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No, GM Didn’t Leak the C9 Corvette. Here’s What Was Actually on That Screen.
The internet decided this week that General Motors had slipped up and leaked the next Corvette. A mysterious sports car flashed across a screen in a GM video, screenshots flew, and suddenly everyone was calling it the C9. It’s a great story. It’s also wrong, and the truth behind that blurry shot is honestly more…
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Thieves Tracked Power Tour Owners to Their Hotels and Stripped the Lot Overnight
The people driving in this year’s Hot Rod Power Tour spent Monday showing off some of the best muscle cars in the country at the Route 66 Raceway. By Tuesday morning, several of them woke up to smashed glass and empty parking spaces. Thieves had followed the cars back to their hotels and gone to…
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Jeep Recalled a Million Wranglers and Gladiators for Fire Risk, and There’s No Fix Yet
Jeep just told more than a million Wrangler and Gladiator owners that their vehicles carry a fire risk, and the part that should worry people most is what the company admitted right alongside it. There is no fix available yet. The recall covers over a million Wranglers and Gladiators. The problem lives in the wiring…
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GM Is Killing Off Its Biggest Silverados, and a Factory Deal Died With Them
Chevrolet is walking away from some of the biggest trucks that wear the Silverado badge, and the timing says a lot about where the medium-duty truck market is heading. GM has decided not to renew its production agreement with International Trucks, and as a result the Silverado 4500HD, 5500HD, and 6500HD will be discontinued this…
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An Uber Passenger Filmed His Tesla Driver Apparently Asleep at Freeway Speed
A rideshare trip on one of Southern California’s busiest freeways turned into something an Orange County passenger felt he had to get on camera. Earlier this year, the customer pulled out his phone and recorded his Uber driver seemingly asleep behind the wheel of a Tesla while the car was moving along the 405 Freeway.…
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Dodge Is Sending the Charger to Europe Right After It Flopped at Home
Dodge is packing up the new Charger and shipping it to Europe, and the timing is what makes the move so strange. This is the same car that just posted some of the ugliest sales numbers in the brand’s recent history at home. So while the announcement reads like a victory lap for an iconic…
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Feeding Our Future’s Founder Gets 41.5 Years and a $240 Million Bill
The seized Porsche Panamera turned out to be only the opening move. Aimee Bock, the Minnesota nonprofit founder at the center of one of the largest pandemic-era fraud schemes in U.S. history, has now been sentenced to roughly 41.5 years in federal prison and ordered to repay more than $240 million. When we last reported…
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A Father Chased His Son’s Stolen Truck. The Suspect Should Have Been Behind Bars.
A Houston father of five is dead after he went looking for his son’s stolen truck, and his family is not just grieving. They are asking a harder question: why was the man charged with killing him free to be on the street at all? Louis Erebia, 56, was shot and killed Saturday afternoon, and…
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Lotus’s CEO Set a Weight Limit for ‘Real’ Sports Cars. His Own Hypercar Fails It.
The boss of Lotus wanted to make a point about weight, and he made it a little too well. CEO Feng Qingfeng declared that any sports car tipping the scales past 3,968 pounds is mediocre, a line that sounds perfectly on brand for a company built on being light. The problem showed up almost immediately.…
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A 145 MPH Chase Just Showed Why Florida’s New Speeding Law Has Teeth
A Hudson man learned the hard way that Florida’s roads are no longer the place to test a sport bike’s top end. Jeff Freymuller, 44, is sitting in the Pasco County Jail after Florida Highway Patrol says he pushed a motorcycle past 145 mph while leading troopers on a 16-minute pursuit that wound across half…
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The DOJ Wants Apple and Google to Unmask 100,000 Car Tuner App Users
If you own a tuner, a diesel truck, or really any car that talks to an app on your phone, this one should land close to home. The Department of Justice is no longer just going after the companies it accuses of breaking emissions law, it’s now reaching for the people who bought their products.…
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Jeep Told a Million Owners Their Truck Could Catch Fire. There’s No Fix Yet.
Jeep just told more than a million Wrangler and Gladiator owners that their vehicles carry a fire risk, and the part that should make people uneasy is what the company admitted next. There is no fix yet. The recall is out, the danger has been identified, and the remedy is still missing. That is the…
