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Ford’s Latest Recall Letter For Almost 400,000 SUVs Is Basically Just An IOU
The defect itself already got the deep dive it deserves. The Auto Wire covered how this exact bezel-and-switch problem burned Ford once in 2025 and is now back for a sequel. What hasn’t gotten enough attention is the letter itself: what an interim recall notice actually promises, what it doesn’t, and what it quietly does…
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Norway Went Hunting for a Chinese Kill Switch in a Bus. It Found Out Every Connected Vehicle Already Has One
Norway spent months trying to prove that a Chinese-built city bus could be remotely disabled by its manufacturer. It found that proof. What nobody expected is that the same capability has been sitting inside American cars for nearly two decades, sold back to drivers as a safety feature. Ruter, the transit authority that runs public…
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Waymo and Uber Are Breaking Up Again, and This Time It’s About Who Vacuums the Back Seat
Nine years ago, Waymo dragged Uber into federal court and accused it of stealing the blueprints for its self-driving program. Uber settled for $245 million in stock rather than let a jury decide. Six years after that, the two companies went into business together anyway, putting Waymo’s robotaxis inside the Uber app in Phoenix. Now,…
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Philly Recovered 30 Stolen Hondas In A Month. The Arrest Count Is Still Zero, And That’s The Real Story
A stolen car turning up isn’t the same as a case getting solved. Philadelphia just spent a month proving that, thirty times over. Over the past month, Philadelphia police have recovered roughly 30 stolen Honda vehicles scattered across the city, most of them already stripped down to the frame by the time anyone found them.…
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Trump Got a Drag Race and Signed a Corvette. GM Got Something Way More Valuable.
Presidents don’t typically get invited past the guard shack. Milford Proving Ground has spent a full century keeping outsiders away from General Motors’ most sensitive engineering work, and in all that time, no sitting president had ever set foot inside. On July 27, Donald Trump did. He watched a drag race, climbed into a six-figure…
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Waymo’s Robotaxis Are Racking Up Austin Parking Tickets Because Free Curb Space Beats a Real Garage
Waymo’s Austin robotaxis have picked up 83 parking tickets worth $9,325. The fines aren’t the story. The business decision behind where these cars idle is.
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A Rental Car Theft Ring Shipped Stolen SUVs to Ghana for a Year. The Weak Link Wasn’t the Car.
Amadou Diol just got five years in federal prison for stealing more than 20 rental cars. That’s the headline. It’s also the least interesting part of this story. Because somewhere overseas right now, likely in Ghana, Nigeria, or the UAE going by federal export data, there’s a decent chance a Honda CR-V or a Dodge…
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Volkswagen Quietly Recalled 57,851 Atlas SUVs Over Vanishing Backup Cameras While Loudly Selling You the Next One
Volkswagen told federal safety regulators that 57,851 examples of the 2024-2026 Atlas and Atlas Cross Sport can lose their backup camera image because of a low-voltage electrical glitch. That’s the recall. It is not the interesting part. The interesting part is what Volkswagen didn’t publish about it. The same stretch of weeks this recall was…
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Trump’s ‘More Than Your Parents’ Line Was The Least Interesting Thing Said At GM This Week
President Trump stood at GM’s Milford Proving Ground on July 27 and told a crowd of autoworkers, “I’ve done more for you than your parents, OK?” It’s a memorable line. It is also the least important thing that happened in the auto industry that week. The real story was sitting in General Motors’ own numbers,…
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Tesla Says a Supplier Held Its Cybertruck Tooling for Ransom. Owning the Dies Was Never the Same as Controlling Them.
This Cybertruck tooling lawsuit started on July 21st, when a team of Tesla employees drove to a die-casting plant in Troy, Texas, a small town near Waco, to collect equipment Tesla had already paid for. They brought local law enforcement with them. They were turned away at the door anyway. Two days later, Tesla’s lawyers…
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Car Dealers Keep Falling Into The Same PPP Trap, And One Whistleblower Won’t Stop Collecting
Two auto dealer groups just wrote the federal government a combined check for $3.6 million over loans they took out six years ago, in the panicked spring of 2020. That’s not really the story. The story is that both companies got caught by the identical legal trap, filed by the identical whistleblower, using the identical…
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10 Best Cargo Rack & Roof Rack Deals on Amazon Right Now
Every road trip eventually runs into the same problem: the trunk fills up before the packing list does. Roof baskets, cargo bags, hardshell boxes, and hitch-mount carriers all solve that in different ways and at very different price points. We looked through Amazon’s current lineup and picked ten of the best deals available right now,…
