Good morning! It’s Monday, August 26, 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. Even EVs Can’t Get A Break From The Heat 1st Gear: Ford’s New EV Plan Means More Hybrids … Read more
BMW touts its products as “Ultimate Driving Machines,” and today’s Nice Price or No Dice X5 has certainly done a lot of driving. Let’s see if its price drives a hard bargain. I Need To Replace My Stolen BMW X5 | WCSYB? The 1977 Chevy Malibu we looked at yesterday was dressed in the livery … Read more
The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) just released new crash test results for three full-size, three-row SUVs — the Ford Expedition, Chevrolet Tahoe, and Jeep Wagoneer — and these family haulers had varied crash test performances. Full-size SUVs are popular choices due to their size and the perceived safety that comes with that size, … Read more
Nepali Sherpa climber and guide Kami Rita Sherpa on Wednesday morning again set out a world record with the 30th summit of Mount Everest, a record number by a single person. According to the Department of Tourism officials, overseeing the expedition in high high-lying Himalayas of Nepal, including Mount Everest, Kami Rita stood atop the … Read more
The EV revolution has hit a stumbling block. Sure, sales are technically rising, but they’re not rising anywhere near as quickly as projected. Automakers like Ford are losing big on each vehicle sold, with losses totaling in the billions — and now, The Verge reports that Ford is starting to wonder if maybe it should … Read more
Today’s Nice Price or No Dice Expedition shows what happened when Ford took its winning Explorer formula and doubled the ingredients. We’ll have to decide if this old-school SUV’s price still makes it large and in charge. 2023 Mercedes-Benz EQS 580 4MATIC SUV | First Drive Being the youngest in the family usually means getting … Read more
Of all the goofy and delightful vehicles to ever wander the of Antarctica and the Arctic, I never thought I would come across a vehicle seemingly less-suited to the icy wastes than Australia’s Volkswagen Beetle. But the Australians who brought the Bug to the continent really out did themselves with a Morris Mini Minor—on tracks, … Read more
On a cold, blustery Friday in Detroit, members of the Explorer’s Club Transglobal Car Expedition paused on their around the world road trip to take in the Motor City. The less than a dozen team members and logistics personal didn’t seem to mind the cold or the wind — it was only going to get … Read more
Sometimes there is a subset of car culture that you’ve just missed out on somehow. That’s what happened to me and the 3.5-liter Ecoboost-swap Mustang community. I just didn’t know they existed, but it was brought to my attention today via a tweeted screenshot of a Facebook post, which naturally sent me into a research … Read more
