Crashed McLaren, Hurricane Milton And GM Drops Ultium In This Week's Car Culture Roundup

Hurricane Milton is bearing down on the Gulf Coast of Florida. Folks all over the state are preparing to get absolutely slammed by the Category 4 storm, and that includes car dealerships. There’s a lot of prep work that needs to be done before a major storm hits them. Now, we’re getting a closer look at just what goes into preventing as much damage as possible to dealership inventories. - Andy Kalmowitz Read More

A young driver had a bit of a nightmare on a wet road recently, spinning their car and crashing into a barrier while driving. That wouldn’t normally make the news, but this time the driver was using their phone and streaming the whole thing online when they crashed their custom McLaren supercar into a highway barrier. - Owen Bellwood Read More

Good morning! It’s Wednesday, October 9, 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

Over the weekend I had the privilege of being a judge at the El Segundo stop of the Hot Wheels Legends Tour, where the owners of over 200 modified cars vied for the chance to have their cars turned into a real-life Hot Wheels toy. The variety on display was stunning, from Beetle-based rat rods and NASCAR-style muscle cars to custom trucks like Scott Robertson’s winning FordTruss. My favorite car, though, was a 1990s BMW 8 Series fitted with a more modern BMW V10 engine, complete with a fully reimagined body and interior. - Daniel Golson Read More

Put a YouTube mechanic and a YouTube lawyer in the same room and show them a bunch of modified vehicles, and they’re going to have some fun things to say. That’s it, that’s the pitch. Legal Eagle and Real Mechanic Stuff teamed up to determine the legality of popular modifications. Some of these modifications are extreme aesthetic and personalization modifications that skirt the framework of road legality, but some of them are just straight up intentional violations of written statute. Do you know if your car is even legal to be on a public highway? I’m, pretty sure some of mine aren’t. - Bradley Brownell Read More

Good morning! It’s Monday, October 7, 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

Good morning! It’s Friday, October 11, 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

Good morning! It’s Tuesday, October 8, 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

Good morning! It’s Thursday, October 10, 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

We’re up to ten Luftgekühlts now. Ten years of gathering air-cooled Porsches into interesting venues and seeing the social media posts fly.

I can already sense the question you might be asking: why should I care?

Whether or not you have any interest in vintage Porsches built between 1948 and 1998, Luft has been a force for good for the automotive world. Without intending to, Luftgekühlt creators Patrick Long and Howie Idelson created a car show that reinvented the car show. - Kevin McCauley Read More