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Ford’s 2026 Recall Tally Tops 10 Million Vehicles as Park-System Defect Hits 741,000 SUVs and Trucks
Ford’s year with federal safety regulators keeps getting worse, and Tuesday piled on another headline. The automaker is recalling 741,195 trucks and SUVs in the United States over a transmission defect that can wreck the park system and let a parked vehicle roll away on its own, per the federal safety filing with NHTSA. The…
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Ford Fired a Diabetic 11-Year Veteran Over a $1.95 Cookie He Actually Paid For
Imagine grinding out 11 years at one of America’s most brutal factories, then getting your entire career vaporized over a chocolate chip cookie. Not a case of cookies. One cookie. A $1.95 Grandma’s cookie that — plot twist — was actually paid for. According to reporting from Shifting Gears, that is the genuinely unhinged saga of Kurt…
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McLaren Driver Allegedly Ran a Red Light on a Suspended License, Killing a Chicago Woman in a Brutal Chain-Reaction Crash
A six-figure supercar, an empty pre-dawn intersection, and one ignored traffic signal. That’s the arithmetic that ended in tragedy in Chicago this week — and it’s since spiraled into a criminal case, a fatality, and a manhunt for a second driver who reportedly vanished from the scene. Chicago police say 38-year-old Garland Spikes now faces…
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Porsche CEO Promises the 911 Will Never Go Fully Electric, So Put Down the Pitchforks
If you’ve spent the last couple of years lying awake, sweating over the possibility that the Porsche 911 would one day trade its glorious flat-six for a silent stack of batteries, you can finally get some sleep. Porsche CEO Michael Leiters has gone on the record, and the message is about as clear as it…
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Florida Man Tried to Pull Over an Unmarked Cop. It Was an Undercover Sheriff’s Car
There’s a special kind of bad luck in trying to impersonate a cop and accidentally picking an actual cop as your victim. That, according to the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office, is exactly what happened on June 24, 2026, when a black Chevrolet Suburban lit up its emergency lights and tried to pull over a vehicle…
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Florida Man Ditches a Stolen Ford Rental, Then Tries to Pedal Away From the Crime Scene
Grand theft auto usually implies a getaway with some horsepower behind it. Not in the Florida Keys, where a 41-year-old man allegedly swapped a stolen Ford rental for a bicycle mid-escape, and it ended up being the detail that sank him. Deputies say the mismatch between the crime and the exit strategy made the case…
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Volkswagen Weighs Closing Four German Plants and Cutting 100,000 Jobs in Its Biggest Gamble Yet
Volkswagen is reportedly considering the most severe restructuring in its 89-year history, and the scale of it is hard to overstate. People familiar with internal discussions say the automaker is weighing the closure of four German factories and the elimination of up to 100,000 jobs. If it moves forward, it would be the largest overhaul…
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Nissan’s Own Lender Wins $40 Million Judgment Against Its Manhattan Dealers
Nissan’s in-house lender just walked out of federal court with a $40.1 million judgment against a group of its own Manhattan dealerships, and the path to get there reads like a cautionary tale about picking a fight you can’t win. The dealers were the ones who threw the first punch, accusing Nissan Motor Acceptance Corp.…
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Toyota Deepens RAV4 Production Cuts as Shortage Stretches Into 2027
Toyota just widened its production retreat again, and the RAV4 is once more caught in the crossfire. The automaker had previously warned that roughly 83,000 vehicles would be cut from its overseas production plan between June and November. That figure has now climbed to around 100,000 units, with the reduced schedule stretching all the way…
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VW, Porsche, and Honda All Stumbled the Same Week, And It’s Not a Coincidence
The global auto industry just lived through one of its roughest stretches in recent memory, and the through-line was impossible to miss: the legacy giants that once set the industry’s pace are now restructuring in public, slashing payrolls, shedding models, and rewriting strategies they staked their futures on only a few years ago. Why VW’s…
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The 2027 Hyundai Elantra Gets a Bigger Body, an Angrier Face, and an AI Co-Pilot
Hyundai just pulled the wraps off the eighth-generation Elantra in South Korea, where it’s sold as the Avante, and the headline is that the company apparently decided its compact sedan needed to look considerably more aggressive. Six years after the outgoing model debuted, the new car ditches the swoopy, origami-inspired look for something Hyundai is…
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Ford Recalls 741,000 Trucks and SUVs Over a Park-by-Wire Rollaway Risk
If you own a late-model F-150, Expedition, Navigator, Explorer, or Aviator, here’s something worth paying attention to: your vehicle might treat “Park” as more of a suggestion than a command. Ford is recalling 741,195 vehicles because a glitch in the park-by-wire system can allegedly let them roll away unexpectedly, which is exactly the kind of…
