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We Checked the ‘$1.7 Trillion Auto Debt Crisis’ Story Against the Actual Data
A widely shared report made the rounds this month with an alarming claim: America’s $1.7 trillion in auto debt is pushing repossessions back to Great Recession levels. The story struck a nerve, and the broad strokes sounded plausible. Before repeating it, we went to the primary sources ourselves to see how much actually holds up.…
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Trump Orders DOJ to Investigate Oil Companies as Gas Prices Refuse to Drop Fast Enough
Anyone who’s pulled into a gas station lately and watched the numbers spin past $50 before the tank is even half full already knows the score. Now the President knows it too, and he’s not happy about it. Trump’s Middle-of-the-Night Accusation In a Truth Social post fired off shortly after midnight Wednesday, Trump accused major…
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EVs’ Weight Problem Is Catching Up Fast, and Drivers May Soon Get the Bill
For years, electric vehicles benefited from tax breaks, incentives, and regulatory support designed to speed up adoption. Now a new reality is emerging on both sides of the Pacific: governments still want EVs on the road, but they’re realizing those vehicles create a growing infrastructure problem that somebody has to pay for. The issue isn’t…
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Georgia Drops Its Last Case Against the No2Rivian Residents Who Fought Its EV Plant
The legal fight over Rivian’s Georgia assembly plant has taken a sharp turn, and this time it’s the State of Georgia that came up empty. After spending more than a year trying to recover legal fees from the six Morgan County property owners who opposed the project, the state has lost in court and walked…
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A Tesla Killed a Grandmother in Her Own Living Room. Tesla’s Autopilot Chief Blames the Driver.
A quiet evening in a Katy, Texas neighborhood turned into tragedy on June 19 when a Tesla crashed through the front of a home near Fry Road while the Barbour family was making dinner. Seventy-one-year-old Martha Avila was sitting in the front playroom when the car punched through the wall. She suffered catastrophic injuries and…
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Porsche’s Profit Margin Just Collapsed to 1.1 Percent, and Now the Axe Is Coming for Its Lineup
Porsche just admitted its profit margin collapsed to a stunning 1.1 percent last year, and the company’s answer is to start cutting. New CEO Michael Leiters used this week’s annual general meeting to lay out Strategy 2035, a sweeping turnaround plan built around one blunt idea: Porsche needs to chase profit, not sales volume. For…
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Ford Says a Lemon Law Firm Inflated Fees by 7,000% as a $100 Million Legal War Explodes in California
California’s lemon law system was designed to protect drivers stuck with defective vehicles. Right now it sits at the center of a bitter legal war involving one of America’s largest automakers, a prominent Los Angeles law firm, and allegations that could reshape how thousands of vehicle-defect cases are handled. In a new federal complaint, Ford…
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Carjacked Toyota Camry Becomes an Alleged Weapon During an LA Rampage That Left Eight Hurt
A routine car theft allegation quickly spiraled into something far more serious on the streets of Los Angeles, leaving eight people injured, a police officer hurt, and a suspect facing a lengthy list of felony charges that could continue growing as investigators build their case. Authorities say what started as an alleged carjacking of a…
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Dead NASCAR Champion Wins Maine Moose Lottery Weeks After His Death
In a story that sounds too strange to be real, a deceased NASCAR champion was recently announced as a winner in Maine’s annual moose permit lottery. 10 Emergency Car Products You Hope You Never Need The name that appeared on the state’s list of successful applicants was Kyle Busch of Denver, North Carolina. For racing…
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Rivian Cut Hundreds of Jobs Just Days After Launching the R2, the SUV Meant to Save It
Rivian just launched the most important vehicle in its history, and then it laid off hundreds of people. The electric automaker confirmed Tuesday it’s cutting hundreds of jobs, less than 2% of its total workforce, as it tries to claw its way toward narrower losses. The timing is what stings: the cuts landed barely a…
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Ford Recalls 255,000 Focus Sedans Because It Can’t Prove a 2018 Recall Actually Worked
Ford has had a rough run with recalls lately, but this one stands apart from the usual parade of newly discovered defects. The company is calling back more than a quarter-million Focus models, not because it found a fresh problem, but because it cannot confirm that a safety recall it issued back in October 2018…
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‘The Good Car Dealer’ Allegedly Forged a Dead Woman’s Signature to Sell Hail-Wrecked Cars as Clean
A Salt Lake City shop called The Good Car Dealer faces 15 felony title-fraud counts after prosecutors say it used forged signatures, fake notary stamps, and a dead woman’s name to pass off hail-wrecked salvage cars as clean-title vehicles.
