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Norway Tested a Chinese Bus Inside a Mountain and Found a Foreign SIM Card Holding the Kill Switch
Ruter, the public transit authority that runs buses across Oslo and Akershus, didn’t settle for a paperwork audit when it…
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A Would-Be Porsche Thief Couldn’t Beat the Ignition, So He Tried Towing It Down Tujunga Avenue
North Hollywood, early Thursday morning, July 16: someone calls the Los Angeles Police Department to report a man trying to…
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The 2023 Honda HR-V’s Rear Glass Keeps Exploding, and Honda Still Won’t Call It a Recall
Honda’s 2023 HR-V has racked up 681 complaints in the federal government’s public safety database, and going through them one…
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Cadillac’s Gas-Powered XT6 and CT5 Are Coming Back – GM’s Earnings Call Just Explained the $10.9 Billion Reason Why
On GM’s second-quarter 2026 earnings call, Mary Barra spent about fifteen seconds on the sentence automotive watchers have been waiting…
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Alex Bowman’s 2027 Exit Plan, the Next Gen Crash Structure, and the Math That Made It Simple
Alex Bowman Gets the Ending Almost Nobody in Cup GetsRick Hendrick handed Alex Bowman a one-year extension on Thursday and,…
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What Nova Scotia’s Used Car Dealer Rules Don’t Require — and Why Buyers Pay for It
Nova Scotia Requires Used Car Dealers to Own a Welder. Not to Pay Off Your Trade-In.A civil claim has been…
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NamX Hydrogen SUV Range Claims Don’t Match the Company’s Own Spec Sheet
The NamX Hydrogen SUV Doesn’t Go 932 Miles, and Its Own Website Says SoThere’s a number making the rounds: 932…
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Manual McLaren P50: What the Rumored Hypercar Would Actually Take to Build
The Manual McLaren Rumor Deserves Better Questions Than “Is It Real?”Somebody at Woking is having a good month. Two weeks…
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DeKalb County’s $18.9 Million No-Bid Flock Camera Deal Just Produced Its First Felony Case
DeKalb County, Georgia didn’t ease into automated license plate surveillance. Commissioners approved a ten-year, sole-source contract worth nearly $19 million…
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Ford Can Now Remotely Kill Your F-150’s Engine From an App — Here’s How Start Inhibit Actually Works
Flip one toggle in the Ford app, and a two-and-a-half-ton F-150 will roll to a stop and simply refuse to…
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A West Virginia Man Ripped Down License Plate Cameras. State Law Treats That Like Sabotaging a Fire Truck
Somewhere between vandalism and conspiracy, Wesley N. Jackson found out that West Virginia doesn’t have a specific law against destroying…
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California’s AB 311 Would End the State’s 20-Year Ban on Telematics Car Insurance
For roughly two decades, California has been the one state where your auto insurer legally could not care how you…