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Some UAW workers have been out for a month now, with an increasing amount seemingly every week as the UAW hopes to ratchet up pressure on the Big Three to get a better labor deal for their members. Typically, new walkouts have been announced on Fridays, but the UAW said today that, going forward, any new walkouts will be announced when they are to happen, and not just on Fridays. The chess match with the Big Three continues.
Darlington Raceway hosted the Southern 500 on Sunday, the Labor Day weekend NASCAR race as it’s been since 2015, and for decades before that starting in 1950 as the first 500-mile NASCAR race. These days, Darlington is treated with respect even if it is a little past its old glory days, when it became part of NASCAR lore.
The Lamborghini Lanzador concept has two doors plus a rear hatch, but seats four people if needed, or two plus what looks like quite a bit of rear cargo space. Lamborghini is calling it an Ultra GT, which is grand touring car but ultra, made for the Lamborghini crowd, which is supercar enthusiasts but way too extra. The Lanzador is all-electric, with two motors, all-wheel drive, and an output over one megawatt, or over 1,300 horsepower, depending on how you think of it. Lamborghini says the Lanz
The UAW’s labor contracts with Ford, GM, and Stellantis expire on September 14, which is a little over a month from now, and all parties involved are currently in the midst of renegotiating new deals, which involves submitting proposals back and forth. In a live event on Tuesday, UAW President Shawn Fain threw one of those proposals in the trash, from a multinational corporation called Stellantis.
Good morning! It’s August 4, 2023, and this is The Morning Shift, your daily roundup of the top automotive headlines from around the world, in one place.
Good morning! It’s August 3, 2023, and this is The Morning Shift, your daily roundup of the top automotive headlines from around the world, in one place.
Subaru has a long history in rallying — over four decades now -- and, on Wednesday, it unveiled its latest car, a WRX but not an STI. It is the Subaru Motorsports WRX Rally. It is 320 horsepower, limited by class regulations, and a rally car, the only car anyone ever wants.
Good morning! It’s Monday, July 31, 2023, and this is The Morning Shift, your daily roundup of the top automotive headlines from around the world, in one place.
A consumer authority in Denmark has reported BMW, the German car manufacturer, to the police, according to Reuters, for a marketing campaign in which BMW called itself “the world’s most sustainable car producer,” which the consumer authority says is misleading, probably because BMW may not be the world’s most sustainable car producer.
According to WANE, in June 1983, Gary Dodane, 75, spent $500 — or a little over $1,500 today accounting for inflation — to buy a 13-year-old used car, which he considered a little overpriced. “I thought [at the time], ‘this is a lot of money for a used car,’” Dodane told WANE, which, sure, the value of money is relative. The car he bought was a 1970 Plymouth Barracuda with a Hemi V8 and a four-speed manual, one of just 284 such examples. It is also apparently the first Hemi ‘Cuda sold, bearing s
What follows is your irregular check in on the state of Nikola, an EV semi startup whose founder got in quite a lot of trouble with the authorities but whose company is still somehow alive and kicking, and still publicly traded. Nikola, the company reported on Wednesday, sold 66 trucks in the second quarter of 2023, which is double the number of trucks that it sold in the first quarter of 2023, which was 33. The company also said it produced 33 trucks in the second quarter of 2023, which was dow
The Chrysler PT Cruiser ended production on July 9, 2010, almost thirteen years ago now, going out with a whimper after a decade of at first making a splash and then aging out in warp speed. In its review of the PT Cruiser’s debut model year of 2001, Car & Driver very earnestly referred to it as “cool,” several times, at least as opposed to the minivans of the day. By 2010, its final model year, Car & Driver said “it mostly just feels old,” which is where critical consensus has more or less rest
According to the U.S. State Department’s website, current renewal times for U.S. passports are 10-13 weeks, not including the time it takes to mail in your old passport or the time it takes for your new one to be mailed to you. If you pay an extra $60 on top of the $130 regular fee, the expedited time is 7-9 weeks, though, according to a new report from the Associated Press, you may not want to try and cut it close to either if you’re planning to go abroad and have a passport that needs to be re
Lordstown Motors, which recently declared bankruptcy, is a company that was built on lots of promises, the primary one being that it would make the Endurance, an EV pickup, and it would sell a lot of Endurances, and that would make Lordstown’s investors a lot of money, including the shareholders who bought into Lordstown after it went public in 2020.
Fiat, which makes somewhat affordable small-ish cars, said on Monday that, “As of today, FIAT stops producing grey cars,” as in selling cars painted gray. That’s “big” and apparently true, as signs point to this not being some kind of Voltswagen-level joke.
