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Crashed McLaren, Hurricane Milton And GM Drops Ultium In This Week's Car Culture Roundup

Photo: Bill Pugliano (Getty Images), Daniel Golson/Jalopnik, Fisker (Getty Images), Toyota, Hu Xiaofei/VCG (Getty Images), Kevin McCauley, Screenshot: Real Mechanic Stuff on YouTube, Tesla via YouTube
Photo: Bill Pugliano (Getty Images), Daniel Golson/Jalopnik, Fisker (Getty Images), Toyota, Hu Xiaofei/VCG (Getty Images), Kevin McCauley, Screenshot: Real Mechanic Stuff on YouTube, Tesla via YouTube

This Is How Car Dealerships In Florida Are Preparing For Hurricane Milton

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Hurricane Milton is bearing down on the Gulf Coast of Florida. Folks all over the state are preparing to get absolutely slammed by the Category 4 storm, and that includes car dealerships. There’s a lot of prep work that needs to be done before a major storm hits them. Now, we’re getting a closer look at just what goes into preventing as much damage as possible to dealership inventories. - Andy Kalmowitz Read More

21-Year-Old YouTuber Crashes Custom McLaren 570S While Using Phone And Streaming

Jack Doherty was filmed using his phone moments before the crash. - Gif: Jack Doherty via YouTube
Jack Doherty was filmed using his phone moments before the crash. - Gif: Jack Doherty via YouTube

A young driver had a bit of a nightmare on a wet road recently, spinning their car and crashing into a barrier while driving. That wouldn’t normally make the news, but this time the driver was using their phone and streaming the whole thing online when they crashed their custom McLaren supercar into a highway barrier. - Owen Bellwood Read More

GM Drops Ultium EV Brand, Promises To One Day Make Money On Electric Cars

Photo: Bill Pugliano (Getty Images)
Photo: Bill Pugliano (Getty Images)

Good morning! It’s Wednesday, October 9, 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

V10-Powered Widebody BMW 8 Series Is One Of The Best Restomods I’ve Ever Seen

Photo: Daniel Golson/Jalopnik
Photo: Daniel Golson/Jalopnik

Over the weekend I had the privilege of being a judge at the El Segundo stop of the Hot Wheels Legends Tour, where the owners of over 200 modified cars vied for the chance to have their cars turned into a real-life Hot Wheels toy. The variety on display was stunning, from Beetle-based rat rods and NASCAR-style muscle cars to custom trucks like Scott Robertson’s winning FordTruss. My favorite car, though, was a 1990s BMW 8 Series fitted with a more modern BMW V10 engine, complete with a fully reimagined body and interior. - Daniel Golson Read More

Here’s A Lawyer To Tell You Just How Illegal Your Modified Car Is

Screenshot: Real Mechanic Stuff on YouTube
Screenshot: Real Mechanic Stuff on YouTube

Put a YouTube mechanic and a YouTube lawyer in the same room and show them a bunch of modified vehicles, and they’re going to have some fun things to say. That’s it, that’s the pitch. Legal Eagle and Real Mechanic Stuff teamed up to determine the legality of popular modifications. Some of these modifications are extreme aesthetic and personalization modifications that skirt the framework of road legality, but some of them are just straight up intentional violations of written statute. Do you know if your car is even legal to be on a public highway? I’m, pretty sure some of mine aren’t. - Bradley Brownell Read More

Fisker Is Dead But Its Legal Troubles Are Just Beginning

Photo: Fisker (Getty Images)
Photo: Fisker (Getty Images)

Good morning! It’s Monday, October 7, 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

Elon Musk’s Same Old Self-Driving Promises At Tesla’s Cybercab Launch Fail To Impress Investors

Screenshot: Tesla via YouTube
Screenshot: Tesla via YouTube

Good morning! It’s Friday, October 11, 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

Toyota Kicks U.S. EV Production Even Further Down The Road

Photo: Toyota
Photo: Toyota

Good morning! It’s Tuesday, October 8, 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

Jobs Will Be Lost Across The Auto Industry With Pivot To EVs, Warns Toyota

Photo: Hu Xiaofei/VCG (Getty Images)
Photo: Hu Xiaofei/VCG (Getty Images)

Good morning! It’s Thursday, October 10, 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

These Are The Coolest Cars From Luftgekühlt 10

Photo: Kevin McCauley
Photo: Kevin McCauley

We’re up to ten Luftgekühlts now. Ten years of gathering air-cooled Porsches into interesting venues and seeing the social media posts fly.

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I can already sense the question you might be asking: why should I care?

Whether or not you have any interest in vintage Porsches built between 1948 and 1998, Luft has been a force for good for the automotive world. Without intending to, Luftgekühlt creators Patrick Long and Howie Idelson created a car show that reinvented the car show. - Kevin McCauley Read More

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