Happy Friday! It’s June 7, 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. 2024 Jeep Wrangler First Drive Review 1st Gear: Japanese Banks Are Abandoning Toyota Toyota’s been in a tough spot … Read more
Happy Thursday! It’s June 6, 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. NIO Scraps Its Most Unique Feature For Its EVs 1st Gear: Biden Administration EV Rollback To Have Even Worse … Read more
Good morning! It’s Wednesday, June 5, 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. Ultra Cruise is GM’s Answer to Tesla’s So-Called ‘Full Self-Driving’ 1st Gear: Tesla Loses Some Very Early Supporters … Read more
Good morning! It’s Monday, June 4, 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. Tesla’s Cybertruck Has Finally Arrived 1st Gear: Tesla Defends Elon Musk’s $56 Billion Pay Would you say Elon … Read more
As the used car market returns to normal, buyers on a budget looking for affordable cars are still facing challenges. While there are some helpful strategies to get a quality ride at a reasonable price, putting an artificial cap of 100,000 miles is not one of them. Feds Want To Stop Shady Car Sales Naturally, … Read more
This article first appeared in The Conversation. Oranges – and all the things we can make from them — are big business. But the industry is facing a severe crisis. About 50 million tonnes of oranges are grown each year, 34 per cent of them in Brazil. Know the news with the 7NEWS app: Download … Read more
It really seems like Tesla CEO Elon Musk is pushing his automaker’s needs by the wayside in favor of Twitter and his artificial intelligence company, xAI. It also looks as if Musk is going back on his April promise that Tesla will drastically increase the number of Nvidia H100 (the company’s flagship AI chip) it … Read more
Selling cars is often a soul-crushing grind. So it’s understandable that dealership employees might feel pressure to cut corners. As one New England dealership recently found out, though, if you get caught straight-up scamming, there can be some pretty nasty consequences. The Ram From ‘Twister’ Is the Greatest Truck Ever Kia America has sued Dan … Read more
No, your eyes aren’t deceiving you. Cars are getting less and less colorful, and we’ve now got the data to back that up. Cars that are in grayscale–black, white, silver and gray–have been increasing their color domination year over year, and it’s a damn shame because I am tired of these boring ass colors. I … Read more
Fisker, after the disastrous launch of the Ocean crossover, is not doing so hot. For CEO Henrik Fisker, founder of both Fisker Automotive and VLF Automotive, it’s a tale as old as time — spin up a car company, make a few copies of one car, and then crash and burn in spectacular fashion. A … Read more
