Tesla Ditches ‘Gigacasting,’ BMW Changes Names, And We Mourn Oldsmobile In This Week’s Car Culture Roundup
Good morning! It’s Wednesday, May 1, 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. - Owen Bellwood Read MoreRead more...
Weekend News Roundup April 27, 2024
Things are not going well at Tesla right now. The stock is down more than $100 per share year-to-date, as many as 20,000 people are set to lose their jobs, the Cybertruck keeps breaking, operating profit is expected to be down 40 percent when it’s anno...
Tesla Troubles, Helmet Laws And Worst Deals On New Cars In This Week’s News Roundup
After just a couple of months and a few thousand miles of ownership, Tik Tok user @captian.ad’s Tesla Cybertruck was effectively a several-thousand-pound paperweight for several hours. After taking his truck to the beach and stopping off at a car wash ...
Hellcat Owner Gonna Hell Cat, OJ Gets Recalled And A Big Dumb Sign In This Week’s Car Culture Roundup
An infamous Dodge Charger Hellcat driver who would film himself recklessly driving and speeding in his “Belltown Hellcat” has been barred from driving the car. Not any car. He can still drive if he wants to. He just cannot drive his Hellcat anymore. I ...
Tesla, Elon Musk And More Tesla In This Week’s News Roundup
Body cam footage released Tuesday of a traffic stop in Chicago gone horrifically wrong is calling into question the official story told by police on the scene. Five plainclothed Chicago police swarmed 26-year-old Dexter Reed’s car on March 21, pumping ...
Weekend Car Culture Roundup April 06, 2024
As it turns out, lowering the price of an item makes that item sell better. This, in econ, means that item is “elastic” — and cars are certainly elastic. Based on Ford’s latest price drops on the Mustang Mach-E, EVs are no exception. - Amber DaSilva Re...
Weekend News Roundup April 06, 2024
The Ford Mustang Mach-E may have caused its fair share of controversy over the decision to call an electric crossover a Mustang, but as long as you can get past that, we found it to be a solid EV. Unfortunately for Ford, it ran into issues selling the ...
Baltimore Bridge Collapse, Ted Cruz’s Feelings Require Police Detail And More In This Week’s Best New Posts
No one needs a luxury car, but just because you don’t need it doesn’t mean you don’t want it. And if you happen to be in the market for a luxury car, you know you’re going to be spending a lot of money on it, so the last thing you want is to buy or lea...
These Are The Top News Stories Of The Week
We all love a bit of schadenfreude on occasion, who can blame us, we’re only human. So when a new YouTube channel pops up and it’s just footage of drivers taking a sharp corner too quickly, and the results of their screwup, of course we’re going to si...
Weekend News Roundup March 16, 2024
Angela Chao — billionaire sister of former Secretary of Transportation Elaine Chao and sister-in-law of Mitch McConnell — died last month when her Tesla Model X sank in a manmade pond on her 900-acre Texas ranch. She was trapped in the car as it floode...