Good morning! It’s Wednesday, September 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. 2024 Maserati GranTurismo Trofeo Is Excellent And Overpriced 1st Gear: Fewer Americans Believe EVs Are Better For The … Read more
Republican Vice Presidential nominee JD Vance has said a lot of strange stuff since he hit the campaign trail, but now he’s blaming Vice President Kamala Harris for Stellantis’ decision to drop the Ram 1500 Classic after being on sale for 16 years. The move is also going to kill a few thousand jobs in … Read more
Happy Monday! It’s August 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. Tesla Had A Very Interesting Week 1st Gear: Musk Backs Trump, But Tesla Lobbies Against His Policies Elon Musk … Read more
Now that we’re halfway through the year, automakers are slowly trickling out Q2 2024 sales results, which always results in goodies and interesting tidbits to be found. EV sales are up at multiple brands like BMW, Hyundai and GM, for instance. But it’s not all good news — just look at Stellantis. Every one of the … Read more
The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) just released new crash test results for three full-size, three-row SUVs — the Ford Expedition, Chevrolet Tahoe, and Jeep Wagoneer — and these family haulers had varied crash test performances. Full-size SUVs are popular choices due to their size and the perceived safety that comes with that size, … Read more
Image: Jeep Jeep has been all over the place with the Wagoneer brand lately. It just revealed a new electric version that looks more like the Grand Cherokee than the Grand Cherokee does, it’s walked back its premium branding plans for the Wagoneer line because of this new EV version, and now comes confirmation that’s … Read more
Photo: Stellantis UAW President Shawn Fain called out Stellantis as being “pathetic” in a recent Facebook live broadcast event for United Auto Workers union members. The multi-national automaker conglomerate recently fired scores of full-time workers from its Warren Assembly plant where the Ram 1500 and Jeep Wagoneer are built. Further engineering, tech, and software jobs were cut … Read more
Good morning! It’s Wednesday, March 20, 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. WCSYB? | Replacing a Jeep Cherokee 1st Gear: Ford Pivots To Smaller EVs A lot of noise has … Read more
Screenshot: Stellantis Fleet If there’s one thing government enforcement officials love more than using tax dollars, it’s driving huge unmarked SUVs. For years, GM has almost exclusively been the supplier of these vehicles. Motorcades and FBI agents everywhere are always full of unmarked Chevy Tahoes and Suburbans. Now it seems as if another automaker is trying … Read more
The Jeep Wagoneer and Grand Wagoneer are the largest and some of the most expensive vehicles Jeep has ever produced. These big and luxurious vehicles came with equally big and luxurious promises in both the sales and customer service departments — but the sub-brand experiment looks like it’s over. Jeep is bringing the Wagoneer name … Read more
