Good morning! It’s Thursday, September 12, 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: Engine Fires Reported In Wrangler And Gladiator Trucks After Stellantis … 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
Last week, viewers were treated by the release of the highly anticipated Gladiator II trailer. It a ttracted vast amounts of media attention both in the press and on social media. Paul Mescal, who leads in the film as Lucius, has undergone an extreme physical transformation for the role, which hasn’t gone unnoticed. TikTok videos … Read more
Photo: Jeep The state of Florida is a strange place full of swamps, gators, and climate change deniers, so the irony of Jeep’s latest Florida-only special edition Gladiator called the High Tide Edition will be lost on any Floridian who buys one. Jeep has released Wrangler High Tide Editions in 2022 and 2023, but this … Read more
The first trailer for Gladiator 2 (aka Gladiator II) hit the internet yesterday continuing the story over 20 years on. Oscar-nominee Paul Mescal stars as Lucius Verus, the former heir to the Roman Empire, previously portrayed by Spencer Treat Clark in Ridley Scott’s original 2000 film. The Roman epic was a box office smash and … Read more
The hype is real and with it Gladiator 2 (or Gladiator II) has its first trailer arrive today. It’s been 25 years since Sir Ridley Scoot shot Russell Crowe in Roman epic Gladiator and the 86-year-old director is back with the sequel. Oscar-nominee Paul Mescal stars as Lucius Verus, the former heir to the Empire, … Read more
Netflix actor Joseph Quinn has admitted he is “nervous” about the highly-anticipated Gladiator sequel, which comes 25 years after its wildly popular predecessor. The Stranger Things star, who takes on the role of Emperor Caracalla in Sir Ridley Scott’s upcoming historical epic Gladiator 2, revealed that while he hasn’t watched the complete film, glimpses of … Read more
Image: Jeep Jeep has been on a roller coaster ride the last few years. Sales have suffered, dealers are sitting on inventory they’re heavily discounting to move, quality has suffered and worse yet, their vehicles have become too expensive for many would-be buyers — something the company acknowledges even though it just released a $70,000 … Read more
This week in Las Vegas the first footage for Gladiator 2 screened at CinemaCon to those lucky enough to attend the industry event. Sir Ridley Scott, who returned to direct the sequel, teased in a video: “It is possibly even more extraordinary than the first.” Set 20 years after Russell Crowe’s Oscar-winning original, Paul Mescal … Read more
It’s been 25 years since Gladiator was filmed, going on to storm the Oscars and now the sequel is finally set for release this autumn. Set 15 years after the events of the Russell Crowe original, the new movie follows Lucius (Paul Mescal) all grown up and living “in the wilderness”. Connie Nielsen returns as … Read more
