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Patrick Masterson

I joined the automotive industry in 2016 as a lifelong car enthusiast and have achieved the rare feat of applying my journalism and media arts degrees as a writer, fact-checker, proofreader and editor my entire professional career, which has somehow been more than a decade solely at Cars.com and currently as Chief Copy Editor. I live by an in-house version of the AP stylebook and know where the semicolons can go, which you can occasionally find updated proof of in the stories

below.

Articles by Patrick Masterson

You can find Cars.com’s top five reviews and videos of the past week here, led away by the 2020 Honda Pilot and 2020 Chevrolet Corvette C8, respectively.
Approximately 696,000 Lexus and Toyota vehicles are under recall for a faulty fuel pump.
What were the biggest recalls and most recalled cars we covered in 2019? See the full list here.
Approximately 744,900 model-year 2001-07 Mercedes-Benz C-Class, model-year 2003-09 CLK-Class, model-year 2006-11 CLS-Class and model-year 2003-09 E-Class cars are being recalled.
Approximately 130 model-year 2019-20 BMW 3 Series sedans are being recalled for their rear seat belt pretensioners.
Approximately 600,200 Ford Fusion, Lincoln MKZ and Mercury Milan sedans are being recalled for a valve issue.
Approximately 3,000 model-year 2019-20 BMW M5 coupes and model-year 2020 M8 Gran Coupes, and M8 coupes and convertibles are being recalled for transmission wiring harnesses.
Approximately 35,400 model-year 2019-20 Mazda3 sedans and hatchbacks have been recalled for their smart braking systems.