ZF Is Ending 120 Years of Steering Production in Lafayette. The Engineers Get to Stick Around.
ZF's WARN notice counts 133 jobs at its Lafayette steering plant, down from about 200 a year earlier, while the…
Trucks
A Georgia Widow Is Suing Over the Lift Kit on the F-150 That Hit Her Husband Head-On, Two Years After the State Exempted Most Modern Lifted Trucks
A Georgia widow's suit targets the dealer, installer and makers of the lift kit on the F-150 in her husband's…
Contaminated LED Chips Could Leave Ford’s Super Duty and Expedition With Dim Headlights
Modern LED headlights are sold as the set-and-forget part of a new truck. They’re supposed...
Watch: Garbage Truck Crew Releases Bear Locals Call ‘Chungus’ From the Back of Their Truck After a Worker Realized the Animal Was Inside
A waste collection crew released a bear that locals call “Chungus” from the back of...
Ford Recalls 565,691 Broncos Over a Wiring Harness That Can Chafe, Arc and Risk a Fire
Recall headlines love big numbers, and this one has a whopper. Read the actual federal...
Trump’s Red Diesel Order Turns a 24.4-Cent Fuel Tax Into an IOU
The Oct. 5 order defers the federal tax on red diesel used on highways through Dec. 31. The seller usually…
BYD’s Shark 6 Security Fix Closes the Door a Researcher Used, and an Aftermarket App Goes With It
BYD says an over-the-air update will close the Android debug route used in the Four Corners Shark 6 demonstration. An…
Tacoma Wrecks a GT-R and McLaren 570S at Cars and Coffee and Narrowly Spares an SVJ
A Toyota Tacoma plowed into a Cars and Coffee lineup in Cypress, Texas, totaled a...
USPS Is Turning Mail Trucks Into Road Scanners With Nextbase Dash Cams
The most thorough road surveyor in America isn’t a state DOT inspection van or a...
Banning Diesel Exports Could Raise Gas Prices. Trump Says So Himself.
A refinery makes up to 1.8 gallons of gasoline for every gallon of diesel. That is why an export ban…
Watch: Florida Driver Tossed More Than $6,000 From a GMC Sierra in a Pearland, Texas Chase, Then Got Charged With Tampering
Pearland, Texas police say a Florida man threw more than $6,000 from a GMC Sierra during a chase. The tampering…
GM Has Now Recalled These Silverado and Sierra Airbags at Least Five Times. Here’s What Keeps Failing.
GM has opened another recall on the side-curtain airbags of its previous-generation full-size pickups. Federal...
Watch a Missouri YouTuber Tear Down a 2022 F-150 EcoBoost That Hit 180,000 Miles in Four Years, Then Find a Piston Burned Straight Through
A 2022 Ford F-150 Lariat that rolled out of the factory in May 2022 had...
A Sheriff’s Helicopter on Another Call Spotted a Truck Under a Scottsdale Lake. Its Owner Went Missing in 2015.
A helicopter crew on an unrelated call spotted a submerged pickup in a McCormick Ranch lake. Inside were human remains,…
Troopers Say He Blew Kisses at the Driver Filming Him on I-75, Brake-Checked Him, and Drove Off. They Found Him at Home That Night.
FHP says a pickup driver blew kisses at a man recording him on I-75 in Riverview, brake-checked him into a…