Weekend Car Culture Roundup February 10, 2024

Welcome to a new week! It’s Monday, February 5, 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’ve known for a little while now that Amazon Prime Video’s “The Grand Tour” was coming to an end. Not only are Clarkson, Hammond and May much older than they were when they first began filming “Top Gear” together more than 20 years ago, but there’s also that time Clarkson wrote that absolutely vile column for The Sun that led Amazon to announce plans to part ways with him. Still, Prime Video allowed him to stay on to film a few more “Grand Tour” specials, and the trailer for the first one was only just released. - Collin Woodard Read More

There’s no denying that EVs will be a big part of the automotive future. Whether or not they’re the only option in the future, they’re here to stay regardless. Recently though, a few downsides to EVs have taken center stage: Their performance in cold weather and just how fast tires wear when they’re equipped on EVs. To that end, tire makers are marketing a tire specifically for EVs. But what exactly is an EV tire and what makes it so special? - Lawrence Hodge Read More

Think about the worst guy you’ve ever met. Now, imagine he was rich and had horrible taste. See him? Well, he’s nothing compared to this jabroni. What we’ve got here is a man using Tesla’s Full Self-Driving beta in his Cybertruck while wearing Apple Vision Pro VR goggles. What a goober. - Andy Kalmowitz Read More

Good morning! It’s Tuesday, February 6, 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

A sideshow in California was brought to an abrupt end this weekend when officers from the San Joaquin County Sideshow Taskforce swooped in and arrested 150 people. They also seized almost 90 cars that had taken part in the event. - Owen Bellwood Read More

In recent years, all kinds of clever people have tried to find out why the electric vehicle revolution hasn’t quite taken off yet. It’s the multi-billion dollar question that needs answering before more automakers start cutting production of EVs, shelving models and making a switch back to hybrid power. Thankfully, one UK think tank claims to have found the source of the problem: Mr Bean. - Owen Bellwood Read More

One of my favorite hobbies is digging through old archival photos of cars; you can learn a lot about folks based on the kinds of things they deemed important enough to photograph — and as I’ve learned, the people of the past loved to take photos of ridiculous car crashes. Our ancestors truly are just like us. - Elizabeth Blackstock Read More

A couple hundred folks gathered at a rural ranch just outside of Eagle Pass, Texas, with the aim of “taking our border back.” Instead, they found no invasion of migrants, so they terrorized the small Texas town instead. - Erin Marquis Read More

It’s extremely rare for the public to get its hands on a concept car. If it’s not brought into production, they’re usually put in storage or kept in a museum — sometimes they’re even destroyed. But every so often, a rare opportunity comes up when a concept car gets listed for sale or goes up for auction, whether that be from private ownership or the company itself. Another one of those opportunities is right around the corner, as the 2004 Lincoln Mark X concept is going up for auction next month. - Lawrence Hodge Read More