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Wake Up: Friday’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 recall paperwork and layoffs to a street-racing crackdown and a very expensive McLaren bet, here’s everything our team published that’s worth your first ten minutes of the day. Stellantis Will Cover Your Engine’s…
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Modern Cars Aren’t Welded Together Anymore. They’re Glued — And That’s Exactly Why Fender-Benders Are Totaling EVs
A market research firm dropped a press release this week with a number attached: $12.36 billion. That’s what the global automotive adhesives market is projected to hit by 2031, according to MarketsandMarkets. It reads like the kind of figure that exists purely to be skimmed and forgotten. It shouldn’t be. Buried in that report is…
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Inside Toyota’s Paid GR Software: Prices, Warranty Gaps And Resale Traps
Toyota is not floating a theory about charging owners for software. It already sells it, at a GR Garage counter in Japan, with a price list and a warranty exclusion. The fine print is more interesting than the headline. The product is the GR Performance Software Series for the GR Yaris and GR Corolla, sold…
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A Sneeze Caused a Fatal Crash With an Amish Buggy in Wisconsin. The Real Question Is Whether Modern Safety Tech Would Have Even Seen It Coming
On a hill outside Tomah, Wisconsin, last Friday afternoon, an ordinary human reflex collided with a form of transportation that predates the automobile by more than a century, and one person did not survive it. A driver’s sneeze is the headline. It is not the real story. According to the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office, a…
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202,000 Jeeps Just Got Recalled Because Their Tire-Pressure Light Might Be Lying to You
Every dashboard has one light drivers train themselves to ignore. It’s usually the tire-pressure icon, that little exclamation point wrapped in tire tread that flickers on, gets acknowledged with a shrug, and gets dealt with whenever the driver next passes a gas station with an air pump. Stellantis just gave that light a much bigger…
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Uber Cut 3,300 Jobs to Chase Robotaxis. Its Best Robotaxi Partner Is Already Leaving the App
Every layoff comes wrapped in the same corporate vocabulary: flattening, simplifying, refocusing. Uber’s September 2 memo, cutting roughly 3,300 corporate jobs, checked every box. CEO Dara Khosrowshahi framed it as removing bureaucracy to fund what he called “build the autonomous future,” and on paper the numbers back him up: Uber cut its micro-teams of one…
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South Carolina’s New Street Takeover Law Doesn’t Just Arrest You. It Can Take Your Car — Even If You Only Watched.
Eighty-plus arrests in one night sounds like the headline out of Greenville County, South Carolina. It isn’t the number that should worry car owners. That number is 38 — the vehicles deputies impounded at a single intersection on September 5, and how little actually has to go wrong for South Carolina to keep one of…
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The Real Vulnerability in Apple’s Anti-Stalking System Is Shaped Like a Car Seat
Every anti-stalking safeguard is built around an assumption about where a hidden tracker will end up: a jacket pocket, a purse, a duffel bag tossed in a trunk. Read Apple’s own troubleshooting instructions for finding a hidden AirTag, though, and one line stands out. Buried in the company’s official support guide is a suggestion to…
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What A £450 Million Woking Build Would Actually Mean For McLaren
McLaren is reportedly about to spend £450 million on a technology centre in Woking and hire around 1,000 people. Before anyone starts printing “British engineering is back” bunting, it’s worth noting what has and hasn’t actually been confirmed, and what the paper trail around Woking has looked like for the past five years. The company…
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Stellantis Will Cover Your Engine’s Failed Valve Seals for Seven Years — But Only If You Live in the Right State
Two identical 2017 Jeep Wranglers can roll off the same assembly line, get the same 3.6-liter Pentastar V6, and suffer the exact same valve rocker arm failure at roughly 94,000 miles. One owner gets a free repair. The other pays out of pocket. The difference isn’t how either driver treated the engine. It’s the state…
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Watch: Silverado Driver PITs Florida Tropper
A Florida Highway Patrol pursuit took an unusual turn when the driver of a Chevrolet Silverado appeared to deliberately spin out a trooper’s patrol car using a PIT-style maneuver. The chase began after the truck was reportedly clocked at 98 mph in a 70-mph zone while weaving through traffic. When a marked FHP Dodge Charger…
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California Tire Efficiency Rule Explained: What Changes In 2029 And 2033
California just rewrote the rules for what you’re allowed to bolt onto your car, and almost nobody noticed until the number “70 percent” started circulating. On August 17, the California Energy Commission voted 5-0 to adopt regulations creating the country’s first minimum efficiency standard for replacement tires. The authority isn’t new. AB 844 handed the…
