Tesla Hits A Trillion, Guy Destroys Cars Dressed As Bear And Trump Hates Buses In This Week's Car Culture Roundup

Good morning! It’s Thursday, November 14, 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

For an electric truck that’s been touted as the perfect vehicle for the apocalypse, the Tesla Cybertruck is proving to be a bit of a snowflake in the real world. Since deliveries of the electric pickup started, Tesla’s flagship has been damaged by water, slippery accelerator pedals and even an angsty YouTuber. Now, the truck’s bodywork is being permanently damaged by vinyl wraps and stickers that are being stuck to its precious panels. - Owen Bellwood Read More

Good morning! It’s Tuesday, November 12, 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 Monday, November 11, 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

Arkansas State Police were filmed jumping a Dodge Charger cruiser at more than 100 mph last month during a traffic stop turned car chase. The officers almost hit a telephone pole and finally stopped when they realized they’d badly damaged their cruiser in the chase, begging the question: what was it all for? - Owen Bellwood Read More

Honda just unveiled the 2026 Passport, which is described as its most off-road capable SUV ever. No longer just a Pilot with a shorter rear end, the new Passport is a fantastic piece of boxy design — I think it’s Honda’s best design in years, and certainly its most interesting U.S.-market crossover ever. I recently got to spend time in a studio with three different Passport TrailSports, including one that has a bunch of factory accessories (the green one), so I could talk to designers and product planners and learn all about this new SUV, and to capture these wonderful photos for you Jalops. - Daniel Golson Read More

Say you’ve always wanted a Ferrari F40 but simply can’t justify paying the several million dollars that they command in 2024, what do you do? If you’re YouTube fabricator nerd Mike Burroughs, you buy a complete F40 body and get started building your own almost from scratch. But even if you have the body and the know-how to build a complete chassis, you still need an engine. An F40 engine is still way too expensive, and Ferrari isn’t exactly known for turbocharged V8s anyway, so why not go whole hog and get the V12 that a car like this has always deserved? - Bradley Brownell Read More

A New York State Department Of Transportation worker was left running for their life last month when an out of control rental truck smashed into a work zone last month. A Penske box truck crashed into the side of a DOT truck on the side of a highway in upstate New York seconds after a worker had been standing right there. - Owen Bellwood Read More

California officials arrested four people over an alleged insurance scam involving a very fake bear attacking luxury vehicles in the state this week. The crew is accused of attacking three cars in order to cash in the insurance checks. - Owen Bellwood Read More

Small cars are fun, big engines are fun, and small cars with big engines are just about the best. This Subaru Justy, with a twin-turbo Toyota 1UZ V8 under its hood, is maybe the best example of why the formula works. - Amber DaSilva Read More