A law signed in 2021 requires every new passenger vehicle sold in the United States to include technology that monitors the driver for impairment and can prevent the car from moving. The technology is not ready. The deadline has already been missed. The l...

The Outagamie County Recycling and Solid Waste facility in Appleton, Wisconsin, has installed a speed limit sign reading 17.3 mph. Not 15. Not 20. 17.3. Officials are completely aware of how strange it looks. The strangeness is the strategy.

The Blue Badge scheme is one of the most practical government benefits available to people with mobility issues. Six groups qualify automatically. Thirteen more can qualify depending on their individual circumstances. The badge can mean parking at the des...

Greek tax authorities have seized 229 luxury cars worth more than €10 million after an AI powered system toll camera data cross referenced data with customs and tax records since late 2025. The loophole it closed was breathtakingly simple: keep your super...

An Audi Q5 with Maryland plates spent years running a speed camera gauntlet through the nation's capital, collecting nearly 900 tickets and racking up $262,204 in fines that nobody could force it to pay. A 2024 law finally closed the loophole. The car was...

Ramón Ferrer had owned his black Lamborghini Huracán for five months. On April 22 he drove it to the gym in Lake Nona, Florida. A lifted Chevrolet Silverado came around a corner, did not slow, and drove straight over the front end. He was still inside. No...

Cargiant opened in 1976, became a Guinness World Record holder, sold more than a million cars, and made its founder a billionaire. On April 24, 2026, it entered a managed closure. The 46 acres of prime West London land it sat on turned out to be worth mor...

For nearly a decade, California's DMV auctioned off towed vehicles, collected more than $8 million in surplus funds above what owners owed, and was not required by law to inform a single person that the money existed. A new bill wants to change that. It s...

Edna Nightingale read her registration number out correctly over the phone. The Swinton Insurance agent typed one letter wrong. The DVLA's computer flagged her as uninsured. A court convicted her without her present. She spent weeks unable to sleep, convi...

Dorset Council painted dozens of large speed limit roundels across one of England's most loved coastal towns. Some have appeared three in a row on the same stretch. Two have been painted on a riverside footpath where only the occasional delivery van passe...

After two years away, the most recognisable tiny car in history is returning as the Smart #2. Designed by Mercedes-Benz, engineered on a new platform jointly developed with Geely, and unveiled as a concept this week in Beijing. Production debut at Paris i...

In March 2026, one in every four new cars sold in Europe was electric. In America that same quarter, the number heading the other way was just as stark. Two economies. Two governments. Two entirely different decisions about who pays for the energy transit...

A New York police officer ran over a sleeping man in a park while applying lip gloss at the wheel. Witnesses screamed warnings. A fellow officer tried to flag her down. She dragged him ten feet at 7 miles per hour. He died in hospital 37 minutes later. Th...

In less than a decade, a Chinese battery maker humiliated Toyota, Volkswagen, Mercedes and Ford. It did it with superior technology, relentless pricing, and roughly $4 billion in state money. Now its profits are falling, its debt may be eight times what i...

The Jaecoo 7 knocked off the Ford Puma and became the UK's number one car by borrowing liberally from Range Rover. Now a sister brand is arriving with a car that borrows liberally from the Jaecoo 7.