The World's Goofiest Police Chase And The Best Car Culture Posts Of The Week

During my time of digging down the rabbit hole about the V8 powered Daytona, I discovered that Chrysler’s ownership of Lamborghini was a very strange time. This was confirmed when I discovered a story Bob Lutz detailed to Road & Track about Chrysler’s plans for the Italian brand. Apparently, the powers that be wanted the Raging Bull to become a trim level for top of the line Chryslers. - Lawrence Hodge Read More

For a couple of months now, the Tesla Cybertruck has been out there clogging our roads, struggling with puddles and falling apart in myriad ways. Now, the truck has taken on a pretty basic off-roading test and failed quite spectacularly. - Owen Bellwood Read More

Elon Musk is pretty big on making promises he can’t keep. If it’s not cars that can actually drive themselves or affordable electric vehicles, then it’s canceled features and backtracked launch dates. Now, the Tesla boss has been forced to admit defeat once again as no new Tesla’s will ship with support for Steam games on their infotainment systems. - Owen Bellwood Read More

How much air could a ram air intake ram if a ram air intake could ram air? The question has long mystified scientists, so the folks at Garage 54 decided to test it out the only way they know how: Experientially. By which I mean they replaced the turbo on a Forester XT with a massive intake in hopes of matching boost pressure with ram-air force alone. Heroes. - Amber DaSilva Read More

Lamborghini’s iconic mid-engine V12 doorstop supercar from the 1980s stands out as one of the most aggressively styled vehicles of all time. The original Marcello Gandini-styled prototype was all angles and wedges, but it managed it in an elegant way. Paolo Stanzani’s tweaks for the production version upped the angular aggression tenfold. Take that 1980s champion of speed and exotic vision and bring it into the modern world where nothing is ever chill, and you’ve got a recipe for a piece of art that will thumbtack itself to the vision board of your prefrontal lobe. - Bradley Brownell Read More

Mitsubishi shocked us last week when it announced that North America would see more models towards the end of the decade. Along with more practical, boring news was the nugget that Mitsubishi is planning on giving us an outdoorsy van based on the D:X Concept, itself a sort of preview of a next generation of the Delica van. - Lawrence Hodge Read More

Good morning! It’s Monday, May 20, 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

A Delaware man was arrested over the weekend after he allegedly stole a Tesla Cybertruck and led state troopers on a short but silly car chase. Milford resident Corey Cohee is accused of stealing the stainless steel electric pickup truck from a home in Lincoln, Delaware. What a goober. - Andy Kalmowitz Read More

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