A Kia Dealer Got Caught Cannibalizing One Customer’s SUV to Fix Someone Else’s. Firing the Manager Doesn’t Fix What’s Actually Broken
The Lake Charles, Louisiana woman dropped her Kia SUV off at Kia of Lake Charles...
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Kia ‘Fixed’ Its Telluride’s Flaming Seats In 2024. The Fix Could Catch Fire, Too.
Kia just told the owners of 462,869 Tellurides to park their SUVs away from the...
Wall Street Says Wireless Car Updates Are a $17 Billion Business. The Real Payoff Is Making Your Recall Invisible
Somewhere in the next year, your car might get recalled and you’ll never know it...
Kia Just Spent $649 Million To Build an EV It Has No Intention of Selling You
This week, welding robots inside a Kia plant in Nuevo León, Mexico, started getting reprogrammed....
California Is Bragging About Falling Car Theft Numbers. It’s Suspiciously Quiet About Why
The California Highway Patrol wants you to know that vehicle theft fell 25 percent last...
Hyundai And Kia’s Self-Disinfecting Cars Aren’t Really About Germs. They’re About Cars No One’s Left To Clean.
Hyundai and Kia just told the world they’re building UV lights into car interiors to...
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...
July 2026 NHTSA Recall Roundup: 25 Recalls So Far This Month
The first two weeks of July 2026 brought a heavy wave of NHTSA recall activity,...
Kia ‘Fixed’ the Telluride’s Fire-Prone Seats in 2024. Now It’s Recalling the Fix.
Kia just told the owners of nearly half a million Tellurides to park outside, away...
Kia’s Telluride Fire Fix Failed, So Kia Is Recalling Its Own Recall
Kia isn’t just recalling nearly 463,000 Tellurides for a fire risk this week. It’s recalling...
Kia Barely Raised 2027 Carnival Prices, and That Restraint Is the Real Story
Kia raised 2027 Carnival prices by just $100, even while eating tariff costs on its only imported minivan. That restraint,…
The Auto Wire Week in Review: VW’s Job-Cut Bombshell, a Wave of Recalls, and the Wildest Police Chases
Volkswagen spent the week weighing the kind of job cuts that reshape a company’s identity,...
Kia’s Telluride Windshield Lawsuit Just Survived Its Sixth Year in Court
Kia tried to make a class action lawsuit over cracking Telluride windshields go away, and...
Kia to Retrofit Over 4 Million U.S. Vehicles With Anti-Theft Hardware
A Fix Years in the Making Kia is moving to retrofit more than four million...
Fall River Rescue Crews Pull Driver From Kia Wedged Atop a Mustang After Bizarre Crash
A Strange Scene at a Busy Intersection A two-vehicle crash near Route 6 and Robeson...