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A Long Island GMC Dealer Says GM Starved It of Inventory. Now It Wants $15 Million.
A GMC dealership on Long Island says General Motors has been slowly choking the life out of its business, and now it wants $15 million and a federal judge to make it stop. The claim is blunt. Sun GMC in Wantagh, New York, argues the automaker has been deliberately withholding the new vehicles it needs…
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He Allegedly Drove a Stolen Truck to His Own Probation Check-In
Most people try to keep their probation check-ins boring. You show up, you sign in, you leave, and you hope nobody looks too closely at how you got there. According to police in British Columbia, one young man took the opposite approach and arrived for his scheduled meeting in a stolen Ford F-350 that had…
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10 Best Father’s Day Deals for Car Guys
Father’s Day is right around the corner, and if your dad would rather spend a Saturday in the garage than anywhere else, generic gifts just will not cut it. We rounded up the 10 best Father’s Day deals for the car guy in your life, from detailing essentials to garage tech that he will actually…
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A Solid-State Battery Is Now Actually Driving Around in a Dodge Charger Daytona
The battery technology that everyone keeps promising and nobody can seem to actually ship just rolled out onto a real road inside a Dodge Charger Daytona. Stellantis has fitted one of its electric muscle cars with a prototype solid-state pack from supplier Factorial, and the company says real-world testing is officially underway. After years of…
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An AI Camera in Athens Ticketed an Empty Seat for Not Wearing a Seatbelt
Picture the citation landing in your mailbox: a seatbelt violation, photographed, timestamped, officially issued, for the empty passenger seat next to you. No passenger. No unbuckled human. Just a chair. That’s a real category of ticket that came out of Greece’s experiment in letting artificial intelligence run traffic enforcement around Athens, and it’s the single…
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Spike Strips Meant for a Stolen Jeep Killed a Mom on I-64. Now It’s a Federal Lawsuit.
Here’s a question nobody wants to be the test case for: how fast does a stolen Jeep need to be going, and through how much traffic, before deploying spike strips on an interstate becomes a worse idea than just letting the thing run? A West Virginia family says they already know the answer, and they’re…
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The Wire Rundown: Corvette Heist, Honda Recall, and Porsche Kills the Electric 911
The Auto Wire’s morning roundup of the stories actually worth your time, recapped fast, with links to the full reports when you want to go deeper. Here’s your bulletin for Tuesday, June 16, 2026. A pair of thieves walked onto a Michigan Chevy lot and drove off in two C7 Corvettes while the dealership cameras…
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The Viral ‘Gas Pump Screw Scam’ Has One Big Problem: No One Can Find a Real Case
A scary little warning has been making the rounds: thieves are supposedly jamming a screw into the gas pump nozzle cradle so the pump keeps running after you drive away, letting them fill their own tanks on your card. It sounds like exactly the kind of low-tech, high-payoff trick that would spread fast. The problem…
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The Sub-$25,000 New Car Has Nearly Vanished. Here’s the Math Behind It.
There was a time, not that long ago, when a first-time buyer with a modest budget could walk onto a dealer lot and have real choices. Roughly three dozen of them, in fact. In 2017, the American market offered about 36 different new vehicle models with a starting price under $25,000. By 2026, that list…
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Two Corvettes Were Stolen From a Dealer Lot in Seconds, No Keys Needed
The unsettling part of the Les Stanford Chevrolet theft isn’t how much force it took. It’s how little. Two people walked onto the West Dearborn dealership’s lot, singled out a pair of C7 Corvettes, and drove them onto Michigan Avenue under the cars’ own power, no broken glass, no pried doors, no fumbling under the…
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A Planned Crew Stole Two Corvettes and a Camaro During the Hot Rod Power Tour
There are few gut-punches in this hobby quite like watching someone peel out of a parking lot in a car you spent years building with your own two hands. That’s exactly the nightmare a handful of enthusiasts woke up to at the kickoff of the 2026 Hot Rod Power Tour, when an organized crew slipped…
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The Viral Mustang ‘Fleeing’ Case Isn’t About Lights and Sirens at All
When the arrest of 19-year-old Tara Ashley Palmieri spread across social media late last year, the conversation quickly split into two camps. One side saw a reckless driver who blew past an officer in a white Ford Mustang. The other insisted it “wasn’t really fleeing” because there was no marked cruiser chasing her down with…
