BENGALURU: Carmakers Mahindra & Mahindra and the Indian units of Toyota Motor Corp and Kia Motor reported higher car sales in June, boosted by demand for sports utility vehicles (SUV) even as heat waves weighed on purchase decisions. Each month, automobile makers in India release wholesale numbers, or vehicle sales, to dealers. The sales numbers … Read more
Happy Tuesday! It’s June 26, 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. Rivian Unveils Trio of New Electric Vehicles 1st Gear: Volkswagen And Rivian Are Collaborating On EVs Rivian makes very … Read more
Image: Toyota Toyota’s fifth-generation Supra has hardly been the sales success the company hoped its halo sports machine would be. In the first quarter of this year the car’s sales tanked hard, dropping 44 percent compared to the same period of 2023 to just 484 units sold. With the Supra getting outsold by Nissan’s less expensive … Read more
Good morning! It’s Thursday, June 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. Jalopinions | The Best Type is Jaguar’s E-Type 1st Gear: Fisker Messed Up At Every Turn When Fisker … Read more
Good morning! It’s Friday, June 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. 1st Gear: Cyberattack Continues To Disrupt U.S. Car Sales I know it’s tricky, but this week we have … Read more
After Koenigsegg ordered every Jesko owner off the road this week as a result of a fire in one of its cars, Toyota might be quaking in its boots as a GR Corolla has been filmed going up in smoke on the highway. Nobody was injured in the blaze, but a dashcam running through the … Read more
Photo: Tesla Recently, it seems there’s been a lot of doom and gloom around EV sales. Despite ever-dropping prices the market just hasn’t grown the way automakers would like, leading many to shift their priorities to hybrids instead. New data, however, shows that the EV market as a whole isn’t actually suffering. All the problems … Read more
Image: Audi As a sports car fan in 2014 I genuinely believed that Audi could take down Porsche’s then-record of 16 Le Mans wins. That June, a decade ago, the diesel hybrid R18 E-tron Quattro took a thirteenth overall victory for Audi in 16 years. It was a four-rings party that was seemingly never going … Read more
Good morning! It’s Friday, June 14, 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: Tesla Faces Lawsuits In Delaware Blasting Elon Musk’s Behavior Elon Musk … Read more
We found out why Toyota’s twin-turbo V6s have been grenadeing themselves in 2022-2023 Tundras and Lexus LXs earlier this month, but there’s still no real fix for the issue. Now it seems car dealers are staying away from the once bullet-proof trucks. Jalopinions | The Best Type is Jaguar’s E-Type A number of against-their-will Tundra … Read more
