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A Couple in Their 80s and 90s Sued Scout Over Blasting at Its $2 Billion Plant. Scout Says Take It Up With the Contractors.
A Blythewood couple, 92 and 84, say construction of Scout Motors’ South Carolina plant drove them from their home. Scout blames its contractors. State blasting and takings law shape who pays.
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Corvette Driver Hit 147 MPH on A1A the Day He Bought It and Killed a Couple in a Jeep. He’s Getting 47 Years.
A Corvette driver hit 147 mph on A1A in Ormond-by-the-Sea, killed a couple in their Jeep and got 47 years. Florida scoresheet math explains the number.
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Mercedes Trips the China Car Bill’s 15% Wire. Volvo, Nearly 79% Geely-Owned, Already Has a Hall Pass.
Commerce cleared majority Geely-owned Volvo and refused Polestar under a control test. The Senate bill’s 15% ownership line would instead catch Mercedes, whose two Chinese shareholders hold 19.67%.
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Eleven Dead, Zero Importers Named: NHTSA’s DTN Airbag Order Has a Who-Pays Problem
NHTSA’s April order tells whoever imported DTN60DB airbag inflators to notify owners and fix them. Eleven deaths in, the agency still can’t say who that is or how many inflators are out there.
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Mavis Owes Pennsylvania $215,000 Over Alleged Unnecessary Repairs. You Don’t See a Dime Unless You Complain by Jan. 26.
Mavis Discount Tire agreed to pay Pennsylvania $215,000 over alleged unneeded and unfinished repairs. Only drivers who complain by January 26, 2027, can share in the $190,000 restitution fund.
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Atlanta Cops Were Hunting a ‘Top 5 Most Wanted’ Car Break-In Suspect. He Was Walking Down the Middle of the Road.
Atlanta police say a 20-year-old on the Auto Crimes Unit’s Top 5 Most Wanted list was arrested after officers saw him walking in the road. Georgia’s sidewalk law, Supreme Court stop rulings and the state’s felony car break-in statute explain how.
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Ukraine Police Say a Breaking Bad-Style Crew Planned to Move Methadone Disguised as Car Fluid. 12 Vehicles Seized.
Ukraine’s National Police say a Kyiv-region lab planned to smuggle liquid methadone disguised as car fluid in a vehicle with a built-in hiding place. Twelve vehicles are now in police hands.
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GM Is Yanking the Silverado 1500 Out of Canada, and Oshawa Is Going All-In on Heavy-Duty
For a few years, Oshawa Assembly could claim something no other GM truck plant in North America could: it built the light-duty Silverado 1500 and the heavy-duty Silverado HD on the same production line. That ends in November. GM has confirmed the 1500’s exit from the Ontario plant and says it will make up the…
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Eight Cars, Including Three Camaros and a Trans Am, Fell Off the Feds’ List in a Texas Insurance Fraud Case
DOJ said in July it had seized 22 vehicles from Texas insurance broker Clayton Iley. The October forfeiture order covers 17, and eight of the July cars are not on it.
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Hyundai Hides Its Hybrid Motors Inside the Transmission. Georgia’s Getting $560 Million to Build More of Them.
Hyundai Transys will spend nearly $560 million in West Point, Georgia, to build more hybrid transmissions, the part that holds the drive motor in Hyundai and Kia hybrids and the key to Hyundai’s 80 percent U.S. parts target.
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Georgia Wrongful-Death Suit Goes After the Dealer, the Installer and the Maker of a Six-Inch F-150 Lift
Most lifted-truck lawsuits go after the driver and stop there. This one goes after everyone who touched the truck. In September, Lolita Holloway filed a wrongful-death complaint in the State Court of Gwinnett County. Her husband, Charles Holloway Jr., died on Jan. 8 when a Ford F-150 driven by Scott Douglas Kneiss allegedly crossed the…
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What’s Left of Hethel After Tariffs Took a Sledgehammer to Lotus
At the end of August 2025, Lotus told its British staff that up to 550 roles were going. Thirteen months later, the effects are still showing up in Lotus’s filings, and they are worth reading closely. The company described the restructuring as a way to give it a “flexible and agile business model,” able to…
