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
Photo: Toyota (Getty Images) A blemish on Toyota’s reputation for reliability appeared last month as reports poured in from 2024 Tacoma owners about the truck’s transmission failing. In response, Toyota issued a technical service bulletin last week stating the eight-speed automatic transmission should be replaced if it exhibits one of six diagnostic trouble codes. While … Read more
Good morning! It’s Thursday, August 15, 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: The Car Recall System Is Badly Broken Proposed … Read more
2025 Toyota Camry SE AWDImage: Toyota If you’re currently the owner of any 2023 or 2024 Toyota, you may want to listen up. The automaker is recalling thousands of every model it sells because the vehicles may have been fitted with the wrong load sticker. Ram Recalls 1.4 Million Pickup Trucks for Tailgates That Can … Read more
Screenshot: Mazda Here at Jalopnik, we’re big fans of Mazda. We love the Miata so much, it might as well be our unofficial mascot. We also regularly encourage friends and family to buy Mazdas because they’re great cars. I’m personally responsible for at least five CX-5 sales and a couple of Mazda 3s. So it … Read more
Good morning! It’s Tuesday, July 30, 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: Trump Now Thinks EVs Are ‘Incredible’ Donald Trump … Read more
In 2003, a fleet of white Toyota Hilux trucks was loaded into an Antonov An-124 on the tarmac of Spain’s Málaga Airport. Operated by cargo carrier Aircompany Polet, the An-124 was capable of flying the highest gross payload at the time – aside from the gargantuan An-225. It was loaded up and took off on … Read more
New vehicle dealer inventory once again climbed in June, with 2.96 million vehicles just sitting on lots. That works out to about a 76-day supply, and it’s up from 2.89 million vehicles a month earlier. It’s also a million more vehicles than where it was at the same time last year – 1.95 million. Jalopinions … Read more
Image: Toyota These days, where greyscale paint reigns supreme, it’s not often a car comes straight from the factory in the perfect spec. It’s even more surprising when that vehicle comes from a mainstream automaker. Toyota is showing once again how it can get things right by bringing back the glorious GR86 Hakone Edition for … Read more
I don’t have any kids, or a wife, so I can get whatever I want. Due to a couple of really bad falls and the permanent injuries I got from them, along with all the inherited back issues I have, anything like a 4×4 truck or SUV wouldn’t be a good choice at all. I … Read more
