Don’t Try To Bring A Shotgun Shell Full Of Meth On An Airplane, And Other Incredible TSA Finds From 2024 The Transportation Security Administration is so important to the safety of American travelers and 2024 was finally the year they were recognized for their hard work, with the straight-to-Netflix Christmas thriller “Carry-On.” The dead-eyed men and women in blue patrolling your local airports are ever vigilant when it… Read more…

Ford And Tesla’s Battery Maker Blacklisted Due To Work With Chinese Military Good morning! It’s Wednesday, January 8, 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…

Tow Truck Companies Sell Your Car In 15 Days If You’re Poor Enough In Connecticut While we all probably have a story of an egregious parking job that fully justified calling a tow truck, most cars aren’t towed because some rando blocked a pregnant woman’s driveway right before she tried to leave for the hospital. It can happen for much more minor reasons such as simply misreading a sign. If you… Read more…

These Are The Quickest EVs You Can Buy In 2025 There was once a time when if a car was able to go from 0-60 in less than four seconds, it was astonishingly quick. Well, not anymore. In the age of EVs, if your car takes four seconds to get to 60 mph, you’ve got a one-way ticket to Gapplebees. Now that we live in an age of ostentatious torque and clever AWD systems, … Read more…

Toyota Knows The bZ4X Isn’t Good To put it bluntly, the Toyota bZ4X is not good. We know it. Dealers seem to know it, given the wild lease deals that you can get on one and, surprisingly, Toyota seems to know it as recent comments from one of the company’s executives show. Read more…

Airplane Cloud Seeding Probably Isn’t Controlling The Weather As Well As State Governments Hope The American West is in a horrifying drought and the deleterious effect of the resulting wildfires has been felt by many in recent years. Naturally, state governments have spent millions on cloud seeding in the hopes that the practice would promote rainfall and help quell these deadly eventualities. Unfortunately, acco… Read more…

Great Wall Motor’s Flat-Eight Touring Bike Is Cool As Hell CES is a show full of wondrous electric cars and improbable autonomous vehicles, but I managed to wander through its halls and find a gas-powered motorcycle with eight whole ass cylinders. It’s the first bike from Great Wall Motor’s new Souo moto brand, the S2000, and I love it. Read more…

Tesla Full Self Driving Computer Failures Are Bricking Cars And Disabling Features The computer that enables Tesla to claim that its vehicles have “full-self driving” capability is having some pretty serious issues right now. The computers are failing, and it’s nearly bricking some owner’s Tesla’s. Read more…

2025 Ram Heavy Duty Trucks Keep The Hemi, Improve The Cummins Diesel And Jump On The Split Headlight Trend Ram unveiled official specifications for its updated 2025 heavy duty trucks Tuesday, making strides in arguably the biggest pissing contest of the automotive space. For 2025, Ram’s HD trucks bring bolder looks that were teased last year, beefed up internals for the 6.7-liter Cummins turbodiesel I-6 with a new… Read more…

Honda 0 Saloon Looks Extremely ‘Miami Vice,’ But Are We All Still Doing The ’80s Thing? Remember the wave of ’80s nostalgia that tore through the world a few years back? The one that gave us “Stranger Things,” a surge in synthwave, and the revived Lamborghini Countach? That wave is finally cresting, giving way to the Y2K revival, and that puts Honda’s 0 Saloon concept in a tough spot. Read more…

Honda’s 0 SUV Is A Near-Production Space Hub Crossover Way back at last year’s CES, Honda rolled out two concepts for its electric future: The Saloon, a Countach-looking wedge, and a screen-covered van called the Space Hub. Now, a year later, the Space Hub has become has evolved into something much nearer to production: A new concept called the 0 SUV. Read more…

4-Time Indy 500 Winner Helio Castroneves To Give NASCAR A Try At 49-Years-Old It goes without saying that Helio Castroneves is a racing legend. Since 2001 he’s been a staple of American open-wheel racing winning racing’s greatest prize four times, and has proven himself in top-flight sports cars as well, winning the 2020 IMSA prototype championship for Team Penske. Next month he’ll get behind… Read more…

Watch Snowplow Drivers Safely End Police Chase By Blocking Highway The safest police chases are the ones that never happen. It’s far too common for pursuits to injure or kill innocent bystanders. Three snowplow drivers in Colorado decided to intervene on their own and end a police chase last week. The rolling wall of metal immediately defused the situation without anyone harmed and… Read more…

‘Smooth, Shiny’ Spheres ‘Came Right At’ NASA Astronaut Flying Over Texas You might think that the most likely place for a NASA astronaut to see an unidentified flying object would be while orbiting Earth or docking with the International Space Station, however one NASA astronaut says they came close to a UFO while flying their private plane over Texas instead. Read more…

‘Another Critical Flaw In The Cybertruck’ Found In WhistlinDiesel’s Latest Test The Tesla Cybertruck has been caught out with all kinds of issues since it launched, like sandy beaches that stuck it in place and water that stopped it in its tracks. YouTuber WhistlinDiesel proved a bit much for the truck when he snapped its frame during a reliability test, and now the channel is back to see just… Read more…

Tell Me A Tesla Cybertruck Owner Wouldn’t Buy This House When you mostly write about cars for a living, you usually don’t get to write much about houses except to remind people that you can sleep in a car, but you can’t drive a house. Ricky Bobby’s house from Talladega Nights did sell recently, and then over the summer, we saw the most divorced condo of all time, complete… Read more…

Lexus GX Owners Report Plastic Trim Melting Like Chocolate In The Sun We like the new Lexus GX around these parts, like, a lot. It is an all-around great truck with tons of luxury and off-roady engineering. It seems, however, that some of the engineering was perhaps half-assed. Some Lexus GX owners are reporting that their brand new luxury SUVs are melting in the sun like ice cream on a… Read more…

Volkswagen Kicks Off The 2025 EV Price Wars With $149 A Month Lease On An ID4 Sales of electric vehicles reached record numbers in 2024, and the momentum looks to carry over into 2025. Even with the federal tax credits in jeopardy with the new administration, automakers are likely to continue to offer competitive programs to move their EV units. Volkswagen fired the first shot of the new year… Read more…

Defending Dakar Champ Carlos Sainz Bent His Ford Too Badly To Continue About 327 kilometers into the 2025 Dakar rally, defending champion Carlos Sainz rolled his shiny new Ford Raptor down a dune on stage 2. While he and co-driver Lucas Cruz were able to get righted again, thanks to a yank from Ford teammate Mitch Guthrie, and continue on to the finish of the stage without a windscreen… Read more…

What’s The Next Car You Have Your Eye On In 2025? As many of you know, I recently bought a cheap 2015 Fiat 500e because I wanted something that would get me around town for as little money as possible. It’s tiny, gets terrible range when it’s cold out, and yet, I love it. It does what it advertises, and so far, I haven’t had any real problems. It’s fun to drive, the… Read more…