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Toyota And Hyundai Got Caught Tracking Drivers. GM Already Put A Price On It: $25 Billion.
Five years before Australian regulators opened a file on Toyota and Hyundai, General Motors stood in front of a room of investors and put a number on exactly what a modern car’s data is worth. Not a guess. A target, published in a press release and repeated in filings with U.S. securities regulators: $20 billion…
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Toyota’s Third Blank-Speedometer Recall in a Year Comes With a Two-Tier Fix — Guess Who Loses
Toyota is telling 508,000 Camry owners to bring their car to a dealership so a technician can fix a problem the company could, in theory, solve from a server rack. That gap, between what’s technically possible and what Toyota is actually doing, is the real story hiding inside this recall, not the blank screen itself.…
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Russia’s Record Car-Import Month Has Two Real Stars: A Country That Builds No Cars, and a Corolla That Won’t Die
Start with the number every outlet will repeat this week: Russia imported nearly 95,000 passenger cars in July, the busiest month for auto imports since the start of 2026. Now forget that number for a second and look at this one instead: 14.7 percent. That is the share of new-car imports credited to Kyrgyzstan, a…
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Waymo ‘Recalled’ 4,000 Robotaxis For Blowing Through Construction Zones — And Not One Of Them Stopped Driving
Nearly 4,000 Waymo robotaxis are now the subject of a recall filed with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Here’s the detail that matters more than the software bug itself: not one of those vehicles missed a shift. No owner got a letter. No dealer appointment was booked. NHTSA calls it a recall. Waymo doesn’t…
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A Cadillac Did Donuts at a Michigan Wedding and Got Impounded. It Might Be Home Before the Honeymoon
Dearborn Heights police impounded a Cadillac CT5-V in late July after investigators say its driver blocked Warren Avenue and filled the intersection with tire smoke during a wedding celebration. Cell phone footage of the stunt, which also shows a white Rolls-Royce fishtailing through the same crowd, spread across social media within hours. Mayor Mo Baydoun…
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Cars.com Just Had a Record Quarter – By Politely Admitting Fewer People Are Showing Up
Cars.com told investors this week that it just posted the fastest revenue growth in its history as a public company, excluding the freak rebound after the pandemic. Then, a few slides later, it told them something that should have been the headline instead: fewer people are actually visiting Cars.com than before. Management didn’t bury that…
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Canada’s $28 Million Car Theft Bust Has a Twist: Nobody Actually Stole Anything
No smashed window. No screwdriver jammed into a steering column. No key fob relay box pressed against a bedroom wall at 2 a.m. In the scheme the RCMP just spent a year unraveling, the crime starts in a finance office, with someone signing real paperwork for a real loan and a real insurance policy. Nobody…
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Kia’s New Mexican-Built EV3 Can Charge Another EV3 on the Roadside. That’s Not a Feature — It’s a Confession
Kia flipped the switch on a new assembly line in Nuevo Leon this week, and the crossover rolling off it is getting treated as the headline. It isn’t the interesting part. Bolted onto that launch, almost as an afterthought, is a V2V mobile charging service that lets one EV3 hand a slice of its battery…
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GM Drove Hands-Free From Coast to Coast in Canada. It Left the Five-Year Federal Data Ban Out of the Press Release.
GM Canada spent this summer driving a fleet of Chevrolets, Buicks, GMCs and Cadillacs from Victoria, British Columbia, to St. John’s, Newfoundland, letting the vehicles handle nearly the entire route with their hands off the wheel. The automaker says it’s the first time Super Cruise, its hands-free driving system, has covered a compatible highway network…
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Ford Named Its Cheap Electric Truck Fathom. The Real Story Is What Ford Had to Break to Build It
Ford gave its cheapest electric vehicle in company history a name this week: Fathom. A midsize electric pickup, arriving in showrooms in the fall of 2027, starting at roughly $28,000. That was the headline everywhere. It’s also the least important part of the story. The detail that should have made headlines was buried a few…
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New Jersey Police Dressed Up As Bushes To Catch Texting Drivers
A police officer in Dunellen, New Jersey spent six hours this week standing inside a hedge, dressed as a hedge, waiting for drivers to look down at their phones instead of the road. It worked. Seventy-four people got cited in a single shift. It’s a fun local news story. It is not, however, a story…
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Washington Yanked 24,000 Truckers Off the Road and Called It a Safety Win. Then It Started Begging Veterans to Replace Them.
Every trucker pulled off the road for a safety violation has to be replaced by someone. That’s the detail missing from the government’s shiny new highway safety plan – a document that spends paragraphs bragging about how many truckers it removed and almost nothing on who is supposed to drive the trucks now. On August…
