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Ford’s $4,195 Carhartt F-150, Germany’s First Driverless Truck, and What Else Moved
Not every headline gets its own story, but it still shapes the industry. Over the past 24 hours, Ford dressed up its best-selling truck in workwear branding, an autonomous trucking startup put a driverless rig on German public roads for the first time, and Waymo laid out plans for its first robotaxi market in Asia.…
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LAPD Seized 200 Cars in One Night. The Real Story Is What Changed in Sacramento.
LAPD’s Labor Day sweep impounded 200 vehicles in a single night. The bigger story is the 2025 California law that quietly made a bust that size legally possible.
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Today at The Auto Wire: Full Recap (September 15, 2026)
Here is everything The Auto Wire published on Tuesday, September 15, 2026 — a second name attached to Sunday’s fatal Irvine McLaren crash, a Federal Reserve that hasn’t moved rates all year while car loans got cheaper anyway, a Cybertruck recall file that reads like a factory-floor case study, and the 1970 GM strike that…
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Stellantis Pulled the Jeep Out of Brampton. Five Days Later It Unveiled an Armoured Ram With the Company Now Buying the Plant.
Canada told Stellantis that abandoning Brampton would be a default and started a recovery process ten months ago. It has never finished it — and the prospective buyer was already a Stellantis partner.
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Legacy Tesla Owners in California Have Days Left to Claim Supercharger Fee Money
If you bought a Tesla in California back when the Supercharger network was a free perk rather than a profit center, there’s a court-ordered envelope sitting in your inbox that’s worth opening. The claim window closes September 25. The case is Shenkman v. Tesla, No. RG21102833, filed in Alameda County Superior Court with Kevin Shenkman…
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The U.S. Is Pumping Record Oil. That Won’t Stop the Shortage Forming at the Pump.
The national average price of diesel just crossed $6.29 a gallon, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration’s weekly survey. Regular gasoline, by comparison, sits at $4.32. That gap is the tell. It says the current fuel crunch isn’t just about crude oil the world can’t pull out of the ground. It’s about capacity the…
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The Cybertruck’s Federal Recall File Is a Masterclass in Why Factories Beat Prototypes
Elon Musk has been saying a version of the same thing for six years, and the Cybertruck is the receipt. Back in September 2020, he posted that scaling production of new technology is poorly understood, and put a number on it: “It’s 1000% to 10,000% harder than making a few prototypes.” He’d already compressed the…
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Hyundai’s 2028 Self-Driving Plan Hinges on a Level That Doesn’t Officially Exist
Hyundai Motor Group spent a day at 42dot’s headquarters in Gyeonggi Province explaining how it plans to catch up in autonomous driving, and the most revealing thing in the whole presentation was a piece of punctuation. The Group’s roadmap, laid out at what it called HMG Autonomous Driving Media Day, targets production vehicles with “Level…
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The Fed Hasn’t Cut Rates Once This Year. Car Loans Got Cheaper Anyway.
The Federal Reserve meets again this week to decide, for the seventh time in 2026, whether to move interest rates. By the time that decision is announced, the auto lending market will have already moved without it. That gap between the meeting everyone is watching and the loans already being written is the actual story.…
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22-Year-Old Hooters Calendar Girl Alexis Kramer Named as Second Victim in Influencer’s McLaren Crash
Family members identified Alexis Kramer, 22, as the second victim in the Irvine McLaren crash. Police say speed was a factor but have not named a driver.
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China’s Draft Law Would Fine Automakers, Not Drivers, for Self-Driving Violations
Beijing just answered the question every automaker building self-driving cars has been dodging: when the machine breaks the law, who gets the ticket? The answer, under a draft rewrite of China’s Road Traffic Safety Law, is the company that built the car. Not the person in the seat. That provision sits inside a brand-new chapter…
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Today in Automotive History: The 1970 GM Strike Began September 15 — and So Did the Next Two
The 1970 GM strike began September 15 and idled hundreds of thousands of workers. What it won still shapes what you pay for a new car.
