Conspiracy Theorists Rejoice! Globalists Aim to Eliminate Contrails During UN Summit Since the dawn of commercial jet travel, the uninformed masses have looked up at the skies and assumed the vapor trailing off of airliners was the government covertly spraying chemicals over the country. Contrails will be a topic of discussion at this month’s COP29 summit in OPEC+ member-state Azerbaijan. A recent… Read more…

What Car Should Stellantis Bring Back To Save Itself? Stellantis is in trouble: Dealers are sitting on thousands of cars they can’t sell, even with discounts, there’s been rumors of brands that could be sold off and sales are so bad with some brands that their CEO has had to speak to foreign governments about their performance. Worse yet, aside from Jeep and Ram, nearly… Read more…

Traffic Jams: Frank Ocean – ‘White Ferrari’ Frank Ocean’s “White Ferrari” hit the Spotify charts for the first time this week, which surely only says good things about our collective mental health. We’re all going fantastic, folks, and we will be forever. At least it wasn’t “Nikes.” Read more…

Police Reportedly Beat Back More Than 150 Audi Workers Who Crashed Meeting About Plant Closures Audi bosses called the cops on their own workers on Wednesday after employees protesting a plant closure in Belgium stormed a meeting between company executives and union officials. More than 150 protesters were escorted from the factory by police armed with batons and shields after they called for job security. Read more…

Only Trump Could Come Up With A Climate Plan So Terrible, Even Exxon’s CEO Thinks It’s A Bad Idea Unless he dies before he takes office, which, considering his age and mental state, isn’t implausible, Donald Trump will be the next President of the United States. Only time will tell just how many millions of lives will be ruined by his disastrous policies of hate and corporate deregulation, but if you need a clue… Read more…

Ford’s $165 Million Fine For Slow Recalls Is NHTSA’s Biggest Fine Since Takata’s Deadly Airbags The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration hit Ford with a $165 million fine over its handling of recalled backup cameras on almost 600,000 cars this week. The fine, which is the second-largest penalty in the agency’s history, will see the Blue Oval pay $65 million upfront, with an additional $100 million due… Read more…

Trump Plans To Kill The $7,500 EV Tax Credit Good morning! It’s Friday, November 15, 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 Lexus TX Was The Scene Of Worlds #1 Ranked Golfer’s Arrest, And Now It Can Be Yours Want a chance to be a part of golfing history? Well, that might be a weird question to ask on an automotive site, but if your answer is yes, or you’re curious why I’m asking, check out Mecum Auctions latest listing. Read more…

Bugatti W16 Mistral Goes 21 MPH Faster Than Expected To Set New 282-MPH Roofless Top Speed Record Back in 2019 after absolutely destroying the production car top speed world record with the Chiron Super Sport, the first car to hit the 300-mph mark, then-president of the brand Stephan Winkelmann said the French marque was done chasing top speed records. Recently appointed CEO Mate Rimac has said “screw that” in a… Read more…

Roger Penske Solidifies IndyCar’s Prescence In Southern California By Purchasing The Long Beach Grand Prix Roger Penske has just added another notch in his auto racing belt. The billionaire purchased the Long Beach Grand Prix. The purchase also makes the Grand Prix an important part of another racing series Penske owns, Indycar. Read more…

Rural, Red States Spent Their Infrastructure Bill Money On Greener Road Projects Than Bluer States Typically, you’d think blue states would be the ones to invest in infrastructure improvements that are better for the environment than red states. Air quality affects us all, but one party has decided everything that leads to cleaner air is communism, and it isn’t the Democrats. And yet, when you look at how different… Read more…

Rudy Giuliani Reportedly So Uncooperative His Lawyers Are Asking To Quit Last we checked in on the disgraced and disbarred former mayor of New York, Rudy Giuliani, a judge had given him one week to turn over Lauren Bacall’s Mercedes and other valuables to Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss, two Georgia election workers he defamed following the 2020 Presidential election. If Giuliani didn’t comply… Read more…

Diesel Shop Allegedly Smuggled $33 Million Worth Of Illegal Emissions Defeat Devices In From Canada The Environmental Protection Agency really doesn’t like it when diesel truck owners remove factory-equipped and legally-mandated emissions devices. When four business owners conspire to smuggle tens of millions of dollars worth of illegal emissions defeat devices into the country, however, the federal government is… Read more…

California Could Soon Ban New Motorhome Sales California’s road to clean energy may upend a lot of industries, including the massive motorhome market. A recent change to the state’s clean air rules could kick start a change that would end new motorhome sales in the state as soon as the end of this year. Read more…

F1 Is Moving The Monaco Grand Prix To June, But It Should Have Moved It To The Trash The Monaco Grand Prix is a processional shitshow that isn’t worth watching. The narrow streets and tight corners of the principality’s once-blue riband event are ill served by the ever longer and wider specifications of car mandated by Formula 1 in the modern era. Passing is next to impossible, so Monaco is boiled… Read more…

A Subaru Justy With A Twin-Turbo Toyota V8 Is The Perfect Car Small cars are fun, big engines are fun, and small cars with big engines are just about the best. This Subaru Justy, with a twin-turbo Toyota 1UZ V8 under its hood, is maybe the best example of why the formula works. Read more…

Trump Now Has Control Of Tesla Full Self-Driving Safety Probe The reasoning behind Elon Musk’s decision to heavily back former (and future) President Donald Trump as well as be the “first buddy” is becoming more clear now. The Trump Administration is set to take over about 80 federal vehicle issue probes that were opened under President Joe Biden. One of those probes just… Read more…

RIP Kum & Go Whether we’re talking about Buc-ee’s, Wawa or QT, we here at Jalopnik love a good gas station chain. So it is with great sadness that we have to report the death of a beloved gas station name. Before you know it, the name Kum & Go will have kum and gone. Unfortunately for all of us, Maverik, which bought the company… Read more…

Autonomous Black Hawks Are Fighting Forest Fires Now Aerial firefighter is the coolest job in the world, if you ask me. These skilled pilots fly ludicrously low to the ground to pick up water and dump it on burning woodland to save communities and wildlife. The livelihoods of those awesome people are under threat, however, as an autonomous Black Hawk helicopter has just… Read more…

Best Porsche Taycan I’ve Ever Seen Just Lost $229 Per Day In Depreciation Some intrepid Porsche fanatic spent much of 2023 working with a dealer to pick out their optimum spec of Taycan and waiting for it to be delivered. With nearly $60,000 in options, including paint-to-sample Racing Green and the $6,000 Burmester premium audio, this was a seriously expensive electric wagon. At the end of… Read more…