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EPA Built Its Smog Rule Around EVs That Aren’t Coming. Now It Wants Two More Years for Gas Cars
The EPA’s 2024 tailpipe rule counted on electric cars to carry its smog and soot limits. With EV forecasts cut to 8 percent, the agency wants to delay Tier 4 to 2029, and gasoline particulate filters wait with it.
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Watch: Florida Driver Tossed More Than $6,000 From a GMC Sierra in a Pearland, Texas Chase, Then Got Charged With Tampering
Pearland, Texas police say a Florida man threw more than $6,000 from a GMC Sierra during a chase. The tampering count he faces runs into a 2020 ruling on evidence thrown in plain view.
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Georgia Driver Woken by a Deputy Fled at 90-Plus MPH Into a Five-Car Crash, Then Got 8 Years — and No Restitution Order
A Commerce man woken by a Hall County deputy fled at over 90 mph into a five-vehicle crash. His plea: 8 years to serve, $8,216 to the state, and no restitution order.
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The Company That Builds the Silverado Just Shipped Its First Patriot Missile Parts
GM Defense delivered PAC-3 MSE housings to Lockheed Martin 22 days after signing a contract. A seven-year missile ramp wants Detroit’s foundries and machine shops, but rocket motors won’t move that fast.
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GM Has Now Recalled These Silverado and Sierra Airbags at Least Five Times. Here’s What Keeps Failing.
GM has opened another recall on the side-curtain airbags of its previous-generation full-size pickups. Federal recall data lists campaign 26V611000 under the summary “Air Bag Inflator Endcap May Detach.” It covers 1,559 vehicles under GM recall number N262569920: certain 2016 Chevrolet Silverado 2500/3500 and GMC Sierra 2500/3500 trucks, plus 2016–2017 Silverado 1500 and Sierra 1500…
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The Corvette Outran the Trooper at 156 MPH. It Couldn’t Outrun the Radio Call to Missouri.
A red C8 Corvette ran from an Arkansas trooper at 156 mph on I-55. It lost anyway, to spike strips staged across the Missouri line and a brake check that ended in a field.
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Delaware Police Say Fake FedEx Drivers Took $680,000 in Electronics. One Walked Back to the Truck While Troopers Were There.
Delaware State Police say two men posing as FedEx drivers used fake paperwork to haul off $680,000 in electronics. The trailer was found the next day at a Newark shopping center.
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Watch a Missouri YouTuber Tear Down a 2022 F-150 EcoBoost That Hit 180,000 Miles in Four Years, Then Find a Piston Burned Straight Through
A 2022 Ford F-150 Lariat that rolled out of the factory in May 2022 had 180,000 miles on it about four years later, and its twin-turbo 3.5-liter EcoBoost V6 ended up on an engine stand in Missouri. The host of the YouTube channel I Do Cars, whose videos send parts buyers to Importapart, a used-parts…
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Newsom Signed Four California DUI Laws. One Doesn’t Kick In Until 2031.
Gov. Gavin Newsom signed four drunk-driving bills on September 25. His office’s announcement describes stiffer criminal penalties for repeat offenders, longer revocations and ignition-interlock requirements, more DMV points for fatal crashes, and license revocations of up to six years for drivers with four or more priors. All of that is true in a technical sense.…
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Illinois Motorcycle Pursuit Started Next to a Gas Station and Ended About a Minute Later on an Empty Tank
A Peoria County dashcam video opens on a gas station. About a minute later, deputies say, the stolen motorcycle they were chasing ran out of gas.
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Driver Crashes Into Dallas Repair Shop, Gets Pulled From Burning Car, Leaves Before Police Arrive — Now Shop Says Someone Took the Plates
A driver was pulled from a burning car after crashing into Wayne Motors in Far North Dallas, then left before police arrived. Texas law says the building owner was owed a call.
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To Escape an Alleged Knife Attack, a Surrey Man Rode on the Outside of a Stranger’s Reversing Tesla
Video from the Tesla’s driver shows the car pulling away in reverse at 24 km/h while the man police say was being chased with a knife held onto the open passenger door.
