Good morning! It’s Thursday, March 28, 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. We Found a Top Secret Toyota Supra GT300 Build at New York’s Auto Show 1st Gear: Bridge Collapse … Read more
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. New York Joins California, Banning Non-Electric Vehicles After 2035 1st Gear: Plug-In Hybrids Are Outpacing EV Sales Electric … Read more
A consumer panel in Kerala has ordered automobile giant Maruti Suzuki India Limited to refund the price of a car they sold to a customer as its airbag did not deploy during an accident three years ago. The Malappuram District Consumer Commission issued the order based on a complaint filed by Mohammed Musliar, a native … Read more
Toyota issued a “Do Not Drive” advisory on Monday and urged owners of 50,000 older Toyotas to get immediate recall repairs for another deadly Takata airbag recall. This announcement affects some 2003-2004 Toyota Corollas and Corolla Matrix models, and 2004-2005 RAV4s with Takata airbag inflators. 2023 Toyota Prius Prime: Post-Drive Notes Updated Tuesday, January 30, … Read more
Sometimes there is a subset of car culture that you’ve just missed out on somehow. That’s what happened to me and the 3.5-liter Ecoboost-swap Mustang community. I just didn’t know they existed, but it was brought to my attention today via a tweeted screenshot of a Facebook post, which naturally sent me into a research… … Read more
Half of a Ford F-150 Lightning.Photo: Jeff Kowalsky (Getty Images) Good morning! It’s Monday, December 18, 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. – Andy Kalmowitz Read More FOLLOW US ON … Read more
The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety or IIHS has been holding automakers accountable for public safety since the ’90s, by putting new cars through more stringent and realistic crash tests than required by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration or NHTSA. Thanks in part to the work of the IIHS, new cars are safer than … Read more
It’s almost a cliche these days to point out to a Boomer that “they don’t build them like they used to,” is actually a good thing because cars these days are so much safer than they were in the 1960s and 1970s. That doesn’t mean that all cars are equally safe, though. Some are definitely … Read more
