A Cadillac Did Donuts at a Michigan Wedding and Got Impounded. It Might Be Home Before the Honeymoon
Dearborn Heights police impounded a Cadillac CT5-V in late July after investigators say its driver...
Safety
New Jersey Police Dressed Up As Bushes To Catch Texting Drivers
A police officer in Dunellen, New Jersey spent six hours this week standing inside a...
Washington Yanked 24,000 Truckers Off the Road and Called It a Safety Win. Then It Started Begging Veterans to Replace Them.
Every trucker pulled off the road for a safety violation has to be replaced by...
This Week’s Scary Car Death-Rate Rankings Didn’t Come From a Safety Regulator. They Came From Insurance Wearing a Lab Coat
Somewhere in the foothills of central Virginia, there’s a nonprofit that has spent more than...
A Kia Dealer Got Caught Cannibalizing One Customer’s SUV to Fix Someone Else’s. Firing the Manager Doesn’t Fix What’s Actually Broken
The Lake Charles, Louisiana woman dropped her Kia SUV off at Kia of Lake Charles...
IIHS Releases Zero Driver Death List. Here’s Who’s Paying for It.
Six vehicles just posted a perfect record in the most sobering scorecard in the auto...
Ram Recalled 1.5 Million Trucks Over a Seat Belt Bolt. Stellantis Already Told Investors It Was Coming.
Stellantis didn’t need a technician crawling under a Ram 1500’s rear bench to figure out...
Flock’s AI License Plate Readers Are Wrong Most Of The Time, And That’s Somehow Not The Craziest Part
In the summer of 2024, a Roseville, California, police officer called a driver to deliver...
Ford Recalls 86,543 Mustang Mach-Es Because Its Factory Got Faster Than the Glue Could Handle
Ford wants owners to read this as a story about a rear window molding that...
Stellantis Worker Dies in Fall at Center Line Facility
On Saturday, Aug. 1, a 57-year-old UAW Local 1248 member, identified as Brasher, died after...
Tesla ‘Fixed’ This Suspension Failure Twice Already. NHTSA’s New Files Say That Didn’t Work.
Federal safety regulators just opened a new investigation into Tesla’s front suspension. That’s not really...
Jeep Recalled 641 Wranglers Over Cracking Steel Wheels — Which Defeats the Entire Point of Steel Wheels
Jeep wants this to read as a story about 641 wheels. It isn’t. It’s a...
BYD Patented A Car That Won’t Start If Something’s Alive Underneath It. That’s Not Even The Real Story
Picture a cold morning outside Shenzhen. A BYD hatchback sits in a driveway, and a...
Mercedes Recalled 310,000 Cars Over a Rollaway Risk, and the Parking Brake Was Never the Problem
Somewhere in a driveway right now, a Mercedes-Benz is trusting the wrong thing. Not its...
Rivian Blamed Its Mechanics for a Falling-Apart Rear Suspension. Two New Crashes Say That Wasn’t the Whole Story
Rivian already recalled its rear toe link once. NHTSA's new investigation shows that recall covered barely a sixth of the…