Ever Notice Those Red and Yellow Dots on Your Tires? Here’s What They Mean Last time you bought a new tire, how closely did you look at it? You probably checked it for sizing and fit, making sure its width and profile and wheel size work with your car, but how carefully did you look at the other markings? Did you take notice of those little yellow and red dots? Did you wonder what they meant? Read more…

Arizona Lawmaker Insists He’s Immune From Receiving Speeding Tickets Because He’s A State Senator Speeding isn’t just against the law. It’s also dangerous. And if it’s someone’s job to make those laws, you’d think they would show some respect for them. If we’re talking about Mark Finchem, an Arizona Republican state senator who was recently ticketed for speeding, though, you couldn’t possibly be more wrong.… Read more…

NASA Astronauts Heading To A New Frontier, Interacting With A Twitch Chat NASA, over the past 30 years, has gone to astronomical lengths to ensure the public is well aware of its work, especially young people. Adapting to a new generation, NASA announced on Wednesday that it will be hosting a livestream exclusively on Twitch, a platform synonymous with various forms of gaming. Read more…

Tesla Decides Now Is The Right Time To Charge More For The Model X Between falling sales, shrinking market share and its CEO distracted by ruining the lives of millions of Americans, Tesla is in a weird spot right now. However, that doesn’t seem to have stopped it from increasing the price of its Model X crossover, one of the oldest vehicles it makes. Read more…

What’s The Fastest You Can Go For The Cheapest? There are all kinds of ways to go really ridiculously fast in the modern era of speed chasing, but the down-home hillbilly in me has always been more interested in how fast you can go for as little cash outlay as possible. Sure, any asshole with a big sack of cash can drop four milly on a Koenigsegg Jesko Absolut to… Read more…

Space X Is Having Problems With The Rocket That Will Rescue Boeing’s Stranded Astronauts After more than eight months in space, astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams are counting down the days until a SpaceX Dragon capsule can launch to the International Space Station and bring them home. Concerns have now been raised about their rescue rocket, however, and a switch of spacecraft could actually mean… Read more…

These Are The Vintage Cars You Want To EV Swap Earlier this week I had the chance to drive Everrati’s EV-swapped Porsche 911, and it got me daydreaming about other vintage cars that would be excellent candidates for electric powertrains. That led me to my question from earlier this week: What classic model do you want to EV swap? Read more…

At $6,000, Is This 1988 Toyota Pickup Simply A Steal? Top Gear couldn’t destroy one, enshrining Toyota Pickups like today’s Nice Price or No Dice standard cab as one of the best bets for anyone looking for a long-term truck relationship. Let’s see what that might reasonably be worth. Read more…

Donald Trump Is Going After EV Projects That Are Already Underway Good morning! It’s Friday, February 7, 2025, 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. Read more…

What Small Car Should Come Back In 2025? After years of rising car prices and new models growing ever biggereven pricier EVs, the tide may be turning. Cheap, small cars saw an upswing in sales in 2024, and automakers are noticing. Manufacturers like Ford, General Motors and Volkswagen are all planning to add small models back to their lineups in the next few… Read more…

Mercedes-Benz Is Practically Begging People To Buy Its EVs With $15,000 Discounts Mercedes-Benz has spent a lot of time and billions of dollars bringing its five electric vehicle offerings stateside. Unfortunately, no one really seems to care, and because of that, they’re all flopping hard. In 2024, the EQB crossover saw a 36 percent sales drop, the EQE saw a 39 percent drop and the flagship EQS… Read more…

Stolen $100,000 Skid Steer Rams Police Off Highway In Slowest Chase Ever If you’re looking to make a quick getaway from a crime, you should probably opt for something fast and nimble as your escape vehicle – like a slick hot hatch. You probably shouldn’t go for a cumbersome piece of heavy machinery that tops out at 12 mph as your escape vehicle, as a man in Alabama did last week. Read more…

Pennsylvania’s 100,000-Egg Heist Leaves Local Authorities Scrambling To Find Suspects Thieves cracked into a distribution trailer in central Pennsylvania last Saturday, making off with about 100,000 eggs from Pete & Gerry’s Organics in the borough of Greencastle. The poached eggs are reportedly worth about $40,000, the Associated Press reports. Local authorities are on the case, but as hot as egg… Read more…

How Canada And Mexico Became So Important To U.S. Car Manufacturing President Donald Trump’s desire to hit Canada and Mexico with 25 percent tariffs has put a new spotlight on auto manufacturing in the two countries. The two countries have no domestically based automakers of their own, yet they play an integral role in manufacturing for U.S.-based car companies. Sure, right now those… Read more…

NASA’s ‘Women In Leadership’ Latest Victim Of Trump ‘DEI’ Purge The first weeks of the second Trump presidency have been marked by a flurry of often-illegal executive orders, frequently centered around the removal of diversity, equity, and inclusion language from anywhere the Presidency can touch. Now that mandate has made its way to NASA: The agency has been told to “drop… Read more…

Porsche 911 Carcass Listed On Bring A Trailer Begs The Question: Why? They don’t all deserve to be saved. There are plenty of Porsche 911s out there in the world that won’t take thousands of hours of labor or tens of thousands of dollars to resurrect like this pile of junk currently listed on auction site Bring a Trailer. Start with one of those and throw this entire heap of bent metal,… Read more…

Supercars Should Be Scary As Hell To Drive Every new hypercar released has to be better, faster, and paradoxically quieter and more comfortable than the one that came before it. Ever since Bugatti dropped the Veyron, a four-thousand pound bank vault mounted on a rocket sled, the nuclear arms race of hypercars has continued apace. The wealthy, it seems, want… Read more…

Now Might Be The Best Time Ever To Buy A Used Car With wealthdisparity reaching new heights and presidential promises of decreased prices looking like another lie to add to the list, many Americans are looking for ways to save money. Average people listen up: Advertising companies make billions of dollars convincing you that your life will suddenly be better if you… Read more…

Trump Tried To Make Panama Canal Toll-Free For U.S. Ships By Just Saying It There are plenty of ways to dodge a toll, such as defacing your license plate or forcing someone else to pay the charges. However, very few people are bold enough to simply say they have a deal that doesn’t really exist. The U.S. State Department published a statement on Wednesday that the federal government’s ships… Read more…

Elon Musk Thinks He’s The Man To Fix America’s Air Traffic Control Woes American aviation has had an awful week after a passenger jet collided with a helicopter, a medical plane fell from the sky and two planes crashed on the tarmac in Seattle. Investigations into all three incidents are still ongoing, but America’s new lord and savior, Elon Musk, thinks he’s already gotten to the root of… Read more…