Cartels Love U.S. Rental Trucks for One Reason: The Theft Paperwork Is Slower Than the Drive to Mexico
Cartels rent pickups and SUVs in the U.S. and drive them into Mexico while theft-reporting rules run days behind. California…
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Cartel Recruits Buy the Damage Waiver, Then Leave the Key. California Lets Rental Fleets Void It, and They Still Eat the Loss
Straw renters recruited online buy the damage waiver and leave the key for a driver headed to Mexico. California lets…
An Unreturned Rental Ram Can Be in Mexico by Dinner. California Takes More Than a Week to Call It Stolen
California law calls an unreturned rental embezzlement, not theft. That label slows the police report and, under a 1981 U.S.-Mexico…
Nissan Lost 152,000 Sales in Five Months. China Ate 115,000 of Them.
Nissan's global sales are down 12.1% this fiscal year, and three-quarters of the drop is China. Its forecast now needs…
Chinese Automakers Might Build in Mexico, and Nissan Is Bracing for It. Don’t Expect Those Cars to Cross the Border.
Nissan has been Mexico’s sales heavyweight for so long that it’s easy to forget how...
Volkswagen Cut a Shift on the Line That Builds Its Best-Selling U.S. Model. Puebla’s Strike Deadline Is Friday.
Volkswagen cut a shift on the Puebla line that builds its best-selling U.S. model. Workers rejected a 10.04% offer tied…
Toyota Ate a $9 Billion Tariff Bill. Now the Fight Moves to the Showroom.
Toyota's filings show a 1.38 trillion-yen tariff hit and a North American loss despite rising sales. That is why the…
Stellantis Just Threw a Supplier Town Hall in Mexico. After a $26 Billion Loss, You’d Want to Lock Down Your Lifeline Too.
Somewhere in the fine print of Stellantis’s 2026 Mexico Supplier Town Hall — between the...
Mexico’s Auto Parts Industry Just Set a Record — Thanks to a Tariff Loophole Shaped Like a Wiring Harness
Mexico auto parts production just had its best stretch in years. Its car factories did...
Kia’s New Mexican-Built EV3 Can Charge Another EV3 on the Roadside. That’s Not a Feature — It’s a Confession
Kia flipped the switch on a new assembly line in Nuevo Leon this week, and...
Trump’s Michigan Tariff Victory Lap Starred a Factory Built to Bury GM’s EV Trucks
When a president stands on a General Motors proving ground and announces that tariffs are...
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....
BMW’s New Mexican-Built EVs Arrive In 2027 — Their Batteries Are Still Just Visiting
BMW says its new Mexican EV plant proves it's serious about the country. But the batteries inside those cars are…
BMW’s Next Big EV Is Being Built in a ‘Free Trade’ Country That’s Still Taxed Worse Than Germany
BMW just confirmed that its next electric sedan and crossover will come off the line...
Mexico’s 50% Tariff Isn’t Stopping Chinese Cars — But It Is Quietly Killing Some Of Them
Mexico’s 50% tariff wall went up on January 1. Six months later, Chinese brands are...