Photo: VinFast When we first drove the VinFast VF8, we weren’t impressed. Our headline said it was “simply not ready for America,” and the criticism only got worse from there. VinFast clearly rushed the development process and didn’t have a remotely competitive product to offer. Supposedly, the Vietnamese automaker planned to improve the VF8 over … Read more
Image: Irfan Khan (Getty Images) Impersonating a cop is a big no no. One man in Florida found this out the hard way after he flashed the fake police lights in his unmarked Dodge Charger at an intersection in order to run a light. Jonathan Bennett And His Late 1980’s Honda Accord | My First … Read more
Photo: Fiat The Fiat 500e is small, electric and starts a little under $35,000. It’s also more spacious than the old 500e and comes with significantly more range. Unfortunately for Fiat, there aren’t a lot of places in the U.S. where its small size is an advantage, so it’s a little surprising that Fiat decided … Read more
Photo: Spencer Platt (Getty Images) Good morning! It’s Tuesday, November 5, 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. – Owen Bellwood Read More Read original article here Denial of responsibility! Pioneer … Read more
Photo: Daniel Golson/Jalopnik Last weekend at the Best of French and Italy show, one of my favorite automotive events in California, I spotted a window sticker on an obscure 1980s hatchback that made me laugh. It was on a Citroën LNA, a tiny ’lil thing based on the Peugeot 104 that was introduced in 1978 … Read more
Photo: Renault Who doesn’t love a good fart joke? I know the French do. Well, at least I think they do, because there’s no way this wasn’t intentional (please ignore the fact that they speak French). It has come to my attention that one of the Renault Avantime’s engine choices, a 2.0-liter turbocharged four-cylinder motor, … Read more
Photo: Honda The Honda Civic Type R is the kind of car that was created in a lab to embarrass the kind of gatekeeper who still insists on calling it “wrong-wheel drive.” No, you can’t get it with all-wheel drive like you can in the Toyota GR Corolla, but it’s also so fun to drive, … Read more
A stop sign stands near the Tesla logo at the Tesla factory on July 17, 2023 near Gruenheide, Germany.Photo: Sean Gallup (Getty Images) Good morning! It’s Monday, October 21, 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 … Read more
When you’re Toyota and you’ve built perhaps the most exciting hot hatch in decades, any improvements are going to be a game of inches. The improvements made to the 2025 model year GR Corolla are minimal, but all the more impactful because of it. Toyota knew that it had a solid formula on its hands … Read more
Just when Honda’s restrained approach to the EV rush of the early 2020s was more or less vindicated, the company showed a wild looking pair of EV concepts at last year’s CES. The company said at the time that the 0 Series cars represented a rebirth, or a fresh start for the company; a Honda 2.0, … Read more
