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Of Everything Stolen CDC Money Could Buy, the Harley-Davidson Was the Worst Possible Choice
A Danish researcher spent stolen federal grant money on a Harley-Davidson. Of everything he bought, the motorcycle was the one asset legally required to announce itself — at the dealership counter, at the tag office, and to an insurance carrier.
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Start You Week In Automotive News Here
Here is everything The Auto Wire published on Sunday, September 13, 2026 — McLaren’s careers page giving away a £450 million plan the company still won’t confirm, Volkswagen admitting it built three million vehicles’ worth of factories it cannot fill, and Stellantis leaning on one-time regulatory gains to make North America look like a turnaround.…
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Today at The Auto Wire: Full Recap (September 13, 2026)
A £450 million McLaren expansion its own careers page already gave away, Volkswagen admitting it built three million vehicles’ worth of factory it cannot fill, and Stellantis’ North American reversal. Everything The Auto Wire published on September 13, 2026.
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McLaren Won’t Confirm Its £450 Million Plan. Its Careers Page Already Has.
Somewhere in Woking, a hiring manager posted a job listing this week for a “Head of General Assembly and End of Line Manufacturing Engineering.” Nobody at McLaren has said, on the record, that the company is spending £450 million to build a bigger version of itself. But you don’t title a job “Head of General…
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Stellantis’s $13 Billion Bet: America Isn’t Like Everywhere Else Anymore
A year ago, Stellantis’ North American business was the company’s biggest problem. Today, it’s the only reason Stellantis‘ global numbers look healthy at all. That reversal, not anything said from a conference stage this week, is the real story sitting inside the company’s own books. It says more about where Stellantis is headed than any…
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Volkswagen Didn’t Build Too Few EVs. It Built Too Many Factories.
Volkswagen’s Supervisory Board didn’t just approve a restructuring plan on September 3. It signed off on an admission the company spent years avoiding: it built enough assembly capacity for roughly 12 million vehicles a year, and it can currently sell about 9 million. That three-million-vehicle gap is the real story buried inside Future Plan 2030,…
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Today at The Auto Wire: Full Recap (September 12, 2026)
Counterfeit airbags that VIN checks cannot catch, the EPA deleting its Scope 3 guidance, BMW dropping carbon fiber, and GM tripling China profits on fewer sales. Everything The Auto Wire published on September 12, 2026.
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EPA Pulls Scope 3 Emissions Guidance: What It Means for Automakers and Car Buyers
The Environmental Protection Agency has quietly edited Scope 3 emissions out of its corporate climate toolkit. There was no press release or Federal Register notice. The navigation simply changed. For anyone who follows the car business, that matters more than it sounds, because for an automaker, Scope 3 is where almost all of the carbon…
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Your Recall Check Came Back Clean. Your Airbag Might Still Be Fake.
Punch a VIN from a 2018 Chevrolet Equinox, a Chevrolet Malibu, or a Hyundai Sonata into NHTSA’s recall lookup tool right now, and it can come back completely clean. Zero open recalls. For most of the past fifty years, that clean result has been about the closest thing to a safety guarantee a used-car buyer…
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Recycled Carbon Fiber Is Forecast to Nearly Double by 2033 — BMW Just Cut It From the Car That Made It Famous
BMW’s new i3 started rolling out of Plant Munich last month, and it carries a name that used to mean something very specific to car enthusiasts: a lightweight passenger cell woven almost entirely from carbon fiber, bonded rather than welded, unlike anything else being built at that scale. The 2026 i3 keeps the badge. It…
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GM Sold Fewer Cars in China This Year. Its China Profits Nearly Tripled.
Somewhere in the noise about foreign automakers cutting prices on gasoline-powered cars in China, a stranger number went almost unnoticed. General Motors’ own filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission shows its Chinese joint ventures moved fewer cars in the first half of 2026 than a year earlier, yet booked nearly three times the net…
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Wake Up: Saturday’s Automotive News Morning Round-Up
Good morning, and welcome back to the garage. Pour yourself a cup, because The Auto Wire’s newsroom didn’t slow down yesterday. From a driver-assist system that calls for help on its own to a classic Corvette’s brakes giving out, here’s everything our team published that’s worth your first ten minutes of the day. Volkswagen’s Cars…
