Forza Horizon 5 Is Coming To PlayStation 5 This Spring, Which Is Great For Me Because I Sold My Xbox I’ve always been pretty brand agnostic when it comes to the video game console wars. I’ve owned Nintendo, PlayStation and Xbox systems and enjoyed console-exclusive games from each of them. In recent years, though, I’d only really kept an Xbox in the house to play Forza Horizon, the open-world series of racing games… Read more…

Nearly 60 Million Cars On U.S. Roads Have Unresolved Safety Recalls, Up 16 Percent From Last Year We post a lot about recalls here, and there’s good reason for it. A new study by CarFaxreveals that there are 58.1 million cars on the road (or one out of five cars that you see) that have open recalls, meaning they have known faults that may be dangerous. That’s a problem, and that number is a 16-percent increase… Read more…

What Car That’s On Sale Now Will Become A Future Classic? Being able to predict what cars will be classed as classics in years to come is a pretty handy skill to have. It’s a bit like being able to see what horse might win a race, but could leave you with a cool car to drive around as well as a big payout in years to come. Read more…

Northern California Airport Will Be Without Air Traffic Controllers Because Of A Pay Dispute Mere days after Trump gutted the FAA and one of the worst aviation disasters in over 20 years occurred in U.S. airspace, chaos could be looming at another airport on the West Coast. A Northern California airport will lose its air traffic controllers after workers and airport officials couldn’t come to an agreement… Read more…

Trump Blames DEI Initiatives For Deadly Washington Plane Crash A passenger plane collided with a military helicopter in the skies above Washington DC on Wednesday and the Trump administration is already using the disaster for political clout. In a press conference Thursday to brief reporters on the state of the search and rescue operation, president Donald Trump decided that was… Read more…

Ford Mach-E Owners Drive More Than The Average American And Still Don’t Come Close To Using All Of Their Range It’s been four years since Ford started selling the Mustang Mach-E. In an owners’ forum anniversary message, the Blue Oval offered a small peek into the data gathered from the electric crossovers on the road. The manufacturer stated that the average Mach-E owner drives 66 miles on a typical weekday. Shockingly, that… Read more…

Hyundai Unveils Adorable Electric Rickshaw Concepts That Lift Up To Navigate Flooded Roads India’surban centers are some of the most dense and populous in the world, and its roadways are notoriously difficult to navigate. One of the most iconic and longstanding features of India’s vibrant cities are the swaths of colorful three-wheeled rickshaws called tuk-tuks that are used as taxis. India’s tuk-tuks are… Read more…

Trump Could Kill New York Congestion Pricing Everyone hates Manhattan traffic, but there’s one thing New Jersians and Long Islanders despite even more: Literally any measure to mitigate Manhattan traffic. Congestion pricing has been an unmitigated boon for the city, lessening traffic and adding revenue for the MTA, but one rich guy and a handful of Jersey… Read more…

Patrick Stewart Narrating 1990s Pontiac Commercials Is A Nostalgic Fever Dream I love “Star Trek” as much as I love cars. I would consider myself to be a Trekkie; while I’m not of the costume wearing, convention attending sort, I am the type who has seen all the shows and movies multiple times and collect various ship models. So when I come across something that has thetwo worlds of cars and… Read more…

Trump Gutted FAA Days Before Fatal Air Collision An American Airlines regional jet collided with a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter at about 9:00 p.m. Wednesday night, reportedly killing all 64 people in the plane and the three soldiers in the helicopter. Authorities are still in the process of searching for the bodies of the deceased, but it’s already being called… Read more…

SpaceX And Vast Offering Free Rocket Flights To Have Something To Do On Planned Private Space Station As the International Space Station approaches its scheduled death date in 2030, several planned commercial stations hope to fill the void and become the premier lab-for-profit in low Earth orbit. SpaceX and Vast announced on Tuesday that they are requesting science experiments for Haven-1, the first commercial space… Read more…

New BMW M3 CS Touring Gets 550 Horsepower And Lots Of Carbon Fiber Wagon fans and enthusiasts rejoice! Following in the footsteps of the M2 CS pocket rocket, the hardcore M3 CS and the excellent M4 CS, BMW is adding another track-focused CS model to its portfolio. Witness the M3 CS Touring, a lighter and more powerful version of the brand’sM3 Touring wagon. Read more…

Los Angeles Doesn’t Have Enough Fire Trucks Thanks To Private Equity Los Angeles has been beset by fires this year, and it seems like every fire department around has done everything it can to help. One department, though, simply doesn’t have enough trucks that are in good enough shape to use: The Los Angeles Fire Department. Why are its trucks so broken? Well, as with most evils in… Read more…

Poop-Powered Racer Could Clean Up Motorsport The world needs to clean up how it gets around in a big way if we want any hope of leaving a planet for our kids to inherit. This sadly means that motorsport is in the cross hairs of environmentalists looking for activities that should be scrapped in order to cut emissions and reduce our reliance on fossil fuels. Help… Read more…

Elon Musk Wants Boeing To Rush Trump’s New Air Force One Tesla CEO and Trump’s number one lil’ guy, Elon Musk, wants to know why it’s taking Boeing so long to convert two 747s into the next Air Force One jets. He stopped by operations for his competitor earlier this week to see what’s what. Read more…

Bring A Trailer Sold $1.5 Billion Worth Of Cars Last Year Automotive auction platform Bring A Trailer has surpassed one billion dollars in sales for three consecutive years, and 2024 marks the site’s biggest sales year ever with over $1.5 billion worth of units moved, and I was one of them. Not only has the average transaction price gone up on the site, but the site is seeing… Read more…

Free Cruise Ends Up Costing Man $47,000 After He Fell Ill With The Flu While On Board There’s no such thing as a free lunch, but a comped BLT would never lead directly to bankruptcy. A Minnesota man now owes $47,000 in medical debt after receiving treatment for the flu while on a Norwegian Cruise Line ship. He had won a free cruise and purchased travel insurance from the cruise for up to $20,000 in… Read more…

Tesla’s Whirlwind 2024 Ends With Mixed Results Good morning! It’s Thursday, January 30, 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…

The Most Fuel-Efficient SUVs According To Consumer Reports Gas mileage is one of the most important factors people consider when choosing a new car, right up there with reliability and safety. Unfortunately for everyone who loves SUVs, though, big, heavy, boxy crossovers aren’t naturally all that fuel efficient. The good news is automakers have slowly been making their SUVs… Read more…

Michigan Dealership Sued By Eminem’s Publisher For Using His Music In Social Media Advertisements A Michigan Ford dealer has found itself in some serious legal trouble with one one the greatest rappers of all time. The dealershipallegedly used one of Eminem’s tracks in social media advertisments without his permission, and now the rapper’s publisher is suing. Read more…