Since its launch a year ago, Tesla’s flagship Cybertruck electric truck has been stumped by all kinds of pretty mundane obstacles. It’s so far been caught out by snow, slight inclines, water and now one Cybertruck owner reports that a pothole left them with a $34,000 repair bill. – Owen Bellwood Read More Read more… … Read more
Screenshot: RevZilla “Agricultural, weird, old, stinky. Yeah, but it’s really cool.” They just don’t build them like they used to, and that’s probably with good reason. If you’re looking for a bike with a certain hard edged feel, a unique flavor, and difficult-to-ride-factor there’s probably not much cooler, unique, or difficult to ride out there … Read more
Oldsmobile is long gone. By the time the brand was phased out in the early 2000sit was a shell of its former self, but Oldsmobile used to make interesting cars like the 442, Trofeo and Aurora. One of the brand’s last interesting cars, and likely one of the rarest, was a badge job of General … Read more
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
Photo: Stefano Guidi (Getty Images) Good morning! It’s Monday, December 2, 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 Read original article here Denial of responsibility! Pioneer Newz … Read more
Photo: Jaguar The most annoying and stupid people on the internet have been screaming about Jaguar’s “woke” rebrand for almost a month now, despite the teaser campaign being extremely typical fashion-adjacent stuff that’s fitting for the new concept’s launch happening at Miami Art Week, and the “Copy Nothing” tagline actually being the company founder Sir … Read more
Back in 1959, the Army Corp of Engineers carved its own Echo Base into the Greenland ice as a testbed for launching nuclear missiles from Arctic locations. The base was abandoned in 1967, but a new scan from NASA shows it’s still sitting 100 feet below the ice — along with all its radioactive waste. … Read more
Photo: Jim Watson/AFP (Getty Images) Good morning! It’s Tuesday, November 26, 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. – Andy Kalmowitz Read More Read original article here Denial of responsibility! Pioneer … Read more
Three people have been killed in India after the route they were following on Google Maps reportedly took them over the edge of a damaged bridge. The three men drove off the bridge crossing the Ramganga River in northern India, despite the span being badly damaged earlier this year. – Owen Bellwood Read More Read … Read more
Screenshot: Amazon It’s officially late November, which means a bunch of holidays are coming up, and often, with holidays come gift exchanges. If you’re a car enthusiast, that often means opening a series of completely random gifts that involve cars in some way. The intent is nice, but considering how many of those gifts go … Read more
