Insurance Scam Mastermind Wears Obviously Fake Bear Suit While Filming ‘Attack’ On Luxury Cars California officials arrested four people over an alleged insurance scam involving a very fake bear attacking luxury vehicles in the state this week. The crew is accused of attacking three cars in order to cash in the insurance checks. Read more…

The Real Solution To Traffic Congestion Is Motorcycles New York governor Kathy Hochul is bringing back the much-awaited Manhattan congestion pricing plan, according to sources inside her office. It’s a good start towards ridding the island of cars, but it doesn’t fix the heart of commuter culture’s whole issue: Cars are a bad way to get to work. Instead, if public transit… Read more…

I Want Something Fast, Practical, But Undesirable To Car Thieves! What Car Should I Buy? Charley finally bought his dream car for over 20 years, a BMW M5. But then a bunch of thieves broke into his house took his keys and stole his car. He wants to replace it with something just as quick, but less desirable to hooligans. What car should he buy? Read more…

Pentagon Reverse Engineered Non-Human Technology For Decades: Whistleblower 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…

Someone Actually Bought A Karma Revero, And Now It Can Be Yours New Fisker is dead and gone, but years before its founder killed his latest company, he also managed to bankrupt Old Fisker. Much like with the Ocean, the Fisker Karma was already in production when the company went under, meaning a few people actually already owned them. The car was relaunched as the Karma Revero,… Read more…

This Is What America Sounds Like Here’s a hot take for you: I think Steve Saleen’s monstrous 760-horsepower NASCAR-engine S7 was the last time any kind of hypercar actually moved the needle. It looked like a spaceship in a good way, not in the stretched and blobby way they all do now. And it sounded like Hades himself was rising up from the… Read more…

2025 Acura ADX Is A Sharp Little Crossover With A Turbo Engine And Tons Of Potential Automakers seem to be cutting their truly affordable entry-level models quicker than an Iron Chef cuts an onion, but mercifully Acura is breaking that trend with its new subcompact luxury crossover, the ADX. Based on the Honda HR-V, the ADX is exactly the kind of offering Acura has needed, especially as the ADX is… Read more…

Donald Trump Puts Biking And Busses On The Chopping Block 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. Read more…

‘2JZ No Shiii’ This BMW M5 Trades A German Heart For A Real Motor While many BMW fanatics will crow that the later V8-powered E39-generation M5 is the best sedan of all time, I prefer the early 1990s simplicity and weirdness of the E34 M5. It’s a better looking car with an impressive grand touring driving style that I thoroughly enjoy. Now if only someone could do something about… Read more…

These Are The Cars Automakers Should Build After Elon Musk Kills The Pesky NHTSA President-elect Donald Trump has promised to put Elon Musk in charge of cutting the federal budget, which means he may have power to overhaul the meddling National Highway Traffic Safety Administration that’s always interfering with his car company. This poses an interesting question: If Musk strips regulators of… Read more…

At $29,800, Is This 2019 VW Golf Alltrack An Alright Bargain? As swan songs go, today’s Nice Price or No Dice VW Golf is quite the sendoff. It offers a handsome wagon body, AWD, and a six-speed stick. Let’s see if it also offers a low enough price to make us rue having to say goodbye. Read more…

Watch A Drag Race Between (3 Of) The Quickest Production Cars On Earth If you want your car to have all-out straight line speed, your best move now is to get the instant-on torque of an EV — but which EV? To help you through this truly difficult and oh-so-common buying question, the folks over at DragTimes have compiled a helpful guide: A drag race between the Lucid Air Sapphire, the… Read more…

Dead Skynet Satellite Mysteriously Drifted To Other Side Of Earth When people think of spaceflight’s Apollo era, it’s either a bygone period of relentless exploration or it was completely faked. However, relics from that golden era still haunt the frigid black sea above us. A dead British satellite launched in 1969 is now posing a threat to modern spaceflight. Skynet-1A drifted over… Read more…

Over 5,000 New 2023 Dodge Chargers And Challengers Are Still Sitting On Dealer Lots You might be shocked to hear this, but you can still buy a brand new Dodge Charger or Challenger from the dealer. There’s over 5,000 of the muscle cars still in stock at Dodge dealers across the country, which may or may not be a good thing. Read more…

What Happens When You Pit Two F1 Drivers Against Each Other On A Dirt Short Track? Energy drinks company and F1 chassis manufacturer Red Bull really likes to make its drivers do some pretty absurd stunts while they are visiting the U.S. for the three Formula 1 rounds held here. This year, ahead of the U.S. Grand Prix at Circuit of the Americas, The Visa Cash App RB duo of Yuki Tsunoda and Liam… Read more…

MrBeast Destroys A Lamborghini With At Least $100,000 Worth Of Duct Tape For A 12-Second Video Another day, another bucketload of incomprehensible bright-colored video slop for Gen Alpha to rot their brains with on YouTube. MrBeast, the near-billionaire wunderkind with dead eyes famous for locking broke people in solitary confinement in exchange for money, has destroyed a perfectly fine Lamborghini Gallardo… Read more…

One Ferrari F40 Is Finally Getting The V12 It Always Deserved Say you’ve always wanted a Ferrari F40 but simply can’t justify paying the several million dollars that they command in 2024, what do you do? If you’re YouTube fabricator nerd Mike Burroughs, you buy a complete F40 body and get started building your own almost from scratch. But even if you have the body and the… Read more…

Here’s How The Best All-Terrain Tires Compare A lot of people would be surprised how far you can make it off the beaten path with a good all-wheel-drive system and enough ground clearance, but that doesn’t mean it’s going to be enjoyable or safe. If you do it regularly, it pays to get a set of tires that were designed specifically with off-roading in mind. While… Read more…

Man Allegedly Steals 9 Cars From Dealership, Burns It Down, Gets Caught Anyway A South Carolina man allegedly stole nine cars from a dealership before burning it down last week, in a move that could only be inspired by Hans Gruber’s plans to blow up the Nakatomi building to escape scrutiny a la the documentary “Die Hard.” Unfortunately for the real-life alleged thief, however, his plan wasn’t… Read more…

Be A Hero And Smuggle This Carbon Fiber, Wide-Bodied Honda E Into The U.S. Unless you spend big money on something like a Ford Mustang Mach-E Rally or Hyundai Ioniq 5 N, there aren’t too many cool-looking electric hatchbacks for sale in the U.S. If you find yourself browsing car listings on eBay, you’ll come across something that’ll have you searching for flights to the UK. Read more…