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Hyundai’s AI Numbers, Decoded: What 90 Percent Faster Crash Review Really Means
Automakers have spent three years announcing AI the way teenagers announce gym memberships. Hyundai Motor Group just did something rarer: it put numbers on the board, in public, with the specific workflows attached. Some of those numbers are more impressive than they look. Some are considerably less. The occasion was an internal showcase at the…
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Your Next Car’s Biggest Winner Won’t Be the Company on the Hood
Somewhere in an engineering office in Stuttgart or Santa Clara, someone just booked a very good decade. You’re going to pay for it. The badge on your next car won’t say who. That’s the part the latest industry forecast doesn’t put in the headline. This week, research firm MarketsandMarkets published one of those projections built…
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Inside Chery’s Rosslyn Takeover: The Tax Rule Driving Its South African Plant
Rosslyn has been pressing sheet metal into cars since before the Springboks toured with a whites-only side. It has never once changed hands. That streak ended this summer, and the buyer is not who anyone in Pretoria would have picked a decade ago. Nissan and Chery confirmed the deal on 23 January 2026: the Chinese…
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Rare Black Corvette ZR1X Heads to Monterey Block With $600,000 Ceiling
A limited-run Chevrolet Corvette built to mark the nation’s 250th birthday is headed to the auction block Saturday, and the presale estimate suggests it will not go cheap. The 2026 Corvette ZR1X Stars & Steel edition coupe carries an estimate of $550,000 to $600,000 as Lot S106.1 at the Monterey 2026 sale. Chevrolet finished only…
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Samsung SDI Buys Out GM’s Indiana Battery Plant — And Signs a New Cell Deal
General Motors just sold its half of a battery factory it never finished building, and the buyer is the same company it now says it will design its next battery cell with. Both things are true at once, which is why the announcement deserves more than a one-line obituary. Samsung SDI confirmed Tuesday that it…
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Rivian Recalled Its Turn Signals Last Year. Now It’s Recalling the Recall.
On August 5, Rivian told federal regulators that a turn signal defect it already recalled hadn’t actually been contained. Fourteen months after the original filing, the automaker is back with a bigger version of the same recall. NHTSA logged the expansion as campaign 26V-508, Rivian’s internal number FSAM-1833. The defect: one or both front turn…
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Cars.com Promised to Invest in DealerClub. Then Came Layoffs, a New CEO, and an $88 Million Lawsuit
Every acquisition announcement contains a promise. Somebody says the acquired company will get more resources, more reach, more muscle now that a bigger parent is writing the checks. Almost nobody outside the deal ever gets to test whether that promise was real, because by the time it would matter, the founders have usually cashed out…
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Mexico’s Auto Parts Industry Just Set a Record — Thanks to a Tariff Loophole Shaped Like a Wiring Harness
Mexico auto parts production just had its best stretch in years. Its car factories did not. Somewhere in Coahuila, a plant is running hotter than it has in years, stamping out wiring harnesses and alternators bound for Detroit. A few states over, an assembly line that used to build finished trucks and sedans is running…
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Volvo’s EX90 Came With a Life-Saving Sensor — When Its Supplier Went Bankrupt, Owners Got SiriusXM Instead
The sensor is still bolted to the roof. What died was the promise behind it. That’s the real story buried inside a new class-action lawsuit against Volvo Car USA, and it has almost nothing to do with lidar as a technology. California driver Andy Szeto filed suit on July 31, 2026, in Los Angeles County…
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A Lyft Driver Allegedly Dragged a Man 300 Feet by His Wedding Ring – And the App Worked Exactly as Designed
The horrifying detail in this story is the wedding ring. The important detail is the paperwork. According to a complaint filed this week in Clark County District Court, David Morris was standing outside a Lyft that had pulled up to get him in August 2024. The car was locked. He knocked. Somewhere in that motion,…
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Georgia Made It a Crime to Just Watch a Street Takeover. The I-285 Crowd Never Got the Memo
That’s not a metaphor. That’s the actual statute. DeKalb County Police say they received one call around 2 a.m. Sunday reporting speeding and reckless driving near the Glenwood Road exit. By the time officers arrived, the interstate was empty. Nobody was cited. Nobody was arrested. The videos, showing cars passing within inches of spectators lining…
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Toyota’s All-Hybrid Camry Keeps Losing Its Blinkers, And This Is Its Fourth Recall Since Launch
Toyota just told federal safety regulators that starting the ignition in more than half a million Camry Hybrids might not actually start much of anything. Not the turn signals. Not the hazard lights. Not the seatbelt chime. The cause isn’t a bad bulb, a corroded fuse, or a cheap switch — it’s a software glitch…
