Polestar Blamed Washington For Its U.S. Exit. One Dealer Says That’s A Convenient Excuse — And Wants $25 Million To Prove It
When the federal government tells a car company it can no longer sell its product...
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Cars.com Promised to Invest in DealerClub. Then Came Layoffs, a New CEO, and an $88 Million Lawsuit
Every acquisition announcement contains a promise. Somebody says the acquired company will get more resources,...
Volvo’s EX90 Came With a Life-Saving Sensor — When Its Supplier Went Bankrupt, Owners Got SiriusXM Instead
The sensor is still bolted to the roof. What died was the promise behind it....
A Lyft Driver Allegedly Dragged a Man 300 Feet by His Wedding Ring – And the App Worked Exactly as Designed
The horrifying detail in this story is the wedding ring. The important detail is the...
Nobody Actually Owns a Ford Dealership. Ford Does – And a Kentucky Court Just Proved It
There’s a Ford store in Grayson, Kentucky, a town of about 4,000 people, with a...
Tesla’s ‘Insane’ Mode Is On Trial For A Salon Crash. It Shouldn’t Be The Only Defendant
A Tesla Model Y ended up inside an Arlington, Virginia hair salon this month, and...
Mercedes-AMG’s Metal Badge Is So Fancy It’s Allegedly Branding Owners Like Cattle
Two Southern California drivers have handed the auto industry a real-world lesson in a problem...
VW’s Atlas Water Pump Can Cause ‘Catastrophic Engine Failure.’ Volkswagen’s Fix Is a Claim Form, Not a Recall.
Somewhere in a New Jersey federal courthouse, Volkswagen’s own lawyers signed off on a sentence...
Tesla’s Test Drives Have No Chaperone. A Torched Hair Salon Just Showed Why That Matters
Tesla doesn’t work that way, and a new $10.3 million lawsuit out of Arlington, Virginia...
Wichita’s License-Plate Cameras Misidentify Cars Up To 20% Of The Time. Now A Local Is Suing To Rip Out All 200
A minivan does not look anything like a pickup truck. Different silhouette, different proportions, different...
O’Reilly Auto Parts Charged Workers Extra For Smoking. A Judge Just Said: Show Your Homework.
Everyone assumes a tobacco surcharge lawsuit is about the money. It rarely is. On July...
New York City Fixed Its Illegal Car-Crushing Program. It Left One Loophole Big Enough For A Mercedes-Benz.
Buried inside New York City’s sanitation code is a clause that reads like a guest...
Motive Sold Truckers an AI Camera to Keep Them Out of Court. Now the Camera Is the One Being Sued
For the better part of a decade, the sales pitch behind putting an AI camera...
Ford Fixed The F-150’s Oil-Burning V8, Then Quietly Un-Fixed It To Protect Its MPG Numbers
Somewhere in a Ford engineering file is a piston ring. It isn’t exotic, and it...
A Private Surveillance Network Built on Tow Trucks Has Scanned 9 Billion License Plates. California Courts Just Said That’s Fine
Somewhere in California right now, a tow truck is rolling down a residential street, and...