Owner Payouts Revealed as Volkswagen, Bosch Settle 3.0-liter Diesel Claims...
Owners of certain Volkswagen, Audi and Porsche vehicles caught up in the diesel emissions scandal will receive hefty payouts, even if their vehicles aren’t bought back by the manufacturer. Volkswagen...
View ArticleBrits Continue Tradition of High-cost Heists, Rob Jaguar Land Rover Plant Twice
It wasn’t exactly the Great Train Robbery, but it was daring and ballsy nonetheless. And quite expensive for the victim — in this case, quintessential British automaker Jaguar Land Rover. The company...
View ArticleFired Audi Engine Developer Kept Secret Document that Could Sink CEO
There’s no end to the layers of intrigue swirling around the upper echelons of Audi. Last week saw four engineers who worked on the company’s emissions-rigged diesel engines fired, with one of them,...
View ArticleVolkswagen’s Top Emissions Man Pleads ‘Not Guilty’ in Detroit Courtroom
Based in Germany and nabbed by federal agents in Florida, Volkswagen’s one-time top emissions compliance manager for the U.S. made an appearance in a federal courtroom in Detroit today. Indicted, along...
View ArticleVolkswagen Pleads Guilty to Criminal Charges, Will Pay $4.3 Billion Fine
The Volkswagen diesel emissions saga has reached a logical legal conclusion. The automaker entered a guilty plea in a Detroit federal courtroom this morning, admitting to a vast, 10-year conspiracy to...
View ArticleA Detroit Jail Will Remain Home Sweet Home for Nabbed VW Exec
Suspecting that a Volkswagen executive might fly the coop if released on bond while awaiting trial, a U.S. District Court judge slammed the cell door shut until early next year. Oliver Schmidt, who was...
View ArticleIn an Odd Twist, German Authorities Raid Volkswagen’s Internal Investigator
At some point, a scandal grows so big that investigations begin to overlap. When the scope widens even more, investigators suddenly begin investigating each other. That’s the current situation in the...
View Article“Houston, We Have an Armored Car Robbery Problem”
For a major city, Houston drivers spend far less time in rush-hour gridlock than those in other large U.S. metropolises. Last year, residents spent an average of 51.5 hours in gridlock, a number...
View ArticleCriminals Planned to Steal and Hold Enzo Ferrari’s Corpse for Ransom
Italian investigators said on Tuesday that they had prevented a criminal plot to steal the body of automotive legend and Formula One racing pioneer Enzo Ferrari. The scheme involved using two cars and...
View ArticleSomeone Must Have Cursed the Long Beach Grand Prix this Weekend
This weekend, the Long Beach Grand Prix saw more than its fair share of misery. It all kicked off days before the actual race when two thieves stole roughly a million dollars worth of parts from Global...
View ArticleVW Fined Billions of Dollars for What Looks Like the Last Time
Oh my God, it’s finally almost over. After a 10-year conspiracy and almost 600,000 rigged diesel cars, VW’s legal battle with the United States is coming to an end. Volkswagen pled guilty last month to...
View ArticleAnother Reason To Avoid Mass Transit: Flash Mobs Of ‘Teens’ Attacking Families
Here’s the good news if you own a car in San Francisco or Oakland: property crime is down by a bit compared to last year. Furthermore, there’s a new “auto burglary task force” to increase the chances...
View ArticleIn This Florida County, 62 Percent of Car Thieves are Kids
Twitter users are well aware of the hilarious and perplexing misadventures — usually fueled by alcohol or meth — of “Florida Man” and “Florida Woman,” but in Pinellas County, the person behind the...
View ArticleQOTD: What Strange Object Made a Sudden Impact With Your Ride?
It came out of nowhere — abruptly, suddenly, and violently — like an action scene in a Martin Scorsese movie. A deafening bang drowned out the music on my radio and rattled my one good eardrum. This...
View ArticleQOTD: Would You Fight a Carjacker for Your Car?
In a classic case of fight-or-flight response, a Milwaukee woman named Melissa Smith has just filled up her Subaru Outback and realizes there’s a man on the driver’s side about to steal her off-roading...
View Article‘Fat, Dumb and Happy’: Fourth Executive Charged as Feds Dish on UAW-FCA...
Federal prosecutors charged a fourth player in the widening United Auto Workers-Fiat Chrysler Automobiles corruption scandal on Friday, providing a clearer picture of how the years-long conspiracy went...
View ArticleCity of Detroit Fires Back at Towing Company Accused of Car Thefts
The only people who like towing companies, it seems, are those who make money off them. A Detroit-area towing company is accused of doing something that will make the rest of us hate towing companies...
View ArticleDodge the Security, Ram the Gate: New Pickups Stolen From Factory
Police in Michigan are flummoxed and frustrated after a theft of nearly a dozen brand new Ram pickups from the Warren Truck Assembly Plant. Like a scene from Gone in 60 Seconds, the ne’er-do-wells are...
View ArticleCrime Pushes Bulletproof Vehicle Production to Record High
It’s an exciting time to be a manufacturer of bulletproof cars. Violent crime in Latin America is booming right now. For example, growing levels of drug-related violence made 2017 Mexico’s most...
View ArticleHere’s Why We Don’t Post Videos of Ourselves Speeding
This seems like a silly public service announcement to have to make, but it’s imprudent to post videos of yourself breaking traffic laws. Beau Alan Rogel of Rankin County, Mississippi found that out...
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