Wild Car Features, Very Smart Brain Geniuses And Bears In This Week's Car Culture Roundup

Cars have radically changed over the last few decades, adding technology like touch screens, cameras, and voice assistants, while quietly losing features that were prevalent for years. Depending on your persuasion, some of the advancements have positively impacted modern vehicles, and some seem to have needlessly complicated things that were once simple. - Logan Carter Read More

The U.S. Border Patrol has sweeping powers to arrest and detain folks within 100 miles of the border (or, ya know, the entire state of Michigan.) They are the very last cops with whom you’d want to tussle, but that didn’t stop two brain geniuses from trying to use legalese magic to avoid one simple question; Are you a citizen? - Erin Marquis Read More

The day that YouTube user Michael B bought a Nest camera and trained it on a Seattle highway exit notorious for its spectacular crashes was a good day indeed. The Union Street exit on the city’s I5 highway features a tight curve and a dramatic speed limit drop to a mere 20 mph, and plenty of drivers who either don’t know how to drive or who were simply not paying attention have taken this exit at such a rapid clip that they’ve gone careening into the subsequent intersection in showers of sparks. Today, you’ve earned our permission to pat yourself on the back for being a competent driver as you watch one car after another careen into hell. - Elizabeth Blackstock Read More

Good morning! It’s Monday, May 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

Peter Wheeler, the enigmatic CEO who built TVR from a British also-ran into a company with strikingly-designed world-beating supercars, was truly like nobody else. An actual engineer with actual talent, Wheeler worked diligently to develop some of the most interesting cars ever made road legal. This designation certainly includes his last project, the amphibious Scamander. Wheeler wanted a performance car that could do it all, including carrying him (and some of his stuff) across the soggy moors of his farm. - Bradley Brownell Read More

For twenty years Porsche’s 911 GT3 RS models have been held as a benchmark when it comes to street-legal versions of racing cars. Each generation somehow finds a way to go faster around a race track. Aero, power, tires, suspension, and tech adjustments keep bringing the most hardcore version of the 911 closer to track superiority. Every new version finds serious track-proven lap time improvements, but is it always a better car? - Bradley Brownell Read More

Elon Musk has long been a fan of, well, fibbing, and now it seems very possible he was caught in a little lie once again. The Tesla CEO has been a detractor of lidar sensors for self-driving vehicles for some time now. He’s gone so far as to say other automakers are going to “dump lidar [...] Mark my words.” Well, folks, as it turns out, Tesla may indeed be using lidar seniors. - Andy Kalmowitz Read More

A man in Massachusetts died after he lost control of his car and crashed into a stand of trees in western Massachusetts over the weekend. To add insult to his fatal injuries, a bear came along and attempted to drag his body away, police report. - Erin Marquis Read More

The Chucky star chats about her gifted Mustang that was riddled with problems.

This 6.2-liter V8-powered behemoth packs a whole lot of features and luxury, but you’ll have to pay up.