Good morning! It’s Wednesday, January 17, 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. The Chrysler 300C Ends Production 1st Gear: A Major Drought Is Causing Traffic Jams In The Panama Canal … Read more
One of the calling cards of today’s Nice Price or No Dice Plymouth Colt is its “Twin Stick” overdrive gear change, which gives the car eight speeds going forward and two in reverse. Let’s see if this project car has anything else to offer. Time Magazine Turned Lee Iacocca’s Face Into an Automotive Work of … Read more
Love it or hate it, you can’t really deny the impact that the Chrysler 300 and the LX platform cars had on the automotive industry. The first-generation Chrysler 300 was a design icon, so bold and American it was almost shocking when it hit the market in 2005. Amazingly, though, the future legend almost didn’t … Read more
The future of personal transportation, cars and trucks and bikes and scooters, is electric. We know this now, and we’ve known it for some time, but automakers, despite all that knowledge, have dragged their feet on actually producing electric cars. Instead, when mandates came down from on high demanding more battery-powered cars, automakers simply shelled … Read more
Remember when you were eight years old, and you finally got to go to your first big auto show? The sights, the sounds, the oddly-musty smell of the convention center — all incredible, memorable experiences. There’s one, though, that stands above them all: Camp Jeep. Contrary to reports, the iconic Camp Jeep isn’t disappearing any … Read more
The 1953-running of the Mille Miglia was absolutely packed to the gills with Italian drivers and automakers, racing for the 1,000 mile title from Brescia to Roma and back. Ferrari, Alfa Romeo, Maserati, OSCA, Lancia, Fiat, Moretti, and Bandini all had factory-backed racing efforts at this round, while foreign interlopers from Aston Martin, Jaguar, Gordini, … Read more
