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Ford Fixed The F-150’s Oil-Burning V8, Then Quietly Un-Fixed It To Protect Its MPG Numbers
Somewhere in a Ford engineering file is a piston ring. It isn’t exotic, and it doesn’t cost much to manufacture. But a federal judge in Detroit has just decided that a jury should hear exactly how that ring, and the decisions Ford made about it between 2016 and 2017, turned into a lawsuit that could…
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This Week at The Auto Wire: Full Recap (July 27–31, 2026)
Here’s a full recap of everything The Auto Wire published this week, Monday July 27 through Friday July 31, 2026 — recalls, lawsuits, earnings, theft rings, robotaxis and more, all in one place with links back to the original stories. Friday, July 31 Honda And Nissan Shared Car Software: What A Joint OS Would Really…
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California Is Bragging About Falling Car Theft Numbers. It’s Suspiciously Quiet About Why
The California Highway Patrol wants you to know that vehicle theft fell 25 percent last year, the second straight annual decline, and that Governor Gavin Newsom’s crime-suppression teams deserve a good chunk of the credit. Commissioner Sean Duryee even put his name on a quote about it. What the agency’s own release never mentions, not…
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A Private Surveillance Network Built on Tow Trucks Has Scanned 9 Billion License Plates. California Courts Just Said That’s Fine
Somewhere in California right now, a tow truck is rolling down a residential street, and a camera bolted to its bumper is quietly photographing every license plate it passes. Each image gets a timestamp, a location, and a permanent home in a private database that, as of last year, held more than nine billion historical…
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Prince Alwaleed’s Lucid Stake Explained: What A 13G Filing Really Means For LCID
A Saudi Prince Bought 5% Of Lucid, And Lucid Didn’t Get A Cent Of It Here’s the part that got lost in a 20-plus-percent single-day move: nobody handed Lucid any money this week. On July 28, Prince Alwaleed bin Talal bin Abdulaziz Alsaud filed a Schedule 13G reporting beneficial ownership of 19,513,000 shares of Lucid…
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Ford Q2 2026 Loss Explained: What The $4.2 Billion In Charges Actually Covers
Ford’s $1.3 Billion Q2 Loss Isn’t The EV Bloodbath It Looks Like Read the headline number and you’d assume Dearborn just torched another pile of cash on electric trucks. Read the filing and a different picture shows up. Ford’s second-quarter results, filed with the SEC on July 28, show a GAAP net loss attributable to…
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The Auto Wire Readers Get More Entries to Win a 1969 Camaro Z/28 and 1970 Chevelle SS454 — Super Chevy Dream Giveaway Ends 8/4
The Auto Wire has partnered with Dream Giveaway to hand our readers a leg up in the Super Chevy Dream Giveaway. Enter through our link and the MCC5 promo code loads automatically, tacking extra bonus tickets onto your order at no added cost. The prize itself is a two-car haul: a numbers-matching 1969 Camaro Z/28…
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Honda And Nissan Shared Car Software: What A Joint OS Would Really Change
Honda And Nissan Are Circling A Shared Vehicle OS — And Their Architectures Don’t Match Neither company has announced anything. There is no joint press release, no filing, no signed agreement on the public record as of this writing. What exists is a stack of official documents from both automakers over the past two years,…
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Ford Wanted to Patent a Car That Locks You Out and Drives Itself to the Junkyard. The Government Said No.
A Ford Bronco did not get bricked in traffic on a Michigan expressway last week. Ford says so on the record, and the truck in the viral clip does not even carry the hardware that would make it possible. That should have ended the story right there. Instead it dragged something stranger into daylight: three…
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Hertz Fleet Depreciation Lawsuit: What The DPU Collapse Really Means
Hertz Told Investors The Fleet Was Fixed. Six Weeks Later, The Disposal Lane Said Otherwise A federal securities class action is now pending against Hertz Global Holdings in the Middle District of Florida, captioned Cameron Schweitzer v. Hertz Global Holdings, Inc. et al., No. 2:26-cv-02242, covering purchasers between May 7 and June 23, 2026, with…
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A Truck Driver Rammed Down Three License Plate Cameras in Rural California. Flock Safety Barely Noticed
Marcus Bee allegedly drove roughly 150 miles from his home in Pismo Beach to a remote stretch of agricultural backroad in Monterey County, steered his pickup truck into a roadside ditch, and ran over a pole holding a solar-powered camera. Then, according to investigators, he did it two more times, at two more locations. The…
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Mercedes Recalled 310,000 Cars Over a Rollaway Risk, and the Parking Brake Was Never the Problem
Somewhere in a driveway right now, a Mercedes-Benz is trusting the wrong thing. Not its brakes. Not its transmission. A door switch. Because that switch has quietly corroded inside the driver’s door lock, the car may never get the memo that it’s supposed to hold itself in place. That’s the real story buried inside Mercedes-Benz…
