Новости за 21.04.2023

The LiveWire S2 Del Mar is hitting dealers this summer, just in time for some two-wheeled EV fun in the sun. Deliveries are expected to begin in July in the U.S., where the LiveWire S2 Del Mar will start at $15,499 and reservations start at $100. That’s a compelling price point compared to the flagship LiveWire One,…

Several high-profile near-misses and minor ground collisions over the last few months have made improving safety a priority for the country’s airlines and the Federal Aviation Administration. An airline employee who died recently on the tarmac at an airport is one of the latest examples of why that is needed.

An Air India pilot allegedly let one of his female friends spend time in the plane’s cockpit during a flight from Dubai to Delhi on February 27. As you may have imagined, this is in direct violation of a litany of safety and procedural norms set by the Directorate General of Civil Aviation, according to the Hindustan…

One of the unfortunate things about owning a car is that sometimes a critter decides to make your car its temporary home. For some reason cats, squirrels, rats, possums, snakes, lizards, heck even spiders don’t seem to know any better. But at least you can just grab a lizard and toss it out the window. If something…

Maserati is a strange brand. It has this cache among the regular folk like it’s on the same echelon as, say, Rolls or Bugatti, when in actuality it occupies a tier somewhere just north of Alfa Romeo. The new Grecale midsize SUV starts at a mere $65,000, for crying out loud. Somewhere, an unscrupulous Toyota dealer is…

Car colors, right now, are in a bad place. Too many beautiful vehicles are stuck wearing drab white, boring black, or — god forbid — Nardo Gray. Folks, we can do better. In fact, we deserve better. We deserve bright, eye-catching colors, hues that dazzle the mind and shout from the rooftops that this is no rented…

I’m not a big person for the automotive YouTube scene, mostly because I’m not really one for watching videos of anything that is not directly tied to race car. But I’ll make one exception: I’ll watch every new WhistlinDiesel video the moment a new one comes out.

In an ideal world, no one would ever get into a wreck. We’d just go about our days, all driving safely and responsibly with no reason to worry about what other drivers might be doing. But since we don’t live in an ideal world, we have safety features such as seatbelts and airbags that we can usually count on to make…

Ah, Suzuki. The automaker was sort of the Japanese Hyundai of the late 1990’s and the early 2000’s. It sold cheap but well equipped cars with a great warranty; the quality may not have been up to snuff compared to the likes of Toyota and Honda, but it wasn’t terrible. And there were some unique offerings too, from the…

Being a gig worker as a primary source of income can be risky business. With the ever-changing face of tech, from rules and regulations to companies going under, you can lose your job at the drop of a hat. Drivers for Uber have been dealing with this exact situation; MarketWatch details reports of drivers having…

Melissa Paris misses racing. You wouldn’t be able to tell initially while in conversation, or during the occasional cuts MotoAmerica TV coverage makes to Paris, standing in her garage, watching her team or her husband on track. She looks focused. Confident. Sometimes fierce. It’s not that she doesn’t love the work she…

Attorneys General in 18 states across the country are asking the National Transportation Highway Traffic Safety Administration to recall Hyundai and Kia vehicles because they’re more likely to be stolen, according to Reuters. The AGs — led by California AG Rob Bonta — argue that because they lack standard features…

As we head into the mid-2020’s, I thought all cars would look something like the from 2012’s Total Recall — and be, you know, cooler. Instead, today’s designers are trying to tackle the latest trends while implementing rapidly advancing technology and safety standards, and let’s be honest, they don’t always stick the…

Toyota unveiled another new plan for electrification, there is more monkey business with Tesla prices, and China. All that and more in this edition of The Morning Shift for April 21, 2023.

It can be hard to give car-buying advice because people all have different priorities, likes, dislikes and budgets. So even though you may love one car, that doesn’t necessarily mean it’s the right one for someone else. But if a large enough group of owners have had great experiences with a particular model, there’s a…

Police are reportedly investigating a purported cinema-style heist after $15 million in gold and valuables was stolen at Toronto Pearson International Airport on Monday, April 17. According to the BBC, it’s a location that is often used to ship gold mined in the province of Ontario. It may sound like something out of…

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Back in February, Ford temporarily paused F-150 Lightning production due to a fire at one of the automaker’s holding lots in Dearborn, Michigan. On Thursday, CNBC posted footage retrieved via a Freedom of Information Act request from the Dearborn Police Department showing the blaze, as it engulfed three of the…

The seller of today’s Nice Price or No Dice Mazda MX-5 wants the car gone by tomorrow as they have found another car to buy and are in need of the cash. Let’s see if this Miata’s price will help them move the metal.

The Volkswagen Jetta and Toyota Corolla decided to cosplay as each other in the aughts. Or at least I still think so, because the two looked eerily similar at one point. And I wanted to know what other cars readers think have copied another’s style, or which others looked suspiciously similar to their rivals and…

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Mercedes-Benz’s G-Class has been venturing boldly off the beaten path with its trademark stoic demeanor for 44 years now. After building exactly 499,999 of the rough-and-tumble boxes on wheels, Merc decided to do something special for the big 500K: Make the only G-Class I was ever sad I couldn’t afford.

Welcome back to Gas Price Watch! It’s been a long few months since we last talked about this, but what day is better than 4/20 to bring gas back into the conversation? Prices have been climbing in the wrong [read: rising or more expensive] direction for a while now – pretty much since the end of 2022. According to …

There are a handful of Japanese tuning shops that have reached an almost mythological status among car enthusiasts around the world. Names like Top Secret, Mines and Spoon are almost household names now, but other shops, often the ones that are doing the really wild stuff, fly much more under the radar. One of the…

There are many ways to refer to one’s car, the chillest and most normal being “my car.” If you own a non-luxury car, you can also get away with “my Chevy” or “my ‘Yota” or “my VW,” especially if your VW is old. If you have a luxury car, you cannot get away with much, as certainly no one wants to hear about your…