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Watch A Panamera Owner Ripped His Own Bumper Off Fighting a Glendale Tow Truck — And Still Lost the Car a blue car being loaded onto a flatbed truck

Watch A Panamera Owner Ripped His Own Bumper Off Fighting a Glendale Tow Truck — And Still Lost the Car

Shawn Henry September 2, 2026

A video out of Glendale, California this week shows exactly how a “quick escape” from a tow...

A Lagos Influencer’s $28 Million Cocaine Bust Just Turned His Garage Into Evidence Front view of a luxury car with a chrome grille at night

A Lagos Influencer’s $28 Million Cocaine Bust Just Turned His Garage Into Evidence

Shawn Henry August 31, 2026

On the night of August 13, agents from Nigeria’s National Drug Law Enforcement Agency were waiting at...

Truck Repair Bills Just Hit an All-Time High — and Congress Might Decide Who’s Allowed to Fix Yours man holding open-wide car trunk

Truck Repair Bills Just Hit an All-Time High — and Congress Might Decide Who’s Allowed to Fix Yours

John Lloyd August 30, 2026

Ask any owner-operator what changed between 2024 and 2025 and the answer is usually the same: everything...

VW’s CEO Just Told the Plant Building Half Its EVs: Still Not Cheap Enough white porsche 911 parked on gray concrete pavement

VW’s CEO Just Told the Plant Building Half Its EVs: Still Not Cheap Enough

Shawn Henry August 28, 2026

Oliver Blume did not travel to Emden and Zwickau this week to hand out gold stars. Volkswagen’s...

FLEX Automotive Will Now Ship a Genuine JDM Land Cruiser Straight to Your Driveway Overland Toyota Land Cruiser Build Shows A New Vision

FLEX Automotive Will Now Ship a Genuine JDM Land Cruiser Straight to Your Driveway

Shawn Henry August 22, 2026

For years, getting a genuine Japanese-market Land Cruiser onto U.S. soil meant flying to Japan and hoping...

Someone Firebombed A McLaren Outside A Birmingham Wedding, And The Getaway Car Was A Volkswagen Golf File photo of a McLaren Artura Spider; not the vehicles involved in the Birmingham incident

File photo of a McLaren Artura Spider; not the vehicles involved in the Birmingham incident

Someone Firebombed A McLaren Outside A Birmingham Wedding, And The Getaway Car Was A Volkswagen Golf

John Lloyd August 21, 2026

Somewhere outside a banqueting hall in Sparkbrook, Birmingham, three men in hoods spent roughly ten seconds throwing...

The SEC Says Tricolor Pledged the Same Car Loans Twice — and $800 Million of Collateral Never Existed focus photography of black vehicle key

The SEC Says Tricolor Pledged the Same Car Loans Twice — and $800 Million of Collateral Never Existed

Shawn Henry August 20, 2026

A retail auto loan is really just a promise stapled to a VIN. One vehicle, one lien,...

A Stolen Car Stop in Kansas City Turned Up Two Baby Goats, and a Lesson in How Vehicle Recoveries Actually Work a police car parked on the side of the road

a police car parked on the side of the road

A Stolen Car Stop in Kansas City Turned Up Two Baby Goats, and a Lesson in How Vehicle Recoveries Actually Work

John Lloyd August 12, 2026

Kansas City police weren’t hunting for livestock when they ran the plate on a car reported stolen...

Goodyear Lost $204 Million This Quarter On Purpose — Here’s the Math black leather belt on white wooden shelf

Goodyear Lost $204 Million This Quarter On Purpose — Here’s the Math

John Lloyd August 10, 2026

Goodyear sold more tires in the second quarter than it did to start the year, and the...

O’Reilly’s $18.8 Million Text Settlement Has a Ceiling, and Your $22 Check Has an Asterisk selective focus photography of person using smartphone

O’Reilly’s $18.8 Million Text Settlement Has a Ceiling, and Your $22 Check Has an Asterisk

John Lloyd August 10, 2026

Every car shopper learns the same lesson eventually: the number on the window sticker and the number...

