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...
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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...
Hertz Investors Sue After a 40% Wipeout — the Fleet Math Behind the Collapse
On June 24, Hertz told the market two things at once: that demand was fine,...
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...
Holmes Motors Repossessed a Deploying Soldier’s Car Without a Warrant. The $137,000 Fine Is the Least Interesting Part of This Story
A soldier in Alabama handed her car dealer a copy of her deployment orders. The...
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...
Hertz Fleet Depreciation Lawsuit: What The DPU Collapse Really Means
Hertz Told Investors The Fleet Was Fixed. Six Weeks Later, The Disposal Lane Said Otherwise...
Wally Darwish Got the Deal of a Lifetime on Ten Dealerships. He Just Got a $30 Million Bill for Treating Them Like His Personal ATM
Ten car dealerships in the small, rural markets of upstate New York spent the better...