Your Headlights Aren’t Illegal. They’re Just Legally Blinding You.
Somewhere on a two-lane road tonight, a lifted pickup or a three-row SUV is going...
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Tesla Engineers Wrote a Memo Called ‘Radar Saves Us.’ Then Tesla Ripped Out the Radar Anyway.
Somewhere in Tesla’s files sits a document titled “Radar Saves Us.” Two words past the...
Honda’s Rear Windows Keep Shattering For No Reason. Honda Found A Legal Word That Isn’t ‘Recall.’
Somewhere in Montreal last January, in the kind of cold that turns steering wheels into...
One Faulty Chip Can Shut Down Almost Every New Land Rover On The Road — And There’s Still No Fix
Forget the part number for a second. The real story buried inside Jaguar Land Rover’s...
Ford ‘Fixed’ the Explorer and Aviator’s Collapsing Seats Last Year. It Didn’t, So Now There’s a Sequel
Ford just told federal regulators that almost 388,000 Explorers and Lincoln Aviators have second-row seats...
Nissan’s Biggest SUVs Have Been Wearing the Wrong Weight Label Since 2011, and Nobody Noticed
Nissan just told federal regulators that 168,149 of its biggest SUVs have been carrying the...
Norway Found a Remote Kill Switch in a Chinese Bus. Your Car Has One Too.
Last summer, engineers working for Oslo’s public transit agency drove two electric buses into an...
A Zoox Robotaxi Drove Blind Into a Wall of Smoke at a Fire Scene. A Human Had to Rescue It
On June 20, an empty Zoox robotaxi drove into a wall of smoke on a...
Traffic Deaths Just Hit an 11-Year Low. Give the Credit to Anything but American Drivers
The Department of Transportation wants a victory lap. Traffic deaths fell 4.3% in the first...
Ford Already ‘Fixed’ the Explorer’s Flying Roof Rails Once. Guess How That Turned Out.
Ford is recalling more than 288,000 Explorer SUVs because the covers over the roof rails...
Hyundai’s Cameras Are Seeing Ghosts, and the Recall Just Went Global
Somewhere in Ninh Binh province, Vietnam, a technician is plugging a laptop into a Hyundai...
Winnebago And Grand Design Just Recalled The Same Fire Hazard. Neither One Built It.
That’s not a coincidence. It’s the RV industry accidentally admitting, in a federal filing, that...
BMW Says 29,000 Hybrids Might Catch Fire — Good Luck Finding Out if Yours Is One Before Next Month
If you own a BMW 330e, 530e, or 740Le built sometime in the last decade,...
Ford Quietly Tested Its “Quality Comes First” Ads on Factory Towns Before Anyone Else Saw Them. That’s Not a Coincidence
Ford just won its first J.D. Power quality crown since 2010, and its new “Quality...