Ford Is Recalling 102,159 Trucks Over Sticking Speedometers. No Federal Safety Standard Says a Speedometer Must Be Accurate.
Ford will replace the analog instrument cluster in 102,159 F-150 and Super Duty trucks, though it estimates only 1% are…
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Its Box Stayed on I-5. Its Cab Hung Off the Side and Caught Fire. Neither Man Inside Went to the Hospital
A crash left a San Diego moving truck folded over I-5's center divide, its cab burning above the lanes below.…
A Texas Family Says Their Dad’s F-250 Moved on Its Own in Park. Ford Settled Before a Jury Could Hear Why
Ford and a New Braunfels dealer settled a wrongful-death suit over a 2023 F-250 that allegedly moved in Park. A…
Ford’s 6.7L Power Stroke CP4 Pump Fight Is Now a Class Action in Five States. Here’s Who Actually Qualifies
For seven years, the argument over the Bosch CP4 high-pressure pump in Ford’s 6.7-liter Power...
New Cars Now Average $50,562, a Measly $52 Short of the All-Time Record. Here’s What That Number Isn’t Telling You
The average new car price hit $50,562 in September, $52 below the record. Here is what Kelley Blue Book’s number…
The 2027 F-150 V8 Loses the Feature the EPA Stopped Paying For and Keeps the One the Test Still Counts
Ford is dropping auto start-stop from the 2027 F-150 5.0-liter V8 and keeping cylinder deactivation. The federal off-cycle credit rules…
NHTSA Questions GM’s Sierra Grille Fix Across 535,639 Pickups
GM already fixed this grille once. Twenty-one owners say it came off anyway. NHTSA’s Office...
IIHS Tested 11 Work Vans and Pickups for Crash Avoidance. Seven Flunked, and the Only Van With No Weak Spot Is One GM Already Killed
In IIHS's first crash avoidance ratings for cargo vans and Class 3 pickups, seven of 11 rated poor with a…
A Lawsuit Says GM Blames Owners’ Low Oil for Dead Duramaxes. GM’s Own Bulletins Show How a Cracked Cooler Can Fake It
A new class action says GM uses low oil to deny Duramax engine claims. GM’s own 2024 and 2025 dealer…
Argentina Signed Off on Toyota’s $1.3 Billion ‘Electrified’ Plant. Toyota Still Hasn’t Said What Goes in It.
Argentina granted Toyota 30 years of tax and customs stability for an unnamed electrified vehicle at Zárate. Toyota's final approval,…
Georgia’s Lift-Kit Law Exempts Basically Every Pickup Since 2011. A Wrongful-Death Suit Wants a Jury to Draw the Line.
Georgia's 2024 suspension law exempts any truck with federally compliant stability control. A Gwinnett wrongful-death suit over a lifted F-150…
GM Is Yanking the Silverado 1500 Out of Canada, and Oshawa Is Going All-In on Heavy-Duty
For a few years, Oshawa Assembly could claim something no other GM truck plant in...
Georgia Wrongful-Death Suit Goes After the Dealer, the Installer and the Maker of a Six-Inch F-150 Lift
Most lifted-truck lawsuits go after the driver and stop there. This one goes after everyone...
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…
Record Diesel Is Sending Small Trucking Fleets Straight to Bankruptcy Court
For the week of Sept. 21, the federal government’s weekly pump survey put the national...