The Auto Wire

Ford Ranger was Australia's best-selling new vehicle for three straight years, and this year opened right on schedule: on top in January, February, and March. Then August happened. The Ranger fell to fifth. Not because buyers walked away. Because Ford wou

Tesla didn't just settle a wrongful-death lawsuit this week. It settled a case that was about to put a single word on trial - not a sensor, not a software build, not a line of code, but the word "Autopilot" itself. A company approaching a trillion-dollar

Nobody risks their own car spinning donuts in front of a hundred strangers with their phones out. That's the detail that got buried this week under a much more clickable word: Corvette. According to police, the sports car that spun circles through a downt

The Fight Over Your Car's Data Is Really A Fight Over One Word: Telematics Ask a room full of drivers whether they own the data their car generates and you will get unanimous agreement in about four seconds. Ask Congress the same question and you get a fi

VinFast Spent The Week Explaining Its India Plans, And The Explanation Is The Story Automakers do not issue clarifications about factories that are humming along fine. VinFast put out a statement this week confirming that assembly of the VF 6 and VF 7 at

Volkswagen Group China confirmed on September 1 that it has opened a special investigation into one of its Chinese suppliers. Not over a warranty spike, not over a quality escape, and not over anything you'd find on a PPAP sheet. The subject is how the su

Come September 24, the world's largest parts swap meet stops trading in the one component nobody should ever buy blind. eBay has told sellers that airbags, airbag inflators and steering wheel airbag covers are off the platform entirely, for every seller,

Every tuner who has ever chased wheel hop out of a rear-drive build knows the drill: stiffer bushings, a better-located axle, damper valving that stops the tire from skipping across the pavement like a stone. Hop is what happens when the suspension and th

Somewhere between the factory and your local dealership's lot, thousands of brand-new cars change hands a second time, dealer to dealer, sight unseen, before a single customer ever sees them. Almost no car buyer knows this market exists. For more than two

A Dodge Ram 1500 in New York spent 105 days in the shop under warranty. Nobody at Chrysler wrote down that those 105 days should have pushed the truck's coverage back by 105 days, too. Seven states have laws that say they should have. A federal judge in D