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A $105K Corvette Blew Up a $1.3 Million Supercar Theft Ring. The Getaway Kit Cost Almost Nothing
Two men are sitting in a Ventura County jail cell on $250,000 bail apiece, accused of running a luxury car theft ring that had accumulated a Lamborghini Aventador, two Porsche 911s, a BMW X7, a Ford Shelby GT500, a GMC Hummer, and a couple of Chevrolet trucks, north of $1.3 million in exotic and near-exotic…
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Summer Heat Is Quietly Wrecking Your Car Right Now. You Won’t Feel It Until Winter Strands You
Every summer brings the same warning, repeated by news anchors and safety groups alike: never leave a child or a pet in a hot car. It is the right warning, and it may be the only one most drivers ever hear about heat and their vehicle, which is exactly the problem. The heat damage that…
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O’Reilly’s Reported $10 Billion Bid for NAPA’s Parent Isn’t Really a Merger Story. It’s a Vote of No Confidence in GPC’s Own Spinoff Plan
Genuine Parts Company spent the better part of this year building an elaborate exit ramp for its automotive business. Tax-free spinoff, new stock ticker, standalone board, a target date of early 2027 — the whole production. Then, according to a Bloomberg report citing people familiar with the matter, O’Reilly Automotive showed up with a simpler…
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The 2026 Ram 1500 Has Been Recalled Four Times for Wiring Since December. This Week It Was the Headlights.
Stellantis is recalling 12,592 copies of the all-new 2026 Ram 1500 because the headlights can quietly turn themselves off. That’s a real defect, and Ram is fixing it for free. But treat the headlights as the least important part of this story. This is the fourth time since early December that an electrical system on…
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BYD Tried Twice to Buy Its Way Into Renault. Renault Said No Twice, and Money Had Nothing to Do With It
For most of the last two decades, if a Western automaker wanted to sell cars in China, the price of admission was simple: hand over your technology, accept a Chinese joint-venture partner, and settle for a minority stake in your own operation. General Motors did it. Volkswagen did it. Ford did it. Everyone grumbled, and…
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Toyota Just Pulled the Tacoma Out of Mexico, and It Buried the Real Reason in One Sentence
Toyota’s $3.6 billion press release out of San Antonio arrived with a governor, two U.S. senators, a lieutenant governor, a House speaker, a county judge, a mayor, and a school superintendent all lined up with quotes. That’s a lot of applause for an assembly line. Buried underneath it is a decision far bigger than 2,000…
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BMW’s Brake Defect Has Survived Three Recalls in a Row. Yes, That Includes a Rolls-Royce.
Three times since February 2024, BMW has told a group of owners the same thing: a brake recall exists, dealers will fix it, and the danger is over. Three times, the company has had to come back and admit the fix didn’t hold. The newest chapter, filed with federal regulators this month, covers only 428…
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Five Officers Got Caught Misusing Flock Cameras in Georgia. The Real Story Is How Rare That Is.
Somewhere in Albany, Georgia, a license plate reader’s own paperwork just did something eighteen other police departments couldn’t manage: it caught an officer misusing the system before a victim had to. On July 6, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation announced the arrests of five former Albany Police Department officers, Tytianna Davis, Jade Jackson, Nicholas Richardson,…
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Porsche Just Killed Its Battery Factory, Its E-Bike Brand, and a Chunk of Bugatti. The Sales Numbers Are the Boring Part.
Porsche delivered 122,306 cars worldwide in the first half of 2026, a 16 percent drop from the same period last year. China fell 32 percent. North America fell 13 percent. Those numbers are real, and they’re the reason this week’s headlines are calling it a crisis. But the delivery count isn’t the story. The story…
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What to Know for Your Morning: A Supreme Court Bombshell, Polestar’s Fire Sale, and NHTSA’s Worst Week Yet
Grab your coffee and get caught up. Four stories from the last few days are worth knowing before you start your morning: a Supreme Court ruling that just complicated the legal defense of license-plate camera networks, Polestar getting shown the door by the federal government, the truth about how often your car actually needs an…
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Georgia Made Odometer Fraud a Felony. The Bill That Did It Started Out Being About Veterans’ License Plates
A Gwinnett County car broker is accused of rolling back odometers on vehicles he resold to unsuspecting buyers. When a detective finally caught up with him, the charge on the warrant was a misdemeanor. Until a few weeks ago, lying about how far a car had driven carried roughly the same legal weight in Georgia…
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Ford Recalls 110,000 Mustangs and Mach-Es Over Wipers and a Cracked Axle. The Real Problem Is Ford’s Rollaway Year
Ford filed two new recalls with federal safety regulators this week covering 110,626 Mustangs, and on paper they read like an odd couple: a wiper motor that gets stuck on high speed in cold weather, and a rear axle shaft on the electric Mustang Mach-E that can crack in half. Different cars, different parts, different…
