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Honda Racing Launches Heritage Program
Every so often a manufacturer decides that the race cars rotting in the back of its warehouse are worth more as a business than as decoration. Honda Racing Corporation USA reached that conclusion this month, launching the HRC Heritage Racing Program during Monterey Car Week with a lineup of Acura prototypes and GT cars for…
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Hyundai Cut Crash Test Review Time By 90 Percent. That’s Not Even Close to the Interesting Part.
Hyundai’s AI numbers are big. The real story is a 2019 data infrastructure decision that most competitors haven’t made yet — and that seven-year head start is the actual competitive advantage.
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GM’s New Parts Ban Is Definitely a Safety Policy. It’s Also a Very Convenient Revenue Strategy.
GM just banned every non-OEM ADAS radar, camera, sensor, and bracket from collision repairs on all Chevrolet, Buick, GMC, and Cadillac vehicles. The safety argument is legitimate. So is the business one. Here’s what the position statement doesn’t say out loud — and why your next fender-bender could cost more because of it.
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Dodge Is Building a Cop Car Again Because Police Never Cared About the V8 in the First Place
The last HEMI Charger Pursuit made 370 horsepower. The turbo six replacing it makes more. The missing V8 is the least interesting thing about the 2027 Charger PPV.
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Stellantis Recalled 900,000 Vehicles Over a Backup Camera Bug. That’s Not Even the Interesting Part
One bad piece of radio software just reached into a Ram pickup, a Jeep Wrangler, a Dodge Charger, and a Chrysler minivan at the same time. Ten years ago, that sentence wouldn’t have made sense. Those four vehicles came from four different brands, four different engineering teams, and four different reasons to exist. This week,…
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Reynolds and Reynolds Got a Manager to Sign a 66-Month DMS Extension. The Dealers Say It Wasn’t His To Sign.
Sixty-six months. That’s not a contract. That’s a sentence. A standard Reynolds and Reynolds dealer management system agreement already runs three to five years, with four percent annual cost increases locked in from day one. Now imagine someone signed your stores into an additional 66-month extension on top of whatever was already in place. Five…
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Why Waymo Is Stockpiling Hundreds of Chinese-Built Robotaxis in Arizona
Start with the caveat, because it matters: the number circulating this week — 953 Waymo Ojai robotaxis parked at the Mesa, Arizona integration plant, 684 of them fully retrofitted and 269 still awaiting conversion, plus a dozen finished Hyundai Ioniq 5s — is not a Waymo disclosure. It comes from a hobbyist’s monthly annotated aerial…
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Stellantis Just Threw a Supplier Town Hall in Mexico. After a $26 Billion Loss, You’d Want to Lock Down Your Lifeline Too.
Somewhere in the fine print of Stellantis’s 2026 Mexico Supplier Town Hall — between the PowerPoints on purchasing strategy and the networking activities designed to “strengthen collaboration” — was the real message: please don’t leave us. That’s not an exaggeration. In February, Stellantis reported a €22 billion loss for fiscal year 2025, the first annual…
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Porsche Is Killing the Taycan by 2030. Don’t Blame the Sales Chart.
Porsche’s own factory workers found out before most car buyers did. The Taycan — the car that convinced a company built on flat-six engines it could out-engineer Tesla — is being phased out of production by 2030. Germany’s WirtschaftsWoche first reported that Porsche’s works council has agreed in principle to a gradual wind-down rather than…
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2027 Porsche 911 Carrera S Manual: Specs, Price and What Buyers Should Know
Porsche’s announcement on August 13 will get read as a feel-good story: enthusiasts complained, Zuffenhausen listened, the stick returns to the 911 Carrera S. All true. But bury the sentiment for a minute and go straight to the spec sheets, because the MT Package quietly rearranges where this car sits in the 911 hierarchy. Porsche…
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GM Calls This a Battery Comeback. The Other Two Plants Tell a Different Story.
GM’s Ohio battery plant is restarting — 1,400 workers return, cells resume. What the headline doesn’t mention: Tennessee already converted to grid storage, and Indiana’s unfinished plant was sold to Samsung SDI before it made a single cell. One factory reopens. Two quietly exit. GM calls it progress.
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Why Lincoln’s China Production Really Ends in 2030 — Ford’s Deadline Explained
Ford announced on August 12 that it will grow Lincoln production in the United States beginning in 2030 and phase out importing Lincoln vehicles from China for the American market. It did not name a plant. It did not name a dollar figure. It did not even name a model. What it named was a…
