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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…
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Waymo Puts Robotaxis Back On Freeways — Here’s What Actually Broke
Waymo’s freeway program is back on, starting in Phoenix, after a two-month benching that the company announced with a cheerful three-word post on X: freeways are back, gradually resuming, more cities to follow, express interest in the app. Los Angeles, the Bay Area, Austin and Miami get theirs in the coming days. What that post…
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Ford Buried a Timing Belt in Motor Oil to Save Gas — Now the Feds Say 135,000 Cars Are a Safety Risk
On a highway in Wilmington, Delaware, a Ford Focus driver watched an oil pressure warning light blink on. Within an eighth of a mile — less distance than it takes to read this paragraph aloud — the engine gave out entirely. The driver later told investigators the car “lost all power and the engine began…
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Stellantis Worker Dies in Fall at Center Line Facility
On Saturday, Aug. 1, a 57-year-old UAW Local 1248 member, identified as Brasher, died after falling approximately 25 feet from a second-story loading bay at Stellantis’s Mopar National Parts Distribution Center in Center Line, Michigan. According to Center Line Director of Public Safety Paul Myszenski, Brasher was removing furniture and equipment from an office space…
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Ford Is Now Planning For Chinese Automakers To Land In America
Jim Farley spent a chunk of Thursday’s employee town hall telling Ford staff something that would have sounded paranoid five years ago and now just sounds like scheduling: plan on Chinese automakers selling cars in the United States sometime in the next five to ten years, probably closer to ten. The remarks, first reported by…
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What Really Happens If You Never Change Your Oil: A Timeline
Picture two identical cars rolling off the same factory line, same engine, same badge, same new-car smell. One owner changes the oil like clockwork. The other treats the dashboard reminder as background noise and never gets around to it, not once. Ask any mechanic how that story ends and you’ll get the same wince every…
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Porsche Sold 24,000 Fewer Cars and Made a Third More Money — Here’s How
Porsche’s first-half numbers landed the same week it agreed to cut another 5,000 jobs, and the two documents tell a story that’s more interesting than either headline. The company sold 24,085 fewer cars than a year ago and made 34 percent more operating profit doing it. That’s not spin. That’s arithmetic, and it’s worth walking…
