A Tesla Plaid-Powered AC Cobra Is The Best Modern Rat Rod Old cars with modern drivetrains are often terrible. People go too far in their restomods, turning classic muscle cars into the automotive equivalent of those LED-ridden black leather couches. But what if you wanted to deck out a classic car with modern power in a way that wasn’t cringe as hell? Well, you might chop… Read more…

The Real Villain Of ‘Home Alone’ Is The Annoying Car Dork Who Makes The McCallisters Miscount Their Kids Like many of you, I’ve watched “Home Alone” more times than I can count, but this year I noticed something that changed my perspective on the whole movie: the real villains aren’t the Wet Bandits or Kevin’s parents. It’s actually Mitch Murphy, the McCallister’s nosy, car dork neighbor. Read more…

Hertz Is So Desperate To Unload Tesla Inventory It’s Asking Customers If They Just Want To Keep Their Rentals Hertz bought a bunch of Tesla Model 3s for its rental fleet and quickly realized that Tesla depreciation would be extra bad at scale. In an aggressive effort to sell off its remaining Tesla inventory, the rental company is sending extra cheap buyout options to rental customers. If you like your rental, Hertz will sell… Read more…

Missing Malaysia Airlines Flight One Step Closer To Being Found 10 Years After Vanishing Thanks To Ham Radio Breadcrumbs Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 disappeared without a trace over a decade ago. Malaysia’s government announced last week that it will resume its search efforts for the missing airliner. Maritime robotics company Ocean Infinity signed an 18-month deal to lead the effort and will receive $70 million if they can find the… Read more…

KTM Has 265,000 Unsold Bikes Just Sitting Around Legendary Austrian motorcycle brand KTM is up against the ropes at the moment getting pummeled. It was revealed during the company’s current insolvency hearings that it is sitting on a whole year’s worth of inventory, to the tune of 265,000 unsold motorcycles. In all my years on this big planet I’ve never seen company… Read more…

Rich People Are Buying Up Nuclear Bunkers, But It Won’t Save Them Wealthy folks from sea to shining sea are getting very concerned about a mine shaft gap, and they’re panic-buying bomb shelters like it’s the Cold War. Unfortunately for them, though, those bunkers won’t actually help them if things truly go south. Read more…

I Lowered My Daily Driver And You Can Too My cute little strawberry-colored hybrid is all grown up. This week I finally finished installing the lowering springs on my 2016 Audi A3 E-Tron daily driver and I couldn’t be happier. I’ve been driving lowered vehicles as my everyday machines for about 15 years, and sitting just a little bit lower than factory makes… Read more…

Americans Are Finally Downsizing Because Bigger Cars Are So Damn Expensive I’ve got some good news for all of the “big cars are evil and must be destroyed” circle jerkers out there: High car prices and elevated interest rates are pushing shoppers back to smaller cars. For years, U.S. car buyers have passed up smaller cars in favor of larger, roomier vehicles, but the tides seem to be turning… Read more…

‘Extremely Concerning’ Carry-On Filled With Knives And Fireworks Stuns TSA A woman at the Los Angeles International Airport had her holiday travel plans delayed after the Transportation Security Administration found 88 illegal items in her carry-on, including explosives and knives last Sunday. According to the TSA, the woman was traveling with “82 consumer grade fireworks, three knives, two… Read more…

Honda And Nissan To Merge In 2026, Creating World’s Third-Largest Automaker Good morning! It’s Monday, December 23, 2024, 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…

What’s Your Automotive New Year’s Resolution? Folks, get the Veuve chilled and your voiceboxes all warmed up for “Auld Lang Syne” — it’s almost time for the new year. 2025 promises us plenty of good and plenty of bad, but it also promises us all a fresh start. A chance to do something new, or maybe something you’ve always wanted to do. We’ve all set New Year’s… Read more…

Dodge Thinks Getting Skeptics Behind The Wheel Of The Charger EV Will Win Them Over The last couple of years have seen Dodge pissing off a large part of its customer base. Aside from killing off the Charger, Challenger and nearly all of its V8-powered Hellcat performance variants, the brand also seems to be distancing itself from the Hemi V8 entirely, with the Durango being the exception. Now, with… Read more…

At $19,999, Does This 2008 Mitsubishi EVO X GSR Have The Goods? Today’s Nice Price or No Dice EVO X represents the last hurrah for Mitsubishi’s long-running rally car for the street. We’ll have to decide if this one’s price tag warrants any applause. Read more…

Controversial Car Opinions, Worst Car Gifts And The Dumbest Stuff Said About Cars In this Week’s QOTD Roundup Last week, we asked readers what’s the worst gas mileage they’ve ever seen. From towing with SUVs both old and new, to sport compacts off-road toys, all of these are a stark reminder of just how bad vehicles can be for the environment and our wallets. These were the thirstiest of our reader’s responses. – Lawrence… Read more…

Falling Drones, Swarming Drones And Rolling Nightmare Robots In This Week’s Beyond Cars Roundup Drone shows are meant to be the future of celebration as they’re a cleaner alternative to fireworks that don’t terrorize every animal within a five-mile radius. That’s not quite true when these shows go wrong and thousands of drones start falling from the sky, however, as was the case in China earlier this month. -… Read more…

‘Cheap’ Ferrari Project Cars, A Basically Free Fiat 500e And A Totally Awesome Saab 9-5 Wagon Car In This Week’s Car Buying Roundup Did you know that McLaren recommends replacing the wheel bolts on your 650S every two years? A lithium 12V battery for the same car costs around $2,500, the headlights apparently fall out, the carbon fiber chips and cracks, and some of the paint colors are impossible to match correctly. It seems like there are a bunch… Read more…

New Dodge Charger Won’t Get A Hemi V8, GM Might Bulldoze The Ren Cen And Porsche’s Apartments Sink In This Week’s News Roundup The Porsche Design Tower in Miami, built in 2014, is one of 35 luxury beachfront properties along the coast that a recent University of Miami study has found to have sunk by up to three inches into the unstable sandy earth. Three inches might not seem like a lot, but this is much faster than most experts anticipated.… Read more…

A Crumbling Cybertruck, An Intricate V10 Diesel Engine And A Win For Keis In This Week’s Car Culture Roundup Since its launch a year ago, Tesla’s flagship Cybertruck electric truck has been stumped by all kinds of pretty mundane obstacles. It’s so far been caught out by snow, slight inclines, water and now one Cybertruck owner reports that a pothole left them with a $34,000 repair bill. – Owen Bellwood Read More Read more…

This Sacramento County Patrol Car In Poland Is A Window Into The Strange World Of Fake American Police Cars In Europe A Sacramento County Sheriff Dodge Charger is taking social media by storm this week, not for getting into car chases or any sick jumps, but for showing up a little bit outside their jurisdiction — over 5,500 miles away in Poland. Read more…

Colorado’s Kei Cars Are Saved Colorado decided to consider arbitrarily pulling registrations for kei trucks earlier this week, after the shady American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators asked it to. Now, just three days later, the state has given up the effort — your Honda Beats and Subaru Sambars are safe. Read more…