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Ford Already ‘Fixed’ the Explorer’s Flying Roof Rails Once. Guess How That Turned Out.
Ford is recalling more than 288,000 Explorer SUVs because the covers over the roof rails can loosen and separate from the vehicle at speed. If that sentence gives you deja vu, your memory isn’t broken. Ford ran almost this exact recall in 2021, told federal regulators and owners it was handled, and moved on. Now…
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People Keep Destroying Flock Cameras Across America. The Paperwork Already Saw It Coming.
Somewhere in Ashland, Ohio, a city employee is filling out a purchase order this week for a new camera pole, a new solar panel, and probably a new wiring harness. That paperwork has become awfully familiar in a growing list of towns, from Georgia to Idaho, where someone with bolt cutters, a hacksaw, or a…
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Cadillac’s Brand-New CT5 Just Failed Crash Testing, and Whoever’s in the Back Seat Should Know Why
Cadillac’s newest CT5 just posted “Poor” ratings in two of the toughest crash tests the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety runs. Assume that means the car is simply built badly, and you’d be missing the actual story. Look at where the injuries landed instead. In the frontal test, the driver dummy came through clean: good…
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Hyundai, Kia, and GM Korea Are Barreling Toward a Strike Over Jobs the Robots Haven’t Even Taken Yet
Every summer, Hyundai and Kia’s unions sit down with management, argue about bonuses, and usually sign something before the leaves change. This year, the talks are stalling over a question the assembly line has never had to negotiate before: whether a robot gets to stand where a person used to. Garage-worthy EDC gear, on sale…
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Tracking the Flock: A Running Record of Reported License Plate Camera Misuse
Flock Safety’s automated license plate readers are now installed in thousands of U.S. towns, marketed to police departments, homeowners associations, and school districts as a low-cost way to solve crimes and find missing people. But the same feature that makes the system powerful — a searchable, cross-jurisdictional record of where a car has been —…
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Garage Deals: Nowell Leather’s Hand-Stitched EDC Gear Belongs in Every Gearhead’s Glovebox
Garage Deals is our recurring roundup of gear worth your attention. This post is done in partnership with Nowell Leather. A well-built car and a well-built wallet have more in common than you’d think. Both start with good raw material, both reward patience in the build, and both only get better with miles and years…
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Hyundai Now Owns All of Boston Dynamics, and the Robots Still Can’t Build a Car
Read Hyundai’s official statement on its new, complete ownership of Boston Dynamics closely enough, and something odd turns up near the bottom: a two-line glossary. The company felt the need to explain, for the benefit of reporters, what a “put option” is and what a “call option” is. That’s not the kind of detail a…
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Lucid Says Bankruptcy Rumors Are ‘Completely False.’ The Real Twist Is Who’s Actually Paying Its Bills
Last Tuesday, Lucid Group’s stock did something great companies aren’t supposed to do: it lost more than half its value before lunch. Shares fell as much as 57% intraday, the worst single-day drop in the company’s history as a public company, and trading was halted multiple times just to let the panic catch its breath.…
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Hyundai’s Cameras Are Seeing Ghosts, and the Recall Just Went Global
Somewhere in Ninh Binh province, Vietnam, a technician is plugging a laptop into a Hyundai Tucson and telling its front camera to stop being so jumpy. Thousands of miles away, in Fountain Valley, California, a very similar instruction is being mailed out to owners this week. Same defect. Same fix. Two different regulators, two different…
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This 360-HP Tri-Power 1965 Pontiac GTO Convertible Could Be Yours for the Price of a Raffle Ticket
A first-generation Goat near the top of your bucket list? Take a close look at the latest GTO Dream Giveaway. The prize is a sharply restored 1965 Pontiac GTO convertible. It wears Starlight Black paint over a parchment interior and a white power top. That silhouette turned a mid-size Pontiac into the car that kicked…
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Miami’s Fake Driver’s-License Ring Got Busted by a Stuck Earpiece — But the DMV Should Be More Embarrassed Than the Suspects
One of the men allegedly cheating his way through the Florida driver’s license exam this month failed anyway. Not because the scheme didn’t work — because the earpiece feeding him answers got stuck in his ear canal, and fire rescue had to remove it. That’s the detail everyone will remember from this story. It shouldn’t…
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Toronto Police Dropped 176 Fraud Charges Against These Salesmen. Ontario Still Won’t Let Them Near a Car Lot
Two former Mitsubishi dealership managers in Toronto just beat 176 criminal charges tied to an alleged stolen-car scheme. Every single one, gone. And neither man can legally sell you a car in Ontario right now. That gap, between total criminal exoneration and total professional exile, is the real story here. It says far more about…
