Elon Musk Once Again Admits Most Teslas Physically Can’t ‘Self Drive’ Without Another Hardware Upgrade Elon Musk famously thought that automating the entirety of driving would be a pretty easy job, and he’s been steadily and continually surprised when it turns out to actually be difficult. This trend carries over to the tech installed in Tesla’s cars, which has required update after update, each time accompanied by… Read more…

At $5,595, Does This 1990 Buick Reatta Float Your Boat? The market for luxury two-seaters is limited, something Buick discovered upon the introduction of the Reatta in the late 1980s. Let’s see if today’s Nice Price or No Dice convertible survivor fairs better in the modern era. Read more…

Honda’s Merger With Nissan Is Probably Over Before It Even Began Good morning! It’s Wednesday, February 5, 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…

Consumer Reports Explains Why Mercedes-Benz’s Driver-Assistance Systems Beats Tesla’s The term advanced driver-assistance systems, or ADAS, is used to categorize features like adaptive cruise control, lane departure prevention and automatic emergency braking to name a few, but to the average consumer most of those words are just gibberish. What many consumers have latched onto are Tesla’s dangerous and … Read more…

Ferrari Isn’t Backtracking On Its EV Ambitions, Will Launch First Electric Supercar This Year The world of electric vehicles is uncertain right now, with automakers backtracking on targets, the new U.S. government slashing support for their rollout and brands delaying new models all over the shop. Not Ferrari, though, as the famed Italian automaker has confirmed that its first electric car is coming, and it’s… Read more…

Arizona’s ‘Slow Poke’ Bill Would Ticket Drivers $500 For Going Slow In The Left Lane If you’re a slow driver in Arizona, you may want to look out — or at least consider driving faster or getting out of the left lane. Lawmakers in the state are putting forth a new bill that, if passed, would fine drivers for going too slow in the fast lane on highways. Read more…

‘We Nearly Got Killed’ Tesla Cybertruck Owner Says Full Self-Driving Caused Massive Crash Tesla’s Full Self-Driving software and its flagship Cybertruck have been plagued with issues since hitting their respective markets. That’s why it’s no surprise to learn that if you put the two Tesla inventions together, the results aren’t exactly good. Read more…

What Vintage Car Do You Want To EV Swap? Yesterday I spent the morning driving restomod company Everrati’s electric Porsche 964, which to many is completely sacrilegious in theory, but in practice it was awesome. You’ll have to wait for my full review for all my thoughts on that electric 911, but it got me thinking again about other classic cars that could… Read more…

These Are The Things Your Cars Need Before Spring It may only be February, but spring will be here before you know it. It’ll come even faster if it knows your project car isn’t ready, so earlier this week we asked what your car needs before warmer weather arrives. Today, we’re combing through just how unfinished your projects are. Read more…

Aston Martin Launches 2025 Valkyrie Le Mans Program, Finally Ending Eight-Year Wait It’s been eight years since Aston Martin unveiled the road-going Valkyrie. Over that timespan, Canadian billionaire Lawrence Stroll bought the British luxury automaker and its partnership with the hypercar’s co-developer Red Bull Advanced Technologies collapsed. Plans to race the hypercar at Le Mans were seemingly… Read more…

What Does It Take To Turn Your Daily Driver Into A Radio Controlled Toy? Did you have a radio controlled car when you were a kid? They always looked like a ton of fun in the television commercials during Saturday Morning Cartoons, but when you finally convinced your parents to buy one they were typically slow and got pretty boring after 30 minutes. And batteries were always sold… Read more…

Ocean-Themed Pagani Huayra On Bring A Trailer Is What Happens When Tacky People Have Too Much Money All too often, when wealth and cars collide, the results are disastrous. Just take a look at the modified vehicles that Mansory offers, for instance. Things can get worse when wealthy customers are able to customize a new car to their own liking. This decade-old Pagani Huayra currently listed for sale on Bring a… Read more…

Dodge Owners Are Never Giving Up The Yellow Splitter Guard Remember when Dodge owners started leaving the shipping protectors on their Chargers and Challengers, and enthusiasts the world over began losing their collective minds with rage? The new Charger may have debuted without a single touch of bright yellow on its much smaller splitter, but it seems the aftermarket is… Read more…

How The Henry Ford Museum Found And Restored The Bus Rosa Parks Was Arrested For Riding When Rosa Parks refused to move from her bus seat to give it to a white passenger on December 1, 1955, police in Montgomery, Alabama arrested her. While she wasn’t the first person to use a bus sit-in to protest segregation — Bayard Rustin’s is the earliest one I’m aware of — Parks’ arrest was the catalyst for the… Read more…

Infamous Highway Exit Transformed Into Jaunty Arcade Game We’ve all encountered troublesome highway exits where drivers are expected to swerve across multiple lanes to make the off-ramp. In some cities, those exits have become local villains. One hobbyist game developer’s current project is transforming Exit 3A on Interstate 277 in Charlotte, North Carolina into an enjoyable… Read more…

Boeing Starliner Lost $2 Billion But The Spacecraft Isn’t Dead Yet With two astronauts still stranded on the International Space Station, no one would categorize the Boeing Starliner’s 2024 crewed test flight as a success. Boeing has now lost $2 billion on Starliner after the aerospace giant announced a $523 million loss across last year on the spacecraft program on Monday. However,… Read more…

‘300 Babies That Wouldn’t Have Had HIV, Now Do’ Due To Tesla CEO’s Actions In DC: Report As Tesla CEO Elon Musk continues his illegal and unconstitutional takeover of the U.S. federal government, he’s taken a special interest in destroying the United States Agency for International Development, Reuters reports. Cutting off foreign aid that specifically saves lives and improves health outcomes around the… Read more…

So Many People Want A Four-Door Jimny That Suzuki Had To Close Order Books After Just Four Days The rugged little Suzuki Jimny, briefly sold in the U.S. as the Suzuki Samurai, was strictly offered as a two door since its introduction in 1970. Suzuki introduced a four-door in some markets like India, South Africa, and Australia in 2023, and Suzuki finally opened the order books for Japanese-market four-door Jimnys… Read more…

This 1,000 HP Turbocharged NASCAR Pikes Peak Winner Is Old School Cheap Speed Layne Schranz’ Pikes Peak-winning turbocharged stock car might be the most impressive vehicle I have ever witnessed. With a 410 cubic-inch American V8 up front it already sounds like demons and hellfire, but slap on a pair of 6182 turbochargers and you’ll have a duet of banshees playing winds right alongside. With… Read more…

LAPD Sergeant Arrested At Work Hours After Allegedly Killing A Pedestrian In A DUI Hit-And-Run A sergeant with the Los Angeles Police Department was arrested by his coworkers last week after showing up to work just hours after allegedly hitting and killed a pedestrian while driving under the influence. Read more…