Ford’s New Remote Kill Switch Isn’t Really About Stopping Car Thieves. It’s About Owning The Off Switch.
Ford wants you picturing a thief. Someone jimmies open your F-150, leaves your own key...
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A Thief Couldn’t Start This Stolen Porsche, So He Dragged It Down the Street Like a Shopping Cart
Nobody was driving the Porsche that tore up Tujunga Avenue in North Hollywood last Thursday...
Advance Auto Parts Let a Clerk Play Detective. Now a Wrongly Accused Mom Wants $15 Million
Nobody at Advance Auto Parts hired anyone to run a police lineup. But that is...
These Salesmen Beat 176 Stolen-Car Charges in Court. A Paperwork Loophole Still Destroyed Their Careers
Two car salesmen just got cleared of 176 criminal charges apiece for selling stolen vehicles,...
A $105K Corvette Blew Up a $1.3 Million Supercar Theft Ring. The Getaway Kit Cost Almost Nothing
Two men are sitting in a Ventura County jail cell on $250,000 bail apiece, accused...
A Stolen Carvana Car Hauler Turned Highway 231 Into a Demolition Derby in Bay County
Car haulers are built to move other people’s vehicles slowly and carefully. They are not...
Two North Carolina Men Allegedly Stole $630,000 In Semi-Trucks, Then Rented Them Back Out To Unsuspecting Businesses
Boosting a car is one kind of trouble. Making off with a fully loaded semi...
Freed From Jail, He Allegedly Stole a Car From the Courthouse Parking Lot Within Minutes
A Second Chase, Days After the First Most people released from jail try to keep...
Thieves Stole an Australian Mom’s Truck With Her Baby Inside — Then Drove Back to Return Her
Sarah Hill, 32, was standing in the driveway of her Garbutt home in Townsville, Australia,...
The Wire Rundown: Corvette Heist, Honda Recall, and Porsche Kills the Electric 911
The Auto Wire’s morning roundup of the stories actually worth your time, recapped fast, with...
The Classic Car Fraudster Sentenced to 60 Years Just Filed an Appeal
The Galveston County classic-car restorer who was handed a 60-year prison sentence earlier this year...
Thieves Tracked Power Tour Owners to Their Hotels and Stripped the Lot Overnight
The people driving in this year’s Hot Rod Power Tour spent Monday showing off some...
A McLaren and a Bentley Were Seized in a $30 Million Kids’ Medicaid Fraud Case
Federal prosecutors say four people in Ohio turned a children’s health program into a personal...
A Fully Equipped Cop SUV Was Stolen From an Oakland Garage, and It’s Still Missing
Stealing a cop car is the kind of thing that usually only happens in a...
Oakland’s License Plate Cameras Generated So Many Alerts, It Muted the Stolen-Car Ones
The pitch behind automated license plate readers is seductively simple: give an understaffed department a...