Lucid Pitches California’s Highway Patrol On Giving Its EVs A Chance To Become Cruisers After police departments in California found Teslas to be “nearly unusable” as EV police cruisers, Lucid is starting to eye getting in the police cruiser business. In an announcement tweet on X, the EV automaker said its Lucid Air participated in vehicle testing for California’s Highway Patrol. Read more…

The Goodyear Blimp Has The Best Merch Here’s a fun fact for you, Goodyear has not had a blimp in its fleet of airships since the Spirit of Innovation retired in 2017. A blimp is a non-rigid dirigible, while Goodyear’s current fleet is made up of three semi-rigid airships inflated by low-pressure helium. These big bags of air are maybe the coolest way to… Read more…

Tesla Cybertruck Recalled For Sixth Time Since Launch The Tesla Cybertruck is not a good truck or even a good vehicle. Children point and laugh when they see it. Women leave their husbands and take the children when one shows up in their driveway. Friends stop talking to friends who think they’re cool. It’s the incEl Camino through and through, almost like it was… Read more…

This Offer For A Porsche 911 GT3 At $3,840 A Month For 20 Years Is Proof That Even Rich People Can Be Terrible At Math A lack of understanding when it comes to loan math is one of the reasons Dave Ramsey is so popular. Too many consumers get underwater and over their heads when they buy a car they really can’t afford. And it’s not just regular, working-class people who have trouble with budgeting, I came across an exotic car lender… Read more…

Fiery Tesla Crash Traps And Kills Four After Electric Doors Couldn’t Open Four people were killed in a fire after a Tesla Model Y lost control and hit a pillar in Toronto last month. The four people were reportedly unable to open the doors of the car after it caught fire and a fifth passenger only survived the crash after onlookers smashed a window and dragged them from the wreckage. Read more…

MrBeast Destroyed 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…

Apple AirTag Update Will Allow Disgruntled Passengers To Flood Airlines With Lost Bag Locations It’s a ubiquitous airline nightmare to arrive at your destination without any of your packed clothes because the carrier lost your luggage. Apple is preparing an update for AirTags to allow users to share the device’s location starting next month and the tech giant collaborated with multiple airlines to create a… Read more…

F1 Champ Lewis Hamilton Says Hypercars Are Boring, Buy Classic Cars And Art Instead Seven-time Formula 1 world champion Lewis Hamilton drives fast cars on track for a living, and many would think that he must be obsessed with driving fast cars on the street. While that may have been the case when he was a younger chap, buying a Pagani Zonda, Ferrari LaFerrari, and McLaren P1 among others, the… Read more…

These Are Currently The Best SUV Deals Under $50,000 According To Consumer Reports Typically, the best deals you’re going to find on new cars are available on old models that are nearing the end of their lifecycle. They might not have the latest, most advanced features, but that doesn’t necessarily make them bad cars. That said, sometimes you can also find good deals on cars that just aren’t selling… Read more…

Loose Moose Trashes Restored BMW 850i While Trapped In Swedish Garage Insurance claims filed after people drive into wild animals are worryingly common, but the same can’t be said for claims submitted after an animal trashes your car while it’s parked. That’s exactly what happened at a BMW specialist in Sweden this weekend when a moose got itself stuck inside a garage and stomped all… Read more…

These Cars Scream MAGA I have made a terrible realization. Every car is a MAGA car now. So many goddamn people voted for Trump’s second term on November 5 that it’s impossible to say what is a MAGA car and what isn’t a MAGA car, so that’s something we’re all going to have to deal with. Still, some cars are still certainly more MAGA-forward… Read more…

Here’s How You Can Best Help Older Family Members Buy A Car Without Getting Scammed Practically everyone has a story about how an older friend or family member got ripped off at a dealership, maybe they were sold a total lemon or got hosed on the price. As knowledgeable car folks, we have to be sure that our seniors don’t end up on the wrong side of a car deal, and these two steps are the best line… Read more…

Spirit Airlines Close To Bankruptcy: Report Spirit, an airline known for its excellent service and in-flight animal entertainment is gearing up for a bankruptcy filing, according to the Wall Street Journal. Read more…

Honda CR-V’s Iconic Built-In Picnic Table Is Back And Better Than Ever For The 2026 Passport Talk to any nerdy car person long enough, and they will eventually bring up how every version of the second-generation Honda CR-V came with a secret picnic table hidden inside. Underneath the cargo area’s carpet is what looked like a typical plastic cover for the underfloor storage area, but remove it and you’d… Read more…

These Are The 2026 Honda Passport TrailSport’s Best Design Details And Cleverest Features Honda just unveiled the 2026 Passport, which is described as its most off-road capable SUV ever. No longer just a Pilot with a shorter rear end, the new Passport is a fantastic piece of boxy design — I think it’s Honda’s best design in years, and certainly its most interesting U.S.-market crossover ever. I recently… Read more…

2026 Honda Passport Revealed As Honda’s Most Capable Off-Roader Yet And Its Best Design In Years Back in the 1990s before coming out with its own crossover, the CR-V, Honda offered the first-generation Passport, a rebadged Isuzu Rodeo that was a legit body-on-frame SUV. Since then, the Japanese brand has mainly stuck to crossover-y models that aren’t focused on off-roading, but that’s changing with the… Read more…

VinFast Only Needs Another $3.5 Billion To Make Its EVs A Success Good morning! It’s Wednesday, November 13, 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…

SpaceX Is One Step Closer To Killing The International Space Station The International Space Station is set to die soon, with SpaceX contracted to deal the killing blow sometime in 2030. Now, after a test last Friday from one of the company’s Dragon rockets docked to the station, SpaceX is one step closer to killing the ISS for good. Read more…

At $13,500, Would You Rove The Land In This 1981 Land Rover 109? In a bit of questionable salesmanship, the ad for today’s Nice Price or No Dice Land Rover describes it as being “a primitive and uncomfortable ride on the highway!” Let’s decide what such a Paleolithic beast might reasonably be worth. Read more…

You Can Buy This Mercedes-AMG GT For The Price Of A New Honda Civic Type R 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 new2025 Honda Civic Type R. Read more…