Refreshed 2026 BMW iX’s Kidneys Are Even More In-Your-Face Than Before When BMW first revealed the iX electric crossover in 2020, it was met by a frankly absurd amount of controversy and hatred directed mostly toward its styling, specifically the front end with its huge faux kidney “grilles.” Now for the 2026 model the iX is getting a mid-cycle refresh, and BMW hasn’t changed much on the… Read more…

Flight Over Denver Squeezed Snowflakes Out Of Clouds Planes and precipitation typically don’t mix well, leading to frustrating delays and violent turbulence. However, the roles can be reversed every so often. A flight landing in Denver, Colorado last Saturday night provoked light snowfall just by flying through cloud cover on its approach to the runway. Read more…

Toyota Won’t Build A Manual 4Runner Because There’s No Demand For It Toyota currently offers just four models with a manual transmission: theGR86, GR Supra, GR Corolla andTacoma. Hypothetically there could be a fifth manual model in the redesigned 4Runner, which shares its underpinnings with the Tacoma, but Toyota says there isn’t enough customer interest in to justify building and… Read more…

Ruf’s New LED Conversion Kit For 993 Porsche 911s Looks Badass And Is Functional, Too Driving a car with old-fashioned halogen headlights versus one with LEDs is a literal night-and-day difference. Yes, LED lights can be annoying when they’re beaming out of a Tahoedirectly into your corneas, but when you’re the one behind the wheel on a dark road you want their much higher and cleaner light output. Aft… Read more…

Grasshopper Pod Turns Your Kei Truck Into An Adorable Go-Anywhere Camper If you want a fun little camper that can go anywhere, then you’ve got a lot of good options right now. You could get a rugged Mercedes van filled with creature comforts, could fit a camper shell to your trusty truck or could opt for a Kei truck fitted with this awesome pod that transforms the tiny truck into a dreamy… Read more…

This Half-Price Polestar 1 Is The Best Kind Of Questionable Financial Decision The idea of a high-powered hybrid-electric personal luxury grand touring coupe is strangely appealing to my sensibilities. The Polestar 1 served as both the capstone and the launching point for Volvo’s electric Polestar brand spinoff, and it was the absolute pinnacle of what the brand was capable of at the time. With… Read more…

Crowd Shatters Windows, Rips Door Off Empty Waymo Cab Stopped In LA Self-driving taxi companies are slowly taking over the streets of cities like San Francisco, Los Angeles and Phoenix where they can often be found driving in circles, blocking first responders and, occasionally, giving people lifts around town. The presence of these cars on the streets has irked some residents, and… Read more…

LA Wildfire Possibly Sparked By Faulty Power Lines, Gas Station CCTV Reveals While it’s clear that the Santa Ana winds and drought conditions are why Southern California’s ongoing wildfires have been so intense, officials haven’t yet determined how each blaze was sparked. A Pasadena gas station might have captured the start of the Eaton fire on one of its security cameras. The footage was… Read more…

KTM Is $2.3 Billion, Possibly More, In The Hole KTM is in dire financial straits right now. The company is billions of dollars in debt with an expensive race program chewing through funds and hundreds of thousands of unsold bikes piled up without buyers. This is what’s known in the business world as “bad,” but it’s been unclear up to this point just how bad. Now,… Read more…

Man Arrested For Driving Home To See His Cat, Also He Was Drunk And Speeding Who doesn’t love a little warm ball of anger and independence? Cats are fantastic pets because they don’t feel love or radiate loyalty in the way a stinky dog does. Whenever I’m out interacting with humans, there’s nothing I want to do more than run home and hang out with the cat. I don’t recommend driving home from a… Read more…

Mazda Miata Celebrates Its 35th Anniversary With A Perfectly Spec’d Limited Edition Can you believe it’s been 35 years since the Mazda Miata hit the market? Now in its fourth generation, more than one million of the beloved sports car have been sold over the three decades it’s been on sale. To celebrate that milestone, Mazda has introduced a special edition Miata in a handsome spec most fans of the… Read more…

Lucid Gravity Is The First Non-Tesla With NACS, And It Can Charge Faster Than Any Supercharger Is Able To (For Now) Basically every single automaker is switching to the Tesla-style NACS port for upcoming electric vehicles, including many facelifted or new EVs hitting the market in 2025. The first non-Tesla car to actually go on sale in the U.S. with the NACS port is the Lucid Gravity SUV, which reached customer hands at the end of… Read more…

What’s The Oldest Car You’re Still Driving? While car enthusiasts fantasize about a dream classic car they wish was in their garage, most people aren’t driving older vehicles by choice. Drivers are holding on to their cars longer than ever, likely because the average price of a new car is rising far faster than the average American’s wages. Read more…

Craigslist Is The Last Place You’d Expect To See A Basically New 22-Year-Old Dodge Viper For Sale Auction sites like Bring a Trailer have become the go-to place for owners to list their unique, rare, and often low-mileage cars for sale. What better way to get rid of a cool car than to have it go to the highest bidder, with tons of enthusiast eyes on it? Not everyone seems to want to do that, as evidenced by the… Read more…

Elon Musk’s Right-Wing Rhetoric Is Sparking Boycotts In Europe Good morning! It’s Tuesday, January 28, 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…

These Are The Most Irritating Car YouTuber Tropes Rather than let their videos and content speak for themselves, there are lots of automotive YouTubers who do annoying things for engagement. Last week, we asked readers to share what they think are the most irritating tropes from the automotive side of YouTube, and the answers ranged from obnoxious thumbnails to… Read more…

Toyota Hilux With A Friggin’ Factory Option Bed-Mounted Folding Crane Is For Sale On Marketplace The Toyota Hilux is known the world over as being virtually indestructible, but what’s not as well-known is that it was available from the factory with a freakin’ bed-mounted crane. Though it was never sold in the U.S. as the Hilux, we got versions of the legendary truck sold as the Toyota Pickup in the 1990s before… Read more…

Tate McRae’s New Banger Single ‘Sports Car’ Not Having A Sports Car In The Music Video Is A Crime Burgeoning Canadian pop girlie Tate McRae is getting ready to release her third studio album, titled “So Close to What,” in just a few weeks, and on Friday she dropped the third single from the album. It’s an absolute banger, and I’m not just saying that because the song is called “Sports Car” and this is allegedly a… Read more…

I Bought Another Motorcycle Sight Unseen And This One Turned Out Great Last time I bought a motorcycle sight unseen, it wasn’t fantastic. In fact it was the single sketchiest motorcycle ride of my life, thanks to that bike’s myriad problems — dead bearings, old tires, a shot battery, and plenty more. So, to replace that GS, I decided to do exactly the same thing: Buy another motorcycle… Read more…

Corvette Driver Throws Up Middle Finger Amid Heated Clash During Rolex 24 At Daytona There are very few events in motorsport that are more contentious and grueling than a 24-hour race. The GTD Pro class at last weekend’s Rolex 24 at Daytona perfectly exemplifies how endurance races can devolve into a delightfully gritty free-for-all cage fight. Daytona’s on-track slugfest featured Corvette driver… Read more…