Honda May Use Nissan For Its Big Trucks And SUVs In The U.S. Good morning! It’s Thursday, January 9, 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…

Chrysler Insists It’s Still A Car Company And Is Totally Developing New Cars You Just Can’t See Yet Currently, the only vehicle Chrysler sells is the Pacifica. It’s a pretty good minivan if you ignore the reliability issues, especially since you can get it as a plug-in hybrid, but that’s it. The 300 is dead, and the Voyager doesn’t count. No one knows what Chrysler is supposed to be anymore, and it felt like the… Read more…

Canoo Must Survive Long Enough For Its Adorable Royal Mail Delivery Van To Take Over There are a lot of electric vehicle startups designing a lot of cool looking EVs, each having varying levels of success. Canoo is one such startup that’s had a tumultuous few years but now, after dodging death countless times, it’s got a new delivery van out on the road that I can’t help but fall in love with. Read more…

Just 18 Vehicles Qualify For The $7,500 Federal EV Tax Credit Right Now It’s a new year, and that means there’s a new list of EVs and plug-in hybrids that are eligible for the $7,500 electric vehicle tax credit. Because of more stringent requirements, quite a few cars that were on last year’s list are no longer eligible. However, we’ve got plenty of newcomers, and it’s actually slated to… Read more…

Trump Emissions Rollback Could Devastate Tesla The start of Donald Trump’s second presidential term is less than two weeks away. However, the chaos is already underway, with ridiculous cabinet picks and threats to take Greenland. Trump’s most self-destructive policy idea would be to scrap the vehicle emissions laws already in place. Tesla is financially reliant on… Read more…

I’ve Seen Enough Sci-Fi Movies To Have Some Serious Questions About Toyota’s Woven City Typically, when automakers take on ambitious construction projects, it’s something like a huge new battery facility. Five years ago, however, Toyota announced plans to build something more ambitious than a factory or even a new corporate campus — a whole-ass city. Recently, Toyota completed phase one of the place… Read more…

Mitsubishi Mirage Saw A Massive Sales Increase In 2024 The days of walking onto a dealership lot and finding a brand new car under $20,000 are nearly over. Despite the market seemingly drying up for these affordable cars anymore, Mitsubishi’s Mirage shows there’s still demand. Mirage sales were up over 100 percent right as the model got the axe. Read more…

Our First Look At The Refreshed Tesla Model Y Without Camouflage The Tesla Model Y has been on sale since 2020, which means it is high time for a replacement. With the refreshed Model 3 showing up in 2024, we knew a facelifted Model Y wouldn’t be too far down the pipeline. Now, we’re finally getting a look at what the updated Model Y will look like, thanks to some uncamouflaged spy… Read more…

Bulldozers Brought In To Move Abandoned Cars Blocking Emergency Vehicles In Pacific Palisades High winds with gusts up to 100 mph hit the greater Los Angeles area yesterday, starting brush fires that have since burned more than an estimated 1,000 buildings and taken two lives so far, the Los Angeles Times reports. It’s difficult to describe the scale of the devastation, but to help put it into perspective, so… Read more…

Every Car You Can Get With A Manual In 2025 The death of the manual transmission has been talked about for decades at this point. With the advent of electric vehicles and a general attitude shift as to what a car should be, stick-shift cars are getting left by the wayside. Still, some soldier on, undeterred by what has been said about them and their lack of… Read more…

Imagine How Much Joy This Cute Little Red Barchetta Would Bring To Your Life Here at Jalopnik, we love the Mazda Miata. It’s the answer to all of life’s problems, and if you’ve never driven one, you’re missing out. Sure, the Miata has its flaws, but it’s still a perfect car, and we’re all lucky to be alive at a time when we can experience all four generations at the same time. With all that… Read more…

These Are The Best Hybrid Cars Under $35,000, According To Consumer Reports In the 2000s, hybrids were rare enough that owning a Prius was still a novelty. These days, though, celebrities no longer drive Priuses, and pretty much every automaker has a few in its lineup. It isn’t exactly a mystery why hybrids have gotten so popular, either. They just get significantly better gas mileage. Plus,… Read more…

Insecure Police License Plate Scanners Stream Your Movements Directly Onto The Internet More than 100 cameras used by police forces across America may be streaming everything they capture online after insecurities were uncovered by privacy researchers this week. Motorola license plate scanners deployed in the U.S. have been found to be sharing vehicle details like make, color and registration online for… Read more…

Sebastien Loeb Dumps Dented Dakar Dacia It goes without saying that Sebastien Loeb is among the greatest rally drivers in human history, but his luck in the Dakar hasn’t exactly been good. During Tuesday’s third stage Loeb suffered a medium-speed roll in his Dacia Sandrider that scattered parts in all directions. Just like Carlos Sainz the day before, Loeb… Read more…

Porsche’s New 911 Carrera S Gets 30 HP Bump To Take Over The Spot Vacated By The GTS Going Hybrid Porsche has a million different variants of its iconic 911, so you’ll be forgiven for not immediately knowing where each of them sits in the lineup. The 911 Carrera S is basically one step above the base model, bringing more standard power and luxury, but not quite as much of either as a GTS, and about half as much of… Read more…

BMW’s New Infotainment System Is A Boomer’s Nightmare BMW has apparently seen your complaints about an influx of screens and tech in cars and decided that you can go to hell. The automaker’s latest iDrive system – debuting 24 years after the original – is information-maxxing and heads-up display-pilled. Still, its main screen hasn’t grown too much and there’s no gauge… Read more…

Y’all Drive Safe Out There Now, You Hear? We don’t get a whole lot of snow here in Georgia, but apparently, there’s a chance we’ll get some on Friday. I guarantee it’ll miss my house and just rain instead, but it’ll probably snow somewhere in the state. In fact, a new winter storm is predicted to drop snow all across the South and parts of the Midwest, CNN… Read more…

VW Admits Scout Buyers Want Gas Trucks Volkswagen revived the iconic Scout truck brand last year with much fanfare. The slick new SUV and pickup truck models combine retro styling with electric power, but VW said it would throw in an optional hybrid model that comes with a gas-powered range extender to appeal to some buyers. Now, the automaker has admitted… Read more…

Police Academy Actor Moves Ditched Cars As Wildfires Rip Through Southern California Flames don’t distinguish between modest suburban developments and lavish mansions. At least three wildfires were raging across Greater Los Angeles as of Wednesday morning and firefighters are struggling to contain the blazes due to winds reaching 60 miles per hour. Steve Guttenberg, star of the Police Academy movies,… Read more…

Bankrupt Car Dealer Must Pay $43 Million For Scamming Customers A federal judge in Georgia is ordering a bankrupt auto financing company to pay out $42.6 million in damages, restitution and penalties for violating the Consumer Financial Protection Act. It apparently carried out wrongful repossessions, over billing and other awful practices and scams. Sometimes car dealers cannot… Read more…