Новости за 10.05.2024

A 1,036-foot-long cruise ship sailed into New York Harbor last Saturday with a dead endangered whale pinned to the ship’s bow. While a cause of death hasn’t been officially determined, investigators’ initial findings point toward a ship strike killing the 44-foot-long sei whale. Yet another incident to encourage sea…

Two-time and defending IndyCar Champion Alex Palou Montalbo signed international shipping giant DHL as his primary sponsor for the 2024 season with Chip Ganassi Racing. In the past DHL has run a rainbow livery for the world-famous Indy 500, as part of its “Delivered With Pride” initiative. The livery has evolved a bit…

Police in Milton, Florida arrested a man after he pulled a gun on an Uber driverearlier this week who was dropping his daughter off. Sean Hollonbeck forced the driver out of the car and onto the ground and has since been charged with false imprisonment and aggravated assault with a weapon, WEAR News reports. After…

Tesla has spent the last month laying off seemingly anyone the company can even sort of spare - and plenty of folks that it likely can’t. When a company does such massive layoffs, it often leads onlookers to wonder: How does it go down for the workers?

The future of EV charging hinges on the Supercharger network department at Tesla. Unfortunately that entire department was fired in sweeping layoffs from company CEO Elon Musk last week. The world of electric vehicles was upended perhaps forever in 2023 when Musk’s coup to turn the once-proprietary Tesla charging plug…

After years of selling the WRX and STI as hatchbacks, Subaru decided to only offer the WRX as a sedan. It also has yet to bring back the STI, and power on the WRX has stayed about the same since the third-generation Impreza WRX got an update some 15 years ago. So when Toyota introduced the 300-horsepower,…

This summer much of the American midwest will be subject to the hatching of 13-year cycle Brood XIX and 17-year cycle Brood XII cicadas as an estimated billion plus of the annoying insects jump to life. This monstrous legion will swarm the countryside, largely focused on Illinois, Missouri, and Georgia, with patches…

After camping outside Tesla’s German Gigafactory for the past week, environmental protesters stormed the facility this morning. Hundreds of people marched on the factory, overcoming police armed with pepper spray. Protesters are arguing that the Gigafactory should not be allowed to expand over allegations of…

Members of the U.S. Supreme Court have just voted down legislation that would grant people whose cars were wrongly seized by the authorities a chance to instantly appeal the decision. Instead, innocent drivers will continue to be left waiting for a “timely hearing,” which could take weeks or even months.

After a last minute delay of the debut mission of the Boeing Starliner earlier this week, a NASA contractor is warning the space agency that potentially disastrous problems may still lurk in the Atlas V rocket.

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The hits just keep on coming with the Tesla Cybertruck. Yet another owner has reported having problems mere miles after picking up their brand new, low-resolution electric pickup.

Working at a Mitsubishi dealer has to be as boring as working at a paint or mattress store — there’s just nothing really interesting to sell. Other than the recently redesigned (and pretty good) Outlander and its PHEV variant, Mitsubishi dealers have only the fourteen-year-old Outlander Sport, the blasphemous Eclipse…

The Kia EV6, in many ways, competes with every other midsize crossover out there. There’s just this one odd difference — electric power — that separates it from the CR-Vs and Rav4s with which it shares its size, seating, and purpose. That one change, though, makes all the difference in the world.

Did you miss me? A full two weeks without a Dopest Cars slideshow, all just so I could go ride motorcycles in the desert. I think it was worth it, even with the heat, but I realize you all must have been so adrift without new listings.

There’s a unique sight in the Bavarian countryside twice per year: A nightclub train. The Techno Train, operated by Nuremberg nightclub Haus 33, runs a nonstop 124-mile route in Germany from Nuremberg to Würzburg and back. Yes, nonstop. While the raucous journey lasts about seven hours, there are opportunities to take…

If you’ve ever come across a screaming deal on a car you always wanted only to find out that it’s flood damaged, you’ve likely done the mental gymnastics to determine if buying a flood-damaged car really is that bad. Well, as it turns out, it is really that bad. Floods are the most common weather-related natural…

There are too many great racing drivers to count. It’s damn near impossible to say that any single one of them is better than all the rest. Did any specific driver do a better job because they had a better car? Or did they get the better car because they were the best around? It’s a conversation that will never come…

Folks, we know that cars can be complicated and confusing, especially for those of us who are less mechanically inclined or simply do not give a shit about cars. One of the questions I hear most from non-car people (other than why would you bother with a manual transmission) is what the hell is the difference between…

Good morning! It’s Friday, May 10, 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.

Despite its shortcomings, motorsport is pretty great, really. For a few hours a weekend you can forget all your responsibilities and watch the fastest carsnavigate some perilously tricky tracks in exotic locations on almost every continent. And whether you’re in it for the on-track action or off-track drama of a…

Whether you have a problem buying a Chinese EV or not, that still doesn’t change the fact that China is investing heavily in its electric future, or the fact that the build quality and engineering gaps continue to close between Chinese and legacy Western automakers — with some Chinese automakers even surpassing the…

When the calendar flipped over to May, Nissan instituted a new sales policy for its dealers: Cars can be advertised at discounts up to 10 percent off the invoice price, a massive reduction from typical MSRP. The reasoning, it seems, is that Nissan just has too many cars sitting on dealer lots.

Donald Trump told some of America’s top oil executives that he is willing to immediately reverse dozens of President Biden’s environmental policies and stop new ones from being enacted on his first day of presidency, if the oil companies agree to raise $1 billion to return Trump to the White House. The Washington Post…

Unlike many later editions that share engines with VWs and Audis, today’s Nice Price or No Dice Cayenne carries true Porsche power under its hood. Let’s find out what such brand purity might be worth.