Plus, Costco rations motor oil, Ram Hurricane owners sue over stalling engines, and Toyota's eye-tracking camera patent.

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Plus, Toyota's electric Highlander slips to 2028, and Ford puts the F-150 Lightning into maintenance mode.

Plus, average new-car prices cross $50,000 while EVs get cheaper, and Copart buys ACV Auctions for $1.9 billion.

Plus, GM's CEO says EVs are still the endgame the week Cadillac backs out of all-EV, Porsche nets $1.16B leaving Bugatti, a senator says Trump may trade Chinese car access for a Xi deal, and Audi pays...

Sean Duffy's letter names Ford's CATL license, the Geely Valencia deal and China-built Lincolns. Ford says the letter has factual errors. Plus dealer sentiment under 50 and Alfa drops its EV-only plan...

Audi's 401-mile A2 e-tron misses the EU's proposed M1E small-car category by 12 cm, while the VW ID Polo that qualifies costs $15,000 less. Plus PHEV emissions data, Canada tariffs, VW unions.

Plus, NHTSA opens an audit query on Tesla's Cybercab, and VW's board turns a rejected 100,000 job cuts into an approved 50,000.

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Plus, the new Atlas is set to earn VW half what the old one did, and J.D. Power finds a third of owners never touch their passenger screen.

Plus, BYD's overseas revenue overtakes its home market for the first time, and a headlight that's 615% over the glare limit but still legal.

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Plus, eBay bans airbag sales after counterfeit deaths, and BYD's nine-day battery thrash comes back at 98.7%.

Plus, VW's board votes Sept. 4 on up to 100,000 job cuts and Waymo says cameras alone aren't enough.

Plus, Toyota recalls 48,280 Tacomas over shedding shocks, and the average car payment hit $812, a record for August.

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This week’s show starts with some Follow Up where you are teased until later in the show. Geely lose their boss. GM wondering if coming to the UK is a good idea. Geely to build cars in Volvo plants. H...

This week Robbie and Sam are joined by Craig Cole who has his own thoughts on the 2026 Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV. Robbie tells us about hauling band gear in the new Subaru Outback and Sam pontificates on the BMW XM. In the news, why are some automakers using NACS only for DC charging with a J1772 port of AC? Chinese regulators are forcing a recall of millions of cars with manual door latch backups that are too hard to find. Cadillac's midsize crossover finally gets a PHEV, but only in China for now.

Plus, Porsche's $1.46B AI bet with Tata and Waymo's leap into Munich.

Plus, Chinese brands routed around the EU's tariff and took a record share, and Tesla sets a September 3 Austin launch date for the Cybercab.

Plus, BMW pushed Spider-Man ads to dashboards without asking, and California became the first state to regulate which replacement tires you can buy.

Plus, Nevada hands Tesla the 5,000 robotaxis it capped at 10 in July, and NHTSA escalates its GM V8 probe.

Plus, China's car market is on pace for its worst year on record, and BMW quietly reviews its lineup.

Plus, Audi backpedals on killing its five-cylinder engine, and GM bans aftermarket parts from ADAS repairs.