Bankrupt KTM Can’t Pay November Salaries Or Christmas Bonuses KTM has had a tough go of it recently. Maybe it was all that investment in the X-Bow, maybe the company didn’t make enough track-only RC 8Cs, or maybe the problem began when it turned down Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman. Regardless, the ready-to-race manufacturer now looks ready for bankruptcy proceedings, and it’s… Read more…

Shaq Is So Huge He Had West Coast Customs Make A One-Off Lucid Air Coupe So He Could Fit In It Shaquille O’Neal is a big man with an even bigger car collection. On a podcast a couple months back, the former NBA star and basketball analyst said he owns 40 cars. Many of them are unique custom builds due to Shaq’s large stature — at 7-foot-1-inch tall, he can’t exactly fit in most vehicles, even one as large and… Read more…

Carlos Sainz Celebrates His Final Day As A Ferrari Driver On Track With His Dad Carlos Sainz Vazquez de Castro made his debut as a Scuderia Ferrari racing driver almost four years ago, and in his time wearing red overalls found four Grands Prix victories and 21 further podium finishes despite the recent Red Bull domination. Carlos has departed Ferrari to make room for seven-time champion Lewis… Read more…

Tesla Offers Free Supercharging For Model S Again, But Says It’ll Take It Away If You Charge Too Much Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s antics polarize society, and make it very difficult for folks to feel confident handing him money, but annoyingly, his company does produce some of the most efficient andaffordable EVs that have access to the largest fast-charging network on the continent. Tesla’s first mass market vehicle, the… Read more…

Progressive Adds Driver That Doesn’t Exist To Man’s Insurance Policy Car insurance companies have been putting customers through it lately. Ever increasing costs of doing business have caused insurance companies to increase rates or outright make it hard to get covered. Others are taking things a bit further to get more money out of customers. Take Progressive, who added a driver to a… Read more…

Colorado Wants To Take Your Keis Away Law-abiding Japanese car enthusiasts are having their rights stripped away in state after state because a group of pencil-pushing nobodies with nothing better to do keeps poking their noses in it. The non-profit non-government lobbying group the American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators has been involved in… Read more…

Electric Porsche 718 Development Isn’t Going So Well: Report It seems like we’ve been hearing about Porsche’s plan to electrify the Boxster and Cayman for eons, yet we’ve never seen anything closer to production-ready than the Mission R concept from back in 2021. A new report from Automobilwoche says why that may be: Porsche is simply struggling with the car’s development. Read more…

At $29,999, Is This 2000 Bentley Arnage T Red Label An Exclusive Bargain? Today’s Nice Price or No Dice Arnage T Red Label is the last Bentley model shared with Rolls Royce, as the two former flatmates were split between VW and BMW during the model’s run. It’s now an old-school example of British steel, and we’ll have to decide how much silver and gold it should take to own. Read more…

Honda And Nissan In Merger Talks To Compete With Tesla And China Good morning! It’s Wednesday, December 18, 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 Is Your Most Controversial Car Opinion? No Judgements Everyone carries an opinion or two that is somewhat controversial. Maybe you keep it to yourself because you don’t want to cause a stir, or maybe you shout it from the mountain tops to trigger the libs or whatever. Today, and today only, we are all here to listen and not judge. You can sound off in the comments… Read more…

Tesla’s ‘Brand-New Cars Not Drivable’ Because Of Failing Self-Driving Chips Tesla rolled out new hardware in its cars this year that was meant to usher in a new age for its Autopilot and Full Self-Driving systems. Well, as it turns out, the new computer chips that were supposed to support this prosperous period of autonomy have a flaw, which means many are failing after just a few hundred… Read more…

Traffic Jams: Chappell Roan – ‘Red Wine Supernova’ Summer may be over, but that doesn’t mean the sounds of the summer have to stop. There’s no rule saying you can’t spend the winter listening to absolute bangers, dancing around your kitchen while you make your morning coffee, and I think you should do just that. Read more…

Kia Launches Actually Pretty Cool K4 Configurator On TikTok Just In Time For The App To (Maybe) Get Banned The landscape of automotive marketingcontinues to move more toward social media content creators and influencers, and the suits in Kia’s marketing department seem to be some of the most forward-thinking and eager to adapt. Today, KiaAmerica launched a first-of-its-kind creator car configurator on TikTok, just as disc… Read more…

Elon Musk Isn’t Allowed To Know About SpaceX’s Spy Satellites SpaceX has contracts to do all sorts of work for the United States government, from putting Toyotas on the moon to plunging the International Space Station into the sea. The company’s work includes secret projects for the U.S. military, but CEO Elon Musk wouldn’t know much about that — he’s not allowed into those… Read more…

These Are Your Worst Car Gifting Stories Earlier this week we asked for your worst stories involving car gifting. For a lot of enthusiasts, it can be an exciting prospect to either make use of vehicles after their previous owners no longer use them or to share a passion with younger drivers. However, gifting doesn’t always work out for the best. Recipients… Read more…

Portland Will Never Beat Its Subaru-Loving Allegations Subaru owners, apart from WRX vape bros, are a very specific type of person. They’re outdoorsy, granola and folksy in a corporate sort of way. That means they fit in perfectly in places that represent those same sorts of ideals and aesthetics, places like Portland, Oregon. Needless to say, they’re everywhere in that… Read more…

If The Hemi V8 Comes Back, It Won’t Be In The New Dodge Charger Carlos Tavares wanted the Hemi V8 dead while he was in charge of Stellantis, and he pretty much got his way. Right now, there are just three vehicles built by the automaker that carry the engine: the Ram 1500 TRX (and HD), the Jeep Wrangler Rubicon 392 and the Dodge Durango. That’s it. Now though, it wouldn’t be a… Read more…

Honda Prelude Returns To The U.S. Next Year As A Hybrid With Simulated Shifts Instead Of A Manual Transmission Brace yourselves, because Honda is getting back into the sporty coupe business. On Tuesday the automaker announced that the Prelude will return to the U.S. in late 2025, two years after first debuting it in “concept” form. The downside? It sounds as if the new coupe won’t come with a manual transmission as was… Read more…

Toyota Drops bZ4X Base Price By $6,000 For 2025 Toyota has led the industry with its gasoline-electric hybrids for decades now, yet the Japanese giant has all but abstained from offering a fully fledged EV. Its only EV offering is a frumpy little crossover named after a fax machine that has yet to impress anyone, the bZ4X. For 2025, Toyota has taken a drastic step… Read more…

These Are The Worst Gas Mileages You’ve Ever Seen 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. Read more…