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Atlanta Cops Were Hunting a ‘Top 5 Most Wanted’ Car Break-In Suspect. He Was Walking Down the Middle of the Road.
Atlanta police say a 20-year-old on the Auto Crimes Unit’s Top 5 Most Wanted list was arrested after officers saw him walking in the road. Georgia’s sidewalk law, Supreme Court stop rulings and the state’s felony car break-in statute explain how.
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Ukraine Police Say a Breaking Bad-Style Crew Planned to Move Methadone Disguised as Car Fluid. 12 Vehicles Seized.
Ukraine’s National Police say a Kyiv-region lab planned to smuggle liquid methadone disguised as car fluid in a vehicle with a built-in hiding place. Twelve vehicles are now in police hands.
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GM Is Yanking the Silverado 1500 Out of Canada, and Oshawa Is Going All-In on Heavy-Duty
For a few years, Oshawa Assembly could claim something no other GM truck plant in North America could: it built the light-duty Silverado 1500 and the heavy-duty Silverado HD on the same production line. That ends in November. GM has confirmed the 1500’s exit from the Ontario plant and says it will make up the…
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Eight Cars, Including Three Camaros and a Trans Am, Fell Off the Feds’ List in a Texas Insurance Fraud Case
DOJ said in July it had seized 22 vehicles from Texas insurance broker Clayton Iley. The October forfeiture order covers 17, and eight of the July cars are not on it.
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Hyundai Hides Its Hybrid Motors Inside the Transmission. Georgia’s Getting $560 Million to Build More of Them.
Hyundai Transys will spend nearly $560 million in West Point, Georgia, to build more hybrid transmissions, the part that holds the drive motor in Hyundai and Kia hybrids and the key to Hyundai’s 80 percent U.S. parts target.
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Georgia Wrongful-Death Suit Goes After the Dealer, the Installer and the Maker of a Six-Inch F-150 Lift
Most lifted-truck lawsuits go after the driver and stop there. This one goes after everyone who touched the truck. In September, Lolita Holloway filed a wrongful-death complaint in the State Court of Gwinnett County. Her husband, Charles Holloway Jr., died on Jan. 8 when a Ford F-150 driven by Scott Douglas Kneiss allegedly crossed the…
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What’s Left of Hethel After Tariffs Took a Sledgehammer to Lotus
At the end of August 2025, Lotus told its British staff that up to 550 roles were going. Thirteen months later, the effects are still showing up in Lotus’s filings, and they are worth reading closely. The company described the restructuring as a way to give it a “flexible and agile business model,” able to…
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Honda Is Burying 150-kW Wireless Chargers Under Japanese Highways, and Big Rigs Are the Target
A 20-ton electric delivery truck has to haul its own fuel tank, and that tank is a battery: heavy, expensive and slow to refill. Honda’s idea is to leave part of that battery in the road. On October 5, Honda announced the project alongside construction giant Taisei Corporation and its paving subsidiary Taisei Rotec. Together…
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A 30-Mile Buick GNX Just Sold for $427,000, More Than Double What It Brought in 2024
Do the math on Buick GNX #450 and it gets uncomfortable quickly. The black 1987 coupe sold for $427,000 on Bring a Trailer in late September with 30 miles on the odometer. That works out to roughly $14,233 for every mile the car has covered since it left the factory. The buyer didn’t pay for…
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Car Thefts Are Down in All 50 States This Year. Chicago Apparently Didn’t Get the Memo.
There’s a rare kind of crime statistic: one where every column points the same way. The National Insurance Crime Bureau’s midyear numbers are one of them. Police logged 268,415 vehicle thefts nationwide from January through June. That’s 21% fewer than the same stretch of 2025, and all 50 states posted a year-over-year decrease. The national…
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Every Major Car Recall From the Last 60 Days, in One Place. Go Check Your VIN.
Jeep, Ram, Ford, GM, Toyota, Volkswagen and Rivian lead a busy 60 days of car recalls. Here is every major recall from Aug. 9 to Oct. 8, 2026, and how to check your VIN.
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California Just Kneecapped the Montana LLC Trick. Dodge the Tax Now and the Bill Follows You Home.
SB 1406, signed Sept. 30, makes members of out-of-state shell companies personally liable for unpaid use tax on cars, RVs, boats and planes used in California.
