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A Cop Allegedly Ran a Stolen-Car Ring on the Side. Her Badge Wasn’t the Scary Part — Her Database Login Was
Every stolen car eventually needs new paperwork. That’s the part of auto theft nobody thinks about until they’re the one holding a “clean” title on a car that was never legally theirs to buy. Arlington County, Virginia police say a Maryland police officer spent more than a year helping supply exactly that kind of paperwork.…
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Toyota Takes A Third Of cellcentric: What The Fuel Cell Truck Deal Really Buys
On July 27, Volvo Group, Daimler Truck AG, cellcentric and Toyota signed a binding agreement making Toyota an equal one-third owner of cellcentric alongside the two European truck groups that founded it. Closing is expected around the end of 2026 or the start of 2027, pending regulatory approvals. cellcentric stays an independent Tier 1; the…
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Toyota And Nissan’s Kyushu Plants Just Got Hit By A Killer Earthquake — Again
Toyota builds its most profitable SUVs in a corner of Japan that keeps shaking itself apart. That’s not the headline anyone else is running this week. The headline is simpler: a 7.1-magnitude earthquake tore through southwestern Japan, killing at least 13 people, toppling buildings, buckling roads, and cutting power across the region. Toyota extended a…
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BMW’s New Mexican-Built EVs Arrive In 2027 — Their Batteries Are Still Just Visiting
BMW says its new Mexican EV plant proves it’s serious about the country. But the batteries inside those cars are still shipped in from Europe, some with Chinese cells, and that gap could keep the whole plan from clearing USMCA’s tariff math.
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Wally Darwish Got the Deal of a Lifetime on Ten Dealerships. He Just Got a $30 Million Bill for Treating Them Like His Personal ATM
Ten car dealerships in the small, rural markets of upstate New York spent the better part of three years being run, or fought over, by two men who couldn’t agree on who was actually in charge. That confusion, a judge has now ruled, wasn’t an accident. On July 10, an Albany County Supreme Court judge…
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Mahle’s Diesel Range Extender For Electric Trucks Faces A Bigger Problem Than Physics
Mahle used its Stuttgart media day on July 21 to preview what it will roll into Hall whatever at IAA Transportation in Hanover this September: a self-contained range extender for heavy battery-electric trucks. The press release frames it as the thing that finally uncouples e-truck adoption from Europe’s charging build-out. The engineering is genuinely clever.…
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Stellantis Just Sold Its Car-Sharing Business to a Company That Buys Other People’s Failures for a Living
When a company sells off a division, the buyer usually tells you more than the seller does. Stellantis frames this sale as sharpening its focus on core automotive activities. Fine. But look at who’s buying: Mutares SE & Co. KGaA, a Munich-based holding company that describes itself as “the equity entrepreneurs.” Its entire business model…
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Corvette Clocked At 130 In A 45: Inside Florida’s Dangerous Excessive Speeding Statute
The St. Johns County Sheriff’s Office says a deputy stopped a Chevrolet Corvette on County Road 13 North near Joe Ashton Road doing 130 mph in a posted 45. The driver went to the St. Johns County Jail on a charge of Dangerous Excessive Speeding. SJSO put the body camera footage out publicly and used…
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Tesla Just Crossed $100 Billion in Revenue. Its Operating Profit Got Cut By More Than Half.
Tesla’s shareholder letter for the second quarter of 2026 leads with a real number: trailing twelve-month revenue just crossed $100 billion for the first time in company history. That milestone is genuine, and it deserves the headline treatment it’s getting. But flip a few pages into the same filing and a much less flattering number…
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Waymo I-Pace Burns After 33-MPH Rear-End Crash In Atlanta: What Actually Caught Fire
Sunday night on the 1700 block of Cheshire Bridge Road NE, a driverless Jaguar I-Pace sat waiting to turn left onto Manchester Street. According to Waymo, another vehicle — identified at the scene by Atlanta Fire Rescue as a Jeep — hit it in the rear at roughly 33 mph. Within a minute there was…
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Ford’s Explorer and Aviator Can Now Recline Their Own Driver’s Seat, No Passenger Required
Ford just filed a new Explorer and Aviator seat recall, and the defect description alone is unusual: the driver’s seat can recline itself while the truck is sitting empty in a driveway. No one has to be sitting in it. No one has to touch it. A remote start or a remote unlock is apparently…
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Tesla’s ‘Free Supercharging For Life’ Promise Just Triggered A Class Action Payout — And The Loophole That Caused It Is Still Legal
Tesla just agreed to hand back years of parking fees to a sliver of its earliest customers. Read the coverage and it sounds like a story about a car company nickel-and-diming its most loyal owners. It isn’t, really. The real story is what happens when a company makes a promise with no expiration date, then…
