This 1970 Dodge Coronet R/T Hemi was among the top 10 sellers at the Broad Arrow Audrain auction. Get all the latest auto industry news in the Executive Briefing.
Today’s headlines:
+ Jaguar unveiled the production version of the 2028 Type 01 sedan, its first electric vehicle and the first in a series of new products meant to revitalize the British automaker. More at Car and Driver.
+ Some Ford Maverick Hybrid owners report that the engines in their vehicles randomly start up on their own, possibly due to an error in their remote start systems. More at The Drive.
+ Wholesale prices for used vehicles in the U.S. fell in September with the Manheim index falling 1.1 percent from August, prompting Cox Automotive to lower its full-year forecast. More at CBT News.
+ NASCAR Cup veteran Kasey Kahne, who retired from the series in 2018, will return to NASCAR full-time to drive a Ram in the Truck Series for Spire Motorsports next year. More at Yahoo! Sports.
+ The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) has found that Class 3 heavy-duty pickups perform marginally in the Institute’s recently adopted collision-avoidance tests. More at Autoblog.
+ The state of California has closed a loophole that allowed luxury car buyers to title their vehicles to limited liability companies in Montana, avoiding California’s state sales taxes. More at Autoweek.
+ The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration plans to rewrite its vehicle lighting standards to permit new technology and address concerns regarding headlamp glare. More at World Auto Forum.
+ Used-car retailer CarMax posted a strong increase in sales in the latest fiscal quarter, and it even managed to achieve a higher average selling price, the company reports. More at Wards Auto.
+ The top 10 sellers at the inaugural Broad Arrow Audrain sale included a 1914 Stutz Bearcat at $1.875 million, a 2009 Ferrari 430 Scuderia, and a 2022 McLaren 765LT Spider. More at Old Cars.
+ Team Penske and Chevrolet have reached a multi-year extension of their current agreement, securing the multi-car IndyCar team’s use of Chevrolet engines exclusively. More at Catchfence.
Photo courtesy of Broad Arrow Auctions.
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That masterpiece 1914 Stutz Bearcat and ultra sexy ’70 DODGE Hemi Coronet share a direct engineering DNA from two very different automotive eras: extracting maximum horsepower using the engine as a high-performance air pump. The $207K auction price with premium was a darn good buy on that PLUM CRAZY HEMI R/T IMHO.
FYI-New NHTSA Part 573 recall #’s for this week according to mr. internet:
•26V-621, Sillantis is recalling 265,512 Ram ProMaster cargo vans, critical steering wiring harness defects causes sudden loss of vehicle control.
•Sillantis, 26V-623 recalling 16,385 model year 2026 Ram 1500 pickup trucks, tire pressure monitoring system fail causes no amber horseshoe light.
• Volkswagen, 26V-630 recalling 22,524 ID.4 electric vehicles, catastrophic fire risk from misaligned high-voltage battery cell electrodes.
•Ford Motor Company, 26V-606 recalls 41,748 Expedition SUVs and Super Duty trucks, contaminated headlight LED chips causing sudden total night-driving visibility loss.
•Under 26V-605 Ford is recalling 11,405 model year 2026 Ranger pickup trucks, center dash displays loses power and blanks out the rearview backup camera among other things.
• General Motors, 26V-612 recalling 29,347 Cadillac OPTIQ electric vehicles, faulty remote express-up power window software causes pinching and injury hazards.
Be advised the following Ohio ADAS related data comes from NHTSA’s Standing General Order 2021-01, released in September:
•A Tesla Model X had its Level 2 driver-assist system active when it struck and killed a motorcyclist in Moraine, Ohio.
•A high-profile Ohio wrongful death lawsuit alleging that a Tesla Model Y suddenly accelerated on its own into a concrete pillar, catching fire and killing a 72-year-old man, was quietly settled to avoid a public jury trial.
•The landmark case that sparked the FIRST federal investigation into automated driving, a Canton, Ohio resident became the first official Autopilot fatality in U.S. history when his Tesla drove underneath a tractor-trailer on a highway, evidently shearing the roof off from critical bumper mismatch thanks to dead law/nonexistant bumper safety standards.
I WOULD NEVER EVER USE ADAS IN OHIO! Under the notorious Ohio government ambulance chaser speed trap racket, now with obvious USDOT loophole lawyer wink-wink consent in front of NHTSA’s and the NTSB’s very own lying eyes, combining the retarded FHWA NEPA Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) political gift loopholapaloozas with ODOT’s blatant intentional exclusion of EVERY USDOT MUTCD ADAS/AV Part 5 safety standards from the OMUTCD traffic manual, it sure looks like the State of Ohio and Ohio Department of Transpprtation (ODOT) has loopholeegineered itself absolute permanent sovereign immunity to hack ADAS and AV users at will or accidently, hacking is hacking regardless of intent, on any Ohio interstate, highway road, street, detour, speed trap, intersection, crosswalk, crash trap, railroad crossing, curb bulb, school zone and anti-human traffic calming infrastructure with vision-based ADAS/AV glitches, visual illusions ala’ speed trap, hacker crashes and poisoned GPS failures such as ODOT used during the political selfishness insanity of Ohio House District 83’s year-long “U.S.68 Detourgate” votervengence debacle with no PID# last year.
The solution is obvious and costs nothing- federal taxchattle dollars already funded the creation of USDOT’s MUTCD Part 5 ADAS and AV safety standards years ago, but it seems a group of law-school alumni including ambulance chasers, Ohio radium readymix rinos, green government loophole lawyers and zany USDOT reality TV stars STOLE it from ALL of us…