Good morning! It’s Monday, April 22, 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. The Hype Behind Tesla Stock Success In 2023 1st Gear: Chaos At Tesla 2024 has not been kind … Read more
NEW DELHI: Hyundai Motor India expects sales contribution from rural areas to remain at record levels in the current fiscal as well on account of various factors including anticipation of a favourable monsoon, according to a senior company executive. The country’s second-largest automaker, which sells models like Creta and Venue, reported 11 per cent growth … Read more
The one I’m dealing with currently. In mid-January 2024, I flew from Oklahoma to Illinois to purchase a 2018 Genesis G90 5.0 Ultimate AWD from a newly opened Genesis store. The process seemed promising enough, so I was happy to hand over a certified check for the car. The first complication came when it was … Read more
India’s appetite for compact vehicles – defined as being less than 4 metres in length – seems to be waning. Despite a preferential taxation regime, the share of sub-4 metre compact vehicles, has fallen from 62% in 2021 to 50% in 2023. The number of models on offer in this segment is also down to … Read more
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Electric vehicles are seeing huge discounts right now, but those new lower prices are still not enough to get folks to, y’know, buy them. Now, an ever-more-bloated EV inventory is pushing automakers and dealers to slash prices even further. Five-figure price discounts are no longer out of the question. Even EVs Can’t Get A Break … Read more
Atlas is dead, long live Atlas. The hydraulically-articulated version of Boston Dynamics’ humanoid robot was retired last week in favor of its electric motor-driven version introduced on Wednesday. Hyundai is majority owner of Boston Dynamics, and the new all-electric Atlas will eventually replace the company’s workers on factory floors, maybe starting with the ones who … Read more
You don’t need to have been petrified by Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Skynet-commissioned cyborg assassin in 1984’s The Terminator to fret that super-strong, all-terrain, bipedal humanoid robots sprinting up steps, pulling backflips, and righting themselves could be programmed to break our necks on sight. (And laser guns, never give them laser guns.) With the Old Atlas, we … Read more
Fifteen years ago, the concept of a 600-horsepower electric Hyundai would have blown people’s minds. And yet, here we are today. The 2025 Hyundai Ioniq 5 N is real, and it makes 641 hp when you hit the boost button. That’s a whole lot of power, identical to what you get in a Lamborghini Urus. … Read more
Let’s say you’re in the car market looking for something fun or, at the very least, somewhat interesting to drive. There are some great options to be had on the used market and, if you’re not picky or a badge snob, one of the best sport sedans to come to market in the last decade … Read more
