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A Stolen Mercedes Hit 100 MPH With a Passenger Inside — the Fuel Gauge Was the Only Anti-Theft Tech That Worked
A black Mercedes was taken outside a Portland bar with a woman still in it and ran past 100 mph until the tank went dry. The car’s own security tech never entered the chase — and the reasons are procedural, regulatory and physical, not technical.
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Today in Automotive History: September 22, 1985 – The Plaza Accord That Moved Japan’s Car Plants to America
On September 22, 1985, five finance ministers walked into New York’s Plaza Hotel and agreed to make the U.S. dollar cheaper. No car launched that day. No safety rule changed. Even so, the Plaza Accord reshaped what Americans drive, and where those cars get built, more thoroughly than any product decision of the decade. Within…
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The Motorcycle Industry Just Found a $3.3 Billion Business That Isn’t Selling Motorcycles
The motorcycle you buy in a few years may have less to tell you about horsepower and more to tell your insurer, your dealer, and the manufacturer’s server farm. That’s the real story tucked inside a new market forecast that, on its face, is just a growth number. According to a new report from MarketsandMarkets,…
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Volvo Crammed an EV-Sized Battery Into the XC60 Plug-In Hybrid — Brussels Did the Math First
Volvo says its new long-range XC60 and XC90 plug-in hybrids are about electric range. The European Commission’s rewritten utility factors say they are about something else entirely.
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Watch: A GT-R Ran From a Georgia Trooper at 170 MPH. Federal Tire Rules Stop Testing at 99.
The Georgia State Patrol dashcam clip going around again this week is short, dark and entirely familiar: a cruiser, an interstate at night, and a Nissan GT-R at 170 mph that simply stops being there. We covered the footage when it first surfaced, when the number attached to it was 175. The version making the…
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Toyota Found a Power-Loss Bug in 21,000 EVs by Accident — While Testing a Totally Different Car
Toyota did not catch the defect behind its newest electric vehicle recall because an owner complained. It found it because engineers testing an unrelated plug-in hybrid noticed something strange in the data, then spent the better part of a year deciding whether it mattered to cars already on the road. On June 18, 2026, Toyota…
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Europe Just Made Every New Car Watch Your Eyes. America Gets the Camera, Not the Rules.
Since 7 July 2026, every new car registered in the EU must carry a driver monitoring camera — and the data rules that come with it. The hardware is crossing the Atlantic. The rulebook is staying home.
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America Is Making More Diesel Than It Has Since 2019. It Still Costs a Record $6.29.
The most useful number inside this week’s record diesel prices is not $6.29. It is $1.97 — the gap between a gallon of on-highway diesel and a gallon of regular gasoline. Sit with that one, because it is the whole story. Diesel holds roughly 14% more energy per gallon than gasoline — 137,381 Btu against…
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A Federal Court Just Decided Kia and Hyundai Can’t Hide Behind Seoul Anymore
A 9th Circuit ruling clears the way for insurers to sue Kia and Hyundai’s Korean parent companies directly over $1 billion in theft claims — and a new UCLA study explains why the theft wave isn’t going away anytime soon.
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Michigan Tested Every Cop Car Sold in America. None of Them Can Catch a Base Corvette.
Michigan State Police publish the performance numbers for every police pursuit vehicle sold in America. The 2026 results contain no sedans, a 148 mph ceiling, and a quiet admission about why the helicopter now ends the chase.
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GM’s Newest Software Just Launched in a V8 Pickup, Not a Cadillac. Follow the Volume.
General Motors introduced a new cabin interface today, and the spec sheet is the least interesting thing about it. The GM new user interface does not debut in a Cadillac. It does not debut in an EV. It debuts in the 2027 Chevrolet Silverado and the 2027 GMC Sierra: gas and diesel pickups, one of…
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Glendale’s Preteen Car Thieves Didn’t Beat Kia’s Security. They Beat Washington’s.
In September 2005, Canada’s federal transport ministry pointed to a grim statistic — stolen-vehicle crashes were killing an average of 27 people a year, with youth offenders behind an outsized share of them — and did something the United States still hasn’t done two decades later: it made engine immobilizers mandatory on every new car…
