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Tesla’s 1.2 Million-Car Suspension Probe: What NHTSA’s Filing Actually Reveals
Wall Street decided this one was noise. The engineering paperwork says otherwise. On July 29, NHTSA’s Office of Defects Investigation opened Preliminary Evaluation PE26006, covering an estimated 1,198,300 Teslas — 2018-2020 Model 3 sedans and 2021-2023 Model Ys. The subject is the front lower lateral link detaching from the subframe. ODI has logged 156 complaints.…
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Wall Street Says Wireless Car Updates Are a $17 Billion Business. The Real Payoff Is Making Your Recall Invisible
Somewhere in the next year, your car might get recalled and you’ll never know it happened. No letter in the mailbox. No appointment at the dealership. No case number to lose on a sticky note. Just a software patch that lands overnight while the car sits in the driveway, quietly fixing a problem nobody ever…
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California’s 100-MPH Crackdown Isn’t a New Law. It’s an Old One Wearing a Radar Gun
California has run this play before, just never on speeders. For thirty-five years the state has had a legal tool that lets it pull a driver’s license before a judge ever weighs in, running on a completely separate timeline from whatever happens in court. Historically, that tool was reserved for drunk driving. As of this…
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Alpine’s US Launch Plan Has Quietly Shrunk — Here’s What Renault’s Own Documents Show
Alpine’s American plan is one of those stories where the paperwork tells you more than the interviews do. Go back to June 2023, when Renault Group gathered press and investors at Enstone and laid out where its sports car brand was going. The press release is unambiguous: a seven-model range by 2030, including a roadster…
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BMW Spider-Man Dash Ad: How It Got Into Your Car And Why Nobody Can Stop It
BMW picked a strange hill to build its first billboard on. If you own a BMW built after July 2020 and you started it any time in the past week, you may have been greeted by a banner promoting a Sony Pictures release. Tap it and the center screen hands itself over to a full-screen…
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Mercedes’ Next EVs Are Being Built From Scrapped Cars. The Real Reason Has Nothing To Do With Saving The Planet
Somewhere in Norway, an aluminum smelter running mostly on hydroelectric power is melting down old bumpers, engine cradles, and scrapped building parts so Mercedes-Benz can stamp that metal into the structure of its next generation of large electric vehicles. Mercedes and its supplier, Hydro, are framing this as a sustainability milestone. It’s really a hedge…
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Tesla’s Test Drives Have No Chaperone. A Torched Hair Salon Just Showed Why That Matters
Tesla doesn’t work that way, and a new $10.3 million lawsuit out of Arlington, Virginia shows exactly what happens when a car company skips the one habit every dealership in America built its business around. The regenerative braking didn’t fail. The sales process did. According to a lawsuit reported by CarComplaints.com, Alemzewd Lawgalet had never…
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Feds Just Legalized A Car With No Pedals, Mirrors Or Wipers
The federal government just told a company it can charge money for rides in a car that has no steering wheel, no brake pedal, no mirrors, no windshield wipers, and no sun visors. If that sounds like a big deal, it is — but not for the reason most of the coverage is landing on.…
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Stellantis Just Recalled 1.5 Million Ram 1500s Because Somebody Forgot to Tighten a Bolt for Eight Years Straight
Forget the number for a second. One and a half million trucks sounds like the headline, but the real story is hiding in the fine print: this recall doesn’t require Stellantis to build a single new part. Dealers just need a torque wrench, ten minutes, and a truck built sometime in the last eight years.…
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Carvana Just Posted Record Numbers And Got Crushed. Here’s The Math
Carvana had the best quarter in its history on Wednesday and got its head kicked in for it. Nearly 200,000 cars retailed, revenue up more than half, record operating income, record SG&A efficiency — and the stock dropped double digits the moment the guidance line hit the tape. If you only read the headline number,…
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Wichita’s License-Plate Cameras Misidentify Cars Up To 20% Of The Time. Now A Local Is Suing To Rip Out All 200
A minivan does not look anything like a pickup truck. Different silhouette, different proportions, different everything a human eye can process in half a second. But the algorithm reading a license plate at highway speed does not see a minivan or a truck. It sees a string of characters and a probability score. In Wichita,…
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Ford Recalls 86,543 Mustang Mach-Es Because Its Factory Got Faster Than the Glue Could Handle
Ford wants owners to read this as a story about a rear window molding that might rattle loose. It’s actually a story about the one thing no factory upgrade can ever cheat: cure time. On July 30, Ford notified the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration that it would recall 86,543 Mustang Mach-E crossovers built between…
