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An LA News Chopper Ditched a Police Chase to Report on Two Chickens
Los Angeles police chases are usually intense, chaotic, and nearly impossible to look away from. In one bizarre moment caught live from above, though, a news helicopter broadcast veered completely off course, and into something nobody expected. Instead of the high-speed pursuit that usually defines LA traffic coverage, a reporter got fixated on a pair…
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Auto Tariffs Have Cost Automakers $35 Billion, and Buyers Are Footing the Bill
If buying a new car already feels expensive, there’s a concrete reason, and it isn’t going away soon. U.S. auto tariffs introduced last year have already cost automakers more than $35 billion, and that fallout is landing squarely on drivers in the place it hurts most: the price tag. This isn’t an abstract trade policy…
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A Phone Call, Not a Hack, Exposed 12.4 Million CarGurus User Records
A massive data breach tied to automotive marketplace CarGurus has exposed roughly 12.4 million user records, and new details point to a targeted social engineering attack rather than a conventional system hack. The incident, which surfaced in February 2026, has been linked to the hacking group ShinyHunters, a name that keeps showing up in high-profile…
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10 Vehicles That Become a Financial Nightmare When Gas Prices Spike
Gas crises don’t just change how much you pay at the pump, they change which vehicles actually make sense to own. History bears this out repeatedly, from the oil shocks of the 1970s to more recent price spikes tied to global instability. When fuel gets scarce or expensive, certain vehicles go from desirable to genuinely…
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How 400 Stolen Vehicles Vanished From Detroit and Turned Up Overseas
What happened in Dearborn isn’t just another theft story, it’s a wake-up call for anyone who owns a vehicle. Authorities have dismantled a sprawling international operation responsible for stealing and exporting roughly 400 high-end vehicles worth more than $40 million, turning Metro Detroit into a pipeline for global auto crime. This wasn’t smash-and-grab theft. It…
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$5 Gas and a Federal Lawsuit Are Colliding Over California’s Car Rules
The fight over what Americans are allowed to drive just escalated again. The Trump administration has launched a direct legal challenge against California’s vehicle-emission rules, setting up a high-stakes clash that could ripple into gas prices and the future of the internal combustion engine alike. At the center of it is California’s long-running push to…
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How France’s Privatized Car Registration System Let a Million Cars Slip Through
France is dealing with a massive automotive scandal that could touch nearly one million vehicles, and the root cause traces back to a controversial decision to partially privatize the country’s vehicle registration system. A move meant to make registration faster and more efficient instead opened the door to large-scale fraud, letting fake companies register vehicles…
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Neo Gabrielsen, Fallon Frederick Charged After Diary Ties Them to Stolen Sports Car
A routine call about a panhandler outside a Colorado grocery store led to two arrests, a stolen sports car recovery, and a personal diary that investigators are calling one of the more unusual pieces of evidence they’ve come across. Here’s how the case against Neo Gabrielsen and Fallon Frederick, both 21, actually came together. It…
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Stolen Lamborghini Urus Leads Melbourne Police on a 15-Hour Chase Before Crashing
A stolen Lamborghini tearing through city streets for nearly a full day sounds like a movie plot, but police in Melbourne, Australia say that’s essentially what happened after a teenager allegedly took a high-performance Lamborghini Urus and spent 15 hours evading authorities before the chase ended in a crash. A 16-year-old boy was arrested after…
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The Federal Government Just Sued California Over Its 2035 Gas Car Phaseout
A major legal fight over the future of gasoline-powered cars is now underway, and its implications reach well beyond California’s borders. The U.S. Department of Transportation has filed a lawsuit against the California Air Resources Board, targeting the state’s plan to phase out new gasoline-powered vehicle sales by 2035. At stake is a bigger question:…
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Porsche’s Profit Fell 98% in a Year, Here’s What Actually Went Wrong
Porsche has spent decades as one of the most profitable car companies on the planet. That reputation just absorbed a genuinely staggering hit. The German performance icon reported operating profit of just €90 million for 2025, a collapse from €5.3 billion the year before, a 98% drop so extreme it rattled investors and pushed the…
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Stolen Corvette Chase Uncovers Machine Gun, Ends in 20-Year Prison Sentence
A high-performance sports car theft in northern Illinois turned into a far more serious criminal case once police found a weapon capable of fully automatic fire inside the car. The suspect at the center of it is now heading to prison for two decades, and the case shows how quickly a routine stolen-vehicle stop can…
