Three Dead After Google Maps Directs Driver Off Broken Bridge Three people have been killed in India after the route they were following on Google Maps reportedly took them over the edge of a damaged bridge. The three men drove off the bridge crossing the Ramganga River in northern India, despite the span being badly damaged earlier this year. Read more…

Charlotte Airport Workers Ring In Thanksgiving Travel Week With A Strike Workers organized with the Service Employees International Union struck at Charlotte Douglas International Airport Monday to protest low wages. The 24-hour strike, called specifically to coincide with the holiday travel season, called for more money and more respect for the folks who keep CLT running, Read more…

Russia Says Don’t Mind The Toxic Odor And Biohazard Suits, Everything’s Fine On The ISS We’ve all had a problem roommate at some point in our lives, but probably not in low Earth orbit. Roscosmos received an unmanned Progress resupply spacecraft on the International Space Station last Saturday. When cosmonauts cracked open the hatch, everyone smelled an unexplained odor and there were droplets in the… Read more…

Winter Tires Are So Much Easier When They’re On A Dedicated Set Of Wheels Living in the frigid clime of America’s Third Coast, just blocks from Lake Erie, I am the key demographic for tire companies when they plan their winter tire marketing campaigns. Winter is getting an extremely late start in 2024, but I know that winter tires will be a necessity when the white stuff finally does start… Read more…

Tesla Won’t Be Part Of California’s EV Tax Credit Good morning! It’s Tuesday, November 26, 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…

This Tank Simulator Is Pretty Much Just A Tank Racing video games are almost always made better with the addition of high-quality racing sims, which begs a question: What other automotive games are improved by adding realism to the player interactions? It sure looks like World of Tanks makes that list, but only if you’re truly willing to endure life in an actual… Read more…

Land Rover Is Taking The Defender To Dakar With the Dakar Rally just weeks away from kicking off the 47th edition of the famed event, held for the sixth time in Saudi Arabia, Land Rover announces its intentions to compete head-to-head with Ford in the top class for the 2026 event. The British company is building a Defender-looking machine as part of a… Read more…

These Are The Worst Automotive Rebrands Of All Time Last week was a big one for armchair design experts, after everyone and their moms decided they had an opinion on the branding of Jaguar’s a controversial rebrand. The critique of the new design language got us thinking, is there any way it could be the worst automotive rebrand of all time? Read more…

At $2,999, Does This 1982 Subaru Mean It’s Brat Winter Too? The seats in the bed on today’s Nice Price or No Dice Brat aren’t just for terrifying passengers, they were once Subaru’s way to get around the U.S. import tariff commonly known as the “Chicken Tax.” We’ll have to see how taxing its present price is on a potential buyer’s wallet. Read more…

Which Automaker Should Join F1 Next? If you’re a Formula 1 fan or just a fan or racing in general, Monday was probably a big day for you. Nearly two years after Andretti Global joined forces with Cadillac Racing in a bid to compete in Formula 1, it’s officially happening. Starting in 2026, Cadillac will go up against teams such as Ferrari and McLaren in… Read more…

Half of Russia’s Airbus A320/321neo Fleet Grounded Due To Lack Of Engine Parts Turbine jet-powered airplanes are the highest maintenance vehicles on the planes, so being cut off from the necessary firehose of spare parts will have consequences. Currently, half of the Airbus A320neo and 321neo planes in Russia can’t fly due to maintenance issues. Most of the grounded aircraft desperately need new… Read more…

2026 Kia EV9 GT Has Legit Sporty Bucket Seats That Remind Me Of ’80s Recaros Last week at the Los Angeles Auto Show, the most impressive seats I sat in weren’t in a sports car or a super-luxury sedan, but in an electric three-row crossover. Kia debuted the new EV9 GT at the show, a 501-horsepower performance version of its excellent family hauler, and the seats in all three rows are simply… Read more…

DHL Cargo Plane Crashes Amid Fears Of Russian Sabotage Every plane crash is subject to intense scrutiny, but a DHL cargo plane crash in Lithuania on Monday morning has drawn the attention of Europe’s intelligence agencies. The crash killed one crew member and injured three others. The crash is still under investigation but Lithuanian officials haven’t ruled out terrorism… Read more…

You’ll Never Detail A $5 Million Lamborghini But You Can Watch A Pro Do It The Lamborghini Miura SV is easily the most beautiful production car to ever hit the road. Do not fight me on this. Search your feelings, you know it to be true. Beauty and rarity have contributed to this car exploding in value over the years, and ahead of this one selling for a massive seven-figure price tag, it… Read more…

Electric Chrysler Pacifica Is Coming To Change The Minivan World Chrysler’s next minivan is going to be electric, and we now know that it’s going to be called the Pacifica. This is huge news if you’re minivan and Pacifica-pilled like I am. The news was confirmed to Green Car Reports at the LA Auto Show late last week. Read more…

High-Tech Truck Heist Makes Off With $1 Million Of Guy Fieri And Sammy Hagar Tequila Back in the good ol’ days of truck heists, you could get your four best friends together in three matching Honda Civics and steal yourself a truck full of all the DVD players your heart desires. In modern times, however, things are more complicated: You’ll need some high-tech GPS-spoofing equipment if you want to make… Read more…

Watch These Yahoos Road Trip An Old Volkswagen To Texas For A Joke Sometimes the fun of cars is found in doing dumb things with your friends. It’s not against the law to decorate your MkIV Volkswagen R32 like Burt Reynolds’ 1978 Trans Am from the film “Smokey And The Bandit,” then road tripping it to Texarkana, Texas. Nobody can stop you if that’s something you want to do, which is… Read more…

International Forklift Racing Competition Ends In Belgian Upset Over Germany The Germans love them some forklift racing, and why wouldn’t they? Forklifts are awesome. Racing is awesome. There’s no way it wouldn’t be awesome if you combine the two. This year’s competition was different, though. The Stapler Cup, named after the German word for forklift, dropped “German” from the name and… Read more…

Cadillac Will Be The First American Factory Constructor In F1 History It’ll be a battle for the ages when Ford and General Motors face off on the Formula 1 grid in 2026. Ford will be working with Red Bull Powertrains to build engines from that point forward, while Cadillac will partner with Andretti Global to enter a Ferrari-powered car as the 11th team. Sorry Europe, you had your time… Read more…

HOA Tows Cars With Expired Tags Out Of Private Driveways We all know HOAs suck, but as with all things that suck, Florida HOAs are on another level. An HOA in Florida contracted with a tow company to tow vehicles with expired registration out of people’s driveways and, predictably, this is pissing people off. Read more…