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?

Traffic sucks, so why not start your morning off with some music? You provide the toast and we'll provide the jams.

Let’s start off with three little words: mid engine pickup. If that piques your curiosity then perhaps seeing today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe custom Blue Previa will totally blow your mind. That is of course if its price doesn't just blow it.

London’s Ace Cafe has been an integral part of British motoring culture for decades. If you show up on the right night, the Lotus Elise will be the most common car in the all-British parking lot.

Audi made a spectacular entrance into the 2013 American road racing season by taking the win at the Rolex 24 Hours at Daytona. Not only did they finish at the top of the podium with the Alex Job Racing team, but the R8 LMS driven by the works drivers took the second spot after twenty four hours of hard racing.

We don’t expect the tech industry to make good cars, but we expect car companies to come out with good tech with every new vehicle. Has this thinking ever worked?

You're driving on the highway in Chile, the sun is shining, and there's a Pagani Zonda 760RS in front of you. What do you do?

It was a scorching hot August summer day in the San Fernando Valley. I was driving my brand new 1991 Ford Escort GT through an industrial area to a muffler shop. A friend of mine told me that they could lower my car for sixty bucks. I pulled into the work bay and a guy with a welding helmet climbed down into the pit…

We all know that Italians have a knack for crafting sleek, beautiful automobiles. Ferrari, Maserati, and Lamborghini — if you're the type for such a thing — all produce some of the most lustworthy machines known to man. But did you know that Italians build pretty drones, too?

Chinese carmaker Chery, perhaps best known for their Matiz-aping QQ minicar, has decided to cut the middleman from the process of designing cars that look like existing cars and went ahead and hired a designer from a company well-known for design, Porsche.

It takes a very special breed of machines to succeed on a racetrack after satisfying the public as a road car. I'm not talking about silhouette car nonsense here, but factory cars that can be turned to eleven thanks to their brilliant engineering. You know, like the McLaren F1 and all the others of that era.

It's been a bad secret for the last few months, but I thought I should let everyone know, officially, that I am the proud owner of the most famous Merkur XR4Ti in the world. This is similar to having the world's most famous spaetzle press in that it's not particularly impressive, vaguely German, and a completely…

There are many great cars that we don't get to buy here in America. One of those great cars is the Audi A1 quattro, a hyper version of the cute little city car. This is what we're missing.

When you own an old, no-longer-popular beater car, it can sometimes be difficult to find parts and information. My brand of automotive pain/pleasure currently lies in the realm of obsolete Subarus, and while they do have a decent following, they've never attracted the kind of money-spewing fanboys that, say, small…

The Sixties were great enough with all the spaceships and supercars but did you know Boeing made a turbine-powered hydrofoil gunboat for the U.S. Navy? Tucumcari, good for 40 knots (46 mph) on the open water, served a combat tour in Vietnam before being transferred to Europe to become a demo boat.