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New York City Fixed Its Illegal Car-Crushing Program. It Left One Loophole Big Enough For A Mercedes-Benz.
Buried inside New York City’s sanitation code is a clause that reads like a guest list for a Concours d’Elegance. Rolls-Royce. BMW. Mercedes-Benz. Jaguar. Porsche. Lamborghini. Ferrari. Lexus. The city didn’t put those names in its rulebook to celebrate them. It put them there because it keeps getting sued over how it destroys them. On…
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BYD Patented A Car That Won’t Start If Something’s Alive Underneath It. That’s Not Even The Real Story
Picture a cold morning outside Shenzhen. A BYD hatchback sits in a driveway, and a stray cat has tucked itself into the flat, sheltered space beneath the front bumper. The driver climbs in, turns the car on, and nothing happens. Not a dead battery, not a software bug. The car itself decided nobody is going…
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Kia Just Spent $649 Million To Build an EV It Has No Intention of Selling You
This week, welding robots inside a Kia plant in Nuevo León, Mexico, started getting reprogrammed. They used to build gasoline-powered Fortes and Rios. Soon they’ll be lowering battery packs into the floor of an electric EV3 crossover instead. That $649 million retooling job says far more about the slow unraveling of North American trade rules…
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Stolen American Cars Disappear by the Thousands Every Year. Kenya’s Steering Wheel Law Is Why None of Them Show Up There
Somewhere along the Eastern Seaboard tonight, a shipping container is being sealed with paperwork describing its contents as household furniture. Inside sits a Cadillac Escalade that was parked in a Virginia driveway a few days earlier. This is not a hypothetical. An entire task force exists to catch exactly this, run by U.S. Customs and…
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Motive Sold Truckers an AI Camera to Keep Them Out of Court. Now the Camera Is the One Being Sued
For the better part of a decade, the sales pitch behind putting an AI camera on a semi’s windshield has been simple: it protects the driver. When something goes wrong, the footage is supposed to back up the trucker, not the shipper’s insurance adjuster or a plaintiff’s attorney. Motive Technologies has built a nearly 100,000-fleet…
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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…
