GM Needs $350 Million Of Taxpayer Money Or It Might Raze Michigan’s Tallest Building Detroit’s Renaissance Center, home of General Motors, is an immediately recognizable part of the city’s skyline. It’s also nearly empty and only getting emptier, but GM has plans for what to do with the building after its offices have fully moved out. It wants to renovate three of the center’s towers, and demolish the… Read more…

The Porsche Design Luxury Skyscraper In Miami Is Sinking Much Faster Than Expected 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…

NHTSA Mandates Rear Seat Belt Reminders And Enhanced Warnings For Front Seats I can’t believe I’m writing this in the year 2024, but in case y’all forgot, seat belts save lives. It’s pretty black and white: Over half of all vehicle occupant fatalities in 2022 were people who weren’t wearing a seat belt. It simply boggles my mind whenever I see folks driving or riding in a car without wearing… Read more…

Warframe 1999’s Motorcycle Is A Fascinating Mix Of Retro And Modern Design Warframe’s much-anticipated 1999 expansion dropped last week, and Tenno all around the world are being introduced to something new: ‘90s sportbikes. You can keep your railjacks and k-drives, there’s a retro motorcycle now available — or, is it a modern one? Both? Neither? Read more…

How Automakers Went From Boom To Bust After The Pandemic Back when the COVID-19 pandemic was in full swing, wreaking havoc across the world, automakers enjoyed record-high profits as they raised prices because of a shortage of new cars. Now though, that honeymoon period is over, and these companies aren’t in a position to recover without a lot of pain. Read more…

Digital License Plates Can Be Hacked To Dodge Tolls And Tickets Digital license plates have been around for several years, promising to save states money shipping metal plates while also dragging their respective departments of motor vehicles into the 21st century. Except Wired reports they can also be hacked to change the plate number at will, allowing drivers to avoid paying… Read more…

Official Reason For New Jersey Drone Sightings Is As Likely As It Is Boring It looks as if the Feds have finally given us an official reason for the mystery sightings of drones over New Jersey and neighboring states over the last few weeks and damn if it isn’t boring. Read more…

Rallying A Mercedes Is The Classy Way To Go Fast Mercedes-Benz isn’t exactly known for its rally heritage, but for a brief moment in the late 1970s the company decided to throw some effort into the sport by building a pair of 450 SLC 5-liter Rallye. It actually won a few events and might have carried on with a bit more luck. With more development, the five-liter… Read more…

These Are The Dumbest Things You’ve Heard People Say About Cars Last week we asked the audience the dumbest thing they’ve ever heard someone say about cars. Cars are complex machines that many of us have to interact with on a daily basis, so it’s unsurprising that there’s a lot of misunderstanding and straight up misinformation about them. Though often the dumbest things we hear… Read more…

80-MPH Airships Could Be The Future Of Sustainable Luxury Air Travel When people think of airships, they either picture the Goodyear blimp circling the skies of major sports events or the Hindenburg going up in flames. Multiple start-ups are looking to up the notion that dirigibles are an archaic form of transportation. The enterprises claim that rigid airships will herald an era of… Read more…

Liberty Walk Is In The Keyboard Business Now We may all love Liberty Walk’sF40 bodykit for the Autozam AZ-1, but the company offers a kit for the genuine article Ferrari F40 too — a kit that Liberty Walk has now decided to honor with a mechanical keyboard collab. I know, that sounds absurd, but it’s actually more fitting than you might think. Read more…

Let Old MotoGP Races On YouTube Keep You Company Through The Winter Months Folks, it’s cold out. While I may be the type of batshit to ride my motorcycle all winter, most people aren’t — it’s okay if you park your bike for the frigid months. Still, you’ll need something to tide you over until next riding season, and I have just the recommendation: Full MotoGP races from the past couple… Read more…

Empty Waymo Robotaxi Loops Roundabout 37 Times As If It Was Stuck In Logic Loop The fledgling robotaxi services currently out on the roads aren’t quite fulfilling the ambitious promises of a fully autonomous future. One Waymo robotaxi seemingly got stuck in a roundabout last week, causing it to lap around the tight loop 37 times. Thankfully, there were no passengers inside for the dizzying ride. Read more…

Cybertruck’s Latest Weakness Found After Pothole Causes $34,000 Damage 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. Read more…

Boston Tunnel Floods In ‘Rare Occurrence’ That Left Drivers Struggling Through 3 Feet Of Water Massachusetts residents driving through Boston were met with a watery surprise when a storm caused the Ted Williams Tunnel to flood with as much as three feet of water last week. The tunnel, which was built during Boston’s infamous Big Dig, allows Interstate 90 to run under the city, reportedly flooded after a catch… Read more…

A Junkyard Supertruck Is Way Faster Than A Real GMC Syclone For A Lot Less Money The legendary GMC Syclone was just about the fastest thing you could buy in 1991 with 280 horsepower from a 4.3-liter turbocharged V6 and all-wheel drive for traction from a dig. In head-to-head tests the early-90s supertruck was quicker than a five-times-as-expensive Ferrari when new. In Car… Read more…

Stellantis ‘Will Survive’ As Ferrari Chair Rushes To Repair The Damage Good morning! It’s Monday, December 16, 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…

25 MPH May Be Too Fast For City Centers: Study It’s an intuitive concept that a vehicle’s speed is the decisive factor in determining whether a struck pedestrian is seriously injured or killed. New research from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety shows front-end height compounds the injury risk created by speed. Findings show that a 25-mile-per-hour speed… Read more…

How End-Of-Year Car Deals Work And Why They Don’t Apply To Every Model Whether you celebrate Happy Honda Days or Toyotaton, December is generally a good time to buy a car. Automakers and dealers want to end the year with strong sales on the books, which usually means some extra savings for shoppers. However, not every model is going to qualify for these seasonal sales. Read more…

What’s Your Worst Car Gifting Story? At one point in our lives or another, we’ve made sweetheart deals for cars with friends or family. An adult gifting an old car to a teenager fresh out of their driving test. Maybe, you sold an unwanted car taking up space in your garage to a friend at less than the market price. While there are typically good… Read more…