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The Sub-$25,000 New Car Didn’t Just Decline. It Went Extinct.
There used to be a kind of car that didn’t ask much of you. No 15-inch touchscreen begging for a software update, no ambient lighting with dozens of color options, no subscription just to keep the heated seats warm. Crank windows, maybe, or power ones if you were feeling fancy. It cost less than a…
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How Long Tires Really Last, and How to Spot When Yours Are Done
Your tires are the only thing connecting your car to the road, four palm-sized patches of rubber doing all the work, and most of us ignore them until one goes flat. Knowing when they’re past their prime keeps you from blowouts, bad-weather scares, and wasted fuel. Here’s how long tires really last and how to…
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Ends 6/14: Win This 1963 Split-Window Corvette Fuelie Plus $20,000 Cash — Auto Wire Readers Get DOUBLE the Entries!
Some cars you admire from across the room. This one you take home. The National Sprint Car Hall of Fame & Museum is giving away a 1963 numbers-matching Split-Window Corvette Fuelie Coupe — the holy grail of Corvettes — plus a cool $20,000 in cash, and right now Auto Wire readers have an edge nobody…
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Your Check Engine Light Isn’t Always a Crisis, But Here’s When to Worry
No dashboard light triggers gut-drop panic quite like the check engine light. The frustrating part: it won’t tell you whether you’ve got a loose gas cap or a dying catalytic converter, just that something’s off. Here’s how to read the situation and what to actually do about it. First, What It’s Even Telling You Your…
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No, GM Didn’t Leak the C9 Corvette. Here’s What Was Actually on That Screen.
The internet decided this week that General Motors had slipped up and leaked the next Corvette. A mysterious sports car flashed across a screen in a GM video, screenshots flew, and suddenly everyone was calling it the C9. It’s a great story. It’s also wrong, and the truth behind that blurry shot is honestly more…
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Thieves Tracked Power Tour Owners to Their Hotels and Stripped the Lot Overnight
The people driving in this year’s Hot Rod Power Tour spent Monday showing off some of the best muscle cars in the country at the Route 66 Raceway. By Tuesday morning, several of them woke up to smashed glass and empty parking spaces. Thieves had followed the cars back to their hotels and gone to…
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Jeep Recalled a Million Wranglers and Gladiators for Fire Risk, and There’s No Fix Yet
Jeep just told more than a million Wrangler and Gladiator owners that their vehicles carry a fire risk, and the part that should worry people most is what the company admitted right alongside it. There is no fix available yet. The recall covers over a million Wranglers and Gladiators. The problem lives in the wiring…
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GM Is Killing Off Its Biggest Silverados, and a Factory Deal Died With Them
Chevrolet is walking away from some of the biggest trucks that wear the Silverado badge, and the timing says a lot about where the medium-duty truck market is heading. GM has decided not to renew its production agreement with International Trucks, and as a result the Silverado 4500HD, 5500HD, and 6500HD will be discontinued this…
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An Uber Passenger Filmed His Tesla Driver Apparently Asleep at Freeway Speed
A rideshare trip on one of Southern California’s busiest freeways turned into something an Orange County passenger felt he had to get on camera. Earlier this year, the customer pulled out his phone and recorded his Uber driver seemingly asleep behind the wheel of a Tesla while the car was moving along the 405 Freeway.…
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Dodge Is Sending the Charger to Europe Right After It Flopped at Home
Dodge is packing up the new Charger and shipping it to Europe, and the timing is what makes the move so strange. This is the same car that just posted some of the ugliest sales numbers in the brand’s recent history at home. So while the announcement reads like a victory lap for an iconic…
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Feeding Our Future’s Founder Gets 41.5 Years and a $240 Million Bill
The seized Porsche Panamera turned out to be only the opening move. Aimee Bock, the Minnesota nonprofit founder at the center of one of the largest pandemic-era fraud schemes in U.S. history, has now been sentenced to roughly 41.5 years in federal prison and ordered to repay more than $240 million. When we last reported…
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A Father Chased His Son’s Stolen Truck. The Suspect Should Have Been Behind Bars.
A Houston father of five is dead after he went looking for his son’s stolen truck, and his family is not just grieving. They are asking a harder question: why was the man charged with killing him free to be on the street at all? Louis Erebia, 56, was shot and killed Saturday afternoon, and…
