These Are The Most Pointless Automotive Partnerships Automotive companies teaming up with companies outside of the automotive world rarely works out. Tech companies, clothing designers, and video games don’t really get the complex world of cars they’ve been thrust into. And who could blame them? They can’t all be Eddie Bauer Ford Explorers, after all. Read more…

What Was The Most Pointless Automotive Partnership? Automakers will often team up with non- automotive companies for things like special edition cars, merch, etc. Sometimes the partnerships make sense. Remember Subaru’s L.L. Bean editions or Ford’s Eddie Bauer Explorers and Expeditions? Other times they come across as trying too hard—take Cadillac’s Bulgari… Read more…

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What’s The Worst Automotive Job Out There? The automotive world is a pretty cool place filled with all kinds of awesome jobs. From fun things like race car driver to dream jobs like supercar designer, there are an awful lot of places to find immense joy working in a job you love across the car world. Not all automotive jobs are created equal, however, and some… Read more…

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These Are The Best Automotive Events Our Readers Have Ever Attended Part of what we love about automotive enthusiasm is that it takes so many different forms. From the folks who meticulously restore classic cars to those who heavily modify Volkswagen GTIs, drive imported kei trucks, build rock crawlers, and race across the desert, there’s so much more to the greater community than… Read more…

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What Automotive Twin Deserves The Spotlight Over Its Sibling? Fun fact: Cars are, more often than not, manufactured by car companies. These companies like to save money, so they’ll often share as many parts as possible between vehicles — interior components, lights, even entire body panels. But when two cars share too much, they start looking suspiciously twinlike. Read more…

These Are Some Of The Coolest Automotive Glass Roof Designs Before wide-opening, panoramic glass roofs took over the automotive world, designers and engineers took a lot of fun risks to give car interiors more light and sun. Want a skylight that runs down the middle of the roof? Nissan would give you one on the sixth-gen Maxima. Want a skylight for every passenger? Ford did it… Read more…

Dead: Fisker Automotive Good morning! It’s Tuesday, June 18, 2024, 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…

Bugatti’s Lead Bespoke Designer On Creating True Automotive Art Bugatti unveiled the one-off Golden Era last year, a unique Chiron Super Sport built to celebrate the marque’s two golden eras: 1909 to 1956, and 1987 to 2023. Bugatti has an extensive history of bespoke creations, both with pre-war coachbuilt cars and with the Veyron and subsequent modern models, but the Golden Era… Read more…

These Are The Automotive Ripoffs You Prefer Over The Originals Sometimes a song cover is better than the original. You all my disagree with me on which covers win out — it’s okay, you’re allowed to be wrong about Grace Mitchell and Daddy Issues — but the idea remains true. Earlier this week, I asked you all what automotive covers are better than the originals, and boy did you… Read more…

What Automotive Ripoff Is Better Than The Original? Sometimes a song cover is better than the original. Tracks like Jimi Hendrix’s “All Along The Watchtower,” Grace Mitchell’s “Maneater,” or Daddy Issues’ “Boys of Summer” (no, not the Ataris version) all improve on their source material in some way. Today, we ask: What’s the automotive equivalent? Read more…

These Are The Wildest Examples Of Automotive Parts Sharing It’s an expensive proposition to build cars, especially when you’ve got to make sure every part of it complies with every letter of the law. That’s why, sometimes, automakers will decide to use an off-the-shelf part on their new car. It’s just cheaper and easier, but it also provides a fun game for car nerds like us.… Read more…

New Alfa Romeo Milano Electric SUV Is A Genius Use Of One Of The Best Automotive Logos There’s a lot of good graphic design out there in the automotive world, especially when it comes to the logos and nameplates used by different companies. Alfa Romeo’s badge has been around since 1910, and it combines Milan’s cross symbol with a snake that has a human in its mouth. (Despite how it seems, apparently the… Read more…

These Are The Worst Automotive Opinions Our Readers Have Heard The automotive world can be a strange one when it comes to opinions. Some people speak in such a matter-of-fact manner that you would swear what they’re saying is the truth, or at least they believe it to be so. And because of that, they’re usually not very good opinions. Read more…

Whats The Worst Automotive Opinion You’ve Heard? The automotive world is multifaceted, layered and complex. That complexity can be both a strength and a weakness, especially in regards to the things that people say or believe about cars or automotive related topics. When it comes to automotive opinions, sometimes it seems like there’s more bad ones than good ones. Read more…

The Petersen Museum’s New Exhibit Is Proof The Jet Age Was Peak Automotive Americana The Armand Hammer Foundation Gallery in the Petersen Automotive Museum always houses beautifully curated exhibits brimming with automotive art and history, and the Los Angeles museum’s latest exhibit is no exception. Called “Eyes on the Road: Art of the Automotive Landscape,” every inch of the new exhibit is filled… Read more…

These Are The Juiciest Automotive Scandals You’ve Heard About Scandals make the world go ‘round. It’s human nature, not just to try to fudge the rules, but also to gossip about all the other people out there who could be fudging the rules. Last week, we asked you to share some of the juiciest automotive scandals you’ve heard of — and boy, did y’all deliver. Without further ado,… Read more…

What Are The Juiciest Automotive Scandals You’ve Heard Of? I’ve been working my way through a series of different Enzo Ferrari biographies, and I have to be honest: We keep talking this guy up as if he was some engineering legend, but mostly he was just pretty good at organizing business and sleeping with a lot of women. It’s that latter part that had me wondering what other… Read more…