Новости за 18.08.2023

When most people pick up a crumbled heap of metal to hopefully transform it back to working condition, they also don’t spend two million dollars just to get it in their garage. A Ferrari 500 Mondial was sold at RM Sotheby’s Monterey auction for $1.875 looks like it was pulled directly from a scrapyard. But don’t be…

The Lamborghini Lanzador concept has two doors plus a rear hatch, but seats four people if needed, or two plus what looks like quite a bit of rear cargo space. Lamborghini is calling it an Ultra GT, which is grand touring car but ultra, made for the Lamborghini crowd, which is supercar enthusiasts but way too extra.…

The Fisker Alaska is the latest EV concept from American EV maker Fisker. There are plenty of reasons to celebrate the new concept, such as Fisker’s decision to make a small(ish) fully-electric pickup truck, which the company claims will go into production in early 2025.

If you’ve been following the operations of driverless cars in Northern California, you know it’s a bit of a shitshow. State officials want everyone to think that they’re the future and everything is fine, but the reality is different. From getting in the way of emergency vehicles, to stopping traffic to glitching out…

One of the big incentives for switching to an EV, other than the reduced tailpipe emissions you’ll spew out, is the cost saving that an electric car can give you over its lifetime. There are tax breaks when you want to buy a new EV, cost-saving at the pump and in some places they’re eligible to save on congestion…

As much as we understand the desire to buy a car and drive it into the ground, the reality is, recent advancements in car safety mean that if you’re driving a car without modern safety features, you really should consider buying something newer.

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There was once a time — an era — when Americans ruled MotoGP (or the precursor to it). Those riders included names like Kenny Roberts, Wayne Rainey, Freddie Spencer, and Nicky Hayden — the latter one of the last Americans to take home a world title, way back in 2006. The absence of Americans in the world’s upper…

Happy Friday, everybody. Hopefully yours is going better than mine, as I’ve spent my entire birthday week locked in my apartment with the lights off — concussed. How I got this concussion is a story for another time (though, if you remember one of my last blogs from last week, you’ll likely be able to guess what…

A Boeing 737 traveling from Houston to Cancun suffered a major mechanical failure minutes after take off on Tuesday, forcing the passenger plane to return to Hobby Airport so passengers could safely disembark. Travelers aboard the Southwest Airlines flight witnessed a terrifying scene as the plane’s right engine began…

Recently, we learned that people have been having sex in San Francisco robotaxis. It’s not exactly surprising news, but I’m not going to pretend it wasn’t fun to write about. I mean, (apologies to Jesus), but how many opportunities come along that allow you to get paid to introduce people to terms such as…

Earlier this week, Canadian officials ordered the evacuation of Yellowknife, the capital of the country’s Northwest Territories. A 400,000-acre wildfire is just ten miles away from the city of 20,000 people. The Canadian military has been mobilized to help fight the wildfire and evacuate residents. Every resident was…

Public urination is never a good idea, but arresting an innocent child for doing something like that is maybe taking the law a little too seriously. Unfortunately, that’s what happened to a 10 year old in Mississippi, Fox Memphis reports.

As electric vehicles have gotten more capable, their adoption across the U.S. has been spreading, and now around 14 percent of new car sales are electric. But while adoption was slow to take hold Stateside, there are some countries where EVs sold like hot cakes from day one. This means that now, there are outdated…

Earlier this week, the North Carolina Department of Motor Vehicles announced that it had filed more than 400 charges against 12 employees of the franchise dealer Nissan of Shelby. According to the release, “[t]he initial investigation centered around the process used by individuals or dealers to rebuild salvage…

The future is here, robots are out here parking our cars, cleaning our floors, and now delivery food and groceries to communities across America. But if we’re to succeed in this new robot-run world, we need to learn to live with our autonomous friends, and not keep robbing the little delivery robots.

The often-said motorsport marketing mantra of “win on Sunday, sell on Monday” rarely ever rings true in an era of exotic composite materials and hybrid power units. Ford aims to reverse that trend with its new street-legal ultra-high-performance Mustang developed in parallel with its upcoming Le Mans GT3 pony car.…

This decade of motorcycle racing is for the ladies. It’s been much more common to watch most pro series races with at least one or two female riders amid the sea of bikes. Most inspiring is a young 15-year-old rider whose resumé reads like a well-seasoned pro rider twice her age — a resumé that includes becoming the…

When we first drove the oddly named Toyota bZ4X, we didn’t really have any major complaints, but at the same time, it didn’t exactly stand out in any notable ways, either. It was just an OK electric crossover that felt like something meant for Toyota diehards more than anyone else. If you want an electric Toyota…

Happy Friday! It’s August 18, 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.

Most people have got stories about the most fun roads they’ve ever driven on, you might even have a tale about an unexpectedly beautiful roadway that you like to share with fellow travelers. But one thing we all have in common is that we’ve got a tale about an unexpectedly dangerous journey.

Google quietly rolled out some beneficial changes that some EV drivers may not be aware of. The Verge reports that EV drivers using Android Auto won’t be able to see gas stations as points of interest in Google Maps anymore. They’ll be shown charging stations and other information that’s useful when driving an EV.

Infiniti could use some help. The brand’s sales could be better; just 32,286 have been sold so far in 2023. That’s total sales for a brand with six models. Just two of the brand’s models are new. The QX60 entered its second generation in 2021; the QX55 debuted for the 2022 model year, but it’s a coupe version of the …

Cats are supposed to have nine lives and the many iterations of Mercury’s Cougar prove that cat-named cars can have almost as many. Today’s Nice Price or No Dice Cougar is an ’80s edition and wears a unique dealer-installed trim package. Let’s see what that’s all about.