Embarrassing Cars, Worst Mechanic Stories And Rebrands In This Week’s QOTD Roundup Stellantis’ current situation isn’t great. From production stoppages to big changes for new vehicle intros and potentially selling off brands in the portfolio, it seems like the automaker’s management is scrambling to figure things out. As the company’s management doesn’t seem to know what to do, we asked our readers… Read more…

Eerily Familiar Space Shuttles And Vigilante Street Signs In This Week’s Beyond Cars Roundup A common saying often attributed to Oscar Wilde is that “Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness,” and the latest example of that comes from the space race. China unveiled a new space shuttle last week to keep the Tiangong station supplied as the nation expands its space… Read more…

Totaled Cybertruck And A Nissan Murano CrossCabriolet With A Working Top In This Week’s Car Buying Roundup When the Tesla Cybertruck first launched, its earliest Foundation Series models cost $120,000. This didn’t stop Tesla loyalists from spending up to nearly double that to get their hands on one, and resale values have shown the folly of that approach: Cybertruck values are dropping far and dropping fast. – Amber… Read more…

‘Keep Moving’ Signs And The New Hyundai Ioniq 9 In This Week’s Car Culture Roundup Jake Paul’s boxing match against Mike Tyson was an absolute snoozer, verging on a complete farce, but there was one highlight: how the former Vine and Disney star turned “professional” boxer” made his entrance. He did it in the back seat of a purple-over-lime-green Chevy C3500 dually with Phil Collins’ “In The Air… Read more…

Tesla Cybertruck Stainless Steel Gets Stained All To Hell In This Week’s News Roundup After dealing with things like arrests over false complaints of rental thefts and a bad EV bet that’s seen a massive sale of a bunch of cheap Teslas, Hertz has another problem on its hands, at least at one of its locations. Workers at a Hertz in Syracuse, New York, abandoned their posts, resulting in customers… Read more…

Porsche’s Most Aggressive 911 GT3 RS Even Replaces The Rear Window With Carbon Fiber If you were holding out for a new technically-street-legal supercar that would be slightly faster around most race tracks than a Porsche 911 GT3 RS, but significantly more expensive, stiffer, and seemingly worse in almost every way to drive on the street, Manthey Racing has the car for you. The new Manthey Kit GT3 RS… Read more…

Vigilante Airline Passengers Duct Tape Man After He Strikes Flight Attendant, Tries To Open Plane Door On a flight from Milwaukee to Dallas earlier this week, a passenger reportedly tried to take an early exit by politely asking a flight attendant to open the door mid-flight — then forcing her out of the way and trying to open the door himself until fellow passengers restrained him with duct tape. Read more…

Pokémon Go Was A Plot To Use Your Data To Fast Track An AI-Slop Google Maps Competitor Niantic, the privately-held Pokémon Go app parent company, brought the augmented-reality app to the masses in July of 2016, and the game made it onto over a billion phones before 2019. Statistically you’ve probably played it, but in case you haven’t, players of the game must travel to locations in the physical world… Read more…

Kendrick Lamar Celebrates The Best-Ever Buick With Surprise Album ‘GNX’ Kendrick Lamar has always had excellent taste in cars, but he’s never incorporated them into his music like we’ve seen from, say, Frank Ocean. Today, with his surprise drop, “GNX,” he changed that in stunning form — pairing a hell of a car with a hell of an album. Read more…

2025 Fiat 500e Giorgio Armani Is As Gimmicky As It Gets And We Need More Cars Like It Cars are often seen as fashion statements, or at least they end up taking on the same role as ones fashion choices do. The vehicles that people own can say a lot about them before any words are exchanged, and the 2025 Fiat 500e Giorgio Armani edition, as the press release states, “is meant to be worn, not driven.”… Read more…

Truck Driver Wins $34 Million After Walmart Falsely Accused Him Of Fraud And Fired Him While On Medical Leave A Southern California truck driver who Walmart fired after falsely accusing him of workers comp fraud has been awarded millions by a jury. Read more…

All The Most Interesting Cars At The LA Auto Show Are Crossovers, And That’s A Good Thing People want crossovers and SUVs. That’s no longer just an American thing; in the first half of 2023, market share for utility vehicles exceeded 50 percent in Europe for the first time ever, and it’s the same in China. Car enthusiasts love to hate on the things, which I think is usually pretty misguided anyway, but a… Read more…

Go To The LA Auto Show Just To See The Chopped-Up Maybach From Kanye And Jay-Z’s ‘Otis’ Video Auto shows are a shell of what they once were, with way fewer automakers exhibiting at the convention centers and the ones that are there not necessarily using the opportunity to reveal something new. Porsche doesn’t even go to the Los Angeles Auto Show anymore, which left a big space open on the show floor for… Read more…

At $4,550 Canadian, Is This 1985 Renault Encore Worthy Of Applause? As its name implies, today’s Nice Price or No Dice Encore was the follow-up to another car, the Renault Alliance. Let’s see if its price tag has us all shouting, “Bravo!” Read more…

American Automakers Are Rallying Against Donald Trump’s EV Cuts Good morning! It’s Friday, November 22, 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…

It Would Be So Shagadelic Of You To Buy The ‘Austin Powers’ E-Type Groovy, baby! Yeah! The Mecum Kissimmee auction in January will bring an iconic film car across the block in the form of Austin Powers’ 1967 Jaguar XK-E. Allegedly only one car was used for all three films in the Austin Powers franchise, which is quite rare in film production. So if there aren’t any other authentic… Read more…

What’s The Worst Automotive Rebrand Of All Time? I don’t know if you saw the news this week, but British marque Jaguar unveiled a fresh new look ahead of the launch of its new battery-powered cars and people on the internet had some opinions about the refresh. Personally, I think it looks alright, it’s a bit flat and I prefer some texture in my logos, but it was… Read more…

Properly Transported Handguns Go Missing At Airport, Presumed Stolen Seemingly every year, the Transportation Security Administration announces that there’s a new record for guns seized at airport checkpoints and berates air travelers for not following the rules. A U.S. Army veteran and her husband followed said rules to the absolute letter however and still had a problem; their… Read more…

At CDN$4550, Is This 1985 Renault Encore Worthy Of Applause? As its name implies, today’s Nice Price or No Dice Encore was the follow-up to another car, the Renault Alliance. Let’s see if its price tag has us all shouting, “Bravo!” Read more…

These Are Your Worst Experiences At The DMV Everyone has a bad DMV story or two, right? Earlier this week we asked our readers to tell us about a particularly bad trip to the department of motor vehicles. While a lot of what happens there is important to how cars and drivers stay legal, register to vote, or pay for important services, it’s still an unpleasant… Read more…