Shane Axel
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- Sep 25, 2026
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Tesla Model Y Owner Says the Car Spent 19 of Its First 40 Days in Service Before It Shut Down, and Heâs Worried a Buyback Could Cost His 0.99% APR (opens the original)
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A 2026 Tesla Model Y Premium owner on Reddit says the car spent all or part of 19 of its first 40 days at a Tesla service center, then shut down completely in the garage the day after its third repair. Now the owner faces a hard buying decision, walk away through a lemon law buyback or keep a car financed at a 0.99% APR that the owner says is no longer available. The owner, who posts as Chiraqiian on Reddit, already knew the car well. "I previously owned a 26 Model Y Premium for a year and had a
Chevy Equinox EV Driver Switches Back to Gas After Losing Home Charging, Says His Trailblazer Now Goes 400+ Miles on a $40 Fill-Up (opens the original)
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Shane Axel, with over 15 years directly embedded in the automotive and powersports industries, brings a rare combination of hands-on technical familiarity and sales floor pulse to Torque News. His experience spans from traditional automotive sales as a Sales and Leasing Specialist to years as a top-performing sales executive across major powersports dealerships. Read more of Shane's work on his author profile page. Set Torque News as Preferred Source on Google
The GM 5.7L Is Back The 402HP Towing Power Everyone Asked For But There Is More to the Story Than GM Is Telling (opens the original)
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Clean-Sheet V8 Architecture: 72 Years in the Making Shane Axel, with over 15 years directly embedded in the automotive and powersports industries, brings a rare combination of hands-on technical familiarity and sales floor pulse to Torque News. His experience spans from traditional automotive sales as a Sales and Leasing Specialist to years as a top-performing sales executive across major powersports dealerships. Read more of Shane's work on his author profile page. Images from Chevrolets 2027 S
Ford's PowerBoost Can Lose on Six Highway MPG and Still Be the Better Truck for Its Buyer (opens the original)
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If you look purely at real world highway fuel economy, Chevrolet takes the win, no debate. However, the Ford F-150 PowerBoost beats the Silverado Duramax where it matters the most, and it comes to efficiency vs. utility. According to Car and Driver’s standard 75-mph highway fuel-economy test, a 2020 Chevrolet Silverado 1500 equipped with the 3.0-liter Duramax turbodiesel returned a remarkable 26 mpg. Fast forward to their test of a 2025 Ford F-150 PowerBoost Hybrid, and the Blue Oval’s gas-elect
Ford Maverick Hybrid Hits 1,106 Miles on a Single Tank in Extreme Hypermiling Run (opens the original)
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Ford says the Maverick Hybrid gets 38 mpg combined. A driver posting as JuJuMike on the MaverickTruckClub forum just averaged something closer to 86. That's not a rounding error. That's a truck built to go about 500 miles on a tank finishing a run at 1,106. JuJuMike wasn't starting from zero. Last year he pushed his Maverick Hybrid to 900 miles on a single tank. This summer, he set out to break four digits, and blew straight past his own target by more than a hundred miles. Getting there wasn't
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