Good morning! It’s Friday, June 23, 2023, and this is The Morning Shift, a daily roundup of automotive news both big and small.
Infiniti, which is the luxury division of Nissan, which is a Japanese automaker perhaps best known in the States for the Sentra, Altima, or Rogue, unveiled a new logo on Thursday, their fourth in over three decades of existence. You’ll be forgiven for not detecting major differences, because in the center is still the “infinite road,” surrounded by the horizon. Infiniti also said that they want their showrooms to look like Apple stores now, or something, though dealers that Automotive News spoke
The Koenigsegg Regera, which is almost a decade old, has been setting speed and braking records for a few years now, the kind of thing Koenigsegg does for fun, because at this point they don’t have much to prove to anyone but themselves. On Friday, Koenigsegg said that a Regera set a new record from zero to 400 kph to zero and zero to 250 mph to zero, at 28.81 seconds and 29.60 seconds, respectively, apparently besting Rimac in the process.
A submersible with 96 hours of oxygen supply went missing on Sunday as it made its way to the Atlantic Ocean floor to the wreckage of the Titanic. A search effort to find the submersible, named Titan, has been underway since, including the Canadian military and U.S. Coast Guard. On Tuesday, the Financial Times said that the Royal Canadian Air Force would send a plane able to detect subs underwater to aid in the search. Rescuers are searching in an area hundreds of miles off the coast of Newfound
Part of Interstate 95 collapsed on Sunday after a tanker truck caught fire beneath the roadway, causing an overpass for northbound lanes to come crashing down and compromising the southbound lane overpass as well. The portion of I-95, in northeastern Philadelphia, is now being rebuilt, which is little immediate consolation for the tens of thousands of cars that used the roadway per day before the collapse.
It is somewhat funny that lots of people who previously had no interest in Formula 1 and are now watching and being treated to one of the least competitive Formula 1 seasons in decades. Red Bull, seven races in, have won each and every one, via Max Verstappen or Sergio Pérez. This trend doesn’t look like its ending any time soon, unless both of them happen to have a bad race at the same time — not at all outside the realm of possibility, and one reason no team has ever won every race wire-to-wi
As it happens, not everyone emerges from the womb knowing how to drive a manual transmission, which, in most regular cars, involves pressing a clutch pedal and shifting the car into gear and then, as delicately as one can manage, easing up on the clutch quick but not too quick and giving the car a little throttle, so the car doesn’t stall. Stalling one’s car while attempting to drive manual is the source of a great amount of shame for people who claim to know how to drive manual, despite the fac
The P3 Group is a German consulting firm that employs people that, like most consulting firms, seem to have too much time on their hands, in this case enough time to create a report that measures charge times in the U.S. for popular EV models after just 20 minutes, or more than the average American spends at a gas station for a fill up but less than the amount that Americans imagine EVs need for a significant recharge. Lucid’s Air Grand Touring, which was able to get up 208 miles of range after
Ford and Tesla said recently that Ford’s EVs would eventually be able to use Tesla’s charging network, which is the best in the industry in the United States. GM and Tesla said Thursday that GM’s EVs would eventually be able to do the same thing, perhaps because GM and Ford aren’t above trying to buddy up to Telsa CEO Elon Musk in order to engineer some short-term good news. For both Ford and GM this means making their EVs Supercharger-ready or adaptable, though most of the rest of the world see
It was only in 2015 when Volvo, the Swedish carmaker, sold over a half-a-million cars for the first time in its history. That turned out to be a bit of a sweet spot: Volvo sold 615,121 cars last year globally, and Volvo spent the years in between on a winning streak, with product that customers liked and a way of doing business that seemed neither flashy nor slimy.
The Toyota Land Cruiser was gone for the U.S. with the 2021 model year, a victim of being too old or something, despite being a big-ish SUV in a country that really likes big SUVs. The Land Cruiser was replaced by the Toyota Sequoia, even though the Sequoia already existed and is in a slightly different segment. Ever since then, too, there have been rumors that the Land Cruiser would come back to the U.S., because it really was a fine big automobile that lasted a long time and, sentimentally, wa
The EV pickup trucks are here, seemingly more everyday, but one of the biggest questions about EV pickups remains whether they will be good at some specific things that internal combustion engine trucks are purchased for: hauling and towing, specifically. In short-range use, hauling and towing seem like good solutions for EV trucks; long-range, not so much, given aerodynamics and the basic math of more weight requiring more power to move, especially at higher speeds.
