Good morning! It’s Wednesday, September 11, 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. Karen Fukuhara Is A Very Happy Jeep Owner 1st Gear: Harris, Trump Battle Over Auto Industry On September … Read more
Diesel is no longer a thing at Jeep as the company ended its experiment with the Ecodiesel engine late last year. While that V6 diesel was the torquey engine that Jeep fans had been waiting for, it wasn’t the first time the brand tried offering diesel models. Karen Fukuhara Is A Very Happy Jeep Owner … Read more
Photo: Daniel Golson/Jalopnik I recently got stuck in Amsterdam for two days thanks to the Crowdstrike outage, which gave me a weekend’s worth of time to explore the glorious city. Amsterdam contains 165 canals that total over 60 miles in length, and on the streets that border them you’ll find some of the best carspotting … Read more
Some proposed are killed at the concept stage, and some go deep into development before ultimately being scrapped. That’s what happened at Jeep in the 1990s when the brand was developing an entry level model that would have brought a basic, cheap off-roader to the masses. 2024 Jeep Wrangler First Drive Review Found by way … Read more
Sovereign Citizens are a zany bunch who think the Constitution allows them to live free of laws, including driving without a driver’s licenses or registration. You don’t want to share the roads with such drivers, but a pilot in Alaska is making these same arguments this week about his lack of pilot’s license or aircraft … Read more
Maserati is working hard to get out of the slump that was the Levante, Ghibli and Quattroporte era, and with its latest editions to its range — the GranCabrio Folgore and Trofeo — the iconic Italian automaker finally seems to be leaving that era behind. The GranTurismo coupe, and by extension its GranCabrio droptop sibling, … Read more
Good morning! It’s Tuesday, June 18, 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. Reggie Watts Is A Big Porsche Fan | Jalopnik Chats 1st Gear: Fisker Files For Chapter 11 Bankruptcy. … Read more
A woman in Knoxville, Tennessee had to turn to a local news station’s “Help Me” consumer affairs guy after a used car dealership sold her Ford Taurus out from under her after she brought it in for repairs. If that wasn’t bad enough, months later, the car was still registered in her name. For just … Read more
Jeep is kicking the doors of the EV party down by finally fully detailing its first all-electric offering, the extremely quick and confusingly named 2024 Wagoneer S. Jeep’s first EV to reach dealers comes packed with a whole lot of impressive numbers: 600 horsepower, 617 pound-feet of torque, 300 miles of range, 6,700 pound of girth, … Read more
1. Who developed the WK2 (2011-2020/1) Grand Cherokee platform? — This platform was also used by the gen. 3 Durango (still in production), the 2012-2019 Mercedes-Benz M/GLE-Class, and the 2013-2019 Mercedes-Benz GL/GLS-Class. It’s probably the final DaimlerChrysler collaboration, and didn’t even debut until a couple of years after the merger ended. But who led the … Read more
