Mazda’s New Safety Feature Sounds Great Until You Realize Mazda Built None Of It
Mazda wants credit today for making the highway shoulder a safer place. Read past the...
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Nissan Recalled 149 Altimas Over Airbags Bolted On With Truck Hardware
Somewhere on Nissan’s assembly line in Canton, Mississippi, a parts runner grabbed the wrong bin....
Ford’s New Safety Chief Used to Regulate Ford. That’s Exactly the Point.
Ford is simultaneously the most recalled automaker in America and, per J.D. Power, one of its best-built. Hiring a 13-year…
Dodge Is Recalling the Durango’s Spoiler a Third Time Because the Last Two ‘Fixes’ Never Actually Fixed It
Stellantis just told federal safety regulators it is recalling about 74,578 Dodge Durangos because a...
Toyota’s Grand Highlander Skipped the Screen Door on Its Grille, and Now the Feds Are Asking Why
Every three-row family SUV needs a face aggressive enough to look like it could tow...
GM’s Fix for Its Self-Destructing V-8 Was Basically an Oil Change. Nearly 7,000 Owners Say That Didn’t Work.
General Motors already recalled 597,571 trucks and SUVs to fix a defect that can cause...
A Cadillac’s Brake Complaint Just Became a 1.16-Million-Vehicle Investigation. Two of the Cars Involved Wear Honda Badges.
It started with one Cadillac. Now it’s 1.16 million vehicles wearing four different nameplates, including...
Right to Repair Just Won in Congress. Don’t Celebrate Yet.
On May 21, the House Energy and Commerce Committee voted 48 to 1 to advance...
Waymo Told NHTSA How It Decides School-Zone Speeds. Then It Blacked Out the Answer.
A nine-year-old girl in Santa Monica is fine. She stood up, walked to the curb,...
Toyota Owes 48,280 Tacoma Owners New Shocks. Somebody Has To Build 193,120 Of Them First
The corrosion fix is the easy part of Toyota’s Tacoma shock absorber recall. Building 193,120 remote-reservoir Bilstein dampers is not,…
Wall Street Cheered a Bronco Pickup That Doesn’t Exist. It Ignored 565,691 Real Ones With a Fire Risk.
On Wednesday, Ford stock jumped 4% on a rumor about a truck that does not...
Tesla’s Recalling Nearly 5 Million Cars In China Over Door Handles It Still Won’t Redesign
Tesla just told Chinese regulators it will fix nearly five million cars without a single...
Pony.ai Promised Europe More Robotaxis Than It’s Ever Built. Who Owns the Ones That Don’t Exist Yet?
Somewhere inside a routine filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission sits a sentence...
A Nearly Free Recall Just Tanked Stellantis Stock 4% — Its Own Paperwork Explains Why
Wall Street didn’t punish Stellantis this week for a broken camera. It punished the company...
Tesla’s Cybercab Has No Steering Wheel and No Backup Plan — Which Is Why Employees Ride First, Not You
Tesla has reportedly told employees to be ready for the first public-road rides in the...