Tesla’s Price Hike Is First Sign Of The Impending Tariff War Good morning! It’s Thursday, January 23, 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 Car Maintenance Items You Should Probably Check On As fun as wrenching is, we don’t always want to do every job as soon as it’s necessary. Maybe we don’t have the time, maybe we don’t have the parts, maybe it’s just January out and we simply don’t want to freeze ourselves on the pavement. Regardless, we’re all putting something off, and earlier this week I asked you… Read more…

I Want To Trade My Boring Sedan For A Zippy Car! What Should I Buy? Jennifer lives in Massachusetts and is a recent empty nester. She wants to trade her sensible sedan for something smaller and zippier for around-town driving. With a budget of up to $25,000, what car should she buy? Read more…

Car Crash Turns Deadly After Homeowner Opens Fire On Driver And Fire Chief One man is dead and two more were injured after a fire chief stopped to help a driver who hit a deer Sunday evening. Coweta County Fire Rescue battalion chief James Bartholomew Cauthen was driving near Stroud, Alabama when he saw a motorist who needed help. The two men then tried to go to a nearby property for help… Read more…

Chevrolet Recalls Equinox EV For Adaptive Cruise Control That Detects Hazards, But May Not Slow Down People are often unaware of the functions and limitations of the advanced driver assistance technology in modern cars, and that’s not helped by companies using misleading names for the already confusing tech. Chevrolet is now being investigated by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) because… Read more…

Dolly Parton License Plates Will Make You Wish You Lived In Ohio Dolly Parton is an American hero, and we will hear no slander against her. Her efforts to promote youth literacy through the Imagination Library, in collaboration with Ohio’s First Lady Fran DeWine, have helped thousands of Ohioans on their reading journey. Founded in 2019, the 501(c)(3) program has rolled out across… Read more…

Rivian Is Offering $6,000 In Discounts On Its Excellent Trucks And SUVs Rivian makes excellent electric trucks and SUVs, but it’s not great at actually making money on them yet — the company loses tens of thousands of dollars on every EV it gets out the door. To rectify those financial woes, Rivian is now offering thousands of dollars off its R1S and R1T in hopes of boosting sales.… Read more…

This Loaf Of Bread Is More Aerodynamic Than A Toyota Land Cruiser The Toyota Land Cruiser is one of the most versatile cars out there, as it can take on your daily commute, an adventure into the outback or even a trip to the dump. The iconic SUV’s design has been refined over the years to make it slicker and more fuel efficient, but it’s still a slab-sided SUV that’s not… Read more…

The Citroën 2CV Is The Latest Retro Icon Getting An EV Rebirth Retro revivals are so hot right now, with Ford launching a reborn Capri, Renault working on a brand new Twingo and now Citroën is set to follow suit with an electric reincarnation of one of its most iconic cars: the 2CV. Read more…

Open Wheel Master Takuma Sato Meets His V12-Powered Hero The RA272 is among Honda’s greatest achievements in motorsport, if only for its 14,000 RPM 1.5-liter V12 engine that sounds like heaven on earth. That engine, which was the most powerful on the F1 grid in 1965, secured Honda’s first win in the sport at the 1965 Mexican Grand Prix with Richie Ginther at the wheel.… Read more…

Scout Tells Angry VW Dealers To Go Kick Rocks Volkswagen announced plans to bring back the Scout name back in 2022, and late last year, we saw the first vehicles Scout plans to sell — the Traveler SUV and Terra pickup truck. We were big fans, the general public were big fans and VW dealers were mad because Scout plans to use a direct-to-consumer sales model,… Read more…

Toyota Will Give You A 70 Percent Discount On The Mirai If You’re Dumb Enough To Buy One Folks, this might be the first time in history that a brand-new car has been discounted 70 percent, and it’s still not worth it. Of course, it takes a very special vehicle to achieve something like this. Enter the 2024 Toyota Mirai. On the face of it, this seems like a great deal. I mean, hydrogen is cool, the Mirai… Read more…

South Korea’s Deadly Plane Crash Has Created More Questions Than Answers The crash of Jeju Air Flight 7C2216 killed 179 people on December 29 when the aircraft slid down the runway at the Muan International Airport and slammed into a concrete embankment. There were only two survivors, the flight attendants seated in the rear galley. The ongoing investigation has raised even more questions… Read more…

BYD Is Absolutely Dominating The Chinese Market And Western Brands Can’t Keep Up Chinese mega-brand BYD shifted 4,272,145 automobile units in the 2024 calendar year. That accounted for a massive 41.3 percent increase from the 2023 calendar year, and shows that Build Your Dreams is actually (finally) building some pretty big dreams. That massive domestic and international growth is coming at the… Read more…

Florida Cop Looking At ‘Boobs Or Whatnot’ On His Phone Crashes Patrol Car A Florida sheriff’s deputy and apparent porn enthusiast had to resign from his job after crashing his patrol vehicle into a woman’s car while she was stopped for a school bus. The fact he was looking at pornography on his phone meant he never saw the car coming. Read more…

You’re Nutty If You Don’t Apply To Drive The Planters Peanuts Nutmobile The spectrum of potential careers for car nuts is relatively small, but a rare and desirable driving-based careeropportunity just cracked open. Planters is hiring a new class of brand ambassadors called Peanutters, who will also travel the country as drivers of the legendary Nutmobile. The much sought-after position… Read more…

Lewis Hamilton Really Suited Up For His First Day At Ferrari Sir Lewis Carl Davidson Hamilton is the greatest that Formula One has ever seen. I don’t necessarily mean his on-track talent, though there’s an argument to be made for that as well. I’m referring, here, to his ability to understand fashion like no other racing driver ever has. This man knows the gravity of the… Read more…

The 500-Mile Version Of Ram’s Electric 1500 REV Is Dead Last month Stellantis announced that Ram would be pushing back the launch of the fully electric Ram 1500 REV in favor of releasing the range-extender Ramcharger first, citing changing market conditions (and a likely anticipation of Trump’s day-one EV rollbacks). Now, sources familiar with Ram’s plans told Mopar… Read more…

At $9,800, Will This 2008 Jeep Grand Cherokee Diesel Smoke The Competition? Today’s Nice Price or No Dice Jeep is photographed appropriately enough against a snowy backdrop, intimating its rough-going nature. Let’s see if a rare diesel under the hood means its asking price is just as natural. Read more…

$25,000,000 Wasn’t Enough To Buy Jerry Seinfeld’s Porsche 917 Used By Steve McQueen In ‘Le Mans’ Bidding for perhaps the most iconic Porsche in the history of the German automaker failed to meet the lofty reserve set by seller Jerry Seinfeld. In spite of the fact that no Porsche has ever sold for more than $14 million, and this very 917 sold for just $1.32 million back in 2000, Mr. Seinfeld turned down a bid of… Read more…