The ugly truckling. Photo: General Motors If there’s one vehicle that sums up the American people, it’s got to be the pickup truck, right? These humble machines carry around everything from camping kit and home-improvement supplies to the country’s hopes and dreams. But let’s be honest, they aren’t all particularly good-looking vehicles. A Comfortable And … Read more
Good morning! It’s Friday, September 27, 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. Jalopinions | The Best Type is Jaguar’s E-Type 1st Gear: Automakers Now Aim To Sell 23.7 million EVs … Read more
For years, Tesla has proudly paraded its advanced driver assistance system, Full Self-Driving as being the real deal. It’s claimed the system can navigate traffic, manage highway driving and repeatedly claimed it’s the future of driving, despite the number of crashes, collisions and even deaths linked to the system mounting. Now, a new study has … Read more
Throughout his decades as an automotive journalist, Jeremy Clarkson has been known for his often controversial takes on cars. Well, he’s got another one: modern cars are “all shit now.” Clarkson said this during a watch party for the final episode of “The Grand Tour” where he took questions from the audience. “The Grand Tour: … Read more
Fisker Inc. went bankrupt back in June, but not before selling over 3,000 Fisker Oceans to customers who have since been marooned by the defunct EV manufacturer. In July, my colleague Ryan told you about the 3,000 frustrated Ocean owners who banded together to form the Fisker Owners Association (FOA) to fight for the resources … Read more
It’s difficult to argue that McLaren doesn’t go all-out when they build a supercar. The company announced the W1 as the name for its upcoming flagship supercar, tying its lineage to the F1 and the P1. The W1 is rumored to be a hybrid-V8-powered, all-wheel-drive monster. The car will be revealed on October 6, the … Read more
Tesla’s factories and other facilities have been dealing with nasty issues – whether it’s sexual harassment, racism or unsafe conditions – for a really long time, and it seems that poisonous work environment has reached its Gigafactory in Autin, Texas. A number of employees at the plant – which began operations back in 2021 – … Read more
Image: Andretti Global Andretti Global is a racing team with its fingers in damn near every racing series in the world. The company runs IndyCar, Indy NXT, Formula E, and Extreme E efforts on its own, and partners with other teams for additional efforts in IMSA GTP, Super Copa, and Australian Supercars. It has been … Read more
Stellantis is in trouble right now. Sales for all of its American brands are down, and the company is on the hunt for a new CEO. You get a better picture of things at the dealership level. Over at brands like Jeep, dealers are sitting on inventory they can’t seem to sell. Dealers for Fiat … Read more
In a video shared to Twitter today, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) clarifies the importance of a properly adjusted car seat head restraint. Though we colloquially refer to them as headrests, they are more accurately called head restraints, and they are designed to protect your head if you get in an accident, not … Read more
