Trump May Kill Crash Reporting Requirements Tesla Has Fought Against Good morning! It’s Friday, December 13, 2o24, 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…

These Are The Cars From The Year 2000 You Want To Import In 2025 We’re just a few weeks away from entering the new year, which means there will be a new crop of 25-year-old cars available for import into the United States. Earlier this week I asked you to share what car from 2000 you’d want to import, and your answers ran the gamut. (A lot of them had already debuted before 2000,… Read more…

Covering Your Car In Christmas Lights Is Dumb And Probably Illegal People have been sticking Christmas lights to their cars for years, but this year the trend for illuminating your car for the festive season seems to have gone into overdrive. Unfortunately for everyone who just wants to spread a little Christmas cheer, in addition to endangering your car’s paint whenlighting up your… Read more…

What’s The Worst Gas Mileage You’ve Ever Seen? Vehicle fuel efficiency has improved drastically over the last 15 to 20 years. Some crossovers and pickup trucks are capable of getting fuel economy that was once reserved for midsized sedans. That hasn’t always been the case. Even now with engine tech the way it is, there are still some vehicles out there that get… Read more…

The Renault 5 Turbo Is Back As An EV Hot Hatch, And It Looks Awesome The all-electric Renault 5, which looks awesome, promises to bring electric power to the masses and even has a baguette holder, is quite possibly my new favorite car. While you might have thought that the Alpine that’s based on this car was the perfect electric hot hatch, Renault has outdone itself with the new Turbo… Read more…

Honda CBR1000RR Repsol, Dodge Power Wagon Ambulance, Fire Truck: The Dopest Cars I Found For Sale Online Happy Friday, friends. It’s beginning to feel a lot like Christmas out there, even though, without snow, it may not look it. The park near the climbing gym is selling trees, the air has that frosty nip to it and the floor of my apartment building’s hallway is absolutely freezing when I go out barefoot to pick up my… Read more…

2025 Volkswagen Taos Is Exactly What You Think It’s Going To Be The 2025 Volkswagen Taos is not an exciting vehicle. When you mat the gas pedal, pull back on the shifter and grip the steering wheel, you aren’t filled with a deep sense that this compact crossover is meant to be a bastion of driving enjoyment. Instead, you’re met with middling acceleration, a silky smooth… Read more…

Traffic Jams: Jack White – ‘Archbishop Harold Holmes’ There are a few artists where I know that whatever they do next, I’m going to love it. Bands like Arctic Monkeys have had a hold on me for almost two decades, I’ve been a card-carrying Swiftie for years now and Jack White has been fueling my love for angry guitars since I first heard “Seven Nation Army.” Read more…

Nissan, Please Let Me Drive The Electric R32 GT-R Nissan announced something weird early last year: An in-house shed-build, led by a single enthusiast within the company, to electrify an R32 Skyline GT-R. A year and a half later, the project is now apparently ready for its grand reveal at the 2025 Tokyo Auto Salon. Read more…

At $31,000, Is This 1967 Logghe Dragster A Cackling-Good Deal? Today’s Nice Price or No Dice Logghe dragster was built not to barrel down the quarter mile but for “cackling” car meets. That’s a unique and specific role, and it will require some novel thinking on our part to decide what it might be worth. Read more…

Mysterious “Car-Sized” Drone Swarm Provokes Panic Across New Jersey The Garden State is currently under siege from a drone swarm of unknown origin. The scare reached a boiling point on Sunday when a swarm of a dozen drones tailed a U.S. Coast Guard boat and 50 other drones were sighted flying into New Jersey from the ocean. New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy told Congress that he can’t… Read more…

Gorgeous Aston Martin Valhalla PHEV Finally Launches With Better Performance Than Expected After first being revealed in concept form in 2019 — a concept that got almost completely cut out of “No Time To Die” because the near-production design was shown in 2021 between when that movie was initially supposed to release and when it actually hit theaters, thus rendering the concept’s appearance obsolete — the… Read more…

Mercury Almost Made A Sporty Sable Using Taurus SHO Parts Unless you’re old enough to remember the muscle cars of the 1960s, Mercury’s name hardly ever comes up when talking about performance. Sure there were models like the Cougar XR-7, Tracer LTS and Marauder, but beyond those, Mercury never received anything that was really special. Things might have been different had… Read more…

Cowards At BMW Killed Off A New M1 To Prioritize The XM When the BMW i8 launched, it was met with a chorus from the automotive media: The car was nice and cool and all, but it could’ve really used more power to back up that styling. So BMW’s M division went back to the drawing board and penned a 560-horsepower successor that retained the supercar styling and hybrid… Read more…

Modern Tires Put Porsche’s Carrera GT Nürburgring Lap On Fast Forward Seven minutes and 32 seconds. Way back in 2004 Horst Von Saurma tested the then-new Porsche Carrera GT on the Nürburgring Nordschleife for Germany’s Sport Auto magazine, and that was the time he set in its original form. This week the magazine was back at it again with the same car twenty years on, but this time… Read more…

Everyone, And I Mean Everyone, Needs A Supercharged Wheelbarrow Hot Rod We’ve all been there. You’re sitting around your fab shop shooting the shit with your pals and start thinking you should do something with your pile of vintage military surplus aircooled four-cylinder generator engines, a tiny supercharger, and anold disused wheelbarrow. What if you put them all together with a… Read more…

Electric 2025 Cadillac Escalade IQ Starts At $129,990, Over $40K More Than The Gas Escalade Cadillac has finally released pricing for its biggest EV, the all-electric Escalade IQ, which is starting to reach dealers this month. Including destination (which is one of the highest I’ve seen at $2,290), the massive luxury EV will start at $129,990. That makes it $40,400 more expensive to start than an entry-level … Read more…

Project 2025 Has A Lot To Say About The Automotive Industry. None Of It Is Good Donald Trump is a little bit over a month away from becoming the President once again, so it seems like a good time to look at just what his second administration could mean for the automotive world. Luckily (I guess) for us, we’ve got a pretty good idea of what’s in store based on things outlined in Project 2025 – a… Read more…

I’m Looking For My First “Adult” Car! What Should I Buy? Vipin is the family “car person” and has been tasked with helping his younger sister with her first real adult car. She is looking for something easy to park, luxury-ish, reasonably priced around $25,000 with good fuel economy and reliability. What car should she buy? Read more…

Small Plane Splits In Half After Crashing Into 3 Cars At Intersection The cliché response when any small plane runs into mechanical trouble in the sky is to land on a public road. A pilot in Texas found out the hard way on Wednesday why this isn’t always the best idea. The pilot put his Piper Navajo down on a highway frontage road in Victoria and rolled straight into a busy… Read more…