Skip to main content
Chief Copy Editor

Patrick Masterson

Patrick Masterson is Chief Copy Editor at Cars.com. He joined the automotive industry in 2016 as a lifelong car enthusiast and has achieved the rare feat of applying his journalism and media arts degrees as a writer, fact-checker, proofreader and editor his entire professional career. He lives by an in-house version of the AP stylebook and knows where semicolons can go.

The recall of nearly 189,000 model-year 2021-23 K5s involves the car’s side curtain airbags.
A new recall for nearly 99,000 trucks addresses a population of the pickup trucks that was previously recalled in 2017 and 2018.
Mercedes-Benz has issued a recall for some 26,100 G-Class SUVs over a wiring harness that could affect the antilock brakes and electronic stability control.
The recall concerns the safety of the Full Self-Driving feature, a Level 2 semi-autonomous driving-assist system.
More than 306,000 trucks are being recalled for an electrical connector that could lead to overheating and, ultimately, a fire.
Child-safety seat brand Cybex is recalling some 31,000 examples of its Aton and Cloud rear-facing infant car seats over the potential failure of webbing in a seat belt adjuster.
The all-electric ID.4 SUV is being recalled for an issue related to the high-voltage battery’s control module.
Faulty second-row side airbags affect nearly 32,000 Telluride three-row SUVs.
We put some serious numbers on the odometer of our long-term 2022 Ford Maverick in service of a story with the most inane of premises: visiting Masterson, Texas.
Ring out the old year with our 10 most popular expert reviews of 2022, led off by the 2023 Mazda CX-50.