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Honda Is Opening a New Dealership Down the Road. Its Longtime Dealer Says That’s Not Even the Worst Part
A car dealership losing a fight with its own manufacturer over territory is not, by itself, news. It happens quietly, in state administrative hearings nobody covers, most weeks of the year. What makes the complaint filed this week by a longtime Maryland Honda dealer worth a second look isn’t the new store American Honda wants…
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The Internet Called It A ‘Snitch Car’ Patent. Ford’s Filing Says Something Very Different.
Somewhere in the comments under a story about a new Ford patent this week, a reader summed up the internet’s mood in one furious paragraph: cars are about to start ratting out speeders to the police, and the country is sliding toward a surveillance state one dashboard sensor at a time. It’s a great comment.…
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Porsche Signed A $1.46 Billion AI Deal. Investors Sold The Stock Anyway.
Porsche spent this week trying to sell investors a story about artificial intelligence. The stock market read the same press release and sold the shares instead. On August 25, Porsche AG signed a five-year, roughly €1.25 billion ($1.46 billion) services agreement with Tata Consultancy Services, the Indian IT giant that is also acquiring MHP, Porsche’s…
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Lucid Doesn’t Build A Single Car In Canada. Its Stock Still Fell The Hardest.
Monday’s sell-off gave Wall Street a tidy morality play. President Trump threatened to raise tariffs on Canadian-built cars, trucks, and parts to 50 percent, and the stocks that fell hardest were, sensibly enough, the automakers most exposed to the Canadian supply chain. Ford dropped 3.6 percent. Stellantis lost 4.2 percent. General Motors gave back 1.6…
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NHTSA Could Require Cars To Stop Before Backing Over A Kid. It’s Handing Out Gold Stars Instead.
Every new car sold in the United States will soon be legally required to stop itself before rear-ending the vehicle ahead. The deadline is September 1, 2029. Nothing requires a car to stop itself before backing over a toddler in a driveway. Consumer Reports just asked federal regulators to start closing that gap. The regulator’s…
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Ford Cookie-Firing Fallout: Fired Worker Hires Defamation Lawyer to Take On Ford and Aramark
In July, Ford fired 11-year Kentucky Truck Plant electrician Kurt Kromm over accusations that he’d stolen a $1.95 pack of cookies from a self-checkout snack kiosk, despite bank records showing he’d actually paid for it. As we covered when the saga first broke, Kromm was marched off the job and publicly branded a thief before…
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Texas Busted an Alleged $12 Million Oil Theft Ring — But the 60 Seized Trucks Tell the Real Story
When the Texas Department of Public Safety stood up at a podium in Midland and announced it had cracked an alleged organized oil theft ring, the number everyone repeated was $12 million. That’s the headline. It isn’t the interesting part. Buried in DPS’s own case summary is a line that matters more to anyone who…
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A Murder Case Alert Was Never Deleted — So Cops Pulled Guns On Innocent People Weeks Later
The camera did exactly what it was built to do. That’s the uncomfortable part. On August 6, a car merged onto Interstate 94 outside Milwaukee and rolled past a Flock Safety license plate reader. The system matched the plate to an active homicide investigation and pushed a wanted-vehicle alert to nearby patrol units. Minutes later,…
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Hands-Free Laws Were Never About Safety. New Crash Data Proves They Were About Loopholes
That’s the headline. It’s not the real story. Every state in the country regulates distracted driving in some form. Twenty-one of them now ban holding a phone at all behind the wheel. All of that legislation, all of that enforcement, all of those windshield reminders to pull over before texting, is built on police crash…
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Tariffs Aren’t Why Your Car Parts Are Stuck At The Border. Here’s What Actually Is.
Your bumper cover is not stuck at the border. It’s stuck in a footnote. Anyone who has called a body shop in the last week has probably heard some version of “we’re waiting on parts, it’s the tariffs.” That’s true in the way that “it’s the weather” explains a canceled flight. The useful version is…
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Lucid Just Recalled More Cars Than It Sold All Last Year — Because the Tail Lights Might Start a Fire
Lucid Motors has now recalled more cars over a fire risk than it delivered in all of 2025. Read that math again. The company delivered 15,841 vehicles last year, its best year yet. The recall it just filed with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration covers 27,185 of them. That’s not a rounding error. That’s…
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Mazda’s New Safety Feature Sounds Great Until You Realize Mazda Built None Of It
Mazda wants credit today for making the highway shoulder a safer place. Read past the headline, and most of that credit belongs to two other companies, using technology that already existed, that only works if the driver behind you happens to be running the right app. That’s not a knock on the idea. It’s a…
