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Their Licenses Are Suspended. They’re Still Driving. Here’s the Loophole Nobody’s Closing
A suspended license is a piece of paper telling someone they can’t drive. It is not a physical barrier, a kill switch, or a cop riding shotgun. That distinction sounds obvious, but it explains everything. A driver who has already lost the privilege to operate a car can climb back into one the same afternoon.…
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Three More Georgia Cops Got Fired Over Flock Cameras — And This Time, Nobody Was Even Stalking Anyone
Eight days. That’s how long it took for a second Georgia police department to fire officers for misusing the same piece of hardware, caught the exact same way: not by a stalking victim, not by a formal complaint, but by paperwork nobody had bothered to check closely until somebody finally did. Garage-worthy EDC gear, on…
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Ford Turned an Illegal Tariff Refund Into a Great Quarter. A Mach-E Owner Wants His Cut.
Somewhere in Dearborn, an accountant made a call that a plaintiff’s lawyer in San Diego is about to make very expensive. When the Supreme Court ruled that Donald Trump’s global tariff program was never legal to begin with, the federal government owed Ford roughly $1.3 billion in duties the company had already paid. Ford could…
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Winnebago And Grand Design Just Recalled The Same Fire Hazard. Neither One Built It.
That’s not a coincidence. It’s the RV industry accidentally admitting, in a federal filing, that it doesn’t build the parts that can burn its product down. Garage-worthy EDC gear, on sale this week. Two Brands, One Part On July 10, Grand Design RV recalled 448 of its 2026-2027 Lineage travel trailers. Four days later, Winnebago…
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The Gas Price Gap Between Indiana and Illinois Is Almost Criminal, and Oil Has Nothing to Do With It
AAA’s national gas price average moved again this week, climbing ten cents to $3.943 a gallon. If that trajectory feels familiar, it should. Gas has been drifting back toward $4 since the ceasefire with Iran collapsed, and the culprit this week isn’t a gas station owner padding margins. It’s a crude oil market pricing in…
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Stellantis Is Bragging About European Growth. It Forgot to Mention a Chinese Company Delivered Most of It.
Stellantis told investors this week that its European shipments climbed five percent in the second quarter. That’s exactly the kind of number a company trying to prove it has turned a corner wants to lead with. Read past the top-line figure, though, and the recovery story gets complicated. A meaningful share of that growth was…
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10 Wrecked Ford Mustangs Are Sitting on Copart Right Now, Just Waiting for Someone Brave Enough to Rebuild Them
Every week, Copart’s lanes fill up with performance cars that met a rough end, and the Mustang family is no exception. From a barely-used Shelby GT500 to a well-worn V6 convertible, these wrecked and salvage Fords prove that America’s pony car keeps showing up on the auction block no matter the generation. Here are ten…
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July 2026 NHTSA Recall Roundup: 25 Recalls So Far This Month
The first two weeks of July 2026 brought a heavy wave of NHTSA recall activity, spanning passenger vehicles, heavy trucks, RVs, motorcycles, and aftermarket equipment. Below is a running list of every recall filed between July 1 and July 14, organized by date, covering an estimated 1.41 million vehicle and equipment units combined. Subaru, Kia,…
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NTSB Says the Tesla That Killed a Katy Grandmother Wasn’t Self-Driving. That’s Not the Relief Tesla Wants It to Be
Tesla did not build the software that killed Martha Avila. That’s the headline finding from the National Transportation Safety Board, and Tesla wants you to sit with it. The 76-year-old died in June after a Model 3 tore through the front wall of her Katy, Texas home doing better than 70 mph on a street…
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Police Hit Two Salesmen With 176 Charges in a Re-VIN Scheme. The Crown Quietly Dropped Every Single One
A Toronto re-VIN scheme shows just how sophisticated auto theft in the Greater Toronto Area has become, reading more like white-collar fraud than a simple car heist. A case out of Toronto Police Service’s 53 Division shows exactly how far the con has evolved. It also shows how badly it can unravel. In November 2024,…
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California Wrote An EV Rebate For Exactly Two Companies, And Tesla Isn’t One Of Them
California’s newest electric vehicle rebate is worth $3,500. The provision buried in its bill text anticipating a lawsuit is worth paying much closer attention to. On July 13, Governor Gavin Newsom signed Senate Bill 168, creating a program called MyFirstEV that hands first-time buyers a discount at the point of sale on a new electric…
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Barrett-Jackson Crashed Into the Midwest With a $38.1 Million Auction — and Shattered the Boss 429 Record
Barrett-Jackson has spent decades turning Scottsdale into the loudest week on the collector-car calendar. So the interesting question about its brand-new Columbus, Ohio sale was never whether the cars would sell. It was whether Midwest money would show up to buy them. It did. According to the auction house’s own post-sale report, the inaugural Columbus…
