Новости за 14.06.2023

Modifying classic cars is a multi-billion dollar industry, and while the possible permutations for what the ideal modded classic could look like may seem endless, I’m here to tell you that, in fact, there is one right answer, and it’s “classic American muscle car modified to period-correct SCCA or saloon car racing…

Retired four-time F1 World Champion Sebastian Vettel is slated to reunite with the Red Bull RB7 from his 2011 title-winning campaign. The new yacht racing team owner will be doing a show run on the Nürburgring Nordschleife as a part of Red Bull Formula Nürburgring, a motorsport festival being held as an opening act to…

As it happens, not everyone emerges from the womb knowing how to drive a manual transmission, which, in most regular cars, involves pressing a clutch pedal and shifting the car into gear and then, as delicately as one can manage, easing up on the clutch quick but not too quick and giving the car a little throttle, so…

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is currently in a tiff with Massachusetts over a right to repair law that conflicts with federal regulation. The U.S. agency told nearly two dozen automakers that they don’t have to comply with a state law mandating open access to vehicle data, and that they should…

Have you ever seen the Ari Aster film Midsommar? It’s a feel-good, coming of age, found-family movie about a girl visits Sweden with her shitty boyfriend and his shitty friends. Spoiler warning. The group is slowly killed off in ritual sacrifice, one by one, while our main girl is adopted into the cult by the film’s…

UPS is a massive company that made around $2.5 billion in profits in the first quarter of 2023, and essentially all that money is being made by its employees. That makes sense, right? You hire people because they make you money. Only, as an employer, you have responsibilities to your employees, and for years now, UPS…

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When it comes to weight and commercial aviation, it should only be a concern to ensure that a plane is light enough to take off and have enough fuel to reach its destination. However, one Chinese airline has implemented new rules that brings flying back to an age when flight attendants were the focus of marketing…

The P3 Group is a German consulting firm that employs people that, like most consulting firms, seem to have too much time on their hands, in this case enough time to create a report that measures charge times in the U.S. for popular EV models after just 20 minutes, or more than the average American spends at a gas…

The Indianapolis 500 can make or break a driver’s career; everyone is seeking a life-changing prize purse, a coveted top-10 finish to secure a ride for the following year, a breakout onto the big stage, or a history-making win, but not everyone’s path to the Greatest Spectacle in Racing is the same. That was never…

The reintroduction of the Acura Integra was both welcome and controversial. Some saw the return of the Integra nameplate as outright blasphemy, for a vehicle that is basically a nicer Civic hatchback. Others — like myself— welcomed the Integra as it could have easily been just another crossover, with the Integra name…

A pedicab driver with six years on the job in Chicago might never work around Wrigley Field again after a party bus slammed into her Saturday. Police did not bring charges against the driver for hitting the pedicab driver, according to Block Club Chicago.

Buick is in a really weird place right now. Its lineup generally has attractive designs, but it also only offers a few models, and none of them really stand out well enough in their classes to give people a solid reason to buy them over the competition. You probably wouldn’t hate driving one, but would you love it?…

If you’ve spent any amount of time destroying the good, human part of your brain watching TikTok or YouTube, especially if either apps have determined that you’re a dad, you’ve seen these videos of people stuffing, damaging, and sinking their boats on Florida’s Haulover Inlet.

Toyota has never been on the climate-conscious side of things. The company fought tooth and nail against stricter California emissions, and continues to pour money into fighting other tailpipe regulations. It’s been slow to introduce new EVs, and the electric vehicles it has introduced are often... fine.

It’s been a while since we’ve touched based with the Qanon “Queen of Canada” Romana Didulo and her RV full of merry scamsters. Last we heard she was trashing rented RVs and abandoning them miles from home. Now she’s reemerged, causing one small town in Canada traumatized by a hurricane to come together and send her…

The Dakar Rally is one of racing’s last true adventures. The 5,000-plus-mile cross-country rally across treacherous terrain takes two weeks to complete. While it’s been 16 years since the traditional route from Paris, France to Dakar, Senegal, has been used, Saudi Arabia has been an equally challenging host. It’s a…

Last week, the Texas state legislature passed a bill that would end yearly vehicle safety inspections. At the time, it wasn’t entirely clear whether Governor Abbott would sign the bill into law since a number of law enforcement officials, including Travis County Constable Stacy Suits were pressuring him to veto it.…

When the Toyota Supra returned for its fifth generation, the Supra fandom split like Pangea. Factions broke off along fault lines, with some hailing the return as a watershed moment for the mythical Toyota and others saying the Japanese sports car was little more than a rebadged BMW Z4. It’s been four years since the…

After over 20 years of being in The Fast and the Furious films, it’s hard to imagine Vin Diesel in anything but a black tank top, doing anything but talking about family. Of course, he’s done tons of other stuff over the years, from beloved films like Saving Private Ryan and The Iron Giant to XXX, but if you want to…

The all-electric Volvo EX30 will start just a hair under $35,000 sans shipping when it goes on sale before the end of this year. That’ll make it the cheapest Volvo available to buy in the U.S., unless Volvo quietly shoves out an EX20 or something, which is unlikely. The thing is, Volvo is an ostensibly “premium,” some…

People haven’t always been kind to the Lamborghini Espada. Sure, it’s a four-seater, and yes, it looks a little weird, particularly when compared to something like the Miura, but people are coming around on them, and prices are healthy. Lamborghini only made something like 1,200 examples of the car over its 10-year…

We’ve talked a lot about the vehicles that get the best gas mileage in their respective segment, but this time I wanted to try something different. I wanted to figure out what vehicles on sale today get the worst gas mileage. Unsurprisingly, there are a lot of supercars and high-end luxury vehicles from Europe on…

Days after both Ford and General Motors spurned the CCS charging standard preferred by everyone except Tesla in favor of Tesla’s own, Stellantis is now threatening to join its crosstown rivals. It hasn’t confirmed it necessarily will yet, but it’s thinking about it long and hard.

Two former police officers in Torrance, California, were ordered this week to stand trial after being accused of spray painting a swastika on a suspect’s impounded car, The Daily Bulletin reports.