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…
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He Imported 44 Fake Honda Airbags. The Trademark Is What Made It A Federal Crime.
Twenty counterfeit Honda airbags reached the United States labeled as desktop night lights. The federal case that followed rests on…
Detroit’s Chinese-Assembly Ban Push, 4,100 More Porsche Cuts, and What Else Moved
Four separate alerts landed on the same argument today, which usually means a policy fight...
A $245 Million Crypto Thief Bought 28 Supercars, and Car Dealer Money-Laundering Rules Never Applied
Malone Lam pleaded guilty to stealing $245 million in crypto and spent it on at least 28 exotic cars titled…
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...
This GM Dealer Lawsuit Has Two Defendants. Only One of Them Sells Cars.
A family-owned Chevrolet-GMC store on the Arizona-Mexico border just sued General Motors for fraud. That...
Copart Just Dropped $1.9 Billion on ACV. It Didn’t Pay for the Auctions.
Copart announced a $1.9 billion deal for ACV Auctions on the same day it reported a flat fiscal year. The…
IDScan Got Hacked. Guess Who’s Actually on the Hook — Not IDScan.
IDScan.net has confirmed the data breach behind 153 million leaked driver licenses. Under the FTC Safeguards Rule, the dealership that…
Hand a Dealer Your Supercar and the Law Lets Him Sell It, Even If That’s a Crime
A New York owner nearly lost a Lamborghini and $200,000 in a dealer upgrade scheme. The rule that almost cost…
Beijing Never Banned the Gas Car. It Just Stopped Issuing the License Plates.
VW and Toyota are slashing prices on combustion cars in China. In Beijing, only 20,000 combustion plates will be issued…
The Fed Hasn’t Cut Rates Once This Year. Car Loans Got Cheaper Anyway.
The Federal Reserve meets again this week to decide, for the seventh time in 2026,...
Toyota’s Paint-Warranty Program Got Robbed From the Inside. The Dealer Still Had to Pay Toyota Back $2.1 Million.
Somewhere in a Toyota service drive outside Boston, a claim gets typed into a warranty...
An Alabama Dealership Just Made Youth Sports Almost Free. Don’t Mistake That For Charity.
A car dealership in Albertville, Alabama just cut the price of a season of youth...
A Serial Dealer Kept Flipping Rooftops. Stellantis’s Own Bank Just Sent a $3.9 Million Bill With His Name on It, Too
When a car dealership closes, most people assume the customers take the hit. Sometimes they...
You Handed Your License to the Rental Car Counter for a Few Minutes. That Might Have Been All It Took.
Brian Krebs remembers the moment clearly enough. He and his mother stood at a Hertz...