GM Fined $146 Million After Millions Of Cars Failed Emissions Tests Good morning! It’s Thursday, July 4, 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…

Jesus Christ Likes Fast Cars It’s the 4th of July, folks, which means two things. Jalopnik has the day off, and it’s once again time for me to force you to listen to a relatively obscure song about cars. I mean, I can’t actually force you to listen to it, but I’m going to do my best anyway. There’s so much more music out there than what charts on… Read more…

Vin Diesel Shows Off 3 Familiar Muscle Cars For ‘Fast X Part 2’ Filming On Instagram There seem to be few things in the world that Vin Diesel loves more than the “Fast and Furious” franchise, and he’s a big fan of sharing that love with fans. Most recently, this has meant posting Instagram videos behind the scenes of “Fast X Part 2,” showing off all the cars that will be arriving — or returning — to… Read more…

GM Sold Millions of Cars That Were More Polluting Than Allowed, EPA Says The agency reached a settlement with the automaker over the sales of SUVs and pickups that emitted excess planet-warming carbon dioxide.

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These Are The Safest Cars On Sale Today According To The IIHS To win a Top Safety Pick+ award from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, cars must not only pass a litany of tests designed to emulate real-world crash scenarios, but offer exemplary performance in the full spectrum of crash tests. These include earning the IIHS’ highest rating of good in the small overlap… Read more…

After Largest Recall Ever, 6.4 Million Cars On U.S. Roads Still Have Deadly Takata Airbags Those infamous Takata airbags—the ones with the accelerator that can send shrapnel flying towards the faces of folks sitting in the front of them—are still a massive problem on U.S. roads. Worse yet, some of the most humid and therefore dangerous states are home to nearly half of all unfixed vehicles Read more…

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Hell Yeah, Rats Driving Cars Canada really has it all: Universal healthcare, a lower cost of living than the United States, and now its rats can drive cars. We’ve previously covered self-driving rats in the past, but that was done by scientists in a laboratory. Kuzko and Kronk, Canada’s viral self-driving rats, were able to learn how to do it… Read more…

Lambretta LD 125, Toyota Land Cruiser FJ40, Pontiac Solstice GXP: The Dopest Cars I Found For Sale Online Howdy, friends. “Howdy” is generally my preferred greeting, as is traditional with people from Connecticut, but today it serves a dual purpose: Getting you in a “Texas” mood. Read more…

Here’s What It’s Like To Race Hundred-Year-Old Cars On Modern Streets Every year the Audrain Auto Museum in Newport, Rhode Island hosts the Veteran Car Tour, a 50-mile street drive for brass era automobiles. A 50 mile run might not sound like much, but when you’re driving a car with no roof, wooden wheels, and leather banded brakes, it’s an exhilarating event. The Audrain invited Matt… Read more…

My Brutal Commute Is Killing My Cars! What Should I Buy? John lives in Annapolis and has to survive a brutal daily commute around the Baltimore/DC Beltway. His plans on trading his two cars into one that can handle the drive in comfort and hopefully keep his fuel costs down. What car should he buy? Read more…

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These Cars Are Better Than Their Twins Good things come in twos. Peanut butter and jelly, Calvin and Hobbes, pizza and more pizza — you can never have just one. Sometimes, though, one of those good things is just a little bit better than the other. Earlier this week, we asked you for the automotive twins that were better than their siblings, and today… Read more…

Google AI Uses Enough Electricity In 1 Second To Charge 7 Electric Cars Nobody asked for this AI search bullshit, Google. Not only are the AI generated responses demonstrably worse than normal, they’re infringing on intellectual property rights, killing traditional media, and—thanks to a new Jacobin report we now know—soaking up gobs of electricity in the process. Artificial… Read more…

The Cars You Think Will Disappear From The Road In The Next 10 Years Every day, cars are disappearing from the road. Sometimes, they’re just not meant to last or technology has passed them by. Regardless of the reason, there are always cars that one day just seemingly vanished into thin air. That thought is what inspired our question from last week. Read more…

Timeless Cars, Oddly Satisfying Features And Ugliest Engine Bays In This Week’s QOTD Roundup The cars currently rolling out onto our roads for the first time will likely be around for a long time. On average, a modern vehicle lasts roughly a dozen years. Looking back, certain vehicles from the 2010s can be easily marked as from that era and not for the better. I hate calling out an automaker in particular,… Read more…

Starlink Satellites, Stranding Starliner And Slamming Southwest Flight In This Week’s Beyond Cars Roundup Being a bicyclist in the U.S. is already terrifying, but it must take a special kind of courage to saddle up in large vehicle-loving Texas. A Subaru SUV struck two bikers on a highway in Fort Worth this week, and the terrifying crash was caught on video. – Erin Marquis Read More Read more…

if i owe more than what my cars worth. how much money would i get, if i used my car as collateral? without going into too much details. i owe roughly 11k on my car loan & according to Kelly blue book my cars only worth around $6,000.. so my question is, if i were to find a reasonable loan offer with a lower interest rate and used my car as collateral. (for example let’s say i got a loan for $12,000) would i only get the difference from what m…

Renault Clio V6 Trophy, Isuzu Vehicross, Geo Tracker: The Dopest Cars I Found For Sale Online How’s the heat? Here in New York the Feels Like index is sitting in the high triple to low quadruple digits, well past the temperatures where skin and bone begin to melt into some sort of living ooze. Unfortunately, “reduced to lump of unstructured flesh” does not warrant calling out from work according to most HR… Read more…