Policy & Safety

Regulations, recalls, environment and what it means to own a car today.

An Unmarked Tow Truck, a Scanner, and an 11-Year-Dead Registration: Inside LA’s Bandit Towing Crackdown A tow truck towing a car on the road

An Unmarked Tow Truck, a Scanner, and an 11-Year-Dead Registration: Inside LA’s Bandit Towing Crackdown

John Lloyd September 10, 2026 0
West Hollywood sheriff’s deputies flagged a tow truck near La Brea Avenue and Fountain Avenue last week...
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Racing’s Safety Net Failed in Shanghai — So a Rival Driver Pulled Ollie Millroy Out of a Burning Ferrari Himself Ferrari 296 GT3 GT3 race car practicing at Daytona

Racing’s Safety Net Failed in Shanghai — So a Rival Driver Pulled Ollie Millroy Out of a Burning Ferrari Himself

Shawn Henry September 10, 2026 0
A GT3 Ferrari doesn’t catch fire because engineers did a bad job. These cars run FIA-spec safety...
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RealTruck Quietly Files to Close Rugged Liner’s Michigan Plant, Cutting 90 Jobs by Spring 2027 A man in a blue shirt opens the bed of a truck in a brightly lit indoor space.

RealTruck Quietly Files to Close Rugged Liner’s Michigan Plant, Cutting 90 Jobs by Spring 2027

John Lloyd September 8, 2026 0
Michigan’s Department of Labor and Economic Opportunity posted a WARN notice on August 26, 2026, confirming that...
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GM’s New Cabin Camera Software Won’t Spy for the Company — It Might Just Get You Sued Instead Gener curtain wall building during daytime

GM’s New Cabin Camera Software Won’t Spy for the Company — It Might Just Get You Sued Instead

John Lloyd September 8, 2026 0
A rear-facing camera tucked into the overhead console. Four more cameras scattered around the sheet metal. And...
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California’s ‘Leno’s Law’ Would Let More 1980s Classics Skip Smog Checks — If Sacramento Ever Lets It Out of Committee black and grey vehicle during daytime

California’s ‘Leno’s Law’ Would Let More 1980s Classics Skip Smog Checks — If Sacramento Ever Lets It Out of Committee

John Lloyd September 7, 2026 0
Every legislative session, Sacramento produces one bill gearheads actually want to read past the headline. This time...
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A Wrecked Jeep Grand Cherokee SRT Hid a Real Demon 170 Engine, a Kill Switch, and a Bent Steering Column 491211d696d1839f5c7b6436e32719d3

A Wrecked Jeep Grand Cherokee SRT Hid a Real Demon 170 Engine, a Kill Switch, and a Bent Steering Column

Shawn Henry September 6, 2026 0
Khal_SRT has crawled through enough wrecked Mopars to know a yellow engine block doesn’t belong under the...
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A New Mexico Security Guard’s Fake Traffic Stop Was Illegal Twice Over — Before Police Ever Showed Up Long-exposure highway light trails at night, evoking red and blue emergency lighting

A New Mexico Security Guard’s Fake Traffic Stop Was Illegal Twice Over — Before Police Ever Showed Up

Shawn Henry September 5, 2026 0
Picture merging onto Interstate 40 outside Albuquerque and catching lights in your mirror, blue up front, red...
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A 1966 Corvette’s Brakes Quit Mid-Showoff, Leaving Its Owner a Choice Between a Fence, a Lake, or His Own House Screenshot 2026-09-02 at 4.22.37 PM

A 1966 Corvette’s Brakes Quit Mid-Showoff, Leaving Its Owner a Choice Between a Fence, a Lake, or His Own House

John Lloyd September 5, 2026 0
The car was a 1966 Chevrolet Corvette convertible, pulled out of a basement garage after sitting untouched...
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The Dirty Duck Hit 213 MPH At The Lake Of The Ozarks Shootout, Flipped End-Over-End, And Both Guys Walked Away a person riding a jet ski on a body of water

The Dirty Duck Hit 213 MPH At The Lake Of The Ozarks Shootout, Flipped End-Over-End, And Both Guys Walked Away

John Lloyd September 5, 2026 0
The Lake of the Ozarks Shootout has been billed for years as the largest powerboat event in...
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