Новости за 12.05.2023

On paper the Honda e:Ny1 sounds like a solid crossover for Europe and its denser development. It looks to be about the size of a Honda HR-V, so it shouldn’t be too big to park. It’s electric, so you can drive it in zones that don’t allow internal combustion engine cars. And while the styling is a new direction for…

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A new report from Road & Track says the folks at the Corvette Bowling Green Assembly plant may have made a little mistake when calibrating the C8’s Electronic Suspension Control Modules on a select number of vehicles. General Motors has told the outlet that it has issued a service update to its dealers about the…

The modern-day NASCAR Cup Series might look sleek and professional, but its history can be traced directly back to the Prohibition era, when the craving for alcohol persisted despite bans on its production and distribution. Drivers modified their cars to outrun police, then started taking those cars to the track for a…

The direct sales model of EV makers like Tesla, Lucid and Rivian have always presented a threat to dealerships, but we can now assign a dollar value to the looming threat of direct-to-consumer car sales in California. In 2022, direct sales from EV makers reportedly cost the Golden State’s franchised dealerships $910…

Today, the U.S. press embargo appeared to break on the VinFast VF8 City Edition, the EV startup’s first product destined for these shores. I say “appeared” because Jalopnik didn’t get invited to drive the SUV here at home, which entirely tracks given Kevin Williams’ rather concerning review of the VF8 for this site…

Trevor Jacob, a 29-year-old YouTuber and former Olympic snowboarder, has pleaded guilty to a felony charge for obstructing a federal investigation by destroying the wreckage of an airplane that he deliberately crashed. According to the U.S. Department of Justice, Jacob admitted in his plea agreement that he lied about…

As it turns out, the biggest cause of delayed flights and cancellations since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic is actually the airlines themselves, according to new data from the Federal Aviation Administration. The data is a good way to contextualize growing tension between the FAA and the airline industry as a…

In 1982, Ferrari Formula 1 teammates Gilles Villeneuve and Didier Pironi pushed each other over the brink. Desperate for a World Championship at the cost of their friendship, Villeneuve and Pironi sacrificed everything for an edge, and it came at a cost: betrayal, death, and career-ending injuries. Ferrari started…

Stop the presses. We have news. Breaking news. You’re probably going to want to sit down for this one. Reuters reports that Tesla has changed its prices again. Apparently, the previous price reductions went too far, so now Teslas are more expensive. The Model S and Model X are now $1,000 more expensive than they were,…

Fisker. Lucid. Rivian. They all have one thing in common: Aside from them all being EV startups, they all had high company valuations before tanking. Now as The Washington Post reports, we may be at a point where it’s survival of the fittest EV company, with some underperforming brands disappearing from the EV space…

The automotive community is filled with a lot of funny, interesting, brilliant and kind people. It also has a very unfortunate tendency towards gatekeeping and generally being unwelcoming of new and different faces – be they women, people of color, LGBTQ folks or otherwise – and before you point out that this hasn’t…

Mazda’s grand upmarket strategy is finally paying off, Tesla’s latest recall in China is really more of a software update and Toyota has been playing fast and loose with its Japanese customers’ data for 10 years. All that and more in this TGIF edition of The Morning Shift for Friday, May 12, 2023.

It’s amazing how much stuff you can fit into a Mazda Miata if you’re really committed to it. But sometimes, you need something a little bigger than a Miata to haul your stuff. Big doesn’t necessarily mean roomy, though. Packaging and interior layout can seriously affect how much you can load into the back of a minivan…

Tesla is reportedly canceling its planned right-hand-drive Model S and Model X in the United Kingdom because of mechanical and logistical complexity issues brought on by the conversion, according to Autocar. The outlet was somehow able to get in contact with a representative from the Austin, Texas-based automaker, and…

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After what seems like forever, the sun is finally shining, the snow is gradually melting and we can start making plans for our long summer days. It’s also the time of year that race tracks start dusting themselves off in preparation for track days, race weekends and car meetups. So, what kinds of car events are you…

The Rivian R1T, an electric truck, starts at around $73,000, while the Rivian R1S, an electric SUV, starts at around $78,000. Neither of them are eligible for the full federal tax credit, but even if they were they would still be expensive vehicles, by any definition of the word. Rivian, apparently, is fine with that, …

The business of self-driving cars isn’t really a car business. It’s not about the mechanics, the horsepower and handling and understeer at the limit, but about software — trying to build a car’s brain so that it makes better decisions than a person.

While Porsche 911 prices are generally insane, the occasional car like today’s Nice Price or No Dice 996 comes around, perhaps making the case for mental clarity. Let’s see just how clear a deal this one really is.

For a lot of us – especially if you’re reading this green website – driving when we were old enough to get our licenses was a foregone conclusion. I’m sure I wasn’t the only one champing at the bit to get that little rectangular piece of plastic as soon as I could, but it’s not the same for everyone. More and more, …

We’d like to think that cars have become the safest they’ve ever been. Add in the advent of driver safety assistance tech for an added level of safety. But all that tech is for preventive measures. It’s up to automotive engineers to design a vehicle that performs well enough in a crash for its occupants to survive.…

Affording a new car today is a luxury in and of itself, which is why we decided to turn back the clock earlier this week and put it to you also-nostalgic folk: what was the greatest cheap car ever made? Your answers spanned the automotive landscape, across eras, body styles and purposes. Here were just some that…

The thing about drifting is that the people who are really, really good at it make it look easy. But the 2024 Ford Mustang is designed to make those not skilled in the dark arts of oversteer feel like heroes, even for precious moments. Ahead of Mother’s Day, Formula Drift champ Vaughn Gittin Jr. hit Virginia…

It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s Fancy Kristen’s new houseplant stand! No! It’s a McLaren Senna GTR, one of only 75 ever built, and now it will live forever high up in a $26.3 million Australian apartment.