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C6 Corvette ZR1 Shows We Didn’t Know How Good We Had It Does anyone else remember early 2009? Obama was just inaugurated, Circuit City was closing, Bernie Madoff pleaded guilty and I was in the sixth grade looking for my first girlfriend. While all that was happening, though, General Motors was getting ready to launch its masterpiece: the C6 Chevy Corvette ZR1. To me, it… Read more…

Environmentally Friendly Tesla Is Trying To Skirt Austin Pollution Laws Tesla very much wants you to think that it is the cleaner alternative to those dirty, polluting gas cars. When you bought a Model S, you were helping save the planet, they said. However, Tesla hasn’t always done the best job complying with local environmental regulations, and according to the Houston Chronicle, it’s… Read more…

BMW’s Vision Neue Klasse X Concept Is A Big Step In The Right Direction The Bangle years are not only my favorite era of BMW design, but one of my favorite eras of design at any automaker. No other company was taking risks and innovating like BMW was, and Bangle’s Flame Surfacing technique forever influenced the rest of the industry. The groundbreaking i3 and i8 were similarly impactful —… Read more…

Driver Fords Flooded Dubai Street In $2.5 Million Pagani Utopia Folks in the United Arab Emirates are known for doing absolutely wild stuff with their cars, but this could take the cake. You see, the UAE has had a record amount of rainfall recently, and it has led to a whole lot of flooding in Dubai. But, that didn’t stop one Pagani Utopia driver from getting where they needed to… Read more…

The World Would Be A Better Place If Porsche Had Built This Miata Competitor The 984, Porsche’s diminutive concept from the late 1980swould have come at just the right time to absolutely redefine the small roadster marketplace, beating the new-for-1989 Mazda MX-5 to market by a couple of years. Porsche worked with Spanish automaker SEAT on a variety of projects through the 1980s, including… Read more…

Ford Made A Ranger SHO 4 Years Before The SVT Lightning We used to be a proper country. A country where performance pickups like the Chevy 454 SS, Toyota Tacoma X-Runner and GMC Syclone roamed the streets. Performance pickups still exist today like the Ram TRX and Ford F-150 and Ranger Raptor models, but they’re off-road focused. Things might have been different had Ford… Read more…

Tesla Cybertruck Gets A Recall For Pedals That Get Cyberstuck The Tesla Cybertruck, a truck so rugged it can only be defeated by a car wash, was reportedly hit with a stop-sale recently because problems with its accelerator kept causing unintended acceleration issues. Don’t worry, though, just because a Cybertruck could attack at any time doesn’t mean it necessarily will. Also, T… Read more…

Apparently It’s Illegal To Put A ‘For Sale’ Sign In Your Truck Now A retired Pennsylvania school teacher got an opportunity to move to the Philippines to teach English. After failing to offload his old pickup truck online, in an effort to sell everything off before moving, Will Cramerdecided to throw a For Sale sign in the window to let passersby know it was on the market. One day… Read more…

China’s F1 Fires Could Be Caused By Sparking Cars Igniting Swamp Gas Formula 1 sessions can be halted for all kinds of reasons, including damaged barriers, severe weather and even literal dragons on track. Now, however, the Chinese Grand Prix has been marred by a new phenomenon: spontaneous combustion of the grass surrounding the Shanghai International Circuit. Read more…

‘Southwest, Stop!’ Air Planes Avoid Runway Collision By Less Than 400 Feet in Washington D.C. Two airliners almost collided on a runway at Reagan National Airport just outside of Washington, D.C. on Thursday morning. A Southwest Airlines Boeing 737 was cleared to taxi across a runway, while a JetBlue Embraer ERJ-190 was about to take off on the same runway. WTOP reports the potential disaster was averted as… Read more…

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Ford Wants Mustang Drivers To Stop Acting Like Mustang Drivers When Ford introduced the Mustang Dark Horse back in 2022, it included a little bonus for buyers: A “a hands-on track instruction and driving experience,” where owners could head out to Charlotte Motor Speedway and learn to manage all that torque they’d just purchased. Unfortunately, despite the option of driver… Read more…

What Are The Signs Of A Good Mechanic? My family has had the same mechanic for what must be 20 years now. He’s less a mechanic and more family at this point. He’s always completely honest and accommodating, and has saved us thousands of dollars over the years by getting our cars back on the road in a timely and affordable manner, no matter what the repair… Read more…

Tesla Stock Down 40 Percent Over Last Year, Wiping Away $312 Billion In Market Cap Good morning! It’s Friday, April 19, 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…

Ship Owners Are Trying Everything To Avoid Paying Up For Baltimore Bridge Collapse A massive container ship hit and destroyed the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore last month, killing six people and shutting one of America’s busiest ports in the process. The company that operates the ship is now trying everything to get out of paying up for the mammoth task of extracting the stricken vessel and… Read more…

These Are The Best Obscure Concept Cars According To Our Readers Sometimes concept cars become legendary in their own right, even though they were intended from the beginning to never go into production. Just think about how you felt the first time you saw the Chrysler ME 412 concept. Or that twinge of hope you felt when Mazda showed off the RX-Vision. Or just how much the Maybach… Read more…

U.S. Bridge Safety Standards Based On ‘Outdated’ Regulations Developed In West Germany Protection around America’s bridges has been thrown into question in recent weeks after a massive container ship hit and destroyed the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore last month. Now, it’s emerged that the safety standards many U.S. bridges are built to are actually based on antiquated models developed in West… Read more…

Tesla Creates Website To Convince Shareholders To Make Elon Musk $55 Billion Richer Elon Musk is filthy, stinking rich. Despite Tesla’s current troubles resulting in his net worth tumbling a few billion, he’s still the third richest person on the planet. Apparently that wealth isn’t enough for him or Tesla. Now, the company actually created a website to convince shareholders that their part-time CEO… Read more…

Local Motors Rally Fighter, Dodge Viper RT/10, Yamaha XSR900: The Dopest Cars I Found For Sale Online Folks, happy Friday. Did this week feel like it was all Fridays to anyone else? Monday was a Monday, but from Tuesday on everything just felt like the weekend was right around the corner. As it turns out, forever approaching the weekend without ever reaching it isn’t as fun as it sounds. Read more…

Watch Amazing Long Beach Grand Prix Onboards Through The Decades The Long Beach Grand Prix has been a major piece of international motorsport mystique since its inception in the mid-1970s. This is a race that has showcased Formula 5000, F1, CART, Champ Car, IndyCar, Formula E, sports cars, and vintage racers —and a bunch of other stuff too — though not always at the same time.… Read more…