Rutledge Wood Turned An Old School Toyota Pickup Into A Drift Car With Lowrider Vibes A slammed, sparkly pink Japanese pickup truck from the 1990s is the last thing I’d ever thought I’d see from Rutledge Wood. Yet that’s exactly what the former “Top Gear” host brought to Toyota’s SEMA booth. Read more…

Bertone To Revive 1969 Runabout Concept As A Limited Production Car In 2025 Italian design house Bertone is playing all the hits right now, looking back on its history of impressive and polarizing design to come up with inspiration for its future products. The company announced this week that it would be building a modern-yet-faithful interpretation of its 1969 Runabout concept for a limited… Read more…

Trump Closes Campaign Promising Mexico Tariff That Would Implode The U.S. Car Market And Send Inflation Sky High In the wee hours of Tuesday morning at a rally in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Donald J. Trump trotted out a promise we’ve discussed many times: His promise to inflict a vindictive tariff on all automobiles imported from Mexico. Trump has waffled a bit on this promise, going from 100 percent to 200 percent, at one time… Read more…

Buying Used Is Now The ‘New Normal’ As New Car Prices Rise 21 Percent In Five Years Good morning! It’s Tuesday, November 5, 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…

Buying First Car – Seeking Advice Hi, I’m a 20-year-old female college student looking to buy my first car. For the past year, I’ve driven my cousin‘s car while he’s been away. The deal has been that he pays off the car while I pay for insurance (we’re both on his policy). Insurance is about $470/m and gas is about $30/m, so I pay about $500 monthly. Commute is about 4 miles a d…

My company unknowingly paid 9% tax to a car rental company for years when we did 31+ day rentals and car rental companies are only supposed to withhold tax for rentals shorter Could I get some advice on how to tackle a situation where my company unknowingly paid 9% tax on all rental car expenses for years when we weren’t supposed to be charged tax. I just today found out that rental cars are only supposed to be withholding tax on rentals that are shorter than 31 days. Vast majority of our rental car uses were for long…

Sigma 24-70 F2.7 DG DN Art For car photography? I do car photography semi professionally, Want a versatile lens, but mainly looking for that 35mm and 70mm focal lengths. Found one for $750 on marketplace local. Good buy or na? submitted by /u/DaAirsoftBaby

Pay $5,000 in car accident damage or risk a lawsuit? I was involved in an accident in which I think I was at fault because I changed into someone else’s lane. I drive a 2016 Corolla and the other driver was in a 2023 Cadillac Escalade. His damage was far more expensive than mine with my damage being roughly $1,000 in repairs (right front fender needs replacing and front bumper needs partial repain…

Suzuki’s First Electric Car Looks Like Moo Deng A huge milestone in Suzuki’s 115-year-history just occurred: the Japanese automaker revealed its first electric production car. Called the E Vitara (stylized as e Vitara, but that looks annoying) it’s a small crossover that will be built in India and sold there as well as in Japan and Europe. Based on the eVX concept… Read more…

Cybertruck Driver Uses Giant Truck To Ram Package Thief’s Car Into Tree More than 1.7 million packages go missing in America every day, whether they get lost in transit or are swiped from your stoop while you’re out and about. Not wanting to add to that stat, a Tesla Cybertruck driver chased after a porch pirate who allegedly swiped one of their packages, forcing them off the road and… Read more…

Financed a car and I kind of regret it. Hello, I’m 24 years old and I financed a car for 6 years specifically a 2022 Corolla, I can afford it, but many times I’ve heard that it is better to always buy a good brand old car. I only needed something to go to work and sometimes I had to do other things, because I spent a lot of money on taxi. I spent about $450 on taxis a month plus somet…

Car loan before mortgage .. looking for insight Hi! So we’ve been waiting to build our house for about four years and we were planning on getting a new car after the build, but unfortunately we haven’t even gotten the process started as we are still working on the plans and one of our cars died. Aside from this new car payment, which is kind of high at around $700.. we currently have zero oth…

How do I buy my first car Just got my permit at 16 and have 6 months to get my license, I make $400 a month with a part time job but the car I want is $7,800. Should I finance it (through a parent) or save longer that 6 months to be able to get it? submitted by /u/jamesfnmb

Brands for a Polarizer for car photography? Any recommendations for around $30? I have a knf concept for another lens and it seems like it works well but Wanted to know if there is one thats much better for the price. Buying a new lens tmr and its bigger than my current lens. submitted by /u/DaAirsoftBaby

Norway or Finnish Lapland: Best without a car? I want to plan a trip for Jan or Feb 2025 (soon, I know!) and am between Finnish Lapland or somewhere in Norway. I still have a lot of research to do obviously but I’m wondering if anyone has any insight or advice based on the below: Ideally, I’d like to go not rent a car. I’m nervous about driving around in such wintery conditions so a place w…

LPT: Want lower car insurance premiums? Check your state/local laws. Some drivers can elect to complete a defensive driving course to receive discounts A r/MildlyBadDrivers post reminded me of this fact. I was a speedster in my teens and have taken 2-3 of these classes. They really have paid off over time because of all the accidents I’ve avoided in the last ~20 years. Not only the benefit of my physical safety and of others, the damages saved to vehicles, but also lower premiums! It’s a win in…

Sell or keep underwater car I currently owe $26000 on a 2018 Toyota Tacoma and have 41 months left of my 72 month loan. Monthly payment is $713. 11% interest rate. I have tried refinancing but most companies back out once they see the age of the vehicle. I have an offer from CarMax for $23500. Should I pay the $2500 difference and get rid of the vehicle or should I just bi…

Inherited a new car, Hi and thanks for helping. I have about 20k in cc debt. The interest rates are probably as bad as you’re thinking. I have a 6 yr old car with a loan and about 1k in equity. I recently inherited a practically new car worth about 22k. I’m thinking that I sell the old car, drive the new car, but get a loan on the new car’s title. This will hel…

Saving or pay off my car? Greetings Reddit, So I’m getting 28k in back pay for disability. I have about 5.3k left on my car loan. I have enough in my savings for an emergency fund. I invest weekly. My car loan is 2.54% while my savings account is currently 4.50%. What do you think I should do? submitted by /u/GageTheDemigod

A car dealership is saying my name and phone number was used when purchasing a vehicle. Never heard of them before. UPDATE: Thanks for the replies, everyone! I’ve frozen all 3 of my credit accounts with the bureaus. I also called them back using the number listed on their site because I wanted to verify that #1. The person who called me back earlier did I need work there and #2. Did they have any ideas as to how my number was listed there. My name isn’t super…