Good morning! It’s Friday, August 2, 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. New York Joins California, Banning Non-Electric Vehicles After 2035 1st Gear: U.S. Election Means Everything To EVs The … Read more
Odds are, this year’s Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance will be won by yet another Nazi car, but there should also be some legitimately cool stuff there, as well. In fact, there’s an entire Wedge-Shaped Concept Cars and Prototypes class this year, and one of the cars being entered is the 1984 Honda HP-X concept. Originally … Read more
Which automotive company, more than any other, is responsible for getting the world’s population moving?Ford Motor Co., whose Model T turned the car into a mass-market product? Volkswagen AG, which sold more vehicles than any competitor over the past decade? Toyota Motor Corp., whose Corolla is the best-selling auto in history?There’s a good case that … Read more
Your car has been spying on you and collecting data. That alone is worrying to many, but a recent letter sent to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) by two U.S. Senators show something even more sinister: That data is being sold for pennies on the dollar to insurance companies. The 2024 Hyundai Santa Fe XRT … Read more
Photo: Honda When Honda revealed the Si variant of the 11th-generation Civic, people were up in arms about features missing from the U.S. model. Canadian-spec cars got heated seats, they got an all-digital dash, but American buyers had to shell out for the Integra to get the same level of amenities. Now, with the 2025 … Read more
Photo: Facebook Marketplace The Honda S2000 is one of the better cars ever put together by human hands. It’s lightweight, nimble, and rewarding to wring out to its limits. Yet, these are all qualities that I’ve heard rather than experienced, because S2000s are too damn expensive now. For example, this S2000 for sale on Marketplace, is … Read more
Tesla CEO Elon Musk is no stranger to making bold promises with little follow through, but maybe this time will be different. He just posted on his social media site X that Tesla will have humanoid robots in “low production” for the automaker’s internal use sometime next year. Then, they’ll “hopefully” be rolled out to … Read more
Image: Bring A Trailer Bring A Trailer is starting to get a bit wild again. This time around, it’s not flippers trying to make some dough on recently purchased, new cars. It’s low mileage basic cars coming out of nowhere and going for big money. Take this 2002 Toyota Camry that just sold for over … Read more
Is the Aston martin Cygnet the worst car from a great automaker? Photo: Aston Martin There are some pretty incredible automakers out there responsible for some pretty special cars. Ferrari has a long lineage of wonderful machines, as do less expensive brands like Alpine and even humble Honda has made some great cars. But is … Read more
Photo: Facebook Marketplace Remember when Subaru brought the STI Type RA over to the U.S., and buyers collectively wondered “Hey, are you really charging $50,000 for a car with five more horsepower than the standard model?” This happened because American enthusiast buyers are by and large spec-sheet shoppers, who will endlessly compare and nitpick spreadsheet … Read more
