Walser Brings Ford Back After 20 Years. Ford Had Less Say in It Than You’d Think
Walser's largest acquisition returns Ford to its lineup after 20 years. The bigger story is how little control Ford had…
Auto Industry
The Service Bay Pays Your Dealer’s Bills. AutoNation Just Warned It’s Slowing Down.
AutoNation's stock fell 10.5% after a cautious investor talk. The real story is the service bay that earns half of…
Capital Automotive Just Bought Back 49 Dealership Lots. Here’s Who Actually Owns the Ground Under Your Local Dealer.
Drive past a dealership and it’s natural to assume the name on the sign owns...
Hansae Mobility Is Dropping $93 Million in Chesterfield. Michigan’s Measly $625,000 Grant Has Nothing to Do With It.
Hansae Mobility's $93.2 million move to Chesterfield Township isn't chasing a $625,000 state grant. It's beating an auto-parts tariff offset…
Volkswagen’s Old Beetle Factory Is About to Build Iron Dome Parts. The Real Story Is Why It Had To.
Volkswagen just agreed to sell a car factory to an Israeli investment firm so it...
Volkswagen Is Killing Seat To Save Its Own Spinoff — and Just Admitted To 2,600 Different Car Seat Designs
Volkswagen's plan to halve its lineup by 2030 also kills the Seat brand — and reveals a stranger number buried…
This ‘Trading Floor’ For New Cars Just Went Bankrupt. Federal Records Show It Wasn’t Even Legally Cleared To Move Its Own Inventory
Somewhere between the factory and your local dealership’s lot, thousands of brand-new cars change hands...
Advance Auto Parts’ Profit More Than Tripled. Its Actual Business Barely Grew At All.
Advance Auto Parts wants you to believe it turned a corner last quarter. Net income...
Dunlop Is Warning California About Its New Tire Rule. The Vote Already Happened.
A public comment is supposed to arrive before a vote, not after one. On August...
Volkswagen’s CEO Called It a ‘Mega-Crisis.’ His Own Numbers Say the Real Enemy Is the Org Chart
Oliver Blume did not have to reach for the words “mega-crisis.” Volkswagen already had perfectly...
Dodge Is Building a Cop Car Again Because Police Never Cared About the V8 in the First Place
The last HEMI Charger Pursuit made 370 horsepower. The turbo six replacing it makes more. The missing V8 is the…
The $20,000 Used Car Didn’t Disappear. Automakers Discontinued It
Ask a dealer why a three-year-old Camry costs about what a loaded new one cost...
Škoda’s New Flagship EV Has Flush Door Handles and a Panoramic Roof. That’s Not the Story.
Škoda’s new Peaq flagship SUV comes with flush door handles, a panoramic roof with electronic...
This Week at The Auto Wire: Full Recap (August 3–7, 2026)
A day-by-day look at everything The Auto Wire published this week, Monday, August 3 through...
Pep Boys Sold to Mavis for $700M — But Icahn Kept the Real Estate
Icahn Kept the Dirt and Sold the Garages: Inside the $700 Million Pep Boys Handoff...