Новости за 30.08.2023

The road to a production Cybertruck has been bumpy. Almost as bumpy and uneven as the first Cybertrucks coming out of the Austin Gigafactory, which have reportedly been so bad that they prompted Elon Musk to send an urgent email to Tesla employees. In the message, Musk demanded greater precision in the production…

(Disclaimer: This shitpost was originally published last week because I didn’t pay close enough attention to the details of the embargo and thought it would be fine. It was not, and for that, I apologize. But now that the embargo has been lifted, it has returned as a very real conspiracy theory that you should…

We all generally knew it was coming. There was just no way the Ram 15oo TRX was long for this world. After all, it has a supercharged 6.2-liter V8 that makes 702 hp, weighs about 6,500 lbs and is only rated at 12 mpg combined. That’s not great for the planet, and it also doesn’t fit with Stellantis’s plans to go…

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The last flight I took was awful. It bumped and bounced all the way from Minnesota to New York, despite it appearing to be a pretty clear night. This went against everything I thought I knew about rough air, which I always associated with a cloudy flight. But apparently, we’re now living through a boom in something…

Say what you want about Hyundai, but the brand has been on a design roll. From the Kia EV9 to the whole Genesis lineup, Hyundai continues to wow for the masses. That design winning streak continues into the 2024 model year with the new Elantra and Sonata sedans.

The average cost of owning and operating a car has gone up this year due to higher MSRP figures and increased finance costs, among other things. In 2023, the annual expense of vehicle ownership increased to $12,182, which comes out to a monthly cost of $1,015, according to the American Automobile Association.

These days, most new cars are out of reach for Americans who don’t earn six figures, and that includes the vast majority of electric cars. So in order to get more drivers behind the wheel of something more environmentally friendly, Colorado has announced an exchange program that gives owners of older gas and diesel…

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When someone passes you on the road, what do you do? Do you mutter to yourself about those dang speed demons? Do you accusatorily gesture through your windshield? Or, do you follow that other driver to their home, block their car into their driveway, and pull a gun on them?

Alfa Romeo is bringing a classic into the 21st century with a new halo car called the 33 Stradale. Don’t worry, you can’t buy one either.

We all know about the dangers of drunk-driving. Alcohol impacts our senses and judgment, which makes getting behind the wheel after a few drinks a pretty deadly practice. But it’s rare that you can experience the difference a couple of beers has on your skills behind the wheel in a safe, controlled manner. That’s…

A new film documenting probably the worst year in Enzo Ferrari’s life will debut on December 25 from the American film distribution company Neon.

Generally speaking, Delta is about as good as it gets when it comes to flying in the U.S. That doesn’t mean Delta’s actually great or basically perfect. Heck, a lot of people don’t even realize its flight attendants aren’t unionized yet. Still, it could easily be so much worse. And yet, its planes still aren’t immune…

Volkswagen sent out a press release this morning about the 2024 Golf GTI 380 Edition. It contains the biggest “oh, by the way” in the history of enthusiast cars: that the 380 is being built to celebrate the end of the manual transmission in the GTI and Golf R.

We’re half way there now. It’s Wednesday, August 30, 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 today.

There are a lot of records out there to be broken in Formula 1. You could go for the most laps led, currently held by Lewis Hamilton at well over 5,000, or you might want the record for the longest time between your first and latest podium finish, which is now held by Fernando Alonso.

Wagons. You all – and myself to be honest – really love them. Everyone talks about how they’re the perfect vehicle – a blend of the practicality of a crossover or SUV with the driving dynamics of a sedan. What’s not to love? That being said, not all wagons are created equal. Some stand above others. That’s what brings…

Increasing costs due to a number of factors — an ongoing chip shortage and inflation among other things — led to the average new car costing nearly $49,000. But now if you’re in the market for a new car like I am, there’s a bit of relief. Data from Kelley Blue Book via Yahoo Finance shows that the average price for…

Legends don’t die, especially automotive ones; they live on under plaques at car shows, in cheap posters stuck to childhood bedroom walls and in matchbox car collections forever. The Audi R8 is about to lay down its nameplate some twenty years after it first showed its face as a concept car at the 2003 Frankfurt Motor…

If you walk into a Rivian factory tour expecting something out of the future, where robots buzz around, autonomously building cars in a space-age building, you’re setting yourself up to be disappointed. It’s very much not that. Maybe that’ll be what we see when the second factory opens up outside of Atlanta. But even…

The VW Rabbit introduced the brand’s small water-cooled hatchbacks to U.S. buyers nearly 50 years ago now. It didn’t last long, VW pretty quickly realized that the name Golf would work in America too. VW has revived the Rabbit name before, rebadging the Golf for a minute in the 2006 before pulling it again to stick…

The seller of today’s Nice Price or No Dice Dodge cloud car describes its condition as “mint,” which isn’t startling considering its extremely low mileage. Let’s see if this surprising survivor is worth the seller’s asking to keep around even longer.

Driving is one of the few times in modern life where you aren’t constantly staring at a screen. This, of course, is a flaw manufacturers have been doing their darnedest to rectify by cramming as many displays as possible onto their dashboards. But Apple thinks it has an even better solution: Just turn the entire…