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Your Morning Automotive News Round-Up
Here is everything The Auto Wire published on Wednesday, September 16, 2026 — Stellantis selling its Brampton plant to an armoured-vehicle maker it already partners with, a federal judge refusing to let Porsche arbitrate away its Taycan battery-fire lawsuit, Beijing’s license-plate math against California’s new classic-car smog exemption, the 1908 bet that built General Motors,…
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The 3D-Printing Revolution in Cars Already Happened. It’s in the Tool Crib, Not on the Car.
A new large-format printer aimed at car factories has exactly the same build volume as the one before it, and weighs 159 kg more. The constraint was never size.
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Tesla’s Next Roadster Finally Has a Reveal Date. Here’s What’s Real, What’s Patent, and What’s Pure Hype.
Tesla’s second-generation Roadster has spent so long as a reservation page that owners of the first one could have raised a kid to driving age in the meantime. On Saturday, September 12, the company finally gave it a date. Tesla’s official X account posted a teaser with a two-word-plus-one caption, “Go for launch,” and Elon…
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Hyundai’s Georgia-Built Waymo Robotaxi Isn’t a Patriotism Story. It’s a Compliance Deadline.
The first IONIQ 5 robotaxis arrive in the fourth quarter. A Commerce Department rule makes Chinese-origin driving software unsellable from model year 2027 — that is the real clock.
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Tesla’s Grok AI Is About to Start Texting for You — Here’s What the Manual Already Confirms
Buried in the fine print of the Tesla Model Y manual is a small addition that says a lot about how Tesla ships software these days: a new line under Grok’s “Assistant” mode telling owners they’ll soon be able to ask the AI to fire off a text message on their behalf. Say something like…
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Hand a Dealer Your Supercar and the Law Lets Him Sell It, Even If That’s a Crime
A New York owner nearly lost a Lamborghini and $200,000 in a dealer upgrade scheme. The rule that almost cost him the car says it applies even when the sale is larcenous.
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California Just Gave Classic Cars a Smog Exemption That Expires in 2033 — By Design
Jay Leno’s Law reads like the biggest favor Sacramento has done for classic car owners in decades. It isn’t, not really. Governor Gavin Newsom signed Senate Bill 1392 this week at Leno’s Burbank garage, the same warehouse eclectic enough that its owner once had to register as an arms dealer just to accept a delivery,…
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Watch: Murder Suspect Steals Cop Car And Slams It Into House
Sometime after 11:45 p.m. on September 3, 2026, a Dayton police officer’s SUV sat idling and unattended at the scene of a crash near West Third Street. That gap is what a homicide suspect used. Having already wrecked one vehicle while fleeing police, he walked back into the scene, climbed behind the wheel of the…
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Beijing Never Banned the Gas Car. It Just Stopped Issuing the License Plates.
VW and Toyota are slashing prices on combustion cars in China. In Beijing, only 20,000 combustion plates will be issued this year against 160,000 for EVs — and a discount cannot buy a permit.
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McLaren’s Family-Sized Gamble: What Woking Has Confirmed, and What’s Still Just Rumor
The McLaren SUV story has picked up some very specific luggage lately: a 2028 arrival, room for five, and wheels measuring 24 inches across. Before anyone starts clearing garage space, here’s the skeptic’s note. McLaren has not confirmed any of it. No official statement from Woking names an SUV, a seat count, a wheel size,…
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Today in Automotive History: GM Was Founded on September 16, 1908 — On a Bet Henry Ford Refused to Copy
On September 16, 1908, a Flint carriage salesman who once called automobiles “noisy, smelly, and dangerous” filed incorporation papers in New Jersey and spent $2,000 to create the General Motors Company. William Crapo Durant already ran Buick. By the time he was done buying, he controlled roughly two dozen more companies. The choice he made…
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A Judge Just Rejected Porsche’s Bid to Dodge Its Taycan Battery Fire Lawsuit
Porsche wanted this one to disappear quietly into arbitration. It didn’t work out that way. A federal judge in Atlanta has refused to let Porsche Cars North America wriggle out of a proposed class action alleging that the Taycan’s 800-volt battery pack has a fire problem the automaker hasn’t actually fixed — despite three separate…
