This is The Morning Shift, our one-stop daily roundup of all the auto news that's actually important — all in one place at 9:00 AM. Or, you could spend all day waiting for other sites to parse it out to you one story at a time. Isn't your time more important?
Blue Traveler -- 'Hook'
Traffic sucks, so why not start your morning off with some music? You provide the toast and we'll provide the jams.
For $6,900, What’s A Ute?
Ned Flanders drove a Metro, and when implored by his wife Maude to go faster so as to escape a clingy Homer Simpson, he screamed I can’t, it’s a Gee-ohhh! Today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe custom pickup may be similarly lethargic and Geo-riffic, but will you find its price to be completely cartoonish?
The concept of an Australian arm of Ford that makes unique products in Australia for Australia is dead, victim of a strong Australian dollar and a weak market for large vehicles according to multiple sources. The Falcon will die with it.
Mobile Car Cleaner Spectacularly Wrecks Customer's Ferrari 458 Italia
The maxim "If you want something done right you should do it yourself" usually does not apply to car cleaning, but the owner of this Ferrari 458 Italia who loaned their precious Italian sports car to mobile car cleaning service probably regrets outsourcing that particular job given what's left of the car.
'The 2009 Kia Borrego Is Bucking The Trend'
Remember the Kia Borrego? It was a body-on-frame SUV that was sold when people wanted crossovers. You might think that would make it Borrebad. But you're wrong. It's Borregood!
Group C was responsible for the best sounding cars in the world
Here's a few videos proving my point. These cars don't have fancy tuned exhausts. What you're hearing is the sound of raw power, with some of these cars edging on 1000bhp. Your ears will thank you. I know mine have.
