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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…
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China’s EV Industry Just Culled 27 of Its Own Brands. The 3 Survivors Are Coming for Your Dealership.
Everyone is reading China’s EV market numbers as a story about slowing demand. It isn’t. It’s a story about a cull that has already picked its winners, and the brands still standing are about to export the exact strategy that let them win, straight to dealerships in markets that have never seen a Chinese badge…
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GM Just Spent $275 Million to Put a Gas Engine Back Into Its Cadillac EV Plant
Spring Hill, Tennessee, doesn’t get much attention outside of GM’s investor calls, but for the past several years it’s been ground zero for one of the more expensive bets in the modern auto industry: Cadillac’s push to become an electric-first brand. LYRIQ. LYRIQ-V. VISTIQ. A $2.3 billion battery joint venture with LG Energy Solution. This…
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Gas Is Creeping Back Toward $4 a Gallon Because of Iran, and Cancelling Netflix Won’t Fix What’s Actually Broken
President Trump said on July 8 that the ceasefire with Iran is over, and warned that more strikes could follow. Within hours, AAA’s national average ticked to $3.796 a gallon, and GasBuddy’s head of petroleum analysis was already warning the number could push toward $4 in the days ahead. Right on schedule, the personal finance…
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ENDS NOW: The Auto Wire Readers Get More Entries to Win Two of the Rarest Mopars Ever Built
Some giveaways offer a nice classic car. Others offer a modern performance machine. This one gives you both. But not just any two Mopars. The Dream Giveaway Mopar Dream Machines Sweepstakes is offering one winner the chance to own a 1-of-1 1970 Plymouth Cuda 340 Convertible and an incredibly rare 2023 Dodge Challenger SRT Demon…
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Honda’s Odyssey Backup Camera Keeps Losing to Water — and the Fix Is Another Camera
If you own a late-2010s Odyssey and feel like you’ve read this recall notice before, your memory is fine. Honda is calling back 325,588 minivans from the 2018 through 2020 model years because water can work its way into the rearview camera, corrode the electronics, and leave you staring at a black screen the moment…
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Kia ‘Fixed’ the Telluride’s Fire-Prone Seats in 2024. Now It’s Recalling the Fix.
Kia just told the owners of nearly half a million Tellurides to park outside, away from their homes and other vehicles, because the front seats might catch fire. Park-outside recalls aren’t shocking anymore. What’s easy to miss in Kia’s announcement is this: these are the same 462,869 vehicles the company already recalled for this exact…
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Toyota Just Reversed Its Own Tacoma Playbook, and Nobody’s Talking About the Axles
Toyota did not spend $3.6 billion in San Antonio because it rediscovered patriotism. It spent that money because the math on where you’re allowed to build a profitable mid-size truck just changed, and the company is now paying to undo a decision it made only a few years ago. On July 6, Toyota Motor North…
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Kia’s Telluride Fire Fix Failed, So Kia Is Recalling Its Own Recall
Kia isn’t just recalling nearly 463,000 Tellurides for a fire risk this week. It’s recalling the recall that was supposed to have already solved that fire risk two years ago. On July 2, 2026, Kia filed NHTSA campaign 26V430000, covering 462,869 examples of the 2020-2024 Telluride. The notice tells owners to park outside, away from…
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Tesla’s Own Earnings Call Just Became Exhibit A in a Federal FSD Lawsuit
For nearly a decade, “Full Self-Driving” has been the priciest checkbox in the car business that doesn’t do the thing printed on the tin. Now a Model S owner in Frankfort, Kentucky has turned Elon Musk’s own words into the spine of a federal class action — and the sharpest thing about the case isn’t…
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A Wasilla Diesel Mechanic’s Pardon Exposes the EPA’s Cold-Weather Blind Spot
Somewhere on the Dalton Highway this winter, a loaded semi will lose power at forty below zero — not because the engine failed, but because a sensor decided its emissions system wasn’t behaving. That scene never made it into the federal indictment against Mackenzie “Mac” Spurlock. It’s also the only way to understand why he…
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Brussels Says Its Car Industry Is in ‘Mortal Danger.’ It Left Out Who Loaded the Gun
Stéphane Séjourné, the European Commission’s executive vice-president for industry, told the European Parliament this week that Europe’s car industry is in “mortal danger.” That’s not a phrase officials reach for over soft quarterly sales. He meant the kind that ends factories, towns, and careers. But sit through the full debate, not just the sound bite,…
