Good morning! It’s Thursday, August 21, 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’s Cybertruck Has Finally Arrived 1st Gear: Jeep Worker Dies At Toledo Assembly Complex In the midst of … Read more
Good morning! It’s Friday, August 16, 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 Property Brothers First Car Literally Spoke To Them 1st Gear: Stellantis Shareholders Sue Over Sucky Earnings Stellantis … Read more
Screenshot: New York Post via YouTube Before we get into the story, we’re going to start this off by saying the babies are all doing just fine. With that out of the way, here’s what’s going on. 2024 Jeep Wrangler First Drive Review Two toddlers wearing nothing but their diapers were stranded out in the … 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
The Tesla Cybertruck has been a menace on America’s roads ever since it finally went on sale late last year. The angular electric vehicle has been causing a ruckus in Maine, has been bricked by car washes and has failed at basic truck stuff. Now, one budding car modder has uncovered a neat way to … Read more
As one Subaru Crosstrek owner recently learned the hard way, it bears repeating that all-wheel drive is not the same as four-wheel drive. A Subie owner posted a warning letter they received a month after driving on Colorado River Overlook Road in Canyonlands National Park to the r/NationalPark subreddit. The letter notes that this particular … Read more
Some proposed are killed at the concept stage, and some go deep into development before ultimately being scrapped. That’s what happened at Jeep in the 1990s when the brand was developing an entry level model that would have brought a basic, cheap off-roader to the masses. 2024 Jeep Wrangler First Drive Review Found by way … Read more
Is this the most overrated movie car of all time? Gif: Eon Productions The movie world is filled with some wonderful machines, like James Bond’s Aston Martin DB5, the Mach 5 from ‘Speed Racer’ and the Land Rover Defender in every movie it’s ever been in. But there have also been some more mundane movie … Read more
Image: Slaven Vlasic (Getty Images) There are a number of reasons the Roadster values might be faltering among collectors. For one thing, maintaining an aging EV is hardly an easy thing. There are a few companies out there rebuilding and refurbishing battery packs and drive units, but Tesla stopped supporting these cars a long time … Read more
On paper, plug-in hybrids offer the best of both worlds — electric power for daily driving and gas power for longer trips — but to get the most out of a PHEV, you have to charge it. Take the Toyota RAV4 Prime, for example. It has a 42-mile electric-only range, is rated at 94 MPGe … Read more
