Новости за 28.07.2023

Oh, the Mazda MX-30. It has an attractive design, a nice interior, and handles well, but as an electric vehicle, it isn’t great. At least not for America. Its motor only makes 143 hp and 200 lb-ft of torque, which means it takes nearly 10 seconds to hit 60 mph. It also only has an EPA-rated range of 100 miles. With a…

If a motorcycle engine has more than one cylinder, the number is more often than not — Triumph and Yamaha notwithstanding — an even one. Bike engines are also usually mounted transversely, so that a chain can spin the rear wheel. This, too, has the added benefit of packaging — keeping everything nice and close…

What’s the fastest you think you could drive inside? Obviously, there are a lot of things that could influence this, like the car you’re driving and the size of the room that you find yourself in. For electric race series Formula E, the answer to that question is fast, very fast.

A private jet and a Airbus A320 commercial aircraft got a little too close for comfort in the skies above southern Florida last weekend.

If you live in California, namely the San Francisco Bay, and you owe on a bunch of parking tickets, you just got a huge break. CBS News reports the California Court of Appeals has ruled that towing over owed parking tickets violates the state’s constitution.

Having a valet take and park your vehicle is always a harrowing experience, but that’s because there are small instances where a valet driver takes a car for a joyride and it ends in disaster. That’s what one man is going through as Atlanta’s NBC affiliate 11 Alive reports how a valet driver allegedly took his CT5-V…

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Land Rover has been kind enough to lend me one of my favorite vehicles – the fifth-generation L460 Range Rover – to do as I please for a weekend with my folks in New Jersey. But, before I hit the road in this gold behemoth, I want to know what you want to know about it.

About two months ago, we overheard that Chrysler was “evolving” its Airflow electric crossover concept “in a new direction,” according to Stellantis global design chief Ralph Gilles. This evolution seemed to be pretty drastic though, which painted an impression that Chrysler was in effect killing the Airflow in favor…

If you want to take your car on an adventure, you have a few options when it comes to sleeping arrangements. You can either fold back the rear seats and lay across the trunk, or you can take a tent and spend hours setting it up and packing it away every day of your drive. Obviously both come with their pros and cons,…

Five years ago, Bloomberg sent out a survey to thousands of Tesla Model 3 owners. This year, it brought back the survey to see how owners’ opinions had changed over the years. “[T]housands of the original survey responders” responded, and when Bloomberg looked at the data, one thing stood out — Telsa owners don’t like…

If you’re a Sopranos fan like me, but have a bunch of money (unlike me), this is your chance to own a piece of Tony Soprano’s lore. That’s right, “The Stugots” – Tony’s first boat on the classic HBO series – is up for sale right now in Stamford, Connecticut.

Automakers Mini, BMW and Mercedes-Benz confirmed they have hundreds of new cars among the 3,000 currently burning for a third day aboard the cargo ship Fremantle Highway in the North Sea.

Doesn’t it seem like everything costs too much? Wages have been stagnant longer than many of us have been alive, despite us all working more — and doing more while at work — than ever. Rents have been skyrocketing for fifty years, gas prices seem permanently inflated, and car payments are creeping ever upwards.

The record-high temperatures across the southwestern United States have made it practically impossible to spend long periods of time outdoors. Normally, sitting in a car’s greenhouse on a summer day without air conditioning is dangerous. This month, it’s a death sentence. One Reddit user illustrated the heat’s…

These days, 300 hp isn’t a whole lot. Toyota sells a Camry with more power than that, and you can buy a dang Kia with more than 500 hp. But back in the early 2000s, a 300-hp engine was much more rare. While the current Ford Mustang GT makes 486 hp, back in 2004, it only made 260 hp. Which may give a little context to…

The extreme heat experienced by much of the U.S. this summer is continuing to break down our very infrastructure. Two sections of the I-94 freeway buckled in Minnesota this week, where temperatures hit the triple digits this week.

Good morning! It’s Friday, July 28, 2023 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.

The Ineos Grenadier is one of the more exciting SUVs on the market. Since its debut back in 2020, the rugged off-roader has won fans with its looks, which are heavily inspired by the original Land Rover Defender. Now, Ineos is preparing to do something that Land Rover hasn’t: electrify the Grenadier and turn it into a…

Ford is recalling over 870,000 of its F-150 pickup trucks in the U.S. because the electronic parking brake may unexpectedly activate while driving. According to the recall report from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, the issue impacts 2023-2023 model-year trucks equipped with the single exhaust…

Car payments are at an all-time high. If you were lucky, or unlucky enough to have purchased a vehicle sometime in these few years, high interest rates combined with dealers wanting you to finance their bonus — I mean pay those asinine markups — likely means you signed a few lines that has you paying a bit too much…

You know what it’s like when you go to look around a house as a potential new home — there are all kinds of weird features that you think about changing, tweaking or taking out completely. But what if you were looking around a place and unearthed a rare supercar hidden there? Would that get the chop as well?

What were you up to when you were 12 years old? I think I was probably either spending my days playing Runescape inside or trying my hand at cricket on the field outside my house on the odd day that it was sunny in the UK. I can safely say that I wasn’t being charged with nearly 90 criminal offenses following a string…

Y’know what I really don’t understand? Funko Pops. They’re collectible simply because the company decided they should be collectible — they don’t do anything, the raw materials aren’t worth anything, and they don’t even look particularly good. Wouldn’t you rather collect something worth owning?