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Hyundai’s $1.7 Billion Flying Taxi Bet Just Shrank to Fewer Than 80 Employees
From a workforce big enough to run engineering, development, and flight testing across three facilities to fewer than 80 people in one office — that’s the scale of the retreat at Supernal, the electric air taxi startup backed by roughly $1.7 billion from Hyundai Motor Group. The Cuts, By the Numbers Supernal eliminated 296 jobs…
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A Road Rage Argument in Matthews, NC Escalated Into an Alleged Baton Attack Miles Later
What began as a verbal exchange between two drivers in Matthews, North Carolina, allegedly turned violent miles down the road, after the confrontation followed one of them to where she’d parked. What Police Say Happened According to Matthews police, the incident started with a road rage dispute and escalated when the man allegedly trailed the…
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144 Charges, One Dealership: Why Title Paperwork Is at the Center of This PA Fraud Case
Nearly 150 criminal charges against a single Pennsylvania used car dealership owner sounds like an overwhelming number until you break down where most of them actually come from: not the sales themselves, but how the paperwork behind them was allegedly handled. The Scope of the Case Pennsylvania State Police announced Tuesday that 49-year-old Khaled Yaye,…
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Porsche Must Buy Back This $281K GT3 — But the Bigger Legal Fight Is Just Getting Started
Porsche has already been ordered to buy back a $281,940 911 GT3 after a Lemon Law arbitration ruling. That should be the end of the story. Instead, it’s just the opening chapter of a much broader fraud lawsuit that could reshape how the case is remembered. Two Separate Legal Tracks, One Car Buyer Abdul Azizi’s…
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Stellantis’s $26.3 Billion Loss Is the Price Tag for Betting Too Hard on EVs, Too Fast
Stellantis just posted a $26.3 billion net loss for 2025, and $29.9 billion of that came from what the company itself calls “unusual charges” tied almost entirely to one decision: pushing an aggressive electric vehicle transition faster than customers were actually ready to follow. Whose Strategy This Was — And Who’s Now Unwinding It The…
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This Week’s Auto Industry Recap: Dealer Revolts, EV Strategy Shifts, and Safety Fights (March 2–7, 2026)
Automakers and their own dealer networks spent this week on opposite sides of the table, while the industry’s broader retreat from an all-electric future kept accelerating and safety disputes stayed firmly in the headlines. Below is a rundown of the stories that mattered most between March 2 and March 7 — from a nationwide dealer…
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Dozens of Break-Ins at Ford’s F-150 Plant Might Be Linked to a Second Heist 30 Miles Away
Police initially counted around 20 damaged vehicles in the parking lots outside Ford’s Kansas City Assembly Plant in Claycomo, Missouri. Employees who work there say the real number could be double that — as high as 40 to 50 — and investigators now believe the break-ins may be tied to a second theft operation happening…
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Gas Prices Jumped 9% in a Week — Here’s the Attack on Shipping That Triggered It
A 9 percent jump in a single week is the kind of move that gets noticed at the pump immediately, and this one traces back to attacks on vessels near one of the world’s most critical oil chokepoints. The Numbers at the Pump Gas prices across the United States have climbed to $3.25 per gallon…
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Gas Cans, a Stolen Ambulance, and a DHS Building: How Idaho Investigators Pieced Together an Alleged Arson Plot
Hours before a stolen ambulance was driven into a federal building in Meridian, Idaho, surveillance cameras at a nearby Walmart allegedly captured the woman accused of the crash buying the gasoline cans investigators say she later used in an attempt to set the building on fire. A Night Documented Almost Entirely on Camera Authorities say…
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VW’s Own Dealers Are Suing to Stop Scout From Selling Cars the Tesla Way
Volkswagen’s answer to Tesla-style direct sales is running straight into resistance from the one group it needs on its side: its own dealer network. Who Filed the Suit and Why It Covers Every VW Dealer Two East Coast dealerships — Sunrise Imports, which operates Volkswagen of West Islip in New York, and Curran Volkswagen in…
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Inside the 4-Year Scheme That Used a Virginia Dealership’s Name to Fake $2 Million in Car Loans
None of the cars ever existed in the dealership’s inventory. That didn’t stop banks from wiring the money anyway — and it took federal investigators tracking losses across two dozen financial institutions to unwind exactly how. A Dealership Used as Paper, Not a Sales Floor Adrian Knight, 41, of Virginia Beach, owned Ace Auto Sales…
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A Trooper PIT’d a Parent Rushing a Sick Child to the Hospital. Now Arkansas Is Reviewing What Went Wrong.
A state trooper trying to stop what looked like a fleeing vehicle on I-630 in Little Rock instead ended up disabling a car carrying a parent racing a child in medical crisis to the hospital. Charges against the driver have now been dropped, but the more consequential question — whether the trooper’s use of a…
