Tesla Cybertruck Slippery Pedal Recall Caused By Soap
Tesla issued a recall for every single Cybertruck built thus far, as well as a stop-sale that lasted nearly a week, and it’s something that can’t be solved with an over-the-air update. Apparently assembly line workers used slippery soap to get the truck’s throttle pedal pad onto the pedal, and leftover soap was…
A Man Once Sued Himself After He Backed Into His Own Car
Despite how much we love them, cars make people do dumb things. Whether it’s willingly overpaying for them to being clueless while driving, cars can affect judgment in the worst ways. Vehicle accidents can really bring out the dumb in people. Take the man who tried to sue himself after a collision in this strange…
Environmentally Friendly Tesla Is Trying To Skirt Austin Pollution Laws
Tesla very much wants you to think that it is the cleaner alternative to those dirty, polluting gas cars. When you bought a Model S, you were helping save the planet, they said. However, Tesla hasn’t always done the best job complying with local environmental regulations, and according to the Houston Chronicle, it’s…
C6 Corvette ZR1 Shows We Didn’t Know How Good We Had It
Does anyone else remember early 2009? Obama was just inaugurated, Circuit City was closing, Bernie Madoff pleaded guilty and I was in the sixth grade looking for my first girlfriend. While all that was happening, though, General Motors was getting ready to launch its masterpiece: the C6 Chevy Corvette ZR1. To me, it…
The World Would Be A Better Place If Porsche Had Built This Miata Competitor
The 984, Porsche’s diminutive concept from the late 1980swould have come at just the right time to absolutely redefine the small roadster marketplace, beating the new-for-1989 Mazda MX-5 to market by a couple of years. Porsche worked with Spanish automaker SEAT on a variety of projects through the 1980s, including…
Driver Fords Flooded Dubai Street In $2.5 Million Pagani Utopia
Folks in the United Arab Emirates are known for doing absolutely wild stuff with their cars, but this could take the cake. You see, the UAE has had a record amount of rainfall recently, and it has led to a whole lot of flooding in Dubai. But, that didn’t stop one Pagani Utopia driver from getting where they needed to…
BMW's Vision Neue Klasse X Concept Is A Big Step In The Right Direction
The Bangle years are not only my favorite era of BMW design, but one of my favorite eras of design at any automaker. No other company was taking risks and innovating like BMW was, and Bangle’s Flame Surfacing technique forever influenced the rest of the industry. The groundbreaking i3 and i8 were similarly impactful —…
'Southwest, Stop!' Air Planes Avoid Runway Collision By Less Than 400 Feet in Washington D.C.
Two airliners almost collided on a runway at Reagan National Airport just outside of Washington, D.C. on Thursday morning. A Southwest Airlines Boeing 737 was cleared to taxi across a runway, while a JetBlue Embraer ERJ-190 was about to take off on the same runway. WTOP reports the potential disaster was averted as…
China's F1 Fires Could Be Caused By Sparking Cars Igniting Swamp Gas
Formula 1 sessions can be halted for all kinds of reasons, including damaged barriers, severe weather and even literal dragons on track. Now, however, the Chinese Grand Prix has been marred by a new phenomenon: spontaneous combustion of the grass surrounding the Shanghai International Circuit.
Apparently It's Illegal To Put A 'For Sale' Sign In Your Truck Now
A retired Pennsylvania school teacher got an opportunity to move to the Philippines to teach English. After failing to offload his old pickup truck online, in an effort to sell everything off before moving, Will Cramerdecided to throw a For Sale sign in the window to let passersby know it was on the market. One day…
Tesla Recalls Every Cybertruck Shipped So Far
The Tesla Cybertruck, a truck so rugged it can only be defeated by a car wash, was reportedly hit with a stop-sale recently because problems with its accelerator kept causing unintended acceleration issues. Don’t worry, though, just because a Cybertruck could attack at any time doesn’t mean it necessarily will. Also, T…
Ford Made A Ranger SHO 4 Years Before The SVT Lightning
We used to be a proper country. A country where performance pickups like the Chevy 454 SS, Toyota Tacoma X-Runner and GMC Syclone roamed the streets. Performance pickups still exist today like the Ram TRX and Ford F-150 and Ranger Raptor models, but they’re off-road focused. Things might have been different had Ford…
Ship Owners Are Trying Everything To Avoid Paying Up For Baltimore Bridge Collapse
A massive container ship hit and destroyed the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore last month, killing six people and shutting one of America’s busiest ports in the process. The company that operates the ship is now trying everything to get out of paying up for the mammoth task of extracting the stricken vessel and…
What Are The Signs Of A Good Mechanic?
My family has had the same mechanic for what must be 20 years now. He’s less a mechanic and more family at this point. He’s always completely honest and accommodating, and has saved us thousands of dollars over the years by getting our cars back on the road in a timely and affordable manner, no matter what the repair…
Tesla Stock Down 40 Percent Over Last Year, Wiping Away $312 Billion In Market Cap
Good morning! It’s Friday, April 19, 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.
Ford Wants Mustang Drivers To Stop Acting Like Mustang Drivers
When Ford introduced the Mustang Dark Horse back in 2022, it included a little bonus for buyers: A “a hands-on track instruction and driving experience,” where owners could head out to Charlotte Motor Speedway and learn to manage all that torque they’d just purchased. Unfortunately, despite the option of driver…
Is Fernando Alonso The Aston Martin Taylor Swift Sings About On 'Tortured Poets?'
It’s a big day. Taylor Swift just released her heartbreaking new album and surprised fans by making it a whopping double release with 31 songs and more than two-hours of new music. Have you listened yet? If so, have you spotted the subtle Aston Martin reference that some fans think is a nod to Formula 1 racer Fernando…
Watch Amazing Long Beach Grand Prix Onboards Through The Decades
The Long Beach Grand Prix has been a major piece of international motorsport mystique since its inception in the mid-1970s. This is a race that has showcased Formula 5000, F1, CART, Champ Car, IndyCar, Formula E, sports cars, and vintage racers —and a bunch of other stuff too — though not always at the same time.…
