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Ohio Cops Tracked a Stolen Kia With a GPS Dart. It Still Crashed Into 2 Cars in Dayton.
A Moraine officer tagged a stolen Kia with a StarChase GPS dart and backed off. The Kia crashed into two cars in Dayton anyway, and Ohio law leaves the victims few places to send the bill.
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Police Say a Gunman Killed a Man in a Tesla at an Idaho Supercharger, Then Tesla Let Drivers Flee Plugged In — at Up to $25K in Damage
Tesla’s new Emergency Drive Away lets drivers leave a Supercharger still plugged in. Tesla says the damage can reach $25,000, and its own rules ban breakaway devices.
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BYD’s Shark 6 Security Fix Closes the Door a Researcher Used, and an Aftermarket App Goes With It
BYD says an over-the-air update will close the Android debug route used in the Four Corners Shark 6 demonstration. An accessory maker has already paused its app, and the manufacturer access the researchers simulated is untouched.
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Your Car’s Phone App Roughly Doubled Its Ad-Tracker Exposure. Owners Can Switch Off Some of It
Northeastern researchers found that pairing a companion app roughly doubled a car’s exposure to advertising and tracking companies. Phone settings and privacy requests can cut some of that back. None of them is an off switch.
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Tacoma Wrecks a GT-R and McLaren 570S at Cars and Coffee and Narrowly Spares an SVJ
A Toyota Tacoma plowed into a Cars and Coffee lineup in Cypress, Texas, totaled a GT-R and a McLaren 570S, and missed a Lamborghini Aventador SVJ by feet. Best and worst day of his driving life, same parking lot. An attendee’s Threads video post, dated 05/17/26, says the truck ran into the exotics and left…
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Dodge’s 1,348% Charger Sixpack Jump Started From 238 Leftover Cars
Stellantis’s Q3 chart shows gas Charger sales up 1,348%, measured against 238 old-generation cars. Counted whole, the Charger rose 22% to 3,679, and Dodge now runs on the Durango.
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A Stolen $50,000 Chevelle Allegedly Went for $9,500 Cash and No Title. The Buyer Is Charged Too.
A federal indictment says a 1972 Chevelle SS taken from a St. Louis collection was sold for $9,500 cash with no title and a punched ignition. The buyer faces charges too.
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Stellantis Is Grading Its Quality Fix on Three-Month-Old Cars. The €4.1 Billion Bill Is for Older Ones.
Stellantis booked €4.1 billion in 2025 for defects in vehicles it had already shipped. The quality metric it now reports only covers a car’s first three months.
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Dayton Detectives Recover One-Owner ’70 GTO Judge After Rig Theft
If you’ve towed a show car more than a few hours from home, you know the bad night of sleep. The trailer is in a hotel lot, the truck is hitched to it, and you’re upstairs telling yourself nobody is going to take all three. In Dayton, Ohio, a North Carolina family found out the…
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Spotter Lawsuit Verdict: Jennifer Jo Cobb Faces $850,002 Under NC Heart-Balm Law
Jennifer Jo Cobb spent most of two decades doing one of the hardest jobs in NASCAR: keeping an underfunded team on track mostly through stubbornness. A Davidson County jury has now handed her a bill roughly six times what her trucks earned in posted winnings in 2013. On Sept. 24, after a three-day trial in…
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CarMax Now Makes $111 Less on Each Car and $116 More on Everything Sold With It
CarMax cut its per-car margin to revive sales, then earned it back on extended service plans and the shop while its lender moved deeper into Tier 2 credit.
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Iowa Lawyer Gets Prison for Telling Medicaid the Rolls-Royce He’d Crashed Was Worth $194,000
Timothy Anderson valued his crashed 1961 Rolls-Royce Phantom V at $194,000 on a client’s Medicaid application. The car exemption he used is still on the books.
