I’m A Mobile DJ That Needs A Car For Family And Music Equipment! What Should I Buy? Patrick is from New Hampshire and works as a mobile DJ. Unfortunately, his manual Outback was recently wrecked. Now he needs a family-friendly car with enough room for his gear and something hopefully fun to drive. What car should he buy? Read more…

Who Is Running Tesla While Elon Musk Plays President? If Congress can’t pass a continuing resolution to fund the federal government by Sunday, Republicans will have caused yet another government shutdown. Speaker Mike Johnson appeared to be willing to work with the Democrats to make something happen, the Washington Post reports, but then Elon Musk started tweeting, and… Read more…

Nissan Is The Latest Automaker To Give In To Bigots, Reverse DEI Policies Nissan is the latest in a growing list of automakers and companies to give in to the snowflakes who feel key diversity initiatives aren’t fair. You can thank your local conservative activists for this. I’m sure this will make for a much more accepting, less hostile work environment for people of color and other… Read more…

2025 Nissan Murano Offers A Fresh Look But Is Saddled With An Engine I Still Don’t Like Well, well, well. If it isn’t Nissan’s variable-compression turbo engine, an enemy I haven’t looked in the eye in many years. This time around, it’s in the new 2025 Nissan Murano, but my first experience with this powerplant came back when I still worked at MotorTrend and ended up with the Infiniti QX50 as my… Read more…

SpaceX Ground Control Lost Power For An Hour During Spacewalk Mission Conducting a crewed space mission isn’t like going out on a cross-country road trip. You can get by just fine without cell service on an isolated stretch of highway, but a spacecraft losing communications is typically the precursor to a disaster. SpaceX lost power for at least an hour at a California facility during… Read more…

I Want To Make A Grand Entrance With The DS N°8 There’s just something special about French car designs. They’re weird, they’re cool, they’re gorgeous, they’re ugly, they’re some mix of everything. Most importantly, French cars are innovative and unlike anything else on the market, which is why I’ve always been obsessed. The latest new French model to debut is the D… Read more…

NHTSA Says Never Mind To Massive Airbag Recall After Lengthy Fight With Automakers Good morning! It’s Thursday, December 19, 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…

2,000 Drones Fall From The Sky After Failing During Light Show 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…

Liam Lawson Is Walking Right Into Red Bull’s Trap The old Red Bull is back. For the last decade, since Sebastian Vettel departed for Ferrari the energy drink team has fumbled through half a dozen junior team drivers who weren’t ready for the big leagues, promoted too soon and died on the vine. New Zealander Liam Lawson has been promoted to the second Red Bull seat,… Read more…

Teamsters Go On Massive Strike Against Amazon Days Before Christmas Thousands of Teamsters union members went on strike against Amazon early Thursday morning at seven facilities in four states across the country. This, of course, is all happening at a deeply critical time of year for the online retail giant: the holiday season. Read more…

At $7,500, Would You Do A Lap Of Luxury In This 1976 Cadillac Seville? One of Looney Tunes’ most famous cartoons is 1950’s The Rabbit of Seville, a short that pits Bugs Bunny against Elmer Fudd to the tune of Rossini’s opera buffa. Today’s Nice Price or No Dice Cadillac Seville might not be quite as zany, but we’ll still have to decide if its price bugs us. Read more…

Traffic Jams: Godspeed You! Black Emperor – ‘The Dead Flag Blues’ A little inside baseball: I just wrote up a Traffic Jam for Chappel Roan’s “Red Wine Supernova.” Let’s be honest though, people. Very few of us are feeling Chappel Roan right now. I’d wager many more of us are feeling Godspeed You! Black Emperor. “The Dead Flag Blues” are a bit more topical towards life today: Read more…

Honda Sells Spicy Electrical Tape To Stop Rodents Eating Your Wiring Clever designers around the world have come up with all kinds of ingenious creations over the years. Mazda’s famed rotary engine is admired by many, the energy recovery systems in Formula 1 engines made them some of the most efficient in the world and now Honda has a special rodent-resistant tape that’s packed with… Read more…

What’s One Car That Everyone Should Drive At Least Once In their Lifetime? There are a lot of universally loved cars out there, cars like the Ferrari F40 and the E-Type Jaguar have won thousands of adoring fans around the world. Sadly, we won’t all get to drive automotive icons like these in our lives, but I wondered if there are any cars that we really should try and get behind the wheel of… Read more…

NASA’s Bigger, Faster New Space Helicopter Will Go Where Rovers Can’t NASA carried out a record-breaking feat when it flew a man-made craft on the surface of another planet for the first time with the Ingenuity probe. The American space agency is now preparing for a repeat of this achievement with a new Martian helicopter that could be bigger, more powerful and reach places other rovers… Read more…

Prinx Chengshan Recalls Over Half A Million Winter Tires For Insufficient Snow Traction I went to the Bridgestone Winter Driving School earlier this year, and experienced the difference between quality winter tires, three peak mountain snowflake-rated (3PMS) all-seasons, and regular all-season tires on snow and ice. As a native Angeleno, I had minimal prior experience with snow driving, so the learning… Read more…

Nissan Will Continue Selling The Old Kicks For A Laughable $310 Less Than The New One I feel like I start many of my blogs by saying this, but it bears repeating:New cars are too damn expensive. As someone living in a major metropolitan area on a writer’s salary, I have no idea how anyone is able to afford a new car right now, but Nissanis here to help out all my fellow poor people. It announced that… Read more…

How The Jaguar Type 00 Can Save The Struggling Automaker Jaguar revealed its ambitious electric Type 00 concept three weeks ago at Miami Art Week. The British luxury automaker is in the middle of a complete rebrand featuring a divisive new branding scheme and a soon-to-be-unveiled four-door electric GT. While the worst people online are still bashing their keyboards, Jaguar… Read more…

Steve McQueen’s ‘Le Mans’ Porsche 917K Can Be Yours If You’ve Got A Spare $20 Million Possibly the most iconic and recognizable race car in the history of four-wheeled anything, the Gulf-liveried Porsche 917, owes a lot of its star power to the kind of terrible 1971 Steve McQueen vehicle “Le Mans.” That very car, the one from the movie, the one that McQueen drove, is coming up for sale next month at Mec… Read more…

Electric Ram REV Delayed Until 2026 As Range-Extender Ramcharger Gets Pushed Forward To 2025 If you were interested in picking up the electric Ram 1500 REV pickup, you’re going to have to wait a bit. Slowing EV demand, specifically for half-ton electric pickups, has led the automaker to change the rollout plans for its pair of electrified trucks. The electric Ram REV is now delayed until 2026, while the… Read more…