‘It Definitely Bothers Him’: Trump Privately Complains That Elon Musk Won’t Go Home Good morning! It’s Tuesday, January 7, 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…

Here’s How To Clean That Nasty Haze On Your Car Windows Picture it; you met a Tinder date at a restaurant and it went well enough that you want to take things to the next level. You suggest extending the night by taking a trip to paradise, aka Dairy Queen, but all they see when they hop into your passenger seat is a hazy windshield. You were waiting to expose your poor… Read more…

Chinese Supercars Can Jump Over Potholes On Awful Roads Chinese automakers are leaving every other brand for dust right now. They’re dominating in terms of electric vehicle capabilities, are catching up with legacy automakers in sales and now are jumping ahead with the kind of tech they’re packing into their latest models. Nowhere is this more true than in the Yangwang U9,… Read more…

These Are The Cars You Think Deserve To Die In 2025 There are a lot of exciting new cars set to hit the highway in 2025, which could mean that it’s time to start trimming the dead wood on America’s dealerships. But are there any cars that we need to kill off to make space for modern marvels like the electric Dodge Charger or the impending Porsche Boxster EV? Read more…

New Orleans Knew For Years French Quarter Was Vulnerable To Vehicular Attacks In the early hours of January 1, while partiers were busy celebrating the new year, Shamsud-Din Jabbar drove a rented Ford F-150 Lightning down New Orleans’ famous Bourbon Street, killing 14 and injuring at least 35 before dying in a shootout with police. It was a horrifying attack that stunned the nation, but as it… Read more…

Pontiac GTO Name Explained: The Faux Racing Branding That Led To Its Unexpected Success The Pontiac GTO was the prototypical muscle car. The iconic three-letter initialism today is more associated with Pontiac than the racing category it usurped. Back in the 1960s, the GM division’s management wanted to appeal to young drivers and tie its brand to performance despite a self-imposed company ban on factory… Read more…

At $9,800, Does This 2013 Smart ForTwo Brabus Measure Up? Today’s Nice Price or No Dice Smart represents an audacious move by Daimler-Benz to not only sell a city car in a country full of SUV lovers but to make it upscale as well. Let’s see if this iconic, but sadly never successful, small car comes with a price that will make us finally appreciate it. Read more…

Traffic Jams: Wet Nuns – ‘No Death’ Happy Tuesday, I think I’ve decided that the second day of the week is actually the worst one, because you always expect Monday to be rough and you realize you’ve not even made it to half way through the week just yet. Increasingly, the remedy for this Tuesday slump has come with the kind of angsty, grungy music that… Read more…

Congrats, Stellantis! Not Even Your Dealers Trust You Stellantis is not having a good time right now. The Transatlantic automaker just posed a 15 percent overall U.S. sales drop in 2024 in comparison to 2023, and now it seems its dealers don’t even trust the direction it is heading in. A new dealership sentiment survey from Kerrigan Advisors, a dealership consulting… Read more…

Man Nearly Misses Flight After Waymo Taxi Wouldn’t Stop Circling A Parking Lot Now that GM’s Cruise is gone, it seems that Alphabet’s Waymo is starting to have more and more issues of its own. The latest issue with its driverless cars affected a man in Los Angeles who almost missed his flight because his Waymo wouldn’t stop circling a parking lot. Read more…

Buy This Cadillac Limo Built For Bill Clinton And Become The First To Own A Presidential Ride Once upon a time, the President of the United States didn’t roll down Pennsylvania Avenue in an armored personnel carrier disguised as a state limousine. They rode in regular, plain Jane, heavily armored limos, and now you can too. The last presidential limo built on a car chassis is going up for auction this Saturday… Read more…

Grilles And Driving Lights Make My Little German Hybrid Look Like A Rally Icon Once again I’ve listened to the little worm in my brain that tells me to fiddle with my already-nearly-perfect daily driver. It’s a very persuasive worm. This time it told me that my Audi A3 E-Tron needed a black honeycomb grille to replace the be-chromed factory fitment, as well as a pair of matching brake ducts and… Read more…

Stellantis Sold Over 78,000 Dead Cars In 2024 There are few things I love more than year-end sales reports. I just get such a kick out of seeing how things sold and what sorts of long-dead vehicles are still showing up on sales sheets. Every automaker has some stragglers, but no one is better at selling discontinued vehicles than Stellantis. Read more…

Wealthy New Yorker Horrified By Prospect Of 20-Minute Walk New York’s congestion pricing has finally gone into effect, following years of legal and political wrangling. Basically, if you insist on driving into the most densely populated part of the city, you now have to pay to do so. You can still walk or take public transportation freely, and you can still drive if you want,… Read more…

Las Vegas Cybertruck Bomber Claimed NJ Drones Are Ultra-Advanced Chinese Military Tech With ‘Gravitic Propulsion Systems’ Drone activity over the state of New Jersey sure gave us a December to remember even if the official explanation is pretty disappointing. According to officials, they’re just regular drones that people aren’t used to seeing at night mixed with regular aircraft such as private planes and helicopters. Matthew… Read more…

This Is Why Gas Engines Get Worse Fuel Economy Than Diesels You don’t see diesels on the road as much ever since Volkswagen’s emissions cheating scandal broke, but they’re still out there, and the people who love them still love them. That’s partly because they’re so torquey, but it certainly doesn’t hurt that they also generally get better fuel economy — not gas mileage since… Read more…

Tech Founder’s Tesla Full Self-Drove Onto Train Tracks: ‘I Could Get Killed Because Of This’ Tech founder Jesse Lyu said he was “literally shaking” when his Tesla, with Full Self-Driving (which does not drive itself) engaged, drove itself onto train tracks in Santa Monica last week. While Tesla CEO Elon Musk continues to push FSD as being a better and safer driver than humans, incidents like this one continue… Read more…

This Domino’s DXP Will Make You The Ultimate Food Delivery Driver Are you a food delivery driver looking for a new ride or a huge fan of Domino’s Pizza? If you answered “yes” to either of these questions, I’ve got the perfect ride for you: this 2015 Domino’s DXP delivery vehicle, currently for sale on Facebook Marketplace. Just think of the tips you’ll get pulling up in this sick… Read more…

Get This Maserati MC20 For A $83,000 Discount Maserati’s gorgeous MC20, the brand’s sole supercar and the successor to the MC12, debuted in 2020. A subsequent convertible version and five model years later and it doesn’t seem as if many buyers have been heading to their local Maserati dealership to buy one. This has resulted in some massive discounts on more than… Read more…

Every Rider Needs A 210-HP Ducati Dirt Bike Ducati’s Panigale V4 is one of the most advanced superbikes on the market with a 210 horsepower MotoGP-developed four-cylinder engine. It is built almost exclusively for the race track, meant more for turning quick lap times than being comfortable on your daily commute, and definitely not built for any kind of rough… Read more…