Timothée Chalamet Fined $79 After Riding Lime Bike To Movie Premiere The most recent stop of the promotional tour for “A Complete Unknown” featured a unique twist. Timothée Chalamet, star of the Bob Dylan biopic, arrived at the London premiere on Tuesday riding on a Lime rental bike. Despite the torrent of free publicity, he later revealed that the e-bike provider levied a $79 fine for… Read more…

Long Island Crosswalks Sound Like Lawn Guy Landers Now When people talk about the “New York accent,” they really ought to be more specific. There’s the near-midwestern voice of Western New York, the New England-tinged sound of the Capital Region, and the various cultural influences that make up the Manhattan, Brooklyn, Bronx, Queens And Staten accents. We’ve also got Long… Read more…

Lexus Rings In The End Of RC Production With A Near $100,000 Final Edition The Lexus RC has been on sale for over a decade with nearly 100,000 of the luxury coupes sold. Now, it’s time to say goodbye as the Japanese automaker prepares to let it drive off to the great dealership in the sky. To celebrate a job well done, Lexus has come up with a special edition of the RC F and some small… Read more…

David Lynch Directed Some Of The Most Surreal Car Commercials You’ll Ever See On January 16 David Lynch died at age 78 after a lengthy illness. To many, including myself, he was one of the best directors and creative minds Hollywood has ever seen. I could go on for hours about his projects like Twin Peaks, “Mulholland Drive,” “Eraserhead” and “Blue Velvet.” But this is a car blog, and that’s… Read more…

Honda Doesn’t Want Renault In Its Deal With Nissan Honda proposed a merger with Nissan at the end of last year that was accepted soon after, and as with any proposed merger of two industry giants, there is bound to be some collateral damage. Hondahas expressed interest in merging with Nissan and Mitsubishi, but Honda reportedly has no interest Renault, the French… Read more…

A New Gas-Powered Porsche Macan Could Be In The Works After suffering a seven-percent sales decline, Porsche is now reportedly considering a move to extend internal combustion production for much longer than initially intended. This extension would require launching new ICE-powered models, potentially including a new Macan. The rethink is seemingly based on trends in… Read more…

Tesla Already Discounting Cybertrucks In Desperate Attempt To Boost Sales During the design phase for the Cybertruck, Elon Musk put together his perfect car: A massive truck to assuage his crippled ego, bulletproof doors to keep out his imagined attackers, a huge battery for self-sufficiency in an unrealistic apocalypse, and an impractical and inherently compromised design because he can’t… Read more…

Nintendo Is Finally Giving Us A New Mario Kart Game For The Switch 2, With Up To 24 Racers At Once After basically the whole thing had already been leaked online and by vendors at CES, today Nintendo announced the Switch 2, the follow-up to the original Switch that debuted in 2017 and has since become the third best-selling video game console of all time. There’s a lot to be excited about with the Switch 2, from… Read more…

You Don’t Have What It Takes To Race Dakar In A 28-Year-Old French Off-Road Supercar Racing in the grueling two-week desert endurance spectacle known as the Dakar Rally is not for those weak of constitution. You have to be at the top of your game, mentally, physically, and emotionally, just to make it to the end of the race, and that’s if you have zero on-course issues. You might think you can handle… Read more…

Jeep Rushing To Launch Recon EV, Could Add Hybrid Model Jeep may add an all-electric model to its lineup here in the U.S. sooner than expected if a new report is to be believed. The Stellantis-owned brand is said to be bringing up the release of its Recon EV, which could now launch with a hybrid powertrain as well as battery-powered options. Read more…

The Wildest Things TSA Says It Seized In 2024 Usually, when you get held up going through security at the airport, it’s because some dingus wants to fight about whether or not toothpaste counts as a liquid, or the guy in front of you decided to carry $50 in assorted coins in his pockets. Every now and then, though, the Transportation Security Administration… Read more…

These YouTubers Are Triton V10–Swapping A 2017 Lincoln Continental And I Can’t Wait For The Result The custom car world is genuinely overflowing with LS swaps, 1JZ and 2JZ swaps, and Hellcat swaps, but it’s not every day that you see content creators manage to squeeze a 6.8-liter Ford Triton V10 under the hood of a 2017 Lincoln Continental. I first saw the inaugural start-up of this Frankenstein build on Instagram… Read more…

Restoring The Rarest And Weirdest Bus Ever Made Is A Five-Year Passion Project If you’re talking about the world’s rarest vehicles, your mind might wander to things like the Ferrari 250 GTO, of which less than 40 were ever made, or the Lamborghini Veneno, with only five of these ultra-rare models ever built. Both of these are put to shame by a wacky Citroën bus, however, as just three were made… Read more…

I Want A Stylish Hybrid With A Nice Stereo! What Car Should I Buy? Marie lives in Seattle and after years of driving “hand me down” rides, she can finally treat herself to something nice. She wants a hybrid because her commute is long, it has to have a good stereo and needs to be somewhat stylish. With a budget up to $40,000, what car should she buy? Read more…

A Stock Volkswagen ID 7 Drove Nearly 600 Miles On A Single Charge More and more automakers are assuaging concerns of EVrange anxiety by conducting real-world range tests, and the latest brand to smash its own range figure is Volkswagen. An electric ID 7 sedan was recorded driving nearly 600 miles on a single charge at a Porsche test facility in Europe, going almost 150 miles longer… Read more…

1977 Volkswagen Bus Becomes Beacon Of Hope After Surviving Palisades Fire The wildfires in the Los Angeles area have caused and continue to cause truly horrifying levels of devastation to nearly 40,000 acres of land, leveling homes, apartment buildings, assisted living facilities, cars, and virtually everything else in their path. Thousands of structures have been destroyed, with estimated… Read more…

Here’s How Well Manual Transmissions Sold In 2024 The manual transmission isn’t dead after all. The last few years have actually seen an increase in the take rate of manuals across multiple brands. Even with just a handful of models on sale that still offer the ability to row your own gears, there’s still a number of buyers out there who are keeping the manual alive. Read more…

Tesla Autopilot Duped Into Thinking Trains Are Actually Big Cars Elon Musk hates trains. We’ve long known this about the man, but it seems his cars don’t quite share the same animosity. In fact, they don’t see any difference between them and trains at all — to a Tesla, trains are just cars. Long, flat cars. Read more…

Traffic Jams: The XX – ‘Fantasy’ There have been a lot of very gloomy days over the past week, filled with freezing temperatures, gray skies and drizzle. Maybe it’s a sign of things to come, or maybe it’s a sign that we need to be listening to more gloomy music. I can’t say which it is for certain, but I’m assuming it’s the latter. Read more…

Toyota Truck Unit Hino Slapped With $1.2 Billion Fine After Yet Another Diesel Emission Scandal Good morning! It’s Thursday, January 16, 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…