NASA Considering Canning Its Primary Rocket Back To The Moon
NASA is racing itself to the Moon in a new Space Race, pitting contractors against each other to produce the most cost-effective means of delivering astronauts to space. However, some of the agency’s partners simply aren’t delivering. NASA is now considering canceling the Space Launch System, the Artemis program’s…
BMW Built A Limited-Edition Carbon-Packed $60,000 Motorcycle To Celebrate Its WSBK Championship Win, And You Can't Have It
While it was Ducati celebrating its 20th manufacturer’s title in WSBK this year, BMW Motorrad’s Toprak Razgatlıoğlu came home with his second rider’s world title of the decade, and BMW’s first ever. With an incredible 18 victories and nine additional podium finishes, Toprak absolutely walked all over the field in his…
Porsche's New All-Wheel-Drive Electric Open Wheeler Is Quicker Than An F1 Car
Porsche’s António Félix da Costa is testing his newly revamped 99X Electric at a track near Madrid, Spain this week, and it’s entirely possible that this is the quickest car to ever carry the Porsche badge in history. The all-electric open wheeler is capable of a 1.82-second 0-60 sprint, which is about 14 hundredths…
Hero EV Swaps Manual Saturn SL2, Now It Can Be Yours
I need you to be a hero. You need to stop what you’re doing right now and give $6,000 to whoever has listed this EV-swapped manual Saturn SL2 in North Carolina. I’m really not sure what would possess someone to spend the time and energy necessary to to put an electric motor and battery in a 2002 Saturn, but damn I am…
American Airlines Flight Nearly Crashes Into Mountain In Hawaii
When travelers say they hope to reach their destination in one piece, they sometimes mean it literally. An American Airlines flight departing Daniel K. Inouye International Airport in Honolulu on Wednesday performed “an expedited climb” to avoid colliding with a mountain. During the incident, the Airbus A321neo’s…
Dev Patel Named His EV-Swapped Fiat 500 'Peanut,' And It Kicks Ass
EV-swapping vintage cars is a hot topic these days that divides automotive enthusiasts. Of course there are the purists who believe a car should remain unmodified from the day it drove out of the factory, but electric swaps are an absolute boon for people who actually want to drive their old cars in normal everyday…
Chevy El Camino, Flxible Clipper, Mitsubishi Delica: The Dopest Cars I Found For Sale Online
Happy Friday, everyone! I spent last weekend upstate, visiting friends (and establishments that serve garbage plates) in good old Rochester, New York, where I experienced something unexpected: The smell of winter. The cold, sharp scent in the air of snow yet to come, a harbinger of the season to come. Here’s hoping…
Can We Please Stop Doing Eleanor Mustang Restomods
At SEMA last week, an outfit called Mustang Brothers fully debuted its new build offering: The Outlaw, a 1968 Mustang “GT500" restomod with a modern drivetrain, suspension, and styling. It’s a classic formula, and the Outlaw follows yet more tradition by making its custom bodywork look like another “Gone In 60 Seconds”…
Passengers Hang Onto Walls, Tables As Freak Storm Tips Cruise Ship 45 Degrees
A cruise ship traveling to Florida was caught in a freak storm last week that brought winds so powerful they tilted the ship over to one side. The Royal Caribbean cruise liner tilted to 45 degrees during the storm, which left passengers fearing that “they would die.”
This Lexus TX Was The Scene Of Worlds #1 Ranked Golfer's Arrest, And Now It Can Be Yours
Want a chance to be a part of golfing history? Well, that might be a weird question to ask on an automotive site, but if your answer is yes, or you’re curious why I’m asking, check out Mecum Auctions latest listing.
Trump Plans To Kill The $7,500 EV Tax Credit
Good morning! It’s Friday, November 15, 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’s $165 Million Fine For Slow Recalls Is NHTSA’s Biggest Fine Since Takata’s Deadly Airbags
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration hit Ford with a $165 million fine over its handling of recalled backup cameras on almost 600,000 cars this week. The fine, which is the second-largest penalty in the agency’s history, will see the Blue Oval pay $65 million upfront, with an additional $100 million due…
Only Trump Could Come Up With A Climate Plan So Terrible, Even Exxon's CEO Thinks It's A Bad Idea
Unless he dies before he takes office, which, considering his age and mental state, isn’t implausible, Donald Trump will be the next President of the United States. Only time will tell just how many millions of lives will be ruined by his disastrous policies of hate and corporate deregulation, but if you need a clue…
Police Reportedly Beat Back More Than 150 Audi Workers Who Crashed Meeting About Plant Closures
Audi bosses called the cops on their own workers on Wednesday after employees protesting a plant closure in Belgium stormed a meeting between company executives and union officials. More than 150 protesters were escorted from the factory by police armed with batons and shields after they called for job security.
Traffic Jams: Frank Ocean - 'White Ferrari'
Frank Ocean’s “White Ferrari” hit the Spotify charts for the first time this week, which surely only says good things about our collective mental health. We’re all going fantastic, folks, and we will be forever. At least it wasn’t “Nikes.”
What Car Should Stellantis Bring Back To Save Itself?
Stellantis is in trouble: Dealers are sitting on thousands of cars they can’t sell, even with discounts, there’s been rumors of brands that could be sold off and sales are so bad with some brands that their CEO has had to speak to foreign governments about their performance. Worse yet, aside from Jeep and Ram, nearly…
Conspiracy Theorists Rejoice! Globalists Aim to Eliminate Contrails During UN Summit
Since the dawn of commercial jet travel, the uninformed masses have looked up at the skies and assumed the vapor trailing off of airliners was the government covertly spraying chemicals over the country. Contrails will be a topic of discussion at this month’s COP29 summit in OPEC+ member-state Azerbaijan. A recent…
At $9,995, Is This 1982 Porsche 928 A Grand Tourer That's A Grand Deal?
Today’s Nice Price or No Dice 928 is claimed by its seller to have a “laser straight body.” That’s somewhat comical, considering there’s hardly a single straight line on Porsche’s bubble-butt coupe. Let’s see how straight the seller is being about the price.
Rural, Red States Spent Their Infrastructure Bill Money On Greener Road Projects Than Bluer States
Typically, you’d think blue states would be the ones to invest in infrastructure improvements that are better for the environment than red states. Air quality affects us all, but one party has decided everything that leads to cleaner air is communism, and it isn’t the Democrats. And yet, when you look at how different…
Roger Penske Solidifies IndyCar's Prescence In Southern California By Purchasing The Long Beach Grand Prix
Roger Penske has just added another notch in his auto racing belt. The billionaire purchased the Long Beach Grand Prix. The purchase also makes the Grand Prix an important part of another racing series Penske owns, Indycar.
