Vehicle-to-grid technology is slowly expanding, with more automakers and power companies starting to offer the functionality. Ford, Sunrun and the Baltimore Gas and Electric Company have partnered with three F-150 Lightning owners to use V2G tech to shore up the state’s power grid. Ford Is Gearing Up To Make A Lot More F-150 Lightnings Ford … Read more
Good morning! It’s Thursday, July 25, 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. BMW F 900 GS And BMW CE 02: What Do You Want To Know? 1st Gear: Warranty Costs … Read more
Screenshot: StanceWorks on YouTube How much car can you buy for $80,000? In the new market that would get you a decent Porsche Boxster or C8 Corvette. Those are pretty impressive cars, to be sure, but neither have the presence or rip-your-face-off-ness of this StanceWorks-built Ford Model A hot rod. That’s right, you can buy … Read more
With the death of the Chevrolet Camaro and no new Dodge Charger or Challenger available just yet, the Ford Mustang is the last American muscle car left standing. The 2025 Ford Mustang doesn’t change at all from the 2024 S650 redesign, but Ford decided to charge up to $3,645 more for the same exact car … Read more
Ford is investing $3 billion to build more of its extremely profitable F-Series Super Duty pickup trucks at a plant in Ontario, Canada that was previously earmarked to build an electric crossover. The plant is set to be opened in 2026, and it will employ 1,800 workers to build the large work trucks. The move … Read more
Image: Bring A Trailer Sometimes it seems as if Bring A Trailer is slowly turning into a crooked used car lot where low-mileage, basic cars go for big prices. It keeps happening and it’s happening yet again, this time with a Ford Escort from 1991 with just 358 miles on the clock. Cedric The Entertainer … Read more
Car enthusiasts often flock to the cars with the highest horsepower numbers, loudest exhausts, or fastest Nürburgring lap times, but sometimes we want to be coddled, too. Life is all about compromise, and when you build a car that’s focused solely on providing the most comfortable experience possible, it usually comes at the sacrifice of … Read more
Gif: HotWheelsFan2002 VGCP / YouTube Nothing embodied the American auto industry in the 2000s like Toby Keith trying to sell a Ford F-150 on television. While the Blue Oval-loving musician appeared in numerous Ford ads across the decade, this commercial for the 2007 Ford F-150 called out to me recently. Toby Keith’s Ford F-150 Truck … Read more
It definitely upsets some readers, but here at Jalopnik, we’re fully on Team Don’t Drive A Childcrusher 9000. Cars are fun and all, but they’re not more important than people’s lives. And unfortunately for everyone who does anything outside of a car, tall hoods on large trucks and SUVs make them especially deadly in the … Read more
67-70 Mercury Cougar over 67-70 Mustang Although I fully admit this is a judgement call. First off, I find the Cougar styling cooler because the Mustang look is more common with Ford still riffing off of it. But I do agree the Mustang is iconic. As for value, it’s pretty much a wash,with both cars … Read more
