Новости за 22.03.2024

Even before deliveries of the Tesla Cybertruck began, the electric automaker made it clear that it would be a long time before it was produced in anything other than extremely limited quantities. That meant that if you were one of the few who had pulled yourself up by your bootstraps hard enough, you stood to make…

A Delta passenger from Texas somehow managed to use a child’s boarding pass to get on a flight from Salt Lake City, Utah to Austin, Texas;flight attendants caught onto his little scheme after he hid in multiple bathrooms shortly before takeoff. Salt Lake City police arrested Wicliff Fleurizard on March 17 after he…

If you’ve ever wanted to race the Baja 1000 without buying a half-million dollar trophy truck, shipping it to Mexico, flying down there, bringing a whole crew, dozens of spares, and hundreds of gallons of gasoline, now you can! CXC Simulations in Southern California recently introduced a full-motion simulator that is b…

Lincoln dealers have a big problem. Aside from having just four models to sell, dealers have a bunch of cars from one and two model years ago that they haven’t been able to move. As Automotive News reports, this means Lincoln dealers have some of the highest inventory levels in the industry. This also means that there…

There are a bunch of reasons that the ports in Southern California have seen a huge inbound freight uptick in recent years, including the buying habits of Americans and difficulties getting through the canals Suez and Panama. As a result, train freight exiting Los Angeles is also massively up. Unlike other freight…

I absolutely adore everything about the process of cooking (aside from cleaning up), and I’ve been on a recent kick where I try to somehow combine my love of motorsport with that love of cuisine. That has primarily manifested in Grand Prix Gastronomy, a cooking series I host that runs alongside the Formula 1 calendar…

When news broke that Alaska Airlines flight 1282 had a door plug blow out at 16,000 feet, it was understandably terrifying for those on board. Thankfully, no one was seriously injured, although a few cell phones did get sucked out of the plane. Passengers have since sued both Alaska Airlines and Boeing, the…

Spanish bike builder Orbea has a slick new electric bike that promises to jazz up your daily commute. Called the Diem, the new bike launched earlier this month with a sleek looking frame, aShimano e-bike motor and neat flourishes like built in lights.

Cadillac really went hog wild with the CT6-V, and the end result set the foundation for the current era of incredible Blackwings. Only available in 2019 and 2020, the CT6-V with its bespoke 4.2-liter Blackwing twin-turbocharged V8 was produced in tiny numbers at a seriously high cost. You could get 550 horsepower and…

A group of tourists in South Africa got the scare of a lifetime when an elephant approached their safari truck and lifted the front end of it into the air earlier this week. Note to self: do not piss off elephants.

I just spent an impromptu long weekend with the 2024 Nissan Frontier Hardbody Edition (after a minor calamity with a BMW X5), and while it may seem to be a rather normal small truck, the closer you look, the more awesome retro features you find that are a throwback to the Nissan D21 Hardbodys of days gone by.

Agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives were involved in a firefight early Tuesday morning while executing a search warrant in Little Rock, Arkansas. Bryan Malinowski, the executive director of Clinton National Airport, opened fire as agents attempted to serve the warrant at his home. The…

Imagine a racing series that pitted your favorite retired drivers against one another on a tiny circuit behind the wheel of expensive, identically-prepared $1.3 million Jaguar XJ220 supercars. Imagine that you could tune in for a few weeks in the summer to watch those icons of sport beat, bang and destroy millions of…

When Apple first introduced CarPlay, it was a revelation. Instead of dealing with the hassle of inputting a destination using the manufacturer’s clunky infotainment software, you could simply type it into your phone and have the directions appear on the center screen. It was easy to use and understand, and most…

Truly small new cars are a rarity in the U.S., even those marketed as crossovers, and the ones that still exist typically have designs that are either boring and forgettable or ugly and chintzy. The first-generation Nissan Kicks fell into the former category; the subcompact crossover was handsome but nothing to write…

Sometimes cameras are just in the right place at the right time to capture some truly wild stuff on video. Without a well-placed camera, we’d never get to witness this guy in Revere, Massachusetts jump his car through a traffic circle and flip it on the other side. We really live in a beautiful world.

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Things aren’t looking good for American Formula 1 driver Logan Sargeant. The Williams racer hasn’t scored points in a race since picking up his first point at last year’s U.S. Grand Prix in Austin and topped the list of Formula 1 crashes in his first year. Now, Sargeant is being forced to step aside and let his…

McLaren has been on increasingly rocky ground in recent years as it struggled to find funding to secure its future. The British supercar maker previously put its headquarters up for sale and turned to the sovereign wealth fund of Bahrain for a cash injection. Now, the Middle Eastern country has taken full ownership of…

The NASCAR Cup Series was founded on the belief that fudging rules and laws was the best way to find success, and that mindset translated from the pre-NASCAR bootlegging days all the way through to today. It’s tradition to exploit the gray areas in the rulebook to come up with something faster and wilder than ever…

The Spanish carmaker Cupra has been making cooler versions of Volkswagen’s and Seat’s cars since 2018, but its sporty cars are coming to the U.S. by the end of the decade. Cupra will make its big debut in the U.S. of A with an EV version of the Formentor, a crossover that’s quickly become its most popular vehicle to…

GM spectacularly blundered the Blazer EV’s launch by selling cars with debilitating software bugs and thenissuing a stop-sale order, but the electric SUV is finally allegedly ready for consumers. GM even dropped the price of the Blazer EV as much as $6,520 for the LT AWD trim, but what does that mean for folks who bou…

We asked readers what cars are the most unrecognizable from previous models and generations earlier this week. It’s amazing what a few decades will do to a person and/or car — for better or worse. Some models go from being beloved SUVs to blobby crossovers, while others go from being coupes or sedans to, well, blobby…

By all other accounts, Henrik Fisker has been pretty successful. He had a hand in designing some of the most iconic cars ever made, like the original BMW X5 and Z8, Aston Martin DB9, and Vantage. However, after years in the auto design business, Fisker decided to leave to pursue making cars. Since then he’s had two…

Good morning! It’s Friday, March 22, 2024, 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.