Новости за 23.06.2023

Your new car doesn’t exactly know where you’re going, but it certainly knows where you’ve been. And it’s sharing all your sensitive data with carmakers like Ford, Toyota, and Chevrolet — as well as shady third parties in certain cases, according to Wired. Modern cars have come to rival smartphones in terms of data…

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On Wednesday, we reported that OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush had previously dismissed safety concerns regarding the Titan submersible, saying, “You know, there’s a limit. At some point safety just is pure waste. I mean if you just want to be safe, don’t get out of bed. Don’t get in your car. Don’t do anything. At some…

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Earlier today, Reuters ran a story from the Paris Airshow. The event, traditionally full of networking between pilots and companies, has introduced an odd twist to its attendance policies this year: Free admission for anyone without a job.

Odometer fraud is big business in the U.S. Estimates say the scheme costs consumers over $1 billion a year. And while it’s largely been relegated to sketchy dealers and private sellers on Craigslist you probably shouldn’t buy from, it apparently isn’t just there. On Friday, Automotive News reports that FedEx and…

Cars are great and all, but there’s no getting around the fact that piloting a 4,000-pound hunk of metal can be dangerous. Both to people in other cars, as well as people who aren’t in cars. Unfortunately for pedestrians in the U.S., while other developed countries continue to get safer, the U.S. continues to get more…

Orcas opened another front in their war against yachts and their rudders this week when a sailing yacht making its way from England to Norway was rammed by killer whales in the North Sea.

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For most of the country, the idea of pulling into a gas station and then waiting for someone to come over and pump your gas for you is just weird. Millions of people pump their own gas every day without blowing themselves up or dumping it all over the ground. But with some exceptions, if you’re getting gas in Oregon,…

For those of you who are very “online,” you have probably heard that there is talk of a potential cage match between Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg and Tesla’s Elon Musk. Even if you are not into combat sports, I bet most of you would tune in to see a battle between these two even if you hope both somehow lose. As Jalopnik’s…

For me, at least, renting a car usually comes at a pretty exciting time. If I need to rent a set of wheels, it’s because I’m going somewhere exciting on holiday or if I’m moving apartments, and then I just need something with enough space for all my Arctic Monkeys and Taylor Swift records.

Good morning! It’s Friday, June 23, 2023, and this is The Morning Shift, a daily roundup of automotive news both big and small.

When it comes to the massive expanse of water that makes up the North Atlantic, someone is always listening, usually the U.S. Navy. It seems our sailors picked up the implosion of the Titan submersible when it happened, likely on Sunday.

Friend, it’s officially summer. The solstice has passed, and we’re officially past “get your summer car prepped” season — it’s time to start driving. Put those battery tenders away, shove the winter beater into the back of the garage, and re-up the insurance on the fun car.

The inline-six is an incredible engine. It’s naturally balanced, sounds great and should be easier to work on. But if one inline-six is good, two inline-sixes are even better. Thus the V12. Ok, that’s not usually how it works, but you get the point. V12s are glorious.

Toyota really wants to build a kickass GT3 race car that will spawn a production counterpart. However, we’ve heard little about the effort in the year-plus since its announcement. No news isn’t always good in this business, and sometimes plans change. Perhaps Toyota shelved the road car; it’s not like it doesn’t have…

BMW. These days, it’s regularly inflaming extremely online car fans with new design after new design, which pretty much seems to be the goal. But with every other recent model being hoisted up as the worst looking of them all, it gets kind of hard to keep track. So today we’ve assembled a list of the Bimmers you think…

The red and white color scheme on today’s Nice Price or No Dice VW Cabriolet is tweely referenced in the Coca-Cola license plate on the front bumper. Let’s see if this smile-inducing little convertible’s price is equally as refreshing.