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Why Robotaxi Hard-Braking Injuries Vanish From Federal Safety Data
Here’s a regulatory quirk worth understanding before you read another word about autonomous vehicle safety statistics: if a robotaxi slams…
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Inside the Pagani Huayra 70: Transverse Manual V12 and a Missing Third Car
Pagani doesn’t do model years, doesn’t do facelifts, and apparently doesn’t do funerals either. The Huayra was superseded by the…
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What Camping World’s Shrinking Store Count Really Means for RV Buyers
The headline number looks almost boring. America’s biggest RV retailer finished the second quarter with 200 locations — 199 dealerships…
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Truck Engine Fuel Rules Voided: What Federal Rollback Means for Diesels
Federal regulators just told the heavy-truck industry that a chunk of the rulebook they’ve been engineering against since 2014 was…
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Dreame Bought a $10 Million Super Bowl Ad to Sell a Hypercar It Never Actually Built
Six months ago, Dreame Technology put a rocket-boosted electric hypercar in front of the world and made the case that…
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Electric Defender Timeline: What JLR Has Actually Committed To Building
Land Rover’s electric Defender was never actually on a calendar. That’s the part worth understanding before anyone gets worked up…
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Bugatti Brouillard Homologation: Why The First Solitaire Still Isn’t Delivered
A year after Bugatti pulled the sheet off the Brouillard at Quail Lodge, the car still hasn’t gone home with…
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Sold Your Car in Ontario? Why Your Name May Still Be on It
Mario Iamundo sold a 2002 Honda CR-V in 2011. Somewhere between then and this summer, that CR-V ended up on…
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Milwaukee ‘Street Takeover Organizer’ Allegedly Built His Hellcat 300 From Three Stolen Mopars
A black Chrysler 300 spinning donuts through a Milwaukee intersection might look like just another moment from the city’s ongoing…
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A CDL School Told Inspectors Its Classroom Was Inside a School Bus. That’s How Bad Trucking Fraud Has Gotten.
Federal investigators sent 175 people into 40 states this summer to check on truck driving schools, and one excuse they…
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Ford Let a Timing Belt Rot in Motor Oil for a Decade — Now 135,000 Owners Are One Warning Light From a Dead Engine
A driver on a highway outside Wilmington, Delaware wasn’t doing anything unusual. Just merging into traffic. Then an oil pressure…
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Houston’s Real Batmobile Got a Flat Tire on I-45, and the Repair Bill Isn’t the Interesting Part
Houston drivers have gotten used to seeing a low, black, fin-covered car cruising around town with a cowl-shaped hood that…