Automakers Want To Make Cheap Cars For Us Poors, Everyone Wants A Four-Door Suzuki Jimny And More Musk In This Week’s News Roundup

Automakers Want To Make Cheap Cars For Us Poors, Everyone Wants A Four-Door Suzuki Jimny And More Musk In This Week’s News Roundup

2002 Jaguar S-Type RImage: Jaguar By the late 1990s, Ford Motor Company had grown to include a number of other brands the automaker had purchased over the years. In addition to longtime Ford stablemates Lincoln and Mercury, the Blue Oval owned Volvo, Jaguar, Land Rover and Aston Martin. Those premium brands were placed under a … Read more

This Special Edition Aston Martin Vantage Is Inspired By James Bond’s Coolest Car

This Special Edition Aston Martin Vantage Is Inspired By James Bond’s Coolest Car

While on my daily hot girl walk yesterday evening, I came across a street-parked Aston Martin Vantage that stopped me in my tracks. Not just any “normal” Vantage, this is a Vantage 007 Edition, of which just 100 were produced in 2020 to celebrate “No Time to Die,” the last James Bond movie with Daniel … Read more

Aston Martin Launches 2025 Valkyrie Le Mans Program, Finally Ending Eight-Year Wait

Aston Martin Launches 2025 Valkyrie Le Mans Program, Finally Ending Eight-Year Wait

Image: Aston Martin It’s been eight years since Aston Martin unveiled the road-going Valkyrie. Over that timespan, Canadian billionaire Lawrence Stroll bought the British luxury automaker and its partnership with the hypercar’s co-developer Red Bull Advanced Technologies collapsed. Plans to race the hypercar at Le Mans were seemingly dead a few years ago, but the … Read more

Alfa Romeo Hopes Scrapping All-Electric Plans Will Make Americans Care Again

Alfa Romeo Hopes Scrapping All-Electric Plans Will Make Americans Care Again

Good morning! It’s Monday, January 27, 2025, 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. The Chrysler 300C Ends Production 1st Gear: Alfa Romeo Rolls Out ‘Multi-Energy’ Approach It’s a tumultuous time for … Read more

Every Car You Can Get With A Manual In 2025

Every Car You Can Get With A Manual In 2025

The death of the manual transmission has been talked about for decades at this point. With the advent of electric vehicles and a general attitude shift as to what a car should be, stick-shift cars are getting left by the wayside. Still, some soldier on, undeterred by what has been said about them and their … Read more

Weekend News Roundup December 14, 2024

Weekend News Roundup December 14, 2024

Screenshot: CNN Police are questioning a suspect in last week’s shooting of United Health Group CEO Brian Thompson. On Monday TrueCar date engineer Luigi Mangione was arrested on gun charges at a McDonalds in Altoona, Pennsylvania, after someone recognized the man from images released by the NYPD following the shooting. – Erin Marquis Read More … Read more

Gorgeous Aston Martin Valhalla PHEV Finally Launches With Better Performance Than Expected

Gorgeous Aston Martin Valhalla PHEV Finally Launches With Better Performance Than Expected

After first being revealed in concept form in 2019 — a concept that got almost completely cut out of “No Time To Die” because the near-production design was shown in 2021 between when that movie was initially supposed to release and when it actually hit theaters, thus rendering the concept’s appearance obsolete — the plug-in-hybrid … Read more

New petrol engines developed by carmakers including Toyota and Mercedes as EV sales stall

New petrol engines developed by carmakers including Toyota and Mercedes as EV sales stall

Only a few years ago it looked as if the days of the petrol-fired engine were numbered. Now makers such as Mercedes-Benz, Audi and Toyota are saying they expect to sell combustion-engine cars for longer than expected amid disappointing sales of electric vehicles (EVs). Carmakers are feeling the pain of the EV slowdown after governments … Read more

Ride Onboard For The Aston Martin Valkyrie’s Record-Breaking Silverstone Lap

Ride Onboard For The Aston Martin Valkyrie’s Record-Breaking Silverstone Lap

The Aston Martin Valkyrie was penned by Formula 1 design ace Adrian Newey, uses tech derived from top-tier racing and creates enough downforce to drive upside down on the roof of a tunnel, in theory. Because of all that, it’s incredibly fast on a race track and the multi-million-dollar hypercar has now set a new … Read more

Bentley’s First EV Will Be Its Smallest Car Ever, And More Luxury Brands Should Follow Suit

Bentley’s First EV Will Be Its Smallest Car Ever, And More Luxury Brands Should Follow Suit

Bentley has pushed back its plans to have its entire lineup be fully electric only from 2030 to 2035, but the brand is still working hard on its first EV production model, which will be revealed in 2026 and go on sale in 2027. Not only will the new electric SUV be in a segment … Read more