument and a sensor mount. One layer inside it is deliberately tapered to stop your head-up display showing double.
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Lake Helen’s Speed Camera Numbers Went Viral for the Wrong Reason. Florida’s Fine Print Is the Real Story.
Lake Helen, Florida is home to 2,842 people, according to the 2020 Census. Over three and a half months this spring, the city’s two school-zone speed cameras logged 5,275 violations — enough for nearly two tickets per resident. That comparison is the kind of number that travels well online, and it has traveled. It is…
