Daytona 24 Class Winner Stripped Of Win 3 Days After The Race Ended The number eight Tower Motorsports Oreca-Gibson 2025 Daytona 24 Hour LMP2 class winning car, driven by Sebastien Bourdais, Job van Uitert, Sebastian Alvarez, and John Farano, has been unceremoniously stripped of its victory and kicked to the back of the class after a technical infraction uncovered by the series on… Read more…

Tesla’s Robotaxi Service Is Actually, Really, Definitely Going To Launch In June Tesla boss Elon Musk has been promising self-driving cars for more than 10 years, but now he says they really are actually nearly here. After unveiling the autonomous Cybercab concept last year and claiming that self-driving Teslas will roll out in 2025, the Tesla boss confirmed this week that he plans to roll out a… Read more…

These Are The Oldest Cars You’re Still Driving From treasured cars to tried-and-true rides, very few people drive around in a brand-new car and trade it in after a handful of years. We asked earlier this week what are the oldest cars our readers are still driving. The collective fleet is an eclectic collection ranging from 1931 to 2007. While maintenance headaches… Read more…

Here’s Why Los Angeles Has Bus Stops In The Middle Of The Freeway Los Angeles is famous for many things, like its beautiful beaches, its zeitgeist-establishing media industry, and its notoriously mediocre public transportation resources. While LA’s light rail network is mediocre, its bus system is relatively comprehensive, though buses are still subject to another thing LA is famous… Read more…

American Airlines Jet Carrying 60 Passengers Crashes Into Black Hawk Helicopter Over Washington An American Airlines regional jet carrying 60 passengers crashed with a military helicopter near Washington D.C. Wednesday evening. The two aircraft collided mid-air and crashed down into the Potomac River at 9 p.m. on Wednesday. Read more…

This Mid-Engine Toyota Van Can Deliver Way More Tofu Than Some Dumb Corolla So your father has a tofu delivery service and tasks you with driving the tofu up a mountain without spilling any of the goods. Don’t worry, he already has a car, a trusty 300,000 mile Previa with a 5-speed manual transmission. Naturally, as one does, you fall into a mountain racing gang and you’re the best downhill… Read more…

Volkswagen Considers Building Porsches And Audis In The U.S. For The First Time To Skirt Trump Tariffs President Trump has threatened import tariffs on automobiles seemingly forever, ranging from 25 percent to 300 percent depending on how he’s feeling that day, but the administration seems poised to launch a new raft of import tariffs on February 1. The incoming punitive tariffs are aimed at vehicles built in Canada,… Read more…

Who Wants To Buy Palm Beach International Raceway? At some point in all of our lives, we dream of owning a race track. Getting to turn corner after corner with no pesky club rules, honing your driving skill without any annoying tech inspection — it’s truly the dream. Now, that dream could be a reality, so long as you’ve got a ton of money and want to spend you time in… Read more…

Teen In Corvette Hits 168 MPH While Running From Police Teen automotive enthusiasts report feeling “dejected” and “just real depressed” about their prospects of being allowed to buy their dream cars after their parents saw the news that a Nebraska teen was just arrested after running from the cops in his Corvette and hitting 168 mph in the process. The chase took place… Read more…

Donald Trump Knows He Can’t Just Kill Federal EV Funding, It’s Part Of His Plan In the days since Donald Trump’s second inauguration, the President has issued 68 executive orders. He’s covered everything from banal cabinet appointments to just who’s allowed to have healthcare, but he’s found a special enemy in EVs and their charging infrastructure — most recently issuing an executive order… Read more…

3,000 Very Awesome People Have Bought Radicals It’s possible that Radical Motorsport is the most hardcore automaker in the world. It builds little lightweight machines that are exclusively for the act of going fast around a race track, and a lot of really cool people bought one just for that purpose. While the rest of the British automotive industry is trying to… Read more…

Cybertruck Owners Say They Are ‘Worried About Hate Crimes’ And Suggest Saluting ‘Each Other Like Elon’ To Show Support Ever since it finally went on sale in 2023, the Tesla Cybertruck has been on the receiving end of some pretty bad press. The car has been hit with recall after recall, failed at some pretty basic truck tasks and hasn’t sold in the huge numbers Tesla projected. Now, the ridiculous truck’s owners report that they are … Read more…

Buy This Honda Civic Type R Race Car And Live Out All Your Racer Dreams The current Honda Civic Type R is absolutely outstanding, but for drivers in the U.S. who hadn’t previously had the privilege of driving prior Civic Type Rs, its predecessor was a revelation. It drove better than any front-wheel-drive car had any right to, all while offering the daily practicality of a hatchback. But… Read more…

Hamilton Crashes Ferrari F1 Car During First Test With Team The pairing of F1’s most popular driver and its most popular team has proven to be a marketer’s wet dream. However, as the focus shifts to the track, things aren’t going as smoothly for the seven-time F1 champion. Hamilton crashed a 2023 Ferrari F1 car during a private testing crash on Wednesday, his first test… Read more…

Why Don’t Turbocharged Cars Need Hood Scoops Anymore? You never know what you have until it’s gone, and the proliferation of hood scoops on turbocharged cars is a perfect example of that. Looking back in time a decade or two, it was more common for turbocharged or supercharged road cars to have functional hood scoops, from station wagons to muscle cars to pickup trucks.… Read more…

Only A Bra Manufacturer Could Make NASA’s $100,000 Apollo Space Suits When NASA sent Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin to the Moon, it put the best of American science and engineering to the test. As part of the Apollo program, experts from Boeing, North American Rockwell and McDonnell Douglas were all called on for their expertise, as were craftspeople from American bra manufacturer… Read more…

These Are Perfect Features Found On Awful Cars We all love finding automotive diamonds in the rough. However, sometimes that diamond can be embedded inside a massive lump of coal. Earlier this week we asked what are the standout unique features of cars that aren’t worth aspiring to own. The comments had various answers ranging from basic automated operations to… Read more…

If You Could Teleport Yourself And Your Car Anywhere For A Day, Where Would You Go? You are sat in the depths of winter doldrums, a mystical state of being where everything seems to be slower and more depressing. As you sit in your leather easy chair watching another awful YouTube video about cars you can’t afford, waiting for the weather to warm, an all-knowing and all-powerful being appears in… Read more…

My Girlfriend Spied The New Kia EV4 Sedan Kia is planning an onslaught of EVs in the coming years, with as many as 14 electric cars in its global lineup by 2027, and among those will be some smaller, actually more affordable EVs. There’s theEV3 crossover, which has already been unveiled in production guise though it won’t hit the U.S. until next year. Next… Read more…

GM Wants To Sell More EVs Because They Aren’t Losing Money On Them Anymore Good morning! It’s Wednesday, January 29, 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…