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A 167-MPH BMW, a Lamppost, and a Suspended Sentence: What Actually Happened on the A55
Here’s a number worth sitting with: 167 mph. That’s the speed a black BMW hit on the A55 in North Wales late on the night of February 23, with two passengers along for the ride and a driver who, it turned out, was over the legal limit for cannabis. The whole pursuit lasted about five…
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Chicago Carjackers Tried to Sell Stolen Car Back to Its Owner
There’s a particular breed of criminal decision-making on display in Humboldt Park, and it belongs to two men who allegedly stole a car at gunpoint and then concluded that the natural next step was to sell it back to the person they stole it from — in the same alley, a few hours later, in…
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Toyota’s $3.6 Billion San Antonio Bet Isn’t About Jobs. It’s About Which Trucks Are Worth Building in America.
Governor Greg Abbott just announced that Toyota is spending $3.6 billion to build a second assembly line in San Antonio. The press release runs through all the numbers you’d expect: 2,000 new jobs, a $20 million state grant, a $50,000 bonus for hiring veterans. It reads like a ribbon-cutting speech, because that’s exactly what it…
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Kia Barely Raised 2027 Carnival Prices, and That Restraint Is the Real Story
Kia raised 2027 Carnival prices by just $100, even while eating tariff costs on its only imported minivan. That restraint, not the new captain’s chairs, is the real story of where the minivan segment is headed.
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Ford’s CEO Doesn’t Want You Wrenching on Your New Bronco — Washington Just Torched That Excuse
Jim Farley has a favorite prop when he explains why Ford doesn’t want you popping the hood on your own Bronco: his own garage. In a June 10 interview with the Detroit Free Press, Ford’s CEO said he’s perfectly comfortable wrenching on a 1973 Bronco but wouldn’t dare touch a new one himself. “I have…
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The Cadillac Vistiq Seat Recall Is Really About the Safety Rule That Doesn’t Exist Yet
GM’s fix for the Vistiq’s trapped-seat defect requires new hardware, not a software patch like Hyundai used for a nearly identical problem. That gap says more about the industry’s safety blind spots than either recall notice does.
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Ford Recalls 66,000 Lincoln and Explorer Hybrids Because the First Fix Didn’t Fix It
A car that’s too quiet is, legally speaking, a defective car. That’s the part of this story Ford isn’t saying out loud. Ford has expanded a recall covering roughly 66,000 Lincoln Nautilus Hybrid and Ford Explorer Hybrid models because, under certain conditions, they fail to make noise. Specifically, a software error can silence the pedestrian…
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The Monday Recall Report: A Million Jeeps, a Rollaway-Prone Ford, and NHTSA’s Worst Week Yet
NHTSA quietly logs dozens of new recall campaigns most weeks, and almost nobody notices until a service advisor mentions one during an oil change. This week’s batch is heavier than usual: a fire risk serious enough that owners are being told to park outside their own garages, a transmission defect that has ballooned past 741,000…
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Thailand’s $4.1 Billion EV Push Isn’t About Electric Cars. It’s About Not Choosing Sides.
Thailand just put $4.1 billion behind electric vehicles. Read the fine print, though, and you’ll find something odd: nearly a third of that money is going toward technology that isn’t electric at all. That’s not a contradiction. It’s the whole strategy. The Thailand Board of Investment says it has locked in more than $4.1 billion…
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Hyundai’s World Cup Robot Halftime Show Was Really a $1.1 Billion Stress Test
A dancing robot delivering a soccer ball to a referee is the kind of story that writes itself as a novelty. Boston Dynamics’ Atlas took the field at halftime of a FIFA World Cup Round of 16 match, threw a few goal celebrations, and handed off the match ball. Cute. Shareable. Forgettable by Monday. Except…
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Polestar Just Got Banned From Selling New Cars in America — Cue the $25,000 Fire Sale
Polestar didn’t get recalled, didn’t get sued into oblivion, and hasn’t gone bankrupt. It just got told by the U.S. government that it can’t sell new cars here past the 2027 model year, and its response has been to slash prices on what’s left in the showroom by as much as $25,000. That’s not marketing…
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Tariffs Are Shrinking, Recalls Are Piling Up, and Uncle Sam Just Handed You Your Wrench Back
Ford’s most recent U.S. sales report, filed with the SEC on July 2, shows second-quarter deliveries down 10 percent to 549,200 vehicles. Taken alone, that number suggests the country stopped buying Fords. Read further into the filing and the picture flips: strip out the planned phase-out of the Escape and Lincoln Corsair and a 69…
