Check Your Engine Bay For Giant Snakes The owner of a Chevrolet Silverado truck got a fright last week when they found an enormous boa constrictor snake hiding in their engine bay last week. Firefighters in Arizona were called to the scene to remove the snake, which had reportedly slithered into the engine bay looking to warm up. Read more…

Traffic Jams: The Avalanches – ‘Because I’m Me’ Hey there. Life isn’t always going to go your way. Sometimes you’ll be down, out, or even some combination of the two, and you might start wondering what to do with this hand you’ve been dealt. Well, here’s your advice: Play it. Put on your best pair of shoes. Because you’re you. Read more…

Australian Company Wants EV Owners To Volunteer Their Cars As Generators When Natural Disasters Hit Vehicle-to-load tech is going to be a game changer in emergencies. The ability to power things simply using your car can literally save lives depending on the situation. One Australian company is incentivizing EV owners to share that technology with their fellow countrymen when natural disasters strike. Read more…

Trump Does Tesla A Favor, Plans To Make It Easier For Self-Driving Cars To Hit The Road Good morning! It’s Monday, November 18, 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…

Low Cost Spirit Airlines Files For Bankruptcy, Promises All Tickets Remain Valid Spirit Airlines has filed for bankruptcy protection amid mounting losses and stiff competition from rival budget airlines. The American carrier has lost billions since the Covid-19 pandemic and will now work to restructure its debt while continuing to operate flights across the U.S. Read more…

What Are Your Worst Mechanic Stories? Very few people ever look forward to taking their car to a mechanic. No matter what you do, you’ll probably have to take your car for a dreaded trip to a garage to see a mechanic. We all worry that the garage will overcharge for service, and it could admittedly be even worse than that. The mechanic could fail to fix… Read more…

Aston Martin Valkyrie GTP Performing About As Well As Its Last Prototype The new Aston Martin Valkyrie GTP racer is just the brand’s third attempt at building a top-flight endurance racing sports car since 1989. Last weekend marked the car’s first test sessions at Daytona International Raceway with factory-supported Heart Of Racing’s one-car entry and, while it was a preliminary event for… Read more…

A Rope And A Milk Carton Make The Only Fake EV Sound You Need With the pivot to electric power, debates have raged for years around all kinds of aspects of electric vehicle ownership: how much range do you need? How long should it take to charge? How much should it cost? But one argument has raged fiercer than the rest: what should an electric vehicle sound like? Now, the owner… Read more…

At $3,600, Will This 1985 Volvo 245DL Go The Distance? If you only ever buy one car for the rest of your life, then today’s Nice Price or No Dice Volvo could be a strong contender to be that car. Let’s see what such a commitment might just cost. Read more…

Teslas Are The Most Fatal Cars On The Road, Study Finds Tesla has the deadliest cars on the road today. According to a new study from iSeeCars, Tesla vehicles have the highest fatal crash rate among all vehicle brands in the United States. The organization analyzed data from the U.S. Fatality Analysis Reporting System. Read more…

Are You A Cybertruck Owner With A Degradation Kink? We Want To Hear From You The Tesla Cybertruck has had a rough launch. It’s had six recalls already, it gets damaged by stickers, and it’s become a laughingstock nationwide. On TikTok, in the news, Cybertruck owners are ridiculed at every turn. It raises the question: Is that why you bought one? If so, we want to talk. Read more…

Michael Schumacher Made History In This Ferrari And Now Some Talentless Jabroni Is Going To Buy It You don’t have a fraction of the talent that Michael Schumacher held in his left pinky finger, but if you have enough money you can buy the car he used to win his final races. Fighting tooth-and-nail with eventual champion Fernando Alonso in 2006, Schumi used this chassis as a tool to win the San Marino, European,… Read more…

MAGA Cars, Automotive Gimmicks And Cars That Could Save Stellantis In This Week’s QOTD Roundup Elon Musk will be in charge of the federal budget next year, from which he’s promised to cut a truly impossible amount of money. But you don’t find $2 trillion just by cutting your entire staff so nothing works except your burned-out employees — you need to take more drastic measures, like cutting the things that cost… Read more…

City-Ruining Self-Driving Cars And The Billionaires Who Love Them In This Week’s Beyond Cars Roundup Despite the constant debunking of UFO sightings, skeptics and grifters claim that aliens have visited Earth in vehicles beyond human comprehension but decided not to implode the planet to build an interstellar bypass. These so-called experts were again given a platform in Congress at a House Oversight hearing on… Read more…

Depreciating Porsche Taycan And A ‘Cheap’ Mercedes-AMG GT In This Week’s Car Buying Roundup If you’ve got high-end sports car dreams but premium hot hatch money, you may want to take a trip to the UK. There, you’ll find what’s likely the cheapest Mercedes-AMG GT currently on the market, offered for about the same price as a new 2025 Honda Civic Type R. – Lawrence Hodge Read More Read more…

Tesla Hits A Trillion, Guy Destroys Cars Dressed As Bear And Trump Hates Buses In This Week’s Car Culture Roundup Good morning! It’s Thursday, November 14, 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. – Owen Bellwood Read More Read more…

Dodge Focuses On Gas-Powered Charger Meanwhile There’s Plenty Still For Sale From 2 Years Ago In This Week’s News Roundup Dodge apparently knows not many folks are terribly excited about its upcoming electric Charger coupe and sedan, so it’s reportedly pushing up the release date of the gas-powered Charger Sixpack by five months. It was originally slated to debut in late 2025, but it’s now looking like they’ll be hitting the dealers in… Read more…

Passengers Hang Onto Walls, Tables As Freak Storm Tips Cruise Ship 45 Degrees A cruise ship traveling to Florida was caught in a freak storm last week that brought winds so powerful they tilted the ship over to one side. The Royal Caribbean cruise liner tilted to 45 degrees during the storm, which left passengers fearing that “they would die.” Read more…

Can We Please Stop Doing Eleanor Mustang Restomods At SEMA last week, an outfit called Mustang Brothers fully debuted its new build offering: The Outlaw, a 1968 Mustang “GT500″ restomod with a modern drivetrain, suspension, and styling. It’s a classic formula, and the Outlaw follows yet more tradition by making its custom bodywork look like another “Gone In 60 Seconds”… Read more…

Chevy El Camino, Flxible Clipper, Mitsubishi Delica: The Dopest Cars I Found For Sale Online Happy Friday, everyone! I spent last weekend upstate, visiting friends (and establishments that serve garbage plates) in good old Rochester, New York, where I experienced something unexpected: The smell of winter. The cold, sharp scent in the air of snow yet to come, a harbinger of the season to come. Here’s hoping… Read more…