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Rivian Is Turning a Dead Fry’s Electronics Into Its Newest Sacramento Showroom
The building where Northern California nerds once wandered fluorescent-lit aisles hunting for hard drives and discount motherboards is about to get a second life with a very different kind of hardware. According to a press release from Sacramento Councilmember Lisa Kaplan’s office, Rivian has signed a long-term lease for roughly 60,000 square feet at 4100…
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Trump Skipped the USMCA’s First Checkup — And Your Next Car Might Pay for It
Six years to the day after it replaced NAFTA, the USMCA hit its first mandatory checkup, and Washington failed it on purpose. On July 1, 2026, trade officials from the United States, Mexico, and Canada held the treaty’s first Joint Review, and the U.S. Trade Representative’s office confirmed the outcome. The agreement wasn’t terminated, but…
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Recall Fatigue Is Real: What to Actually Do When Your Car Gets Recalled
The recall notices keep coming, and after a while they all blur into the same beige envelope. A software glitch here. A cracked bushing there. Ninety-six thousand Hyundai Tucsons whose gauge clusters can blank out mid-drive. A generation of Ford Explorers that can shrug themselves out of Park. If you’ve reached the point where you…
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The Right-to-Repair Map: Which States Actually Let You Fix Your Own Car in 2026
Ask ten drivers whether they have a “right to repair” their own car, and most will assume the answer is obviously yes. It’s your car. You bought it. Of course you can fix it. Then they take it to an independent shop for a check-engine light, and the shop shrugs because it can’t pull the…
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Guy’s Ford Explorer Had Cop Lights and a Police Radio, So Indiana Troopers Cited Him
You can buy a lot of things over the counter that have no business being on a private vehicle, and a light bar that flashes red and blue is near the top of that list. A resident of Dubois County, Indiana apparently agreed with that concern, because a citizen tip is what pointed troopers toward…
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California Man Pleads Guilty in $476K Fake-License Car Loan Fraud
James Raymond Hanes had a simple trick, and like most simple tricks that end in a federal courthouse, it worked until it very much didn’t. Print your own face onto someone else’s driver’s license, walk into a dealership as that person, borrow money you never intend to repay, drive off, and sell the car to…
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Mercedes C300 Flees Trooper, Hits Semi Head-On the Wrong Way on I-55
Fleeing a traffic stop is a bad bet on its own. Doing it the wrong way up an interstate, straight into a loaded tractor-trailer, is the kind of move that usually doesn’t leave anyone around to explain the reasoning. This one, improbably, did. Check This Out: 5 Genius Garage Upgrades Under $100 That Make a…
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The ‘Buy American’ and ‘Buy European’ Pitch Is Getting Harder to Believe When the Platforms Keep Coming From China
Two stories crossed the wire at roughly the same moment this week, and read together they say something the marketing departments in Detroit and Europe would rather you didn’t dwell on. The first: Jeep’s next flagship SUV for the European market is reportedly slated for assembly in China rather than in the United States. The…
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The Enthusiast Car Isn’t Being Killed. It’s Being Managed Into Extinction — And That’s Worse
Nobody is going to hold a press conference to announce the death of the fun car. There will be no executioner, no dramatic final rev, no black armband draped over the last stick shift. Instead, the enthusiast car is being handled the way a struggling company handles an unprofitable division: quietly, on a spreadsheet, with…
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Trump vs. the Gas Station: Political Theater or Actual Policy?
President Trump has found a new villain, and this time it isn’t OPEC, China, or the ghost of the Green New Deal. It’s the guy standing behind the counter at your local gas station. Over the weekend, Trump took to Truth Social to warn fuel retailers of “big problems” unless the national average price of…
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Corvette Driver Hit 156 MPH Running From Troopers, Then Said He’d Just “Buy Another One”
A red Chevrolet Corvette ripped down Interstate 55 at 156 mph trying to outrun an Arkansas state trooper, and the way it ended says everything about how the driver saw the whole thing. Court and law enforcement records of the pursuit describe a chase that crossed state lines, shredded tires on stop sticks, ended in…
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Two North Carolina Men Allegedly Stole $630,000 In Semi-Trucks, Then Rented Them Back Out To Unsuspecting Businesses
Boosting a car is one kind of trouble. Making off with a fully loaded semi that weighs somewhere near 80,000 pounds is another challenge entirely, simply because there is no easy way to hide a machine that enormous. Even so, investigators say a pair of men in North Carolina figured out a system that kept…
