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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…
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The Pickup Trucks Mechanics Trust to Cross 250,000 Miles
Plenty of modern pickup trucks can cross 200,000 miles with proper upkeep, but a smaller group has earned an actual reputation among mechanics and long-time owners for going well beyond that mark. Walk into repair shops and fleet operations across the country, and the same names keep coming up when the conversation turns to trucks…
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A Waymo Robotaxi’s Eight-Lane Turn Terrified Passengers, and It’s Not the First Time
A viral video showing a Waymo robotaxi attempting to cross eight lanes of traffic has reignited a debate the auto industry and tech world have been trying to settle for years: are fully autonomous cars actually ready for real-world roads? The footage, filmed inside a driverless Waymo ride in Phoenix, shows passengers reacting in alarm…
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Trucker Charged After BB Gun Shatters Car Window in I-40 Road Rage Case
A tractor-trailer driver was arrested in North Carolina after deputies say he fired a BB gun at another vehicle during a road rage incident on Interstate 40. The incident happened in Haywood County on March 10 and left the rear window of a passenger vehicle shattered. Deputies identified the driver as 52-year-old Billy Franklin Swaim…
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How 14 People Got Charged Over California’s Montana Supercar Tax Dodge
California prosecutors have charged 14 people accused of using a Montana registration scheme to dodge state taxes on luxury and exotic vehicles, following an investigation into hundreds of high-end car sales. Officials say the charges stem from an effort by some California residents to register vehicles through Montana-based LLCs instead of registering in California, where…
