Good morning! It’s Monday, September 30, 2024, and this is The Morning Shift, your daily roundup of the top automotive headlines from around the world, in one place. Here are the important stories you need to know. Paulina Porizkova Had Two Toyota 4Runners Stolen Back-to-Back 1st Gear: Chinese Car Ban Could Cut Car Sales And … Read more
Well, this is a new one: A woman in Toledo, Ohio got a major victory when a judge awarded her a court order against a dealership that sold her a faulty car, but it all fell apart when she went to collect and found out the goddamn dealership closed. Welp, Used Car Prices Are Rising … Read more
Photo: Honda Hey everyone, great news! The average new car transaction price has officially dropped to only $48,401. Take that, rich people. New cars are finally affordable again. Time for all of us to go out and… wait, you can’t afford to spend $48,401 on a car? Damn. Me either. Well, that sucks. Still, this … Read more
Usually, when a supercar owner gets themselves into dumb trouble, it’s a chance for us to all come together and point and laugh. Speeding tickets, aquatic adventures, we all love to see a rich asshole lose. But one Staten Island Lamborghini owner, ticketed for his Huracan Performante’s exhaust noise, actually has a point in claiming … Read more
Photo: Bradley Brownell Cars aren’t very fun on their own, you know, taken in a vacuum. It’s the experiences and connections that cars facilitate which draws us all to them, right? For most people driving is just a chore and would instantly be replaced by teleportation if such technology were ever invented. There are so … Read more
Modern cars are laden down with all sorts of connected features. Remote start via cell phone, data connections for built-in apps, cars are increasingly reliant on mobile networks for full functionality — mobile networks that can, and eventually will, shut down. When those systems go dark, what happens to the cars? It’s Time The Nissan … Read more
Ohio Senator J.D. Vance introduced a bill during the 1st session of the 118th Congress that would, if passed, cost American taxpayers billions of dollars, run in the face of climate change, and would sell all of us out to the oil and gas industry. Vance, once a critic of Trump’s firebrand “America’s Hitler” image, … Read more
Carhenge is a just one of the mammoth installations you can see at Glastonbury Photo: Owen Bellwood Hundreds of thousands of revelers descended on a field in England for the Glastonbury Festival last weekend. This gathering of more than 200,000 music fans, creatives and artists takes place every year and this year packed in performances from … Read more
The ship was carrying 3,000 cars – 25 of which were electric. Photo: Flying Focus / ANP / AFP (Getty Images) (Getty Images) The car carrier MV Fremantle Highway went up in flames in the North Sea last year, consuming thousands of brand new Mercedes, BMWs and Minis. Some of the cars on board were … Read more
Vehicles in the U.S. just keep on getting older as new ones continue to cost way too much for the average buyer. In fact, the average car on the road in 2024 is 12.6 years old. That means the average car was built back in 2011. Preposterous. Even EVs Can’t Get A Break From The … Read more