O’Reilly Says It’s Sharing Tariff Refunds With Suppliers. Its Balance Sheet Tells the More Interesting Version. blue and red cargo ship on sea during daytime

blue and red cargo ship on sea during daytime

O’Reilly Says It’s Sharing Tariff Refunds With Suppliers. Its Balance Sheet Tells the More Interesting Version.

John Lloyd August 9, 2026

Every earnings call produces one line that matters more than the headline numbers. On O’Reilly Automotive’s July...

Buying a New Heavy-Duty Diesel Pickup? EPA’s Rule Rewrite Just Changed What You Should Ask First a silver ram truck parked in a parking lot

Buying a New Heavy-Duty Diesel Pickup? EPA’s Rule Rewrite Just Changed What You Should Ask First

Shawn Henry August 8, 2026

Nobody cross-shops a Ram 2500 by reading a federal agency’s press release, but if you’re planning to...

CBP’s Stolen-Car Export Numbers Reveal the Real Target Isn’t the $270,000 Lamborghini—It’s the Honda CR-V Shipping containers stacked at a U.S. seaport, similar to those CBP officers screen for stolen vehicle exports

Shipping containers stacked at a U.S. seaport, similar to those CBP officers screen for stolen vehicle exports

CBP’s Stolen-Car Export Numbers Reveal the Real Target Isn’t the $270,000 Lamborghini—It’s the Honda CR-V

John Lloyd August 6, 2026

A 2024 Lamborghini Urus worth $269,885 got stopped in Norfolk, Virginia last year before it could reach...

Ed Sheeran’s Aston Martin Hasn’t Moved Since 2021, and That’s Exactly Why He Just Got Convicted Screenshot 2026-08-06 at 10.51.22 AM

Ed Sheeran’s Aston Martin Hasn’t Moved Since 2021, and That’s Exactly Why He Just Got Convicted

Elizabeth Puckett August 6, 2026

Ed Sheeran’s 1966 Aston Martin hasn’t turned a wheel in five years. It’s been sitting inside a...

O’Reilly Auto Parts Is Paying $18.8 Million Because Its Texts Wouldn’t Take No for an Answer selective focus photography of person using smartphone

O’Reilly Auto Parts Is Paying $18.8 Million Because Its Texts Wouldn’t Take No for an Answer

John Lloyd August 5, 2026

Every gearhead who’s ever handed over a phone number at the parts counter for a rewards discount...

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Watch A Panamera Owner Ripped His Own Bumper Off Fighting a Glendale Tow Truck — And Still Lost the Car

A Lagos Influencer’s $28 Million Cocaine Bust Just Turned His Garage Into Evidence

Truck Repair Bills Just Hit an All-Time High — and Congress Might Decide Who’s Allowed to Fix Yours

VW’s CEO Just Told the Plant Building Half Its EVs: Still Not Cheap Enough

FLEX Automotive Will Now Ship a Genuine JDM Land Cruiser Straight to Your Driveway

Someone Firebombed A McLaren Outside A Birmingham Wedding, And The Getaway Car Was A Volkswagen Golf

The SEC Says Tricolor Pledged the Same Car Loans Twice — and $800 Million of Collateral Never Existed

A Stolen Car Stop in Kansas City Turned Up Two Baby Goats, and a Lesson in How Vehicle Recoveries Actually Work

Goodyear Lost $204 Million This Quarter On Purpose — Here’s the Math

O’Reilly’s $18.8 Million Text Settlement Has a Ceiling, and Your $22 Check Has an Asterisk

O’Reilly Says It’s Sharing Tariff Refunds With Suppliers. Its Balance Sheet Tells the More Interesting Version.

Buying a New Heavy-Duty Diesel Pickup? EPA’s Rule Rewrite Just Changed What You Should Ask First

CBP’s Stolen-Car Export Numbers Reveal the Real Target Isn’t the $270,000 Lamborghini—It’s the Honda CR-V

Ed Sheeran’s Aston Martin Hasn’t Moved Since 2021, and That’s Exactly Why He Just Got Convicted

O’Reilly Auto Parts Is Paying $18.8 Million Because Its Texts Wouldn’t Take No for an Answer

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