Новости за 04.08.2023

The 2024 Ford Mustang Dark Horse is, by all accounts, a very good car. Yet, as befits the name, it was entirely unexpected — a brand-new performance oriented trim level, 60 years into the Mustang’s dynasty? Why? What could the differences possibly be from the GT, SVT, Cobra, or Shelby monikers?

Last year, we got our first official look at the 2024 Mercedes-AMG C 63 S E Performance. It made 671 hp and 752 lb-ft of torque, and according to Mercedes, it could hit 60 mph in 3.3 seconds. As the last part of its name suggests, it’s a hybrid, and the electric motor is part of why it’s so powerful. But purists…

Negotiations between Southwest Airlines and the union representing its pilots, Southwest Airlines Pilots Association (SWAPA), have seemingly reached an impasse. Despite the lack of progress towards an agreement, the National Mediation Board has now decided that negotiations must continue, preventing a potential strike.

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The Nissan Titan. It was never good enough to take much market share from the Big Three but Nissan kept at it anyway. Now, just over 20 years after the model made its debut, Nissan is pulling the plug.

On Wednesday, the Arkansas Department of Transportation shared two photos of a nacho cheese spill with the caption, “Taco Tuesday, anyone? A truck carrying cans of nacho cheese spilled today on I-30 west near Prescott. Things are all clear now and traffic is moving.” And while the first photo showed a mostly…

On this day in 2006, one of motorsport’s finest movies hit the big screen. Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby tells the story of a NASCAR driver fighting to save a career threatened by a French Formula 1 driver named Jean Girard. I recently introduced this classic of American cinema to some friends overseas,…

Insurance companies are, as a rule, pretty much the worst. It seems they’ll do anything in their power to avoid paying out for claims, even going so far as to drop customers they think might someday need a payout. Case in point: A California resident had his homeowner’s insurance revoked because of a project Chevrolet …

No matter how avid a fan you are, motorsport can be brutal. Even the most hardened veteran can still struggle after spending a day outdoors battling the elements and spending far too much money on some frankly miserable concessions. But Formula E looks like it has that all figured out thanks to the venue that hosts…

Last May, the Minnesota Senate voted 55 to five in favor of renaming a seven-mile stretch of Highway 5 in honor of Prince, the legendary musician. The Prince Rogers Nelson Memorial Highway runs past the artist’s Paisley Park estates in Chanhassen, Minnesota. Purple signs were appropriately installed this week along…

The Department of Justice announced this week that Sinister Mfg. Company, Inc., doing business as Sinister Diesel, pleaded guilty to criminal charges related to the emissions control defeat devices it sold that allowed entitled assholes to make their diesel trucks roll coal. The company was also fined a total of $1…

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A close call between a chartered jet and a JetBlue flight at Logan Airport in Boston last February was a near run thing indeed, according to the final report from the National Transportation Safety Board.

Good morning! It’s August 4, 2023, and this is The Morning Shift, your daily roundup of the top automotive headlines from around the world, in one place.

Carmakers love to rehash old designs. Call it nostalgia, laziness, or just limited possibilities. There are only so many ways to make a box on wheels, after all, whether it’s a big box, little box, a box stuck to another box, or a Ford Ka. The challenge of designing a car that’s both novel and comforting for creatures…

Earlier this week, the brand new Toyota Land Cruiser was revealed to the world. I’m a fan of its retro-inspired design, but I’m also a sucker for Land Cruisers — of course I was going to like one that serves as a Greatest Hits album of the truck’s previous generations.

Dumping is illegal in most places, for good reason too. You can’t just take crap you don’t want and dump it somewhere to be someone else’s problem. But people still do it without a care or thinking about who it might affect and who has to clean it up. It happened to one Georgia woman, who not only had a dumping…

The ad for today’s Nice Price or No Dice Stealth states it’s an automatic, while the pictures plainly show three pedals and a five-speed stick. In fact, the shift knob boot for that gearbox is the only thing showing any wear on the car. Let’s see how well its price wears on us.

We write a lot about pedestrian safety here, and it’s not because we hate cars. It’s because we generally believe that killing people is bad, and it doesn’t somehow become less bad if you kill someone with your car instead of a gun. Also, we want to live in a world where you can cross the street without having to